Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).
Oh, today’s writing prompt rubs the proverbial scab off the wound for me today!
I spent $12k on an annual business coaching program (in 2019) which I may have gotten a few hundred dollars of benefit from. I made this outlandish purchase because I had never met someone of the coach’s caliber (he had ‘connections’ in Hollywood because his dad was a screen writer and had written some of my favorite movies), and because my job had told me I would be laid off in a couple of months. So, I guess I must admit fear and greed drove my decision. Boy, have I regretted it ever since!
I didn’t end up getting laid off, so I had no time to focus soley on the business program as I had planned, but since I signed a contract, I felt obligated to continue (and make the monthly payments I had agreed to make).
I enjoyed the Zoom calls we had and I did meet some exceptional people (a few I am still in contact with), but the coach couldn’t control the group and didn’t add much. I think my husband and I had two or three one-on-one calls with him. I had thought we would get a monthly call with him. He gave everyone a roadmap on how to plan out a business launch. And he gave us call scripts for how to sell others on hiring us as a coach. But I never wanted to be a coach, I wanted to get our original songs in a movie or TV show.
I would have been better off to have hired a song publicist.
Then again, my husband hired a song manager who ended up scamming him out of thousands of dollars and then moved to Mexico.
I suppose I am too gullible to run our own business. Nor am I a salesperson. Lessons learned!
Integrating the Spirals 