Barely at sunrise this morning, I took a walk on the beach before setting off for the office.  I needed to clear my head from yesterday’s tough deal and a big cancellation which arrived in an unexpected email last night at 11. More of a reschedule than a cancellation, but the impact is the same-nothing happening this month.  

When I graduated from BC and was facing the gloom and rigors of graduate school, I came up with what I thought was a much better idea, and to the great consternation of my father, joined the Peace Corps, landing six months later in Moshi, Tanzania at the base of Kilimanjaro.  Fluent in Swahili, I taught English and had what became a life changing experience.  During the next couple of years,  I taught, built libraries, inoculated hundreds of people, and as a group, we changed the lives of countless people.  Would heartily recommend the Peace Corps to anyone!

Somehow, my portfolio hopefully will make it through the financial machinations of Obamanomics.  All I know is that for all of us out there selling our products and services this month, we now have just one more barrier thrown in front of us this week as a reason not to buy.   Nothing slows down a big purchase more than the Fear Factor.  

With the turn of the digital page today, we’re BANG right into June and facing the end of the quarter.  Hard now to remember those exciting days back in January at the annual sales meeting, when everything was spread out before us and December, 2011 seemed a very long way away. 

Actually, Q2 for me is always the most interesting and advantageous quarter of the year.