Do you think you’re lucky? Do you believe in luck? In business? At home? In life?
This question formed the throughline for John Clements Consultants, Inc.’s February Sales Conference. The theme of this gathering focused squarely on 2023’s association with the Year of the Rabbit. While the rabbit of the Chinese Zodiac can be emblematic of many qualities such as cleverness, gentleness, friendliness, and more, the animal itself is often universally associated with luck.
Hard work and good sense are, of course, prized in JCCI. However, in a business where the actions and attitudes of clients and candidates can go beyond a recruiter or executive’s ability to anticipate, we sometimes can’t help but want better odds. And so, the subject of luck pops back up from time to time.
The sales conference started by tackling our metrics on sales, milestones, and other accomplishments first. There was pleasant news all throughout, putting everyone in a fine mood. Afterwards, we had a quick brunch consisting of two types of biko and two varieties of pancit; cool drinks and warm mugs flowed freely, including a container filled with delicious cold brew coffee.
This allowed more time to be given to the gathering’s primary speaker Karen Navarro, founder of the Online Healing Community. She proposed that luck in business, play, and anything else is interpreted through how people view abundances and absences in their lives. Do they have a lot of burdens or blessings? What do they value and how much of that is out there?
To combat any insecurities a person might have with abundance gaps, she proposed a simple meditation exercise. One should imagine their absences, or abundances of problems, the touchstone for how they perceive luck. Then, rather than try to ignore it, they should inflate the size of it beyond the brain, the body, whatever building they’re in, nations, continents, the Earth, and even the Solar System.
Imagining these hang-ups on this scale grants a kind of inverse perspective, because ballooned to this capacity so different from their actual proportions, it becomes obvious that they aren’t as all-consuming or even as debilitating as they believed. Conversely, doing the same to what they treasure– whether that’s family, a past victory, or a kindness given or received, it feels totally appropriate to have such healthy aspects broadened to such a size. Gazing upon this mental image, the meditator feels that perhaps they’re luckier than they thought they were.
Members of the audience were then asked whether they ever experienced good fortune or even believed in it. A few chimed in with little anecdotes about how good tidings seemed to come their way completely unexpected sometimes, and as a response to their prayers at other times. A number of the audience admitted that they didn’t really, half-jokingly citing that they’d never won a single raffle prize in their lives. President Carol Dominguez made her pitch that blessings can appear to fall into one’s laps by chance, like winning a washing machine because you had a lucky ticket, but it’s still up to you to make the most out of it and maybe even pay it forward no matter what year it is.
The conference winded down with the giving of awards.
TOP SALES CONSULTANT: ROGER SANTOS
TOP PRODUCTION CONSULTANT: JUDY IGNACIO
MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB AWARDEES FOR JANUARY:
| NAME | DIVISON |
| ALINA MANAIG | PS |
| TRACY PIAMONTE | SBA |
| ROGER SANTOS | PS |
| CHESKA GARDAYA | SBA |
| PATRICK DAYAO | SBA |
| EDGAR BELTRAN | EDI |
| JUDY IGNACIO | PS |
| RYAN KYLE RODRIGUEZ | SBA |
| ALICE LLAMAS | PS |
| DAN NAPA | ESSD |
| LOUISE OFRENEO | ESSD |
| MARON FLORES | EDI |
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