Home Party Fears

Home Party Fears

This is it.  I’m almost to the time when I really have to sign up if I’m going to do this.  Do I sign up to be a Home Party consultant, or do I chicken out?

There are so many concerns.  I’ve picked a company that doesn’t require a large output of cash to join.  I love their products.  I pretty well love their prices.  So what could possibly be the holdup?

    I hate talking in front of people.  Oh I can do it in small groups, particularly if I know the people.  But I’ve also done it in front of people I don’t know very well.  I have held small software training classes for other employees before in my programmer life.  It’s not hard, just something I wasn’t in love with.'

    I feel somewhat guilty about hitting up my friends and family to buy products.

    I’m afraid I won’t have anyone to sell too once I’ve exhausted my circle of friends and family.

    I’m concerned about the sort of strain this will put on my home life.  I work full time.  I’m not expecting this to replace my tech job.  I have a toddler.  I also have other interests that I like to pursue.  Can I be even mildly successful in the direct selling world and still have time for the rest of my life?

    What if I really don’t life it or do well?  What happens then?

I feel those are some very valid concerns.  Sure, some of them will work themselves out over time.  I’ll get better at speaking in front of people.  The times I’ve done it, the better I knew my information, the more comfortable I felt and the better I did.  I expect there’s training provided by the company to help with that, as well.

But ultimately, no one else can tell me how much time this will take away from everything else in my life.  No one can predict if I’ll like it or not.  I expect that if I give it the old college try, and do my best, I could be pleasantly surprised.

Now I just have to get up the nerve to do it.