7/26/2002 08:55:00 AM|||Travis|||

Throughout the week there was only a handful of people that I talked to about eLearning and for the most part they were not that helpful at all. It seemed as though everyone was in a bad mood, myself included which did not contribute very much to the entire process.

I did start calling people more regularly, going through my contact list every 30 minutes, trying to get ahold of people throughout the day. This calling strategy seeminly backfired when I finally got one person on the phone and directly asked me "Travis, why did you call me 8 times today? Isn't that a bit much?" and was pretty angry. This emotion of course transerferd over to fear on my side and I felt a little intimidated by it. He then would not let me pitch him at all and answered most of my questions with "that would take too much time to get into." In contrast to him and his sour mood, I did have one conversation that a recall as being very pleasent, with someone on the East Coast who was a fun person to talk to although the conversation had little to do with eLearning.

I learned how to keep at something this week, even if the voice of judgement is telling you to stop. You keep hearing yourself think "they dont want this. Why am I calling them? They are going to be mad at me. God I hate cold calling." Once you can control this fear you can apply this to all other areas of your life- like standing up for yourself, or even while invloved in the modern day mating ritual game that is so popular amognst us college kids. So in conclusion, I learned how to perserve, and this is an important quality to have. As for putting myself into a better mood, I decided to take a vacation (much needed) to Las Vaegas for my friends 21st birthday. I have never been to Vegas before, I hope it is all I imagine it too be.

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