Are you doing stuff today based on assumptions?
We make many decisions based on our own assumptions. If your like most people your daily actions are driven by these assumptions.
Now more than ever it is important to continually question what you assume.
You ever feel like this some-days?
If so just remember that in the end, you save the plant, save the town and get the girl (or guy)… so refocus and keep on going.
A few years ago I learned a technique that has drastically changed my approach and effectiveness with my sales.
Imagine yourself as a sales manager running a sales team.
At some point in the sales process a sales person is going to place a proposal in front of a perspective client. It’s at this time that the sales manager should hold the sales person accountable by having the sales person do the following.
The Salesperson must be able to exactly describe to management what will happen if we put this proposal on the table.
Now from a sales manager’s perspective this is a critical concern in managing a sales organization or an independent salesperson.
What a sales manager wants to hear is what is going to happen, not what they feel will happen, but what will happen. That’s the goal. read more →
Seriously, why did you click to come here?
What was your desired outcome?
What did you expect to gain? Some insight or some knowledge you didn’t already have?
If you’re reading this right now you have traded the most important thing you have—your time.
I highly appreciate that but let me ask you one simple question.
Is there anything that you desire in your life or business that you have yet to accomplish?
If so then I would suggest that you stop reading this post now, close your browser, turn off your phone and take one immediate action that’s going to get you closer to that goal.
See you in the next post.
P.S. I bet what ever that thing is that came to your mind you can take an immediate action (that you haven’t or didn’t have planned) today.
Right now as you read this how comfortable are you?
I don’t mean the “I’ve got on my favorite sweater, my coffee cup is full and I’ve had a good night of sleep” kind of comfortable. I mean how much of your daily activities are within your comfort zone?
More specifically how much of what you have planned for today, tomorrow and this week makes you a little uneasy?
Or how much of what you have planned makes you feel like you’re standing on the edge of a 50ft rocky cliff about to jump in the water below?
Let’s get a little mathematical up in here. On a percentage basis how comfortable do you feel right now? Meaning are you 90% comfortable with your next seven days, or maybe 80%, or 50%.
I hope that status bar on your forehead is right around 20%… read more →
Spotlight Effect – do people really care about you as much as you do.
This might shock you and I’m not sure how to tell you this but you are not the center of the universe. At least not in the eyes of others around you. Quite a few studies have shown that people assume their features and behaviors are more salient to others than what they generally are.
This has a name, the Spotlight effect, and is the tendency to believe that other people are paying closer attention to one’s appearance and behavior than they really are.
Mayan prophecy or more specifically the 5,125 yearlong cycle in the Mayan Calendar runs out on December 21st. Now the skeptical among us might say they just ran out of stone to carve on but as I write this deep inside a Colorado mountain I’m not so convinced.
So on December 20th when you lay your head on your pillow will these thoughts fill your head?
Now if you happen to survive and wake up on December 22nd that’s great but what are you going to do about the above? Why wait until then? We still have time, why not start today—like right now.
I for one will still be here at least for the next 2 years or until my supplies run out. For the survivors out there you can continue to follow us here or get more survival tips on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
Sun Tzu wrote of creating a ‘death ground’ — a place where an army is backed up against some geographical feature like a mountain, a river, or a forest and has no escape route.
It was reasoned without a way to retreat an army fights with double or triple the spirit compared to being on open terrain, precisely because death is viscerally present. Sun Tzu advocated deliberately stationing soldiers on death ground to give them the desperate edge that makes men fight like they never had before. There doesn’t seem to be any better way to motivate someone to give it their all and maybe it’s time for you to create your death ground?
Image by Shermee
Success is a product of not only dedicated effort but having the proper mindset. Being a continual emotional wreck will ensure that you’ll never realize your goals or attain your ultimate vision.
Without the proper mindset it is easy for you to get distracted.
Now more than ever it’s time to start building your mindset towards a focus for success. One of the most important aspects of mindset focus is to not allow your EMOTIONS to rule you!
Recently I was working with some people and dividing up action items and tasks (or otherwise known as work). Then I remembered the 3 things I once learned that you should have in place to ensure satisfaction with the work you do.
For any work or task to be satisfying it needs to have three qualities: read more →
