Hi everyone! My name is Matthias, I’m 25 and I live in Southern Germany. As I will only write and talk here in English you can also call me Matthew.
So here I am. I just heard about this type of blogging about 24 hours ago and I was instantly thrilled about it. Well I’m not a blogger or YouTuber either so how did I start dealing with this topic at all? I guess I have to go a few steps back.
I’m a salesman and whenever I’m having some days off I’m dealing with skill enhancement. So, last Christmas I picked up a book from my shelf which I already bought two years ago but never had the time or desire to read it.
Within the first pages the author was asking me if I knew my strengths and whether I have the feeling, working in a place that is fitting my individual strengths and talents. I could clearly answer this question with “no”. And appointing to a survey his company did, from 1.7 million asked people only 20 percent do have the feeling working within their talents. At least I wasn’t part of a minority but that did not surprise me at all.
Some pages further, the author was talking about promoting your talents and keep motivating on them. The first step was to take a stop and start thinking about your own strengths and if you could tell them at all. He wanted the reader to do an exercise:
“Put yourself with closed eyes in your childhood and live through as many emotional highlights as possible. Which of these experiences have you made with special abandonment? Which activities have awakened your enthusiasm for many years?”
I started to think about that…
When I was a young boy me and my friends were interested in video games and whenever a new video game or rumors were released I was writing little newspaper articles just like the famous magazines did with little printed screenshots and so on. I gave them to my friends, they liked it and gave me a positive feedback.
Later in business school I realized that I was one of only a few persons in our class who could perform really good at presentations like standing in front of the class and speaking completely free about my topic without looking up every sentence. All of my classmates hated it when the teacher wanted us to do presentations like this, I enjoyed it.
When I started in my new job as a salesman I quickly realized that the psychological aspect about the job was much more interesting to me as the job itself. I started investigating when I had a moment for myself and thinking about the last sales conversation I just finished. What was good? What wasn’t? Maybe I should say things like this? Maybe I should ask questions like that?
I started reading books which should also help me improve my skills. I shared some tips that were working for me with my colleagues. When they were working for them as well they showed themselves grateful. That was a really good feeling for me, helping other people with the knowledge I obtained.
The day came when my boss sent me for the first time to a professional sales trainer. It was a two-day workshop and I was thrilled. Not by the trainer himself. He wasn’t actually fitting my sales philosophy at all and I was kind of disappointed but the job he had was amazing.
This could be something for me. I enjoyed writing, presenting, speaking in front of people, the feeling helping other people and at least being independent.
So, this could be my objective I guess. But as I am still new to distribution I want to collect more experience and have a small start here sharing my records with you. Now that you know a little bit about me I guess you can already imagine what kind of topics I would like to talk about and what I am aiming at.
I would like to talk about psychology and how to be successful not only in business but in your life.
I would also like to talk about communication and which barriers we are facing when communicating with others and how we can manage them and improve contact with other people.
And I would also like to talk about finances and how I am going my way to be more independent from my actual job step by step.
But I don’t just want to talk business. I’m also interested in movies so maybe I will be talking a little bit about this topic.
And I would like to visit some day the United States for a longer time and live there. Maybe I’ll to share some of my thoughts on this as well.
This should be it for now. Thank you for reading and stay tuned :)
References
CHRISTIANI, Alexander: Das Sales-Master-Training, 2., ergänzte Auflage 2011