The Secret of Success

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Sales Skills are one thing, but if your attitude is off nothing else matters.

Sales can be one of the most gratifying and rewarding carreers available. Among the many benefits, we have the opportunity to forge wonderful relationships, set our own schedules, and to earn truely exceptional incomes. These freedoms do, however, come with a price tag. We need to stay disciplined with the freedom we’ve been afforded and we must have the presence of mind to stay strong in the face of inevitable adversity and rejection.

There’s an old expression: “If your thinkin’ is stinkin’ you’re probably sinkin” and it’s true. The results we achieve are a direct manifestation of the way we think. Positve thoughts produce positive results and negative thoughts produce negative results. While our training courses are very much about teaching hands on “how to” skills sets, we begin every single program with a seguay into developing and maintaining a positive attitude, because if you let the cares of this world wear you down, the skills we teach won’t make a difference.

Some of the suggestions we make to fortify a good strong positive attitude include:

Begin each day by reading just 10 minutes of something positve every morning before you get going with the rest of your day.
End each day by reading 10 minutes of something positive, before you turn out the lights. Our minds are like sponges and they take in what ever we feed them. If you watch the 11:00 news before going to bed that’s what you’ll reflect on in your sleep. So feed your mind something positive to reflect on before you get your shut eye.
Listen to positive CDs or MP3s during your commute instead of your favorite DJs on the radio; they may be funny but aren’t doing much to enrich your state of mind.
Write down a good powerful affirmation that paints a picture of your ideal circumstance and review it daily.

All of these suggestions are powerfully effective. We live in a mixed up crazy world. We’re constantly bombarded by the news and the media with negative frightful impending events and fear. Whether you realise it or not, this stuff seeps into our consciousness. In addition we face rejections from our customers and have the pressures of modern daily life. The only way to combat all this is to fortify ourselves with positivity.

People like to do business with positive successful people. The number one secret of success that we profess: No matter what your circumstance may be, tell yourself this every single day “Today is the greatest day that I’ve ever been alive.” Even if it’s the worst day of your life, professing this to yourself will give you the fortitude to carry on. It will project out of you. If any one ever asks “How are you doing”, your answer is always the same “Great, I’m doing really well” and there are only two or three people who you really trust that you share the truth with if it’s any different. Everybody including you, me, and the person asking you has got enough of their own garbage going and they don’t want to deal with yours too. If we know that’s true, and we know that positive thoughts produce positive results, and we also know that others like to do business with positve successful people, then it’s up to us to consciously decide to be positive. It is a choice. If you’ll choose to be positive, positive results will follow.

In the Free Sales Aids section of our site I’ve included a copy of my personal Daily Affirmation. I’ve also included in this post is an MP3 excerpt of a training session I recently conducted where the topic of The Secret of Success Came up. You can listen to it on the computer or download it to an MP3 player. Enjoy.

Here’s to your success!