Motivation Monday

Today is a Monday. If there was ever a Monday that was the the most Monday-ey Monday that ever Monday-ed, it was this Monday. The Monday blues hit me hard.  

A hot coffee. Check. 

Tots. Check. 

Pens in order, email cleaned, team checked on, heat adjusted, water bottle filled, and notebook flipped to a clean page. Check, check, check. 

Everything was ready. I was ready. But where was my motivation? 

I got sucked into the busy work. The not-right-now work, the I-do-not-want-to-do-sales work. 

Getting caught up in the every day, not so necessary, work can really kill my productivity and keep me from meeting my goals. It happens slowly too. So slowly I may not even realize it is already lunch time and I have not made a single sales call.

 In moments like this, I reach out to my mentor and give her my 'Woe is Me' speech. It is well articulated and pure tragedy. And quite convincing. I mean, how could it not be? With it running through my mind constantly. And therein lies the problem.

I am so busy making excuses that I lose my energy for much else. 

Sales must be to an extent, impulsive. Make the call before the 'Woe is Me' reel starts and you talk yourself out if it, she tells me. 

Just call. Dial. See it through. It will be over in less than 5 minutes. 

Then do it again! Much like a sprint or a particularly difficult set at the gym, there is no time to decide to back out, just get it done. 

Sometimes planning out my script and setting out my pens is the very thing that destroys my motivation. I cannot let this cycle continue. I can handle a few moments of discomfort for the opportunity of bountiful sales. 

Just call. Dial. See it through!