The Greatest..The Bravest…THE LAMEST!!!
She sat there bored out of her mind…wondering when the F will you shut up?
I don’t know what brought it to my mind, but a specific someone from my past came to my mind who had a “High Status”, and I couldn’t help but think about how lame he was…now you may wonder why do I care?I don’t…but I never claimed to have a life did I? so if I want to think and ponder about that lame man on my Saturday morning..then I can..and I will! 😂
You see I find it amusing when I listen to people who are mediocre doing “larger than life things” just so they can try and make their mediocre personality outstanding.
Now is that a good strategy? I don’t know…I’ve never been mediocre so I can’t relate HAHAHA!!! keif bassss???? Humbleness 📈
So that man in a social event, he was sitting talking about how he signed up to be considered for the mission to go to Mars, and me being me…ofcourse I had to give my opinion:
Me: Have you been to every spot on the planet earth and you finished them all, that you felt like It’s time to explore a different planet?
**Him: **No, but going to mars is so exciting and futuristic, and I like to be one of the people to pioneer that, and enter history.
Me: So you mean to tell me…you’re choosing to leave all of this magnificent god created masterpiece of a planet, to go to a place where there’s only red sand, so you can enter history?
**Him: **Yes.
Me: Ok.
That’s literally how the conversation ended hahah! Like he doesn’t have a valid reason other than “wanting to be the first and greatest” and I don’t have any reason to carry on this lame ass convo that I don’t even know why I got myself into.
Another day, another major life achievement…this same man goes and get injected with the trial vaccine for covid “the one they were trying to develope here locally” I was shooketh, my man? what happened? Mid-life crisis? tell me….WHY? just tell me one reason WHY?
Him: Why not?
Me: …..sigh
You see that man I don’t blame him, he is just looking for a conversation starters, like I want to go to a party and when they ask me what did I do for the weekend, I’d say “I was vaccinated for a trial vaccine that no one ever heard of and we got no clue what happened to it as that vaccine never saw the light”
I mean that’s interesting tbh..not gonna lie, so his strategy may be actually working 🤷🏽♀️
Another interesting human, likes to make the biggest statements, the extremest..it doesn’t matter if things work out or not! no! as long as he can make the biggest claims then he’s THE GREATEST.
So one of his biggest achievements in his life, is “Posted on Linkedin For XXX days” wow! slow claps! Impressive.
Okay big boss, brilliant, you are consistent and that is BRILLIANT, but what’s the value of those posts? like aren’t you bored of yourself writing them? don’t you now wake up and feel like, maybe I can skip today because I don’t have anything valuable to say? just like how you didn’t have anything valuable to say for the last 2 months? so maybe it’s time to call it quits?
No…he doesn’t think that! because he still blesses the world with that “PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE” you know his posts reminds me of those quotes that people put in the bathrooms “Live, Laugh, Love” and I don’t know why the bathroom is a great place for such an art piece, as I never did experience any of the above 3 at that location, the only thing I usually experience is number 2, and it’s not “Laugh”…in case if you’re wondering.
So his posts became as useful at the art piece in the toilet, however, for him its also a conversation opener, going to a party…no body..literally no body,
Him: Hey did you know that I wrote Linkedin posts for XXX Days consistently.
**Everyone: **Wow..Slow claps… 👏 👏 👏
Last week I got trapped into a meeting that I willingly volunteered for, to help some ladies that reached out to me on Linkedin, and I thought you know what those senior ladies are impressive, they are still active, they are still working, they are doing things to help women empowerment, so might as well I give them free guidance from a Digital perspective as I checked their website for an initiative that they are planning to do, and the term “disaster” is an understatement.
I go on the call, good start, I actually wore a shirt so I can be presentable infront my elderly (they are in the end of their 60’s if not 70’s and no I’m not exaggerating).
So I start asking what they do, and what is their goal and so on, and they went on to tell me about their gazillion years of expertise, their life changing impact…etc.
And they want to do a women retreat for businesswomen and executives and when I asked about the pricing they HIT ME with a big ass number in British pounds (the retreat is in UAE), so I gasped 😮 not because the price is insane, but because “THERE’S NO WAY IN HELL TO SELL TICKETS” for such an event, for such a price, with someone like them who may be on paper they do have the experience, but who knows of them? who in their right mind would go pay $$$$ for a “3 days retreat” through an online ad with women that they have never heard of.
