Well, that’s the start of this blog, the title ‘not inspiring’ as today I kind of lost it, at least this afternoon and evening.
It’s still weird to me how little events, or the meaning I give to little events can completely destroy my mood and my day. And I guess it’s the same for you or at least for most of you, although I’m not sure of that.
And actually nothing really happened. Just some little things that annoyed me, like not being able to take a warm shower still after we fixed the water and not really getting going with work today.
The main thing was though that i found that I found that one of my customers had a sample site made on his new company domain, which made me think he made the decision already to build a WordPress site and not use the site that I offered him. And I know he is comparing different systems and I know in the end I’m the best. But seeing this, what I later found to be a sample only, site on his domain put me further down today.
There is some reason for that though as I’m kind of waiting for him to make some decisions, also with the site I already built for him and that I kind of messed up last year. But I thought in the end I gave him a very good option, a better solution than he has now and even with very good conditions. And his new site would be built with similar, known technology with very little risk for him in my opinion. But I’m in The Philippines and it’s not easy to compete from here an as of the moment I don’t have the budget to regularly fly to The Netherlands to visit my customers.
But yes, this site is important to me, at least the site I have built before and that I put an awful lot of time and energy in to satisfy this customer. And this customer is important to me as it might just be the breakthrough to the full restart of my company.
And I thought i learned a lot, like trying to listen to customers and not pushing my products and stuff. So in this case I’m trying to lie low, but it’s starting to last an awful lot of time and yes, I could also use the money to finally deliver this site. So not easy to try to think about the customer, about where he stands, what he wants, if you have a very good product that you know suits his needs perfectly and that you are also willing to adapt further to his needs. And that product and this customer you already put an awful lot of time and energy in and again, it feels like some ‘last resort’ as as of the moment I don’t see any other opportunities for my business.
So is this deal important to me? Yes, certainly. And should I focus on the customer, yes, I guess so. But it’s not easy to keep going extra miles and miles and miles and people don’t seem to appreciate what you’re doing, seem to want something else.
And that again brought me today in my ‘it’s never enough’ feeling, like it seems it’s never enough what I’m doing to satisfy bosses or friends or family or customers or staff or maybe even you.
So what’s next? How to stay in a good mood? How to be happy when your mind is going all the way to those negative thoughts?
So sorry, also the end of my post is not inspiring. Better next time.