Conrey is for Closers

Jazz is never the same song twice, never perfect, always evolving. Jazz is equal parts planning and improv. A jazz man may look like he’s making it up as he goes, but is often the most prepared guy in the room. A good jazz man is taking cues from the group he’s playing with and the audience and changing the song in response to their feedback. Jazz is best performed in intimate settings where the whole room is a participant. Jazz changes everyone who hears it.

Now go back and read that paragraph again but change the word Jazz to Sales. Do you dig?

One of the disadvantages of working in a space like Gangplank is that with so many people coming in and out there is a certain amount of human generated debris that gets left unattended. The worst of it is the food and dishes that start to create a wonderful smell for us to enjoy. I’m not the only one who notices this phenomenon but it got me thinking.

If we all know that things smell, how come it continues to smell without someone making it better?

There are a few people who do clean up regularly after others to try to make things better, but not at the same pace that things are messed up. And certainly it does start to wear on you to be constantly nursing things back to a decent state.

So what do you do? when there are dozens of people making a mess and a small number cleaning it up? Can you do anything? Isn’t this how life really is in most aspects? A number of people making problems (not always intentionally – sometimes they think they are helping clean up) and a smaller number actively trying to make things better. Which are you and what are you doing to help make things smell better?

“They will never let me do it that way”

“They’re holding me back”

“They don’t know what it really is like out here selling”

Who is this mysterious group of people who is holding you back from doing the things you want to do?  If you really want to be successful in whatever it is that you’re doing, then you need to stop waiting for other people to make things happen for you.  Stop waiting for permission and worry about asking for forgiveness later when you have to.  See Rule #4