🧟♀️ Am I Running a Zombie Business? Part Two
When imposter vibes transition from syndrome to reality
If you haven’t already, read Part One of this post first:
🧟♀️ Am I Running a Zombie Business? Part One
📧 B2B Mastermind — would you be interested? March 13, 2023 “We are considering putting together a mastermind of business owners who sell IP into organizations. We’re putting out feelers for now. If we were to proceed, would you be interested in joining us?”
“I’ll never know and neither will you of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
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It stopped mattering how much was at stake on sales calls with potential clients. Whether I was pitching services for $1,500 or $15,000 or $150,000, the number of zeroes at the end stopped making a difference. After hitting a wall with so many consecutive calls yielding zero results, my enthusiasm for scheduling them dwindled.
I know, I’m a terrible business owner for saying this. Business is sales, after all. Right?
We’re supposed to have an indefatigable drive to keep going, persevere, take every no as being one step closer to a yes.
Which brings me back to the B2B IP-licensing mastermind invitation awaiting a yes-or-no, in-or-out reply.
It had been burning a hole in my inbox for seven days.
Each day, I returned to the pinball machine of my mind, looking for new angles to consider as I debated participating in this newly forming group. Down the ball traveled—through the maze of spinners, scoops, slingshots, and bumpers—increasing speed with every twist and turn.
Finally, one week later, I responded. I thought at the time my reply left the opportunity door slightly ajar, but in hindsight, it clearly did not: