The Dance Looks Different These Days
Friday, let the madness of the week and world fade away! It is a perfect fall day! I am home today and the next 2 until it begins again with yet 2 more shifts added to the mayhem! Although I enjoy the "purpose" and the reason for "doing" too. Promoting looks very different from the experiences I have yielded in the past! The dance is different!
I have been given the green light to utilize space on a grander scale for my art and communications classes! It has been more than a hot Arkansas minute since I had to preplan and prepare for marketing, prepping and teaching. With the world mostly on economic hold and customers, clients and students watching pocketbooks, my razzle and dazzle needs to be stepped up. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! That hole is deep, the hat is tall and that frisky rascal wabbit is down there somewhere but in the meantime let's pull the cat out of the bag!
Mon-Thurs daytime combined with Sunday evening, I lend my hand, knowledge, and charm; entertaining the masses in the restaurant industry which doubles as a larger-scale micro-brewery in our Maplewood area. It is an election year if you have yet to notice and people are scared and holding tight to their money. The daytime business has plummeted with the rare occasional corporate world screeching to leave their office if just for an hr lunch of course with separate checks! All 17 of them :( I dare do not chime into these corporate conversations. I do not have the mental wherewithal to kibbitz with these mostly polite individuals who do not understand my work or the double life I live. I do the server pivot, I smile sorta and suggest the pretzels and yell as I am walking away doing the waitress dance, "the beer book is on the table" (mind you the "business type lunches" drinking at noon to deal with the rest of days are gone and done) unless of course, you're the pretend business owner who barks "I own a business" at the local dive tavern wasting money instead of learning how to market that business with the money that should be used wisely. {I digress}
Nonetheless, my customers leave full and entertained by my musings and as they leave, I am still yelling, "Y'all come back now ya hear" ;D
The dual life is never easy. It takes skill to do the multi-stream thing and with the shape of the economy unless you have won the lottery or have a significant that you've smolded smothered and convinced to pay your way... you better be frick'n intelligent and talented to make ends meet!
Earlier this year, I held 3 jobs. Part-time juggling with a class or 2 in between! One of those positions I was peddling the competition's beer! while working at another tap room selling 41 different beers! (tiring, exhausting, and people-pleasing blah!) I made both entities money while I went broke and my refridge became stocked. LOL, I am not a beer drinker... although let me tell you about the current gig's Coffee Stout or the Christmas Chocolate orange ale at 8% that's coming soon! This part I enjoy! Its the peddling of goods and the closing sales of course while looking good doing it all! Ha! Image and how you are presenting the package... all of it! "OH US GIRLS" so into ourselves! ;) (that'll never get old)
As I was studying life coaching, it was too easy not to study business coaching. Find what you are good at and market the skill. Learn to monetize your knowledge and become an expert in the field. Put yourself out there! Be authentic! Let people see who you are, and what you are about and show them your life and what you are trying to achieve for the greater good. Adding purpose and value to the information you are putting out there by being entertaining, informational, and educational! Tipping the scales and inspirational! People want to buy from people they like, trust, and to whom they can connect! (if you have been some fool on a barstool philandering with subpar humans and women for that grand time... you will be the last person anyone wants to hire!)
Although I have been laughed at, ridiculed and so very misunderstood, you realize I am using my life and business coaching as a way to earn my livelihood through the means of all communication and visual image! Creative in all ways! If you can not speak effectively and look the part, keep a logical head on your shoulders, and understand how the general public views... all business'; you have failed the first test! While we still can not read the general public's mind, we certainly can get in their head and make them think! Entice...and bedazzled! While they are watching their pockets give them the illusion whatever it is about you... make them want it! Regardless! It is in the offering of the pretty package!
So while I am yelling beer and pretzels... dancing as I am walking away, they are being mildly entertained or slightly annoyed! LOL either way, I have their attention and they have to eat! and they are getting an experience that can't be duplicated! I am me! #KitrynMarie
In the upcoming weeks, I will be teaching painting lessons, Christmas card making, cookie decorating, and of course offering my VISION BOARD CLASS based on psychology and life coaching! It is the conversations that will be had while I am dishing up and out some very good German dishes/Jaegerscnitzel or that double patty bacon cheese smash burger served with seasoned crisp fries! I will be taunting with homemade fresh pretzels or possibly the Beer Cheese soup that is blended slightly with fresh veggies! Maybe my customer may want the beer bread or pumpkin vanilla beer bread served with maple butter! as they are listening to how they can sign up for an enrichment class!
Market, promote and sell yourself... not your soul! to those who have not made it their mission to misunderstand who you are! Dazzle, bedazzled and do the dance to who you are and what you are about! Monetizing what you love to do!
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Lastly, let me just dote on this note for a minute, I use visual aids and creative words in my life coaching to express messages. If you get offended by what you are seeing or reading, ask yourself why? If you believe you are being baited and you find the need to hold back your passive-aggressive reactive behavior, stop yourself in your tracks and come to terms with how it is affecting you! Life coaching: brings behavior and actions fully forward. It presents an image of how others have viewed you and how your actions have affected those surrounded by your presence! Large groups gossip! Where there have been first-hand accounts and then repeated for fodder and humor... it is up to the individual to take accountability and responsibility to all those they have harmed in the making of causing that harm and malice while being seen in action for years on end! (it doesn't go away because you sweep it under a rug with another) Slip-sliding from one person to the next praying one hand doesn't see what the other is doing while doing many at a time... then all of sudden, settling on because you think you're running out of time and patience? You only went looking for someone who will tolerate you while you are calling it love! Your love has a condition and it is based solely on how someone else loves you and what they can do for you... #psychology101 Secure and emotional avoidance do not make good bedfellows... especially as you age! It shows!
To learn more and to schedule any of the classes I am offering, reach out kitryn_marie@yahoo.com All classes must be prepaid 7 days prior to the class. Currently, I am offering them in a group setting on Monday nights in the Maplewood area!
Be Happy Be Blessed!
Kitryn Marie
