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Well, last week was really crummy. I call last week the “silent screams of molten stress” because if I don’t have anything nice to say I just don’t say anything. I’d have to say the odds of having a week that bad was one in a thousand though. I don’t want you to think I’m whining because I’m not. I just had a totally messed up work week. By day, I work in the service industry and I had two customers that are the 1 out of 100 type (super picky and ultra high maintenance). On top of that, I messed up an order on a different job and now I’m looking at a pretty big bill along with the two demanding customers. Now, if I was whining, I’d go on about all the crummy stuff that happened and wallow in misery for a few days, but oh well, I guess I’ll just save the pity party for another day.
I’m the type of person who likes to look forward. I like to face my mistakes and get through them so I can move on. So what if I’m out a few bucks, and as for the customers, I’ll just have to please them to death (no biggie). My only hang up this week is that it all happened at once, so my main challenge is absorbing it all and learning from the experience. At this point, I’m not about to quit my main source of income, but I was thinking about quitting my MLM and dropping “the second shift”. I don’t think I can do that though. I think about quitting sometimes, but if I did that, I’d have to go back to being a job zombie. See, I don’t like to quit things, and right now I can’t seem to stop building my business anyway. I finally found the confidence to talk to people openly about my MLM, and I don’t feel the need to chase after them to get them to sign up.
At this point, I think it would be more painful to put all my dreams back on the shelf again rather than put in the extra hours to make them flourish. Now that the path to wealth and prosperity is laid out in front of me, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forgive myself for not taking it (no matter what obstacles are on it). Whenever things start getting a little rough, I always go back and listen to my favorite speaker, Jim Rohn. One of the quotes I think of is something he told people when he first started his business. He said, “I’m working full time on my job, but I’m working part-time on my fortune, but soon I’ll be working full time on my fortune, then I won’t be going to work to pay the rent, but I’ll be going to work to build a fortune! Can you imagine what life is going to be like?” Quotes like that make giving up unthinkable and keep me looking to a better day. My week of silent screams of molten stress is behind me now, and I just want to focus on making a better future.
In Prosperity,
Eric & Lauren Kalberer
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Comments
Maria Lopez
This post resonates with me deeply. I’ve had weeks like this too, where everything goes wrong. It’s inspiring to see how you didn’t give up. Keep pushing!
Joshua Tanner
I find it hard to believe that this kind of stress can be dealt with so easily. Is there any tangible evidence of how you managed to cope with everything?
Emily Wright
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While I understand the importance of staying positive, I think you might be underestimating the long-term effects of constant stress. Have you considered that?
Jade Williamson
Hey Eric! It’s been a while since we last connected. Your post reminded me of our conversations. Let’s catch up soon and grab a coffee.
Carlos Alvarez
This reminds me of a time when I had to juggle multiple demanding clients. It’s tough, but like you, I kept my head up and powered through. Thanks for sharing!
Sophia Bennett
Have you heard of Trello? It’s a tool that helps organize tasks in stressful situations. It might be helpful for what you’re going through. Keep up the great work!
Hannah Johnson
Thank you for this post, Eric. I’ve learned that no matter how hard things get, perseverance always pays off in the end. Your story is truly motivating!
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Twenty-two years in a regional director role taught me “one in a thousand” is corporate speak for quite bad, worse than usual — nobody tracks the actual denominator. What I recognise is reframing a rough week as a lesson before the dust settles. Useful sometimes. Occasionally just avoidance dressed as growth.
The line that stands out to me is “my main source of income” staying separate from “the second shift.” That separation is honestly healthier than most advice in this space, which usually pushes people to go all in before they’re ready. I kept my day job for the first four years building a team in Dubai and never regretted the overlap, even on weeks like the one described here. Walking away later had nothing to do with that decision being wrong.
Samir, I read your account with particular interest, having only returned to building something of my own at sixty-one, after a pension that did not perform as one had every right to expect it would. What I take from both your comment and the original post is that the difficulty of a week such as this one is not diminished by having chosen the path deliberately, nor should it be. I confess I found the Jim Rohn quotation rather moving, though I wonder whether a man of my age is permitted to still speak of a fortune being built, rather than simply a dignity being restored.
Samir, “second shift” as a phrase is doing something interesting though — it frames the MLM as the real job and the day job as scaffolding, when for most people it’s obviously the other way round for years, maybe forever. I run a bike shop and a mate calls his weekend market stall his “second shift” too. I think we just like having a name for the thing that means we haven’t quit on the bigger plan.
There’s a concept in occupational psychology called “compensatory control” that fits this closely — facing a chaotic week, reaching for a quote or framework, here it’s Jim Rohn, restores a sense of order even when nothing about the situation has changed. Well documented coping mechanism, not a criticism. Less clear is whether the restored control leads to better decisions, or just better feelings about ones already made.
Bad weeks where everything lands at once aren’t new to this business or any business. Thirty years in, still about one truly awful week a year.
One bad week a year sounds restful. Some months I get one every week from the schedule alone, before MLM stress joins the queue.
Sorry if this is a strange thing to ask but does anyone else find that naming the bad week, like calling it “silent screams of molten stress” the way he did here, actually helps? I tried doing that after a rough one myself and it did make it feel smaller somehow, though I’m not sure if that’s just me being new to all this and grasping at anything that works.
Puts me in mind of a Tuesday at the diner when the fryer went out, two regulars sent their eggs back, and my dishwasher quit mid shift, all before the lunch rush. Nineteen years there taught me the same thing this fella’s describing — you don’t pick which weeks pile up, only whether you’re still standing at the start of the next one. Sounds like he picked standing.