When you feel disconnected,

because someone doesn’t care for you,

the way you think you should be cared for, 

maybe it is your self-centeredness that is in the way?

Connection is built through true conversation, rather than accusation. 

Blaming others for how you feel is the fastest path to disappointment. 

Blaming others for how you feel is the foundation for perfecting victimhood. 

Blaming others is justified through horribilization (demonization). 

When you demonize another person, then anything you think, feel, or believe can become their fault. 

Just because your mind created connections between two distinct events or circumstances,

that doesn’t make them connected in real life. 

Your perception is your own personal reality, 

but personal reality isn’t always true. 

In today’s complex selling landscape, sales teams must do more than transact; we must help others transform. Here’s how to elevate enterprise modern GTM with effective strategy and stoic leadership:

1. From Transaction to Transformation
   Understand the shift from one-dimensional selling to holistic enterprise engagement, scaling ROI opportunity, pricing strategies, and customer alignment for deeper, long-term success.
2. Lead with Value, Not Ego
   “Everything you do must add value.” Show up, add real value, be present, and let integrity guide your interactions.
3. Design Sales Infrastructure to Win
   Build your team with specialists, from pre‑sales architects to customer success, aligned with client outcomes, territories, plans, comp structures, and mutual-action client roadmaps.
4. Strategic, Multi-Stakeholder Engagement
   Navigate complex deals with multi-threaded, C-Level involvement and account-based marketing, including virtual and high-touch field programming to unite stakeholders.
5. Be Resilient and Action-Oriented
   Embrace Marcus Aurelius’s teaching, “What stands in the way becomes the way.” Tackle obstacles head-on, adapt fast, and convert setbacks into sales momentum.
6. Plan with Customers, not for Them
   Mutual action planning aligns client outcomes with services and organizational alignment. When we solve their problems together, success multiplies.
7. Be Present, Trustworthy, and Humble
   Seneca urges us to focus on the present. Pair that presence with unwavering integrity: “If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.” It’s not just sales, it’s stewardship.

If you can tie intent to action, you know everything you need to know to make good decisions. 

The problem is, it is almost impossible to determine intent. 

So stay focused and determined on your chosen path, while being flexible when the data changes. 

Basic human desires,

and basic human needs,

can always be met with the basics:

Love, Care, & Support. 

If you pretend to respect someone who is dishonorable,

you,

yourself,

have no honor. 

Simplifying the complex is smart.
Oversimplifying anything is stupid.

Every relationship tells a story, 

we decide the story, 

and what that story means. 

It is easy to find fault with others. 

It is easy to blame others. 

It is hard to admit you are weak and need help.