PERSISTENCEWritten by Glen Hopkins
One of keys to being successful in anything you do is persistence. Once you have determined exactly what it is you want to accomplish, you must take massive action on a consistent, persistent basis in order to succeed. Think of it like building a muscle. If you have never weight trained before, first time you walk into a gym, chances are you will not be able to bench press 250 lbs. However, if you are persistent, and you consistently go back to gym, you will find yourself getting stronger and closer to your goal with each and every visit. One of things you’ll notice on your journey towards your goal, are roadblocks. That is, you will encounter obstacles that seem to jump out of nowhere in an attempt to halt your progress. Count on these obstacles. They are a part of life. Everyone would have every success they ever wanted if there were no obstacles. Your job is to be persistent and work through those obstacles. If you find little or no obstacles along way, chances are you are not really challenging yourself. And when you do reach your goal, you won’t experience feeling of ‘sweet success’. Make your goal a challenging one! If you take time to study any successful person, you will learn that vast majority of them have had more ‘failures’ than they have had ‘successes’. This is because successful people are persistent; more they stumble and fall, more they get right back up and get going again. On other hand, people that don’t get back up and try again,
| | What Does It Take to Make a Committment?Written by Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence Coach
I attended a seminar other day where presenter was talking about how to sell. One of steps to selling he outlined was making a commitment. He defined this as “binding yourself mentally and physically to do something.”Can you tell what’s missing? Actually making a commitment is easy. It’s just words. You say you’re going to do something -- make your sales quota, stay faithful to your wife, stop yelling at your kids, or lose 20 lbs. There you’ve said it. You’ve made commitment. You can even write it down and put it on bulletin board or refrigerator for all to see, and to remind yourself. What’s hard about that? What’s hard is keeping commitment, and what’s missing from equation is emotions. You must bind yourself mentally, physically and emotionally, because it’s emotions that will sabotage your commitment. You’ve committed to making your sales quota, but a friend invites you to go on a cruise for a week, which sounds like a lot more fun than selling. Or one day you wake up and just don’t feel like working at it that day, and pretty soon it’s been a week. Moods are extended emotions. You’ve committed to not yelling at kids, but one day you’re hot and tired, air conditioner’s broken, one of toilets just backed up, and your child comes in tracking mud across white carpeting, which you’ve told him a million times not to do, and you blow your cool. Anger gets better of you and you yell.
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