Mind you, this is the second time they are about to push and delay that retreat because they couldn’t sell the first time and they are still unable to sell this one, which is scheduled a month from now.
So I go and I try and explain to them from my experience that there’s alot of noise online, and chatter, and 100000s of offers and ads that we get targeted with every minute of the day, so to market a high ticket product/service for a retreat where others do retreats in the UAE for $100.
It’ll be hard for the users to be convinced to convert for the price of $$$$ rather they’d click on the $$.
And I’m fully aware that they are providing immense value and that they are incomparable to the $$, however here I’m talking about Digital ads, what can convert and what cannot, and since “They Are the brand” but there’s absolutely no branding work done, and no personal brand that they built…so no one knows of them or their value.
And I didn’t even finish my sentence, and they jump on me…they got offended:
“Let us stop you right here, you cannot compare us to those cheap retreats, we will not allow it, we have XYZ, we are this, we are that, we are the first to do this…we are not doing Yoga, we are doing Chi gong 😂”
And no matter how much I tried to jump back in and explain that I fully understand what they are saying and I’m not questioning their value and I’m not asking them to lower their prices, I’m only trying to advise them, so they can change their strategy from looking for someone to do ads for them as it’ll be a waste of money, to actually work on growing their own brands organically and to establish connections and to become authoritative figures in that realm with enough noise about them online, that they can sell such high-ticket retreat directly to the people, but else its not going to work.
But they didn’t listen! they kept on interrupting me, they kept on being defensive, saying how great they are, how experienced they are…and honestly here I was just cursing myself and my stupidness of always wanting to help strangers only for it to backfire on me, so I zoned out.
End of that debate, they said our price for North America is quite cheap, and I said yes true it is, but you’re doing the retreat in the UAE, no? so are the ladies in North America, willing to pay for a flight ticket and to travel all of this way here to attend? and they arrogantly said “YES!” so I said, okay then…you’ve got your clients sorted, there’s nothing for me to help you with here, good luck!
End of that soul draining meeting.
So let’s see what lessons we learn from the above:
- If you don’t have an interesting personality, you don’t need to go to extremes to be interesting, as “the extremes” are things that the average people like “me” won’t know much about it, to be able to hold a fun conversation with you (even you don’t know much about it to be honest) so how about you do something less extreme to become interesting? a sport? art? technology? cooking?…anything really! it doesn’t take much to start upskilling yourself.
Or don’t do anything! just be yourself and I’m sure there alot of people who would appreciate someone who’s honest and secure enough to say:
“You know what…I haven’t done anything this weekend, I drooled on my couch while I napped and binge watched TV”
Allaaah! that is so relate-able! like legit we can be besties, you take one corner of the sofa and I take the other 🤗
No Mars Missions, No Vaccines..Nothing! just a pool of drool and maybe we order take-out so we get our happiness fix too!
- Being constant is nice, having a goal is also nice…but when you realize that the quality of whatever you’re doing is on the decline then just stop!
The world won’t stop revolving if you stop. go find you something else that you may provide value with.
We have 24 hours a day, don’t waste those hours on useless things anymore when you’ve already washed and rinsed them over and over again.
Just so you can say “I did it for X days” it’s like those people who travel to alot of countries just so they can tick it off as a number, but did you explore it enough? did you experience the culture fully? No? so whats the point then?
It’s okay to change goals, it’s okay to change interests, no need to be the greatest, no need to have the biggest numbers…in the grand scheme of things we are all tiny specks that one day we will all be forgotten.
So maybe you can chill now…and come take a spot next to us in the pool of drool.
- If you notice that you’re the only one talking in every conversation, and you realize that you are only interested in hearing the sound of your own voice, and you can’t wait for the person infront of you to finish the sentence so you can jump in and throw your wisdom (I sometimes do this last one- Sorry 😿).
Then maybe it’s time for you and I to start listening more, as people actually are more interested in those who are good listeners, in those who show interest in the person infront of them, and if you book someone’s time for a business call to get insight and advice from their expertise, then if all the other times you don’t know how to listen, then THIS time is surely the time to LISTEN!, else it’s would be a waste of time and effort for both parties.
Now excuse me while I go back to my favorite weekend activity of doing nothingness on my sofa, as I’m not the greatest, definitely not the bravest…but occasionally with all the dad jokes the I make, I kind of am the lamest 🤷🏽♀️
