June 28, 2004

The Lifeline

"When doing Southwestern, your schedule is your lifeline. If you break it, you die."

I know you don't die, but this saying of theirs is not too far off from the truth. If you alter your schedule in a significant way you suffer. You suffer badly.

Here's my lifeline to the best of my memory...

The Lifeline

Arrive at the HQ
Unpack Car
Do Weekly
Call in Stats (10:30 PM)
Fill in Selling 101
Pack Lunch
Run / Work Out
Eat Dinner / Check e-mails / blog
Shower
Go to bed

Wake up (6AM or 5:45AM)
Put bed away
Shower
Get dressed
Take stuff to car
Leave HQ

Eat Breakfast
Fill out five orders
Pay for food
Brush teeth
Execs
Drive to territory

36 Demos
12-15 sits
2-10 customers

Repeat.

Posted by David at June 28, 2004 11:39 PM
Comments

Dave, I have found your blogs pretty interesting lately. Having left the bookfield for obvious reasons, it is sort of comforting for me to read about someone elses experiences out there. It is increasingly interesting because I can relate on so many levels with my first summer and it lets me think that this is what it would have been like if Andrew was still out there. Anyways, I just wanted to let you know that you never know who is reading these things, and to keep up the good work out there. Go out there and kill it for me.

Posted by: Tomkat at June 29, 2004 01:25 AM