How to Walk Into A Meeting When You Don’t Feel Like Yourself
Have you ever had a bad day?
What about a bad week?
A bad month?
And suddenly… it starts to feel like a bad year?
It happens.
And one of the biggest mistakes I see in sales is letting a day roll into something much bigger because you don’t catch it early enough.
Easier said than done, I know.
But the longer I’ve been in sales, the more I’ve realized this: if you don’t interrupt it, it compounds.
Last week, I had one of the best days I’ve had in a while.
Everything clicked.
The next day? Completely different story.
Nothing dramatic happened. I just… wasn’t feeling it.
And the interesting part is, it didn’t start with my actions.
It started with my thoughts.
I was on an 8 am Zoom, and everything people said annoyed me, which is very unlike me.
That’s when I knew.
Not because something went wrong. It was because I was off.
About 20 minutes in, I left the meeting and tried to push through. Then tried something else.
Then something else. Nothing was working.
At that point, I had two choices: Keep going down that path or interrupt it. So I interrupted it.
I called one of my favorite people.
Not to complain.
Not to vent about how annoying everyone was.
I asked how they were doing. I listened. I laughed.
Immediate shift.
After that, I took a quick walk.
Grabbed a coffee from my favorite spot.
And wrote down everything that was actually going well.
Slowly, things started to lift.
Here’s the point: You’re not always going to feel like yourself. But you are responsible for what you do next. Because walking into a meeting in a bad state doesn’t just affect you.
People feel it.
And in sales, energy is everything.
So if you’re off, don’t ignore it. Don’t push through it blindly. Interrupt it. Reset.
Then walk into the room like yourself again.
