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Managing your Priorities
It is critical to treat every day as a unique challenge. You've heard "start with zero every day", right? Why? Because it ends complacency and also ends depression about a bad week, month, year or decade. Today is a new day. You must take today's work seriously. It is important.
Treat each day of work like a sporting event. It's game day. Have a morning routine that includes spiritual quiet time and exercise, and that feeds you energy that carries into the rest of the day. Dress for success, get in a positive mindset, chant some positive affirmations and attack the day with high energy!
When you walk into the office, think: I am entering the arena and I have my game face on. Even if you work at home you can operate like that. There's a great commercial where a man is dressed in his suit, kisses his wife and children good-bye, gets in his car and drives down the street, turns around and comes back into his own house! Saying hello to his family like he just came to work, he heads to his own office in the house and gets on with his work day. Though working from home, he is treating it like game day. A special unique day. Face it: Sales takes effort--focused, concentrated effort. You can't do that when kids are screaming, the TV is on, and your focus is elsewhere. Be careful working from home to make it working from home-- emphasis onworking.
So here are some tips to getting in the game each day:
1. Create a separate place to work. You can do this even if you work from home. Go there when you work. When you're not working, leave that space (lunch/breaks/end of day). This gives you focus. When you are there, you're there to work. Period.
2. Take care of yourself physically. Exercise and watch what you eat. Take vitamin supplements to offset the lack of real vitamins in your diet. You can't be high energy when your health is bad. Many people do everything right but this and it does affect their results.
3. Take care of yourself spiritually. Find a quiet place, a quiet time and connect. You'll be amazed the great ideas and solutions that come by setting some time to come apart awhile.
4. Take this seriously. Work a schedule. Dress the part. Write a business plan. Follow It. Your business, your income, your success is a serious game. A lot of people depend on you. Go at it with 110% effort. A half hearted effort gets half-hearted results-- or worse.
The good news is, the people actually doing this are few and far between. By doing these 3-4 things you will be moving yourself to the upper echelon of sales people in your industry and the results will soon follow!
Treat each day of work like a sporting event. It's game day. Have a morning routine that includes spiritual quiet time and exercise, and that feeds you energy that carries into the rest of the day. Dress for success, get in a positive mindset, chant some positive affirmations and attack the day with high energy!
When you walk into the office, think: I am entering the arena and I have my game face on. Even if you work at home you can operate like that. There's a great commercial where a man is dressed in his suit, kisses his wife and children good-bye, gets in his car and drives down the street, turns around and comes back into his own house! Saying hello to his family like he just came to work, he heads to his own office in the house and gets on with his work day. Though working from home, he is treating it like game day. A special unique day. Face it: Sales takes effort--focused, concentrated effort. You can't do that when kids are screaming, the TV is on, and your focus is elsewhere. Be careful working from home to make it working from home-- emphasis onworking.
So here are some tips to getting in the game each day:
1. Create a separate place to work. You can do this even if you work from home. Go there when you work. When you're not working, leave that space (lunch/breaks/end of day). This gives you focus. When you are there, you're there to work. Period.
2. Take care of yourself physically. Exercise and watch what you eat. Take vitamin supplements to offset the lack of real vitamins in your diet. You can't be high energy when your health is bad. Many people do everything right but this and it does affect their results.
3. Take care of yourself spiritually. Find a quiet place, a quiet time and connect. You'll be amazed the great ideas and solutions that come by setting some time to come apart awhile.
4. Take this seriously. Work a schedule. Dress the part. Write a business plan. Follow It. Your business, your income, your success is a serious game. A lot of people depend on you. Go at it with 110% effort. A half hearted effort gets half-hearted results-- or worse.
The good news is, the people actually doing this are few and far between. By doing these 3-4 things you will be moving yourself to the upper echelon of sales people in your industry and the results will soon follow!
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