“I’m not good at selling!“

That was my response to the friend who first introduced me to the business side of things.

There was just no way that an introvert like me was ever going to be successful with selling stuff.
Well, that was the silly idea I told myself.

The thing is, I never planned on being in direct sales.  But I tried the products, fell in love, and told everyone what the “secret” to my “glowing skin” was, pointing it out in the brochure.

She quickly pointed out that I was already “selling” the products without trying to sell a thing, when I gave her the resulting orders from colleagues.

That was my light bulb moment right there.

So with my new-found enlightenment, I gave this direct selling thing a go.

I went on to make a really meaningful side-hustle income, and win some awesome incentive prizes offered by the company. Proof that the “not-so-good-with-selling” me from before was wrong.

But my story is not one of just sunshine and rainbows.

I also made SO many mistakes along the way. If learning was a tree, I would have fallen out of it a few times and hit every branch on the way down.  And I crashed so hard that I thought of quitting more times than I’d like to admit.

Luckily though, my resolve wouldn’t let me quit.  (Hubby likes to throw around the word stubborn. lol)

So I pivoted in my business where I needed to, many times.  I learned and implemented as much as I could, and tweaked and refined wherever possible.

And it worked!