In my experience, I’ve met very few she works HIS way women who are okay with saying they’re good at sales. For some reason, most insist, “I just don’t want to be a salesperson,” or they hide behind this false assumption that they simply aren’t skilled when it comes to sales. And while I am totally on board with you not wanting to be a creepy, annoying or sleezy salesperson, sales is an unavoidable part of business. Everyone has to sell at some point. So before we go any further, let’s clarify what being good at sales actually means. Being good at sales does not mean you’re good at manipulating customers to give you money. Being good at sales does not mean you excel at exaggerating your product or service to appear better than you actually are. Being good at sales does not mean that you haggle people until they give in just to make you go away. But instead… Being good at sales means you are good at listening to consumer needs and finding them the best solution to their problem. Being good at sales means you genuinely care about getting others connected to your product/service because you [...]

“In this world, you will have trouble…” I realize that there is hope within this verse, (see John 16:33 for context) and that our hope is Jesus, but I just couldn’t keep from pondering these seven words: “…In this world, you will have trouble…” When some face the “troubles” of this world, they crumble. Some doubt their faith, others run, and others try to quit. But no matter your walk in life, no one is exempt from this fact: we will all encounter trouble. The sooner we embrace the fact that we are all either walking through or toward a hardship, the sooner we can move on to the good news. That’s right. The verse doesn’t end there. Because Jesus defeated death on the cross for you and me, when we walk through life’s hardships, we can be encouraged that this is not the end, but merely a page in the story of our lives that God is writing. Personally, this is why I enjoy reading biographies so much. I’ve never read one where great pain or trouble didn’t have a significant role in shaping their story. For example, Dave Ramsey went broke before he decided to make changes [...]