corrected course
it has been a good week
What’s up fuckers? I am having a pretty good week. Once the decision is made that you will no longer sit and suffer but you are going to do something about it things magically start to move in the right direction. Letting people know that I was looking for a new job has already yielded some positive results. And now it becomes all about this guy and what he wants his immediate future to be.
I actually have a meeting with a coach this Saturday to discuss this very topic so I’m excited to see what a 3rd party disconnected opinion feels like. I will be starting the session off by telling them that I am going to be a problem. It took me like three therapists to find one I didn’t think was an idiot or just using a playbook of platitudes to make me talk more about myself. Plus, my current view is that life coaching as a profession is dubious at best.
My problem is that most life coaches I’ve met don’t live aspirational lives. So my measurement of a life coach would be someone I would immediately trade places with if given the chance. The biggest problem there is the folks whose lives I admire wouldn’t coach me due to having an amazing life and no need of a bullshit coaching gig. So why do this?, you might ask. Because its free.
I am getting this session as a referral recommendation from an old coworker and this practice uses the old drug dealer tactic of first one’s free. My friend already warned me that there will be coaching packages available but this is going to be tough sledding for this dude. It reminds me of the time when I was newly married and answered a call from a telemarketer. (this was a house phone before caller ID was a thing for the young people out there. If the phone rang - you answered)
It was Kirby vacuums offering to shampoo one room in our house for free. As we were in our first purchased home and money was tight I agreed. The dude came in and shampooed the hell out of our main living room carpet all the while pitching me on that battleship of a machine. When he finished he let me know that it was only $1,600.00.
I told him that was more than our mortgage payment and he mentioned some nonsense about financing but I stuck with my no. He then offered to clean our stairs for free as well… Long story shortened just a bit. Five hours later, every bit of carpet in the house cleaned, couch cleaned, two mattresses cleaned, three calls with his manager, three price drops, and probably six different closing techniques tried, I was still at no.
My wife was mortified because it was all working on her. She felt so bad for this guy basically cleaning our entire house that she just wanted me to buy it. Joke was on her because we didn’t have the $500 and change he was currently quoting (*see 3 price drops) so when there was nothing left to clean he began to pack up and made his final call back to the office. The sales guy was smart because he put my wife on the phone with the sales manager who told her that they couldn’t sell that unit in our home as “new” anymore and he would give it to her for cost if she said yes.
The next thing I knew we had a $250 all-in-one house cleaning device that weighed close to 30 pounds. There was a lot of rationalization going on and the thing was powerful as all hell. When we vacuumed certain spots in the townhouse the carpet seemed to get sucked up into the thing. Years down the road as complaints got more frequent about the weight of the Kirby and it’s asspain suitcase full of attachments I got to remind her of that faithful day. In hindsight my memory most likely contributed to the demise of my marriage…
Oh well. On to other things. So this life coach should bring his A-Game. I’ll keep you posted after the fact but know that this guy is having a great week.