The day you turn into a professional sales person, that is series out about closing sales, is the day you realize that, in selling, attitude is everything. Attitude is not something you can buy – it has to be cultivated from within.

Your excitement for your job and product/service you are selling is what people want to buy. You have to be enthusastic about Read More...

Focus is one of the most important day-to-day tasks that top performers, or those that want to be top performers, have to understand to reach their goals.

What is Focus?

I have personally heard many stories and application of focus and will share of few examples with you.

Gary Ryan Blair, The Goals Guy, is one of the foremost experts on the concepts of goal setting. He says that the word FOCUS stands for:

Follow
One
Course
Until
Successful

One of my colleagues, Jeffrey Read More...

There are times when we must go through negative situations. Maybe people say something negative about us, or they show rejection or even resentment against us. In such situations, it may be difficult to stay positive. We may be inclined to react negatively to them. That won’t do us any good though; doing so will just make the situation worse. People may behave even more negatively to us. Our day would be filled with anger and disappointment. At the end, nobody wins.

Though it’s not easy, it’s important to stay positive in negative situations. Beat the negative situations by staying positive. Here are 10 tips on how to do it; pick the ones that work for you:

1. Never respond (verbally or via email) when you are not calm. If you are not sure that you are Read More...

I do not care who you are, how rich, how poor, how successful or unsuccessful, everyone’s life is a series of emotional ups and downs, highs and lows. If you charted your emotions on a daily or weekly basis, you would notice that they go up and down much like a roller coaster does…. an emotional roller coaster if you will.

As a default setting, humans find it is much easier to go down the emotional roller coaster than it is to go up. When you are at the bottom, it requires more energy to bring yourself back out. How you handle this emotional roller coaster requires a decision on your part. The decision is, are you going to deal with your emotions as an adult, or are you going to deal Read More...

The thesaurus might equate “disabled” with synonyms like “useless” and “mutilated,” but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word. Defying these associations, she shows how adversity — in her case, being born without shinbones — actually opens the door for human potential.

Aimee Mullins was born without fibular bones, and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was an infant. She learned to walk on prosthetics, then to run — Read More...

Today, I want to review the 5 Levels of Self-Talk from Shad Helmstetter’s book, What to Say When you Talk To Yourself. Understanding the definition of each level will allow you to recognize what kind of thoughts you are having and how those can work for or against you. This will enable you to move onto higher level of self-talk which will lead you to a more effective and healthier mindset.

Level 1 of Self-Talk – Negative Acceptance

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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. People tend to keep looking outside of their own self to find solutions to problems that happen within their own self.

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An interesting and fun viral campaign run by European carmakers, Volkswagen, in the busy Odenplan train station in Stockholm.

Entitled “The Fun Theory” it aimed to see if everyday commuters would give up using the escalator to exit the train station, and instead choose to use the stairs.

Turning the stairs into an Read More...

Having and maintaining a positive attitude is vital for success in life and business. Zig Ziglar gets it right when he says, “It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.”

Sure you need skills, but you can learn skills – in fact a positive attitude will make it much more likely that you will learn the skills necessary to succeed. If you take two people with an equal skill set the person with the better attitude will win.

Unfortunately it is not always easy to stay positive and keep a good attitude. As things go wrong throughout your day, it is easy to let negative thoughts start to take over. Thankfully there are many things that you can do to help maintain a positive attitude. Read More...

Garbage In, Garbage……OUT, right? Well, if you were a computer that would be the correct equation. With the computer that we call our brain, the equation is more like this:

Garbage In = Garbage Stays In and Screws Up Every Aspect of your Life!

It is true that the things we allow into our minds will unquestionably dictate the results that we see in our careers, our families, and our lives. Unfortunately, the default setting for these input sources is predominantly negative.

If you think about the things you read, watch and listen to, you know that if you pay too much attention to them it is really easy to feel that you are surrounded by death and destruction.

If you Read More...