A friend and I finished our dinner and we headed out to the “Castainmobile”. I asked him if we could make a quick stop at the grocery store and with a nod of his head, we were on our way.
Once we were properly armed with our shopping cart, I confessed that we weren’t there for me, we were there for him. I told him to fill the cart.
A rather familiar wave of emotion consumed my friend when he realized that his family would have food in the house. I say it was “familiar” because I had the same look on my face when someone did it for me when I was down on my luck back in 1995!
I believe that as wonderful as this life can be, there are times when it feels that all is lost. That someone in that great bakery in the sky has baked a “screw you” pie just for you!
Quite frankly, worrying about food is not only disheartening, its a tad humiliating!
I know because that’s how I felt 20 years ago!
What if each of us were to take our sales skills and harness them for the ultimate good and . . .
1) Have a “Canned Sales Meeting” sometime this holiday season where we ask our teammates to bring a few canned or non perishable items to donate to the local food bank.
2) We take that network that we’ve been sitting on and we pass this concept along to them and ask them to pass it along to their network. Think Linkedin connections, Twitter and Facebook friends, people from your local chamber, your suppliers etc
3) If you’re a blogger, perhaps you could encourage your readers to host a “Canned Meeting” and pass the word on to their network.
Perhaps you can use your Jedi-like sales skills to sell your boss on making your next meeting, a “Canned Meeting”?
The point is to use that gift you were given to give something back!
The food banks get slammed this time of year folks and this will make a huge difference to someone . . .
Like it did for me at a time in my life when I desperately needed . . .
The gift of another round!
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