Flush Away Your Selling Issues

Baggage is fine for carrying-on short flights and overnight car trips, but nagging personal baggage can paralyze your sales efforts. What do you carry around with you that is constantly weighing you down, limiting your flexibility and holding you back? Most of us carry the burden of something; usually more that we should. Why do we and how does this behavior impact our selling?

Psychologists tell us that the roots of these burdens are usually veiled the twin culprits of guilt and fear, two negative emotions that can cripple your career. As human beings, we are a sum of our parts. It is unrealistic to assume that emotional baggage in our lives will not overflow into our sales efforts as well. While I certainly am not a psychology expert nor is this an attempt to solve everyones issues, there are indeed daily adjustments that can be made to improve our outlook, expectations and results.

My own experience has demonstrated that there are specific techniques that can be of help. These are not an attempt to solve your life issues, rather a plan to help you achieve your selling goals and income needs in spite of them. We will leave your life issues to the psych professionals.

Try implementing these eight steps :

1. Realize that your circumstances are seldom as bleak as you imagine them.
2. Visualize the worst possible outcome and evaluate it. Can you accept that conclusion if necessary?
3. Write out your specific goals and your action plans to achieve them.
4. Write out the anticipated obstacles to each action step.
5. Evaluate each obstacle and devise a plan to effectively deal with each.
6. Realize that F.E.A.R. (false evidence appearing real) is your enemy, often restraining you.
7. Accept that your actual potential is virtually unlimited.
8. Believe that you are deserving of so much more than you currently have, both tangible and intangible.

While these steps may actually be helpful in many life instances, they are particularly helpful in your sales efforts. These are designed to add separation between your sales career and the baggage that you carry around. The interesting thing is that your improved sales results will impact your confidence and feelings of self-worth, thus affecting the rest of your life as well.

Now that's something to definitely add to your carry-on baggage!

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Daniel Sitter
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Comments

[Patricia Weber]

This baggage is a great metaphor for the sales issues you describe. In one of my upcoming blog messages I will definitely point people to your message!

[Craig Klein]

Well done Daniel!

You are officially the Dahlai Lama of Sales! The Zen Master of Persuasion!

I especially like the part about looking closely at the worst possible outcome. Sales people are taught from day one to "think positive" and consciously avoid thinking about anything less than total success.

Your advice can bring a lot of peace and more realistic projections!

[Melanie]

Wow - so inspiring for me. I'm glad I came across your blog, and this post in particular, which really speaks to me.

I'm just getting into sales and need to look past the fears and doubts, and just push forward!

Have you ever heard of Hanif Khaki? I have also just started reading about him and apparently the mind and our state of mind, which causes our fears and anxieties, can be changed so that you get past what's holding us back from success.