Saturday, December 17, 2011

How Do You Quit Your Job?


You'd be surprised how many people need to know how to quit their jobs. So, how do you quit your job? Yeah, they know how to resign from their jobs, but quit it? You need to quit your job for good if you want to launch out full-swing into business. Burn your bridges so you won't have any means to go back the way you came from.

Start Part-Time

Don't quit your job pronto. Keep at it while you start your business part-time. Do it before or after office or during your free time. If you need to set appointments do it during your coffee breaks. Then meet with them during your longer breaks or after office hours. At least, you have your monthly pay supporting you as you prepare being full-time in business.

If you need to do long hours of business, set it ahead of time and look for an opportunity when your work isn't hectic and you won't be needed much in the office. Then schedule that day and file for leave. Make full use of that day. Or, bless you if you have no work on Saturdays. This is a good time to do everything needed for your fledgling business. 

As your business grows, prepare for resigning. Do it gracefully. Make sure you leave no work pending. And give the office enough time to pick your replacement and orient him or her. Then quit your job. Make sure the deals in your new business come in regularly and able to support you before you resign. How do you quit your job? Make wise preparations, that's how. 

And once you quit, give your new business your best shot. Don't think that you can always go back to your job once things get bad. Dismiss that option. If you keep thinking that way, you won't be able to give your business your best shot. Options like that are wrongly timed. Give yourself zero options first. But also make sure that you're not so stressed up by it. What's a business for if it'd just ruin your life?

And before all the above, do your homework first. Research. See how viable the business is and how you'd figure lucratively in it. How profitable is it and how responsive is the market? Can a real need possibly be created? Try selling some of the product and see how the sales come in. Or try doing small business presentations now and then.


How do you quit your job? Give it a thorough feasibility study because, remember, it will affect a lot of things and lives around you. And if after your best efforts everything still fails, don't blame yourself or anyone. Failure is part of success and maturity. And always make God your business companion. Not that God will make everything work, but he can turn even hopeless things work in your favor in some way.

If you think you need to go back to your job after failing, then do it. Then start allover again and try again.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Your Job is an Illusion


Your job is an illusion. It is make-believe. It makes you believe that you're secure--like what they say about a job "security." You can look forward to your salary every 15th and end of the month. The thought that money is coming every two weeks is what we're made to believe as "security." We cling to that idea so strongly that we fear letting go. Our whole lives and the lives of our loved ones depend on it.


It's easier to just get a job than risk doing a business you're not sure about. With a job, someone pays you--and he is obligated by law to pay you and provide some benefits. With a business, no one is obligated by law to look after you. You're on your own. And most of us are uncomfy about that. We want to blame somebody or run to somebody for security. Once we get a job, we feel everything is taken care of. Your job is an illusion.

In return for such "security" we trade off our entire lives. We willingly allow ourselves to be enslaved. Our jobs define our daily lives--what time we get up and sleep, what days we spend with our families, who we spend our days with most of the time, how much we can spend a month--in fact in our lifetime, what we prioritize, how we define life, how we spend our summer time, etc. Everything is dictated by our job description. In fact, what college course our children can take, and even the kind of life they will have, and their children and grandchildren--except if someone among them decides to put a stop to all that and break the curse.

Yeah, we're willing to give up everything for our jobs just to receive a meager monthly pay. We think life is worth just a monthly salary. We allow our jobs to control our whole lives, and the lives of our loved ones, like some god we offer all our valuables just to give us some bread on our dinner table, and we even offer our families as sacrifice. We may deny this, but you can always look at things this way--if you're open-minded.

Employment Trap

I've seen people sell everything they have and leave their families behind to work abroad. They endure being away from their families for months, even years, losing the wonderful opportunity to be with their growing up kids and guiding them. Some of them end up having an illicit romantic affair there while away from their spouses, or else have their spouses back home commit the same. Meanwhile, their children suffer everything.

Growing up kids need the presence of their parents more than they need money. Those years will never happen again and once you lose those vital years being with them, you risk losing your kids as well. You may be able to send them to a good school, but your role as a parent to them is of utmost importance--more important than the best schools possible. Your absence at such times makes your kids lose something essential from their person. The illusory promise of employment abroad makes everything seem okay as long as money is made. TV commercials about children looking happy and growing up right while their parents are abroad are just propaganda. They seldom happen.

Worse, some of those leaving home to work abroad are illegally recruited and end up deported, the money they loaned to work abroad forfeited. They go home totally bankrupt.

For those who employ locally, the hectic hours in the office divert their attention from their real needs. All along, through years of employment they don't realize that they're just being used. The illusion of "self-fulfillment" is further enhanced by salary, salary increase, promotion, and benefits. But they're youth and energy--which should've been applied for their own sole benefit--has been given to someone else for long years. They start living their own lives at age 60 or 65 when what they have left of themselves are leftovers. You see, your job is an illusion.

Well, there are those who are fitted for employment. They do not have any imagination about how they can own their lives without having to work for someone else. But the majority of us, we were made for something more challenging. If you've realized how your job is an illusion, start redeeming your time--with God's help.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Be Your Own Boss—Work for Yourself

You know, it’s really quite unfair if you’ve been working for a boss for years now. Tsk, tsk, tsk. You work more than you’re paid for and it’s even worse if you work extra for free. You’re made to do overtime work and you spend for it with your own money. That’s triple unfair. And do you want to continue with that for the rest of your life when you can be your own boss?

You work from 8 to 5 and you do the same things every day. How can you develop as a person with that boredom and monotony? Oh yeah, you attend office seminars and conferences, but really, how do they make you better? What counts there is your attendance—so you’d get your per diem or measure up to the allowance given you—but other than that, nothing, zero. It’s more a waste of time than career equipment.

Find Your Better Lot in Life

I say you work for yourself instead. Be your own boss and find your better lot in life. And the only road to it is doing your own small business. Small at first. It will be risky especially at the outset, but once the profit picks up, you’re on your way to freedom and self realization. Find a small business you can do. What do you like doing? What do you really want to do in life? Find out if there could be a market created for that.

There was this guy who loved bananas. He was tired of his job and was contemplating on doing a business. He thought of selling bananas. Sure, there were lots of businesses selling bananas already, but no one delivered bananas directly to offices during lunch time. So he started with that. He delivered fresh, plump bananas to employees in offices during lunch time. He created a new market for bananas.

It looked weird for a while, but the thing worked over time. He established himself as a banana seller during lunch. He also casually talked about the health benefits of bananas now and then so that people all the more bought his product, realizing their need for the micro nutrients present in bananas. After all, bananas were affordable.


Soon, he was delivering to every company in the block. He brought crates to supply employees in companies located on every floor of the buildings there. Gradually, he included other fruits. His love for bananas, with a little imagination and daring, led him to the road to freedom and realization of his true potential.

So, give it a moment of thought: How would you like to be your own boss? If you like the idea, start to think of ideas how you can work for yourself.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

How to Make People Buy

Among the greatest challenges in a sales career is how to make people buy. This is second to how to make people attend business orientation meetings or BOMs. If you’ve decided to go jobless big-time (or are yet deciding to), you have to learn to sell and make people buy. The problem is how. Well, there are easy but a bit radical steps.

Bring the Product

When you have made an appointment to see someone about your product, make sure to bring the product already with you. As you make your sales pitch, hold the product and make constant reference to it. At the end of your casual presentation (make it casual) give the bottle to your prospect and say something obligatory like, “Okay, you can take this product and try it.” The guy might say, “What’s this? Is this for free?” Frankly say, “I need to sell it to you now.”

If he or she should resist the product, that’s when you say, “You don’t need to pay for it now. I can always come back for the payment. Is next Tuesday okay?” Be specific when you’d be back, and be back. Especially do this if you’re confident about your product. Once you get the person to take the product and try it, there’s a big chance for a repeat order when you come back.

You say you don’t have the guts to do this? Well, if you want a business career in sales and go jobless big-time all the way, you have no choice. Welcome yourself to your new business career. You’ve got to do this. Just do it, and do it now.

Target the Kid

This especially works when you have a super delicious health product like, say, purple corn juice. Kids just love it. Now, adults may still turn down even a good product, but not when their kids or grandkids badly want it and pester them to have it. So target the kids. Open a smaller version of the product and give the kid a taste test. If it’s a toy or special gadget you’re selling, open a sample and let the kid try it. Better if the kid breaks or smashes it. That leaves your adult customer with no choice but to buy.

Target the Mrs.

I often try the wife when the husband looks adamantly downbeat. Once, when we were leafleting at a national park, I saw a couple walking by and asked the guy to try a free taste test if they’d fill up a short form. The guy said no and walked past me. But the lady with him was looking at my flier and seemed interested. So I went after her. She took the flier and walked straight to the booth for the form and taste test. The guy reluctantly followed.

You can do this especially if you think your product has an appeal to women. And we’re not limited to jewelries here. It can apply to classy china, life plans, unique stylish drinks, lingerie, kitchen wares, or small appliances. That’s how to make people buy.

You Need This

Always sell to people giving the strong impression that “I’m not selling you this; you need this.” Better if you add this impression that you don’t need to make this sale. You’re just making this sales pitch because he or she needs this product badly. Look for a need, casually talk to the prospect and interview him or her to get some leads. When you see one, attack that weakness. If you’re looking for water and see some traces of water welling up on the ground, hit that area and dig deep. No let up.


If you're selling negative ion sanitary pads, do it with genuine compassion. Tell your female prospects how the badly need the products and what the real facts are on cervix statistics. Do some research to make them see how synthetic pads harm women. Make them see their need. Educate them. That way, you have an advocacy, not a product to sell.


Well, there will be lots of times when you wouldn’t make any sale no matter what strategy you use. Don’t worry, don’t push yourself too much. There’ll always be another time. We all get unlucky for a while. But never quit. As you do this often, you'll master aggressive but non-desperate salesmanship. You'd know how to make people buy in easier ways.