Are Your Gifts Being Used to Their Fullest?
May 30th, 2009
The people I attract in my business span a wide range of services. You may coach business leaders to a more people-centered vision, or help parents create more loving relationships with their kids, or offer holistic health solutions to cancer survivors, or lead creative women to more fulfilling lives, or you may have some other calling altogether.
But what’s true for each of you is that in your heart of hearts, you know you’re here on this planet to impact other people’s lives with your special brand of transformation.
However, along with that big, loving heart and that big, inspired vision usually comes an aversion to selling. Most of us are never taught how to integrate service with sales.
So the vision doesn’t get played out fully – and the heart yearns for more.
It’s time to come to terms with the apparent contradiction between selling and being of service. Because it isn’t real. It’s just a little voice in your head that tells you to stay small and safe.
Here’s what IS true:
Your gifts are wasted if people are walking away from your selling conversations without hiring you because it means they’re walking away with a problem you could have helped them solve.
Here’s what else is true:
YOU get to decide whether you’re going to listen to that little voice of doubt and fear. Or if you’re going to accept that the Universe knew what it was doing when it entrusted you with your particular passion and gifts.
Those gifts are there to be shared. That can’t happen to the extent you dream of until you learn, once and for all, how to blend selling with integrity.
Because if you’re not selling, you’re not transforming lives.
This is a hot topic, so leave me a comment below about your thoughts on integrating sales and service. . .
Entry Filed under: Heart-based Selling Tips
3 Comments Add your own
1. Giulietta | June 1st, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Hi Helen,
We are a nation of small biz scaredy cats! At a young age we are taught that sell is a four-letter word. It’s not only ridiculous but downright dangerous. The real economic transformation will come from small biz owners. If the bulk of us are too scared to share our life-changing gifts, how can that happen?
Fight the fear with Helen!
Giulietta
Rebel With A Cause
2. Jenna Avery | June 1st, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Helen,
You’re right, it is so important for heart-centered, service-inspired entrepreneurs to get the training we need to get our message, offerings, and abilities out there in a powerful way. We get training for our actual work but then shun or fear the very thing that will help us actually be able to DO the work we were put here to do.
I have to admit though, there if there were some other word besides “selling,” it would be even easier for me to embrace! That one has such a loaded connotation for me.
Thanks for helping us get the word out. I’ve already learned so much for you and I can’t wait for your class tomorrow.
Jenna
3. Miechelle | June 25th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Selling in and of itself is very hard if you don’t believe in your product or if you don’t know your product. I think these issues as well as that of fear of selling are fairly pertinent when it comes to both the setting up of and the selling of one’s skills.
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