If your attitude is about as positive as
a one legged duck in a swamp full of alligators, read
this.
I'm going to give you seven
keys to crush negativity and create a positive
mindset.
The result will be that
you will feel great and make more sales more often with
less effort.
EXERCISE DAILY &
EAT WELL.I don't
know about you but I have this theory that if you eat junk
and never exercise you will become an overweight
unmotivated, undisciplined slob.
Not only that but odds are
your breathe will stink, you'll have B.O. have a hard time
buying clothes that fit and most likely die 15 to twenty
years before your time.
Don't get me wrong - I'm
not advocating you turn into some vegetarian,
yoga-addicted, eat raw food and howl at the moon exercise
junkie.
Just that every day you
get 30 minutes of make-your-heart-beat-faster
exercise.
Why?
Endorphins!
Endorphins are the body's
natural feel-good chemicals. Have stacks of them and you
feel great. Deplete their supply and you feel bad.
Endorphins are a strong analgesic, and make you feel
great.
The release of endorphins
can lower your blood pressure, a major indicator in heart
disease, and have even been implicated in the fight against
cancer.
Want to know how to make
your endorphins grow like a demented popcorn machine on
steroids?
Feed them!
HINT: Endorphins thrive on
exercise.
It is that
simple.
Want to sell
more?
Exercise.
2. FEED YOUR
MIND!
It constantly amazes me
that so many sales people are satisfied to come home, sit
down in front of the one-eyed devillike some couch potato
and fill their brains with some mind-numbing 'reality' TV
show whilst they yell at their kids who
actually are alive!
And then, have the
audacity to look all surprised when they fail to hit their
monthly sales targets.
Remember the old computer
saying: "Garbage in - Garbage out?"
Well the same thing is
true of your brain.
Stop and ask
yourself... what have I been feeding your mind this last 30
days?
- Attend
seminars.
- Read
books.
- Subscribe to
ezines.
- Join online
forums.
3. HELP SOMEONE WORSE
OFF THAN YOU.
Let me tell you a true
story... Last December I was in Beijing, China. It was
freezing cold and as I was walking back to my luxury hotel
room one night, I saw a woman sat by the side of the
road.
She had a flimsy blanket
and she was repeatedly re-arranging it over and over again
in a futile effort to keep the cold at bay.(It was snowing
hard).
I looked closer and saw
that under the blanket, something was moving. It was a
little boy - about 2 years old.
I walked back to a
restaurant and bought some food for her and her
child.
When I gave her the food
she started to cry. As I tried to feed her son I saw that
he was too weak to eat. She looked into my eyes and said
ten words that will stay in my memory forever;
"My Son will be dead by
the morning, won't he?"
The
Lesson: You
are most likely nowhere near as hard done by as you think.
Go and find someone like this woman that you can help. Help
regularly. It will make you 'count your
blessings'.
4. WATCH YOUR
TALK.
The good book tels us
'Life and death are in the power of the tongue!'
- Talk
positively.
- Talk to
yourself.
- Look in the mirror
and tell yourself that you are great at what you
do.
Use your words to edify,
strengthen , encourage and inspire not just yourself but
all those around you.
Stop and think for a
moment... Do YOU
enjoy hanging out with bitter, negative, 'gloom and doom'
people? Of course you don't!
Make a 'Conscious
Decision' that for the next 30 days you will speak
positively ABOUT and TO everyone that you meet.
Trust me you will see a
direct connection between your positive speaking and your
sales results!
5. FOCUS ON
MARKETING! Want to know a jealously-guarded
secret of most top salespeople? They have a laser-focus on
marketing.
They don't just TALK about
marketing - they consistently DO something about it. Talk
is dirt cheap. Actions count in selling.
TRY
THIS: Start
using a Daily 'To Do' List and keep a record of every
specific 'lead-generating activity' that you do on a daily
basis.
If you are anything like
the 'average' salesperson, you will be astonished at how
little you do.
You will quickly identify
lead-generating opportunities. I suggest that you prepare a
comprehensive list of your lead-generating systems. Measure
the ones that you are actually applying and note how much
and how often you apply them.
6. TRACK AND MEASURE
EVERYTHING.
I have written sales copy
for over 500 different offline companies and scores of
website owners.
It has never ceased to
amaze me how many of them are flying blind.
Fact: If you can't measure it - you can't
control it' and odds are that you will never improve
it.
Here's another fact for
you. Highly
effective sales people don't leave stuff to chance. They
are diligent.
I don't care what system
you use to track and measure your results. But if you
aren't tracking and measuring your results - identifying
what doesn't work and dropping it, working hard on the
stuff that does to constantly improve it - then please
forgive my totally politically incorrect language... you
are an idiot.
And you will always be a
mediocre salesperson at best.
When you measure results,
you will not have a positive attitude problem. Your
attitude will go through the roof!
For instance, I have one
website that invites people to subscribe to one of my
Internet Newsletters, that has close to a 100% optin rate.
(and no that is far from normal).
Can you imagine how good I
feel each time I tie a promotion into THAT site? I have
measured the results so I know what to expect.
NOTE: There is NOTHING quite a stupid in
business as salespeople who don't keep track of what
works.
Perhaps you have heard the
old saying; "Half our marketing works - we just don't know
which half!"
- - Garbage!
- - Hogwash!
- - Ignorant
twaddle!
Start tracking and
measuring your activities and you will know exactly what
works and your positive attitude will explode as a
result!
7. HAVE A LIFE
PURPOSE. It
has always struck me as strange that so many people live
life with all it's great potential with little or no
purpose.
What about you?
Do you have a life
purpose?
Something bigger than you?
Something that you want so badly that each time you think
about it, puts a smile on your face, a song in your heart
and a spring in your step?
If not... find
one.
No one else can find it
for you but trust me - virtually nothing can stop you when
you have a purpose.
Why?
Because purpose gives
birth to vision and vision is the 'rocket fuel' of positive
attitude.
Finally, if you want to
fill your mind with dozens of sales-generating ideas, then
you need to read my Blog, www.SalesLeadSecrets.com every
day. But be warned... it is addictive. Study it often and
serious possible side effects like making more sales more
often could be the result.