{"id":244,"date":"2016-07-30T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tnvanrooyen.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2016-07-29T23:50:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:50:13","slug":"blog-challenge-day-5-getting-others-to-listen-perfecting-your-elevator-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tnvanrooyen.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"[Blog Challenge: Day 5] Getting Others to Listen & Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Going Up?<\/p>\n

Wow talk about chemo brain, I totally forgot all about the blogging challenges, I’ve been so busy writing about other stuff. I apparently have way more to talk about than I ever imagined. \ud83d\ude42 With out further ado, lets talk about my “Elevator Pitch”.<\/p>\n

What do I mean by elevator pitch? It’s not a sales pitch like it may sound like but rather, what makes me excited, what am I building towards. It also makes the “What do you do?” question easier to deal with if you have something prepared in your mind. Especially for me who is not doing a nine to five kind of job at the moment. This can also be a great way to have fun with ideas and experiments when talking to new people. It don’t have to be boring.<\/p>\n

This is what I used to say when someone asked me what I do. “I work at a grocery store stacking shelves on the night fill team.” Now this was true at the time, but that’s not the only thing I was doing, nor was it what excited me. I was spending quite a bit of time reading and learning how to make my life better, not to mention that I was learning how to do foreign exchange and other things. It was almost like I was focusing on the not so good part of my life and not even mentioning all the cool stuff I was doing. I did change my attitude at some point to be more positive and with time my life became better, but that is another post altogether.<\/p>\n

Since then obviously, if you have been reading along, I learnt that I have cancer, and I no longer work full time. What will I use as my “Elevator Pitch” now? When someone asks what I do, what will I say? Well I want to make it positive, surprising and fun. I went through a few different things like: “Nothing, I have Hodgkin Lymphoma.” Well that’s no fun so maybe: “I’m dealing with cancer and having a rest” Still true but after some thought I found one that I really like. It goes something like this: “Right now, I am defeating cancer and learning how to win at life.”<\/strong> Yep definitely going to use that one a few times. Now I just have to meet a new person. \ud83d\ude42 As far as a pitch goes, that will open up a whole lot of opportunities to further the conversation. Much better than what I was doing to start with, which was quite closed. And also my new elevator pitch makes me feel a whole lot better about what I am doing and what I want to achieve.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you want to give a think about your “Elevator Pitch” and how you present yourself to people, and yourself. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading, I know that’s a bit longer than usual, but sometimes I just can’t stop. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Stay Awesome.<\/p>\n

Positively elevated, T Neil van Rooyen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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