The Higher You Climb, the More Your ‘Ass’ Hangs Out
ByI often get kind of wayward, weird, sometimes obnoxious and occasionally down right rude emails from people in response to my emails about how to grow their salon or spa.
To this day it astonishes me how a few bytes of electronic data strung into a series of words and delivered to someone via email can cause the a ‘road rage’ like response.
Here’s one response I got on Tuesday:
“Henry,
By gum lad you’ve got more sh1t than a battery of ens
Regards,”
I won’t name and shame this chap for obvious reasons.
But just look at the length he’s gone to.
For starters he bothered to put a number ‘1′ in the word shit (sorry) and then to make matters worse, his mail didn’t even make sense.
Then I got a second mail.
“Hi Henry,
Thanks for the offer of a free gift but as YOU are well aware NOTHING but NOTHING is free in this life so sorry friend I do not need your bullsh1t book
Regards”
Amazing!
A few things I have to take up here:
- “Hi Henry” – nice, friendly salutation before the ‘onslaught’.
- Nothing is free in this life – not true. A warm smile, integrity, friendship, love, kindness, respect, air… Are all free…
- He calls me his friend and then says my stuff is ‘bullsh1t’ (there’s the number 1 again… weird).
- I haven’t ever offered him a book so I guess he never even read my emails anyway.
- My FREE GIFTS are free but I do ask for postage costs. I am in business too, for profit and am NOT a charity… If he begrudges spending a few quid for hundreds of pounds of information which could make him multiple times that then he’s not the success hungry type I accept as clients… (Click Here to Get Your FREE GIFT)
Suffice to say I’ve unsubscribe this ‘angry’ little chap from all my salon/spa communication.
And, the subject of email and how often to send it, what to include etc is a ‘minefield’.
BUT, this chap DID ask to receive my stuff. He actually asked for it, then told me off about it… Absolute genius.
I’m very careful to be sure that the salon/spa business growth information I ‘pump’ out is of good quality and useful.
However, if it isn’t relevant for a particular person I take NO offence if they wish to unsubscribe and stop receiving it. There are too many people BITING my arm off for it.
Anyway, what point am I trying to make here?
Well there are really TWO:
NUMBER 1: “The higher you climb, the more you ‘ass’ hangs out” – can’t remember where I first heard that but it is TRUE. Whatever profession you are in, the more success you find, the more people will want to (and enjoy) taking a ‘pop’ at you.
Do NOT let it bother you. In fact, embrace and enjoy it.
NUMBER 2: You need a THICK skin to be ultra-successful. The path to your goals will be paved with challenges, setbacks, failures, people screaming at you and worse. My response is always the same…
“Ummm… Interesting…”
Re-focus and ‘BLAM’… I’m off again…
So, next time someone tells you ‘You’re clogging up my email’ (I just don’t get that – it takes less than 1/2 a calorie to press the delete button) or they make a ’slight’, ‘offensive’ or ‘hurtful’ remark about what you do, deliver, offer, your products, services or treatments or whatever… REMEMBER… It really doesn’t matter….
“The Higher You Climb, the More Your Ass Hangs Out!” – And that’s GOOD news…
Have a great day,
Henry….
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