7/26/2025-Mindfulness/Self Care

If life is messy, as Tara Brach claims, The Sales Life is REALLY messy.

Whether working on quarterly strategic account plans or plotting an upcoming pitch, your brain is constantly calculating. Every sales scenario and issue is constantly bouncing around in your brain.

As you attempt to control and configure behaviors and outcomes, you are bombarded with yet more information that joins the cramped and active space between your ears.

It is an exhausting way to run a week…but today is Saturday, and it’s time to push all that information aside.

Sometimes you wake up on Saturday and the info, data, and work stimuli are still coursing through your veins. It’s hard to just shut it off.

Well, use this downtime to get the week out of your head by journaling. And while you might keep a WINS Journal – regularly espoused by MySalesDay – that’s for all the good stuff that happens to you in The Sales Life, Mondays through Fridays.

What about the non-work stuff in your life?

Journaling always offers a valuable perspective on life’s complexities.

And, journaling is also a reminder that you – and everyone else – are just a dot on our big spinning marble.

A sobering thought? Yes. But a freeing one, too.

You can find many guided meditations by Tara Brach online, but this one is apt for reconciling the weight of the seller’s life.

Don’t let the title of this meditation fool you. "RAIN" means "Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture." It is a way to bring mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions.

Lots goes on in your head, which means many emotions get generated, too.