You have made your dream come true and now you either have your own salon or you are a successful hairdresser in another salon.
Now with or without experience, you should logically be able to answer, “a good hairdresser, must always be pleasant, positive, agree with everything and everyone, be influenced by the opinions of his clients’ colleagues and act diplomatically, depending on everything he hears”?
It is good not to create enmity with the people out there.
But what is the line and the dividing line between agreeing and considering you, and disagreeing and preferring to continue my work without much with you?
Being a hairdresser, is unique and not just any and every profession, since the relationship you have to have with your clients must be besides trusting….familiar, friendly , comfortable, sometimes even for a long time.
When your customer, a partner, the grocer in the neighbourhood, the butcher, the waiter, the dressmaker, a friend or someone in your family tells you something positive and pleasant both for you and in general, you will certainly be happy and take it into consideration. But what if he says something bad to you? How much will it affect you and how should you react?
Business consultant Phil Jackson, from “Build your Salon”, in an interview with a British magazine, cited a personal example, advising that, yes, we should think about what we are told, but not be negatively affected, since it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of us.
Now if it’s our person or our client, then yes we might have to think about whether he’s right. But again, let’s not give his commentary any more value than we have to and spoil our mood.
“I’m not sure if you need to hear a nasty comment, but even if you do I give you full permission to ignore any opinions about you or your business that don’t help you go down too far!”!
“I recently got a call from a fellow hairdresser, from another salon, and there we were talking for a while and he mentioned that although he had known my work for years, he never expected to like me,” Phil said, putting himself in thought as to why anyone would feel and say that particular line to him? Was there any deceit, malice, envy, jealousy?
Whatever it was affected him so much that he kept thinking about it no matter what he did for days. While looking back, he tried to think about the content of his videos, his texts, the way he works, his business, and his relationships with the world.
And suddenly, he woke up one morning and, giving himself a metaphorical slap, said out loud, “The only opinion that matters is ours. There are people out there who, for their own evil reasons, can think and say anything to you. Do not let them influence you and harm you. Usually such nasty comments are deliberately made to upset, restrain, limit and ultimately destroy your success and positive mood. Will you give them that much value? Even bad comments can make you stronger .
So recognizing the fear and threat that you may cause to those who make the malicious comments … you simply smile and ignore them … moving more towards your success.
