I Am Feeling a Little Weird Today

03/06/2009

While this is absolutely the best day ever, I am feeling a little strange.  Next week I am attending a company Regional Sales Meeting in Baltimore.  I have to do about an hour and a half presentation on a segment of our company’s business and on some products I have never sold.  One of the hazards of having been in sales management for the last twenty-three years is, as the years have gone by, I sense my selling skills have atrophied.  I don’t know the products we sell these days as well as I should, but then I don’t see them, don’t touch them, and don’t really have to know them other than have a general knowledge of them.  I am an idea guy, a motivator, a problem solver.  Knowing we sell them is good enough for me.

Anyway, having to do these presentations always makes me nervous. After all, these people are my peers, and most of us deep down believe our peers have it all together and know all there is to know and are laughing their asses off at us as we make complete fools of ourselves talking about stuff of which we do not have a clue.  Am I correct?

So here’s the deal, I know why I do this to myself.  I know all will be well in the end, but I get to enjoy the misery of knowing I have to do it and will torture myself off and on until 3pm Wednesday afternoon when it will be over.  It will be done and I won’t have to do another until 2010.

Whew! I needed that.  I just needed to get my head on straight.  Thanks for being here for me.  I am going to spend some time going over my notes and practice this thing a couple of times, and then I am going to drink beer in copious quantities.

And that is all I have to say about that…