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You Never Know the Whole Story Someone Else Was Carrying

🌸 Laurie’s Lesson #015

Have you ever looked back on a season of your life and understood it completely differently than you did while you were living it?

I have. ❤️

Age has a way of giving us perspective that youth simply couldn’t have given us yet.
We begin to understand why someone worked so much.
Why someone seemed distracted.
Why certain decisions were made.
Why somebody couldn’t always show up exactly the way we wanted them to.

And sometimes we discover there were battles happening quietly behind the scenes that we knew absolutely nothing about.

That’s why I’ve learned to be careful when judging someone else’s choices — especially choices they made during a difficult season.

We usually know the part of the story we experienced.
But we may not know everything they were carrying.

Maybe they were protecting someone.
Maybe they were trying to keep everything together.
Maybe they were struggling financially.
Maybe they were grieving.
Maybe they were scared.

Maybe they were doing the very best they knew how to do with circumstances nobody else completely understood.

And here’s something else I’ve learned…

Two people can walk through the same season and experience it very differently.

One person’s memories don’t necessarily cancel out another person’s memories.

There can be room for both.

Maturity teaches us to stop asking only:
“How did this affect me?”

…and begin asking:
“I wonder what they were going through, too?”

That one question can change relationships.
It can replace judgment with curiosity.
Resentment with understanding.
Anger with compassion.

And sometimes…

It can help us look back at an imperfect season and finally see the love that was there all along — even when that love didn’t always look the way we expected it to. ❤️

None of us gets every season right.

Parents don’t.
Spouses don’t.
Children don’t.
Friends don’t.
People don’t.

But as we grow, we get the opportunity to look at old stories through new eyes.

Not to pretend the difficult parts didn’t happen.
Not to erase anyone’s feelings.

But to recognize that perhaps…
There was more to the story than we knew.

📖 “With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;” — Ephesians 4:2 (KJV)

❤️ Today’s Reflection

Is there someone whose actions you’ve judged based only on the part of their story you could see?

Maybe before deciding what their intentions were…

Ask yourself:
“What might they have been carrying that I never knew about?”

Sometimes understanding doesn’t change the past.
It changes the way we carry it into the future. 💕

🌸 Laurie’s Lessons

Choosing Faith. Live with Purpose.

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Not every mountain is worth the climb……

Define what is meaningful to YOU. Just because one coach or trainer says work 24/7 like no one else does so you can play like n one else does later…..doesn’t mean you have to, or that you are not giving it your all if you don’t.

What is meaningful to YOU?For me, my FAMILY has been #1 all my life.I started my journey back becoming self employed in 1993 when I was pregnant w our 2nd child……

Things have been rough, I have had some $10 months, some $100 some $100 months, some $10000 months (and many other numbers over the years……

But my FOCUS was and still is my FAMILY.

If you work so much that you neglect your family, you may be successful one day, but lose your family in the process…..then is that worth it?

I have heard many trainers say “treat your business like a business not a hobby” but in that some also say, if you are not working it 10-20 hours a day you are treating it like a hobby and not serious.

That is their opinion, and I disagree. This world and this life is about relationships…..Even if you are not married and don’t have kids, you still have other relationships in your life.

But everyone is different – you need to figure out what is important to you – and then yes, figure your schedule and WORK when you are working time on your schedule…..

Be PRESENT with your FAMILY and other RELATIONSHIPS when it is that time….

I have not always been perfect, and I have a workaholic mindset…..but I watch myself, and I have learned to schedule myself…..still a work in progress…..every day.

But I work consistently and productively when I am scheduled to work. that is the difference, and one of the big secrets to my success 🙂 <3

What is sales?

Sales have transferred from an ‘Outside’ sales environment to an ‘inside’ sales environment. Whereby the time we are able to make our pitch, prospects know more about us than we know about ourselves.

Indeed, in this informational world, people have the opportunity to learn about you, and your service. Whether good or bad, this information is readily available before your prospects even meet you.

In today’s day and age the subject of ‘relationship marketing’ couldn’t be more critical to business owners, entrepreneurs & professional sales people no matter the industry.

It’s is about having;

A servant heart and;

Mindset

Hence, sales is the art of helping someone and giving back to your community.

Therefore, to help and give back, our mindset should be in such a place to have a servant’s heart. Simply put, there is no better way to succeed than to bring the best version of yourself to the table. It’s definitely true that we are all capable of being genuine and authentic.

One way of doing this is collaboration (sales vs. being pitchy) and here is how it’s done;

Start with your mindset

Lead with your heart, not your wallet

Have a normal conversation between 2 people

Inform yourself about the person you’re meeting with before you meet

In order to succeed as a salesperson, you must get to know people…period end of story!

Finally, sales is about relationships, and the more focus you put on building relationships, the more successful you’ll be in business, not to mention your personal life.

Well, who better to speak to us and teach us how to put this into practice in the New Year than Larry Levine, international and best-selling author of ‘Selling From The Heart.’

Larry knows and has 30 years experience in the world of the B2B technology space. Most importantly he knows what it takes to be a successful sales professional.

Take a look at this special interview on learning the whole premise of ‘Selling From The Heart’ …

https://www.appreciationpal.com/relationship-marketing-kody-b-larry-levine/#!195