A, B, C

I made my first sale on Wednesday the 4th, my second on Friday the 6th.

On Tuesday the 10th, I made 3 sales. That's more than in the whole previous week.

Maybe I'm actually getting the hang of it, and have played on my weakness enough to bring it to an adequate level. 'My left foot is delivering decent balls now' figuratively and literally speaking - I went to Melbourne Uni Soccer training on Monday and used my left as much as my right. It's kinda compulsory.

One who knows me will not think of me as the type of person who knocks on strangers' doors and delivers a sales pitch, faces rejection multiple times in hope of the next door being a sale. But maybe that's precisely why I'm doing this right now, and hopefully this will be in the best interests of my future development; the ability to capture attention, convey information and CLOSE.

A, B, C - Always Be Closing.

Salesmen and stigma.

Why do people hate door-to-door salesmen? (of which I am a recently indoctrinated one)

I mean, it is fair to feel annoyed, but what sparks the vehement rebuttals, the rude door slams? Every door, I swear, slams when the person is done talking.

At the end of the day, we are facilitating a service which someone with a reasonable amount of intelligence, decides is necessary.

I, for example, sell Optus products. I don't understand why, when we promise to save them money on their home phone and internet, it seems to not even register with them.

And maybe that's it. 

It doesn't register.

How can they understand what we're saying, when they don't even listen to it.

So, that seems to indicate that the mode of delivery, the first impression and the appearance of the salesman are the major obstacles in the way of closing a deal, and not the product itself.

Where's 'SalesDogs' anyway?

Leverage

Sometimes your own motivation is not enough. Then you need...leverage.

This is some of the things I want to do within 6 months.

1 - kickboxing/boxing: either make a damn club or become more involved in an existing one.

2 - football: play 2-3 times a week at least

3 - gym: hit the weights 3 days a week

4 - carb loaded breakfast, then less carbs 

5 - start a business

6 - get a job

7 - drink less pepsi max/coke zero/ etc etc etc

So, we shall see.

Alive

There's nothing like a motorcycle to make you feel alive, make you feel young. It can be described as akin to soaring like an eagle. 

In a car, even with the possibility of lowered windows or convertibles, we are largely within our on environment, protected, and so near yet so far from the outside world.

On a motorcycle, we immerse ourselves in the world through which we travel, something similar to the old days of widespread horseback riding.

So, I think we should get motorcycle licenses and get some cheap shit motorcycles from ebay or something. It's not the speed at which the bike travels that matters (initially anyway), but the whole immersive experience of 'flight'.

Who's in?

Jack of all trades, Master of a few.

The popular saying goes: "Jack of all trades, master of none", and refers to someone with relatively superficial knowledge in various fields, while not being outstanding in any particular one. Dabblers, dabbling in different fields, accurately fit this description.

Now, as one seeks to improve himself, he can look for information from various places. Some sources say, to become an interesting and more complete person, we must try many many dishes from the feast of life. We must 'try' everything, so that we know about alot of things.

Others, such as 'Mastery' by George Leonard, talk about the way of mastery, telling the reader that the route to mastery is the ultimate pleasure in life. Mastery, the conscious and continuos practice of one field in which the person find peace and pleasure.

At first glance, these may seem the contradict each other. However, it is rather logical to conclude that, in order to get on the path to mastery, we must love the field. In order to know whether we love it or not, we must dabble in a few. They will all invoke one emotion or another, but when we find one which we enjoy doing, and not just enjoy because of the end results, that is the one we must get on the path of mastery with. And it is to find this specific field, or discipline that we initially dabble. And as learning is a lifelong process, we continue dabbling to find more things to master. A woman (who's name escapes me at the moment) on her 70th birthday decided to 'dabble' in mountain climbing. She has since climbed many of the major peaks around the world, at 95 becoming the oldest person to climb Mt Fuji.

In conclusion, dabble, but use the dabbling as a way of gathering information, not only of the world, but of your initial responses, and use them to choose specific fields to master.

Become a Jack of all trades, and a master of a few.

PS: Read Mastery by George Leonard. It will make alot of little things in this passage clearer.

Day Three

My nutrition plan took a bit of a hit this afternoon when we went to some family friend's place for lunch. Since then though, it's been clean.

Hit the gym today for shoulders, back and biceps. Tomorrow is boxing, that's gonna be fun. 

Day One

Today, I ate everything according to the book, and recorded every single thing that went into my mouth, and the results were recorded in FitDay once again.

Total: 2577 Cal, 247 g of Protein, 116 g of Fat, but only 33 g of Saturated Fat.

As far as workout goes, we arrived at the gym at 8.25pm, thinking it would close at 10pm as it usually does. However, in a way that some people quote as 'a trick of the demons', it was closing at 9pm. Not to be deterred, I performed 4 sets of squats, focussing on form mostly, going from 10kg on each side to 25kg on each side. Supersetted with ab stuff on a swiss ball.

The gym was closing, so I went home and did my lunges before having a post workout shake.

All in all, I would say Day One has been successful.