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Do you need an Attitude Transplant?
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Article Overview: 7 Steps towards and attitude transplant.
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Do you need an Attitude Transplant?
7 Steps to an Attitude Transplant?
I can't go 30 minutes anymore without hearing someone whining about the economy. While I can understand the folks on the local and cable news channels dwelling on the negative, I have a hard time understanding why a business owner or manager would. If you're admittingly one of those on this negative bandwagon or just someone who needs some guidance, you've come to the right section of the paper.
If you own your business, chances are you've invested not only a lot of time in your business, but most likely some blood, sweat, tears....and oh, some money too. Do you want to throw it all away? Are you prepared to lose it all? I didn't think so. So let's talk about changing your attitude, with something I call and "Attitude Transplant." While I can't promise there won't be some pain involved in changing your mindset, I can promise you won't get scars from it. Here are some easy steps to begin your transplant:
1. Choose What's Right: Lets face it, what's wrong is always available to us. So is what's right. Unfortunately, its human nature to gravitate towards what's wrong. Swim upstream against the current and change this mindset. Choose What's Right!
2. Revisit Your Goals: Pull out your goals and make sure you have a plan to make them happen. If you don't, get planning or get someone to help you. "If you're not planning, you're planning to fail." People with goals and plans don't have time or energy to get negative.
3. Remember Your Staff: Hug the top 20%, develop the middle 60%, and get rid of the bottom 20%. Take the money you save by firing the bottom 20% and invest in the "keepers". Get them some additional training that will help them excel at what they do. Now that's positive!
4. Keep a Positive Attitude: Keep your glass half filled at all times. Celebrate victories of all sizes. While your going to have a bad day every once in awhile, remember that yesterday ended last night. Start each day upbeat and go take on the world!
5. Let your Passion Hang Out: Wear your passion on your sleeve. Don't hide it, promote it! Doing what you're passionate about and showing it in all you do can truly be attitude changing (and not just to you). Infect others with it!
6. Be a Living Brochure for Your Business: You own it, why not flaunt it. Be proud of what you've built and it will show to others. You've got experience and wisdom from owning your business...share it. People will want to buy from you.
7. Be a Success: Unsuccessful people won't do what a successful person is willing to do. Can you smell opportunity?
Now get out there and kick some butt! Have a great week.
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About the Author: Dave Ferguson RSS for Dave's articles - Visit Dave's website Dave Ferguson, has over 20 years of corporate experience at the senior level. He has held positions of Senior Vice President and National Sales Manager at companies such as Wells Fargo, HSBC and other financial institutions. Dave's broad range of experience at these prestigious companies where he coached, mentored, trained and developed leaders makes him uniquely qualified to coach you and those in your organization. Dave's clients value his diverse and solid background as they put their trust in him to guide them and their companies through whatever challenge or situation develops. Dave's coaching process provides personal and business management strategies - a balanced solution to help his clients work less, earn more and enjoy richer lives. Dave additionally is a sought after public speaker and also has developed several workshops and bootcamps designed to help people improve. He is also a certified member of the John Maxwell Team, and is proud to be able to offer the internationally recognized leadership expert's programs to his clients. He can be reached at Dave@AskCoachDave.com. Click here to visit Dave's website   Use Your Time Effectively and Accomplish More Does Your Team have the Right Sales Plan Leading Through Challenges Your Business Can Survive this Economy Time Management Habits that Reward You |
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Re: THE SECRET TO SUCCESS IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD...RIGHT NOW!!!
- Yes, you are right Mal. Attitude plays a big role in it.
Robert
Re: What to do at the first roadblock?
- Upon first discouragement, dig in and see if things are as they seem. Sometimes, even though there are several products out there that appear comparable, they are no match. Maybe they do don't a good job of what they are intended for, or maybe there are several glitches in their system, or perhaps their customer service just plain stinks. Decide how you can "one up" all of these things and decide that you are going to create a better product that more people would want. Attitude is 95% of the battle. If you feel defeated before you've done any research on any of the other products, you're doing yourself a huge disservice. Give yourself a chance and see if you can be the BEST in every way. This will get you far no matter what the venture.
Re: Stay positive!
- Great theme
My favorite book the ageless "Power of Positive Thinking" and I do not read many of these Motivational Books, Attitude is everything - a positive one is ore likely to bring positive results
According to my Pisces horoscope - I am told that by my birth I am to be moody. We all have those bad days, but even though moody by nature, I tried to keep those days down to 4 or 5 a year - not bad for a Pisces
Hang with the positives, lose the negatives
Re: Who hates cold calling?
- About 15 years ago I worked for this sales company that used to sell anything from Kitchen Knives to Dry Cell Torches. The owner was a very motivating guy and he would ask us to get to the office by 7.00AM and we could sing and dance for an hour before we went to sell the products in the streets, stopping anyone and telling them our products were on discount. We used to sell snow to Eskimos, why were we able to do that? because of PMA (Positive Mental Attitude). The key to cold calling is like beauty, in eyes of the beholder. If you have no PMA, you cannot sell. Remember the law of average that states that if you went to a dance and every girl or guy you approached for a dance decline your proposal. What do you do? Do you stop? If you have a PMA, you continue until you get one person who agree to dance with you despite how ugly you look, that is is PMA and that is the power of cold calling.
My reading log
- Hi OmnivoreInk,
Before starting my business, I read the following books as research:
-"The Art of the Start" by Guy Kawasaki
-"The AdSense Code" by Joel Comm
-"Don't Think Pink" and "Mind Your X's and Y's" by Lisa Johnson
And since then I've continued my "research" by reading (in this order):
-"Technical Tennis" by Rod Cross
-"For One More Day" by Mitch Albom
-"The Twits" by Roald Dahl
-"Little Black Book of Connections" by Jeffrey Gitomer
-"The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne
-"The Profitable Retailer" by Doug Fleener
-"Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
-"Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude" by Jeffrey Gitomer
-"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" by C.S. Lewis
-"Little Green Book of Getting Your Way" by Jeffrey Gitomer
-"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
And I'm currently reading and am in the process of finishing the following:
-"There's No Such Thing as Public Speaking" by Jeanette and Roy Henderson
-"The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
-"The Book of Tells" by Peter Collett
-"Little Red Book of Sales Answers" by Jeffrey Gitomer
-"Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough: Reinventing The Customer Experience" by Jonathan M. Tisch
-"The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity" by Julia Cameron
-"The Inner Game of Tennis" by Timothy Gallwey