Hey, welcome to another sales Talk Over Coffee.
In today's video, I'm gonna be talking about the pain cave and roofing sales.
You've been there is my guess.
You know those times where it's, I don't know, two, three in the morning
and you wake up and your mind is just.
Racing and you, you're just overtaken by this overwhelm of the loop of like, Hey,
I gotta get this supplement prepared.
I gotta follow up with this customer.
I gotta check in in production.
Crap, I forgot about this repeat.
And it just goes through this cycle over and over in your mind, and you
wake up in the morning exhausted.
You haven't slept.
And the reality is, that's the thing that makes you say, should I even
be doing this as their way out?
All you want to do is seek comfort, throw in the towel, get rid of the.
and then you start wondering, is this even for you?
Or how can you get through all this?
Well, this happens to all of us.
So in today's episode of Sales Talk Over.
We're gonna get into it.
Before we do, just wanna say welcome or welcome back.
My name's Adam Denman, the roof strategist and everything that we do here, uh, on
my channel and the podcast and in our program is designed to help you and your
team smash your income goal and give every customer an amazing experience.
And listen, I know that this industry is not easy.
So the reason I do what I do is to give you and your team the tools, the
resources, the inspiration to succeed.
Because most roofing salespeople quit or get fired in their first year.
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So the pain cave.
Let's get some background first.
For those of you who have done sports, , maybe it's power lifting, running any
sort of athletics from football, lacrosse, soccer, baseball, basketball, you name it.
The pain cave is that point when you're training, you know the feeling
when you're pushing your body so much that your mind is saying, stop,
this is too much and this sucks.
And you have to settle into the suck cuz you need to push through it.
Because in that moment, that pain cave of settling in, Is what separates the good
from the great, the people who have the ability to settle into that misery, that
discomfort, the screaming voice in your head, the screaming from your legs or
your muscles or your cardio, just totally pegged saying, dude, this is too much.
Stop.
And you find that pace within that.
That zone of pushing it too much and you dial back just a little bit and that's
how you settle into the pain cave.
And I'll never forget my, my good friend, uh, hunter, he
is a huge inspiration to me.
And Hunter is like a crazy endurance athlete on a mountain bike.
So one day we're out on this 10 hour mountain bike crab.
We did like 7,600 feet of climbing and which by the way, for anyone in
the mountain bike world, that's a lot, especially in this wildly technical
terrain here we have in Colorado.
So we're about six hours into our ride.
Hunter already took a really gnarly crash in the very beginning and it
is blazing hot in the middle of the.
We're exhausted.
We haven't eaten yet, and we just start this climb up this mountain
that will be about an hour and a half grueling pedal pedal.
Pedal pedal with the sun just baking on you.
And that moment right there is the pain cave.
That moment is where you're like, this sucks.
I'm doing what I absolutely love, but this moment is miserable.
And in roofing sales this often, for us, at least what I have
experienced may be the same for you in the middle of the night.
And this pain cave is where the most beautiful lessons in life are hiding.
I had one the other day, by the way, I was laying in bed, it was like two
in the morning, and I was completely overwhelmed with my travel schedule.
The, the new, um, the book I'm writing, the three programs we're
launching, the, the videos I wanna refill for a training program.
And in that moment I was like, honestly on the verge of, of tears
totally at that edge saying, this is so much more than I can handle.
And in that pain cave, I wanted to wake up, be like, we're canceling
this, we're canceling that.
I need to reprieve because I just wanted to seek a little bit of.
And it wasn't until I breathed through it, grabbed my journal in
the morning and started writing things down and said, you know what?
The most beautiful lessons are hiding in the deepest of pain.
So I wanted to leave you with this message on our sales talk
over coffee on a personal side, that when you're in that moment,
there's two paths that you can take.
Okay?
Two and only two.
Path number one is the path that will seek comfort, meaning at all costs.
You just want to alleviate the.
Think of it like the, the, the instant pill that you can pop
and then everything goes away.
And that's what we all want.
We don't want it anymore.
So we're gonna find that way to quit, hand it off to someone,
walk away, whatever it is.
We're path number two is we grin and we bear it.
We put our head down and we, we look at this level of overwhelm and say,
how do I break this into a plan?
What are the lessons hiding in here?
And I'll tell you the lessons that I learned cuz maybe they relate to you.
So remember when you're in that, Just you need to label it.
Identify, Hey, I'm in the pain cave and I got two paths out.
Path number one is the path of comfort, which by the way, there's
no growth and no sales path.
Number two, figure your way through it.
Now, when you figure your way through it, you're gonna learn
and discover new ways of being.
You're gonna learn new ways of managing more than you've ever managed before.
You're gonna learn new ways.
Of organizing, you're gonna learn new ways of proactive planning.
You're gonna learn new ways of handling stress, of settling into the moment
new skill sets that where you are today are gonna be miserable to learn.
But as soon as you go through those, you're gonna go from here of this place of
pure overwhelm to, Hey, I can handle that.
Maybe I can even handle a little more.
And in the darkest moments are our greatest opportunities for growth.
So next time you're in the pain cave, I just want you to remember
this video and think to yourself, Hey, I'm in the pain cave.
All I gotta do is lean.
And look for the lessons that I can learn in this miserable moment.
Because not only, man, I spill coffee in every single one of these
videos, at least it's good off your.
So when you're in that moment and you settle into it, you're
gonna learn those skills.
Say, you know what?
This is gonna suck right now, but I'm going to get through it.
I can get through it, and the lessons I'm gonna learn are gonna
help me survive, thrive, and then kick some butt in the future.
So that's all I have for this video.
On the personal note in today's sales talk over coffee.
Hey, uh, if you have any other topics that you want me to cover, On the personal
side of sales and what we deal with in this whole roofing sales game that no one
really seems to understand unless you're in it and, and have gone through it.
So I really do appreciate you joining me in today's video.
And as usual, if you know anyone that needs to hear this and if they came
into the office tired, you and I both know it's because they were running
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