Tuesday, May 20, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the hardest things I ever had to do was to sell something I didn\u2019t intrinsically believe in. I used to teach in a publicly funded boarding high school for the artistically gifted. I wholeheartedly believed<\/em> in that place. It was a state-funded jewel. Recruiting was easy because I vicariously lived through my students. I would have loved going there had I had a chance to be 18 again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn\u2019t realize the principle of buy in, however. I sold myself short when I thought the \u201cinstitution\u201d was what I believed in. I bought into my gut instinct about a place. When I moved into university teaching, I felt like a phony. The last two schools I taught for couldn\u2019t sustain my belief. My gut was right, but I didn\u2019t listen or buy into that feeling about the institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would not have attended the schools I was trying to sell, so I became a phony salesman trying to recruit students. You can only betray yourself so long before the hardship catches up to you. It was like a person who doesn\u2019t like Buicks, inherently, would never drive one, but who worked for a Buick dealership. The customer cannot buy your phony sales pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I realized this about my church music career. I no longer felt the institution\u2019s mission was aligned with mine. My gut was not buying it. I couldn\u2019t sell it because I couldn\u2019t love it. So if you\u2019re trying to sell something that you don\u2019t believe in, life is hard. You\u2019re betraying the only \u201cbuy in\u201d system that sells – you. You will know when you lose your faith in something, which resonates within. It\u2019s not them, it\u2019s you. Church works for many people. It doesn\u2019t work for me, anymore. I can only sell what I buy into, and I ain’t buying it anymore. It’s not them – it’s me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday, May 20, 2025 One of the hardest things I ever had to do was to sell something I didn\u2019t intrinsically believe in. I used to teach in a publicly funded boarding high school for the artistically gifted. I wholeheartedly believed in that place. It was a state-funded jewel. Recruiting was easy because I vicariously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5253,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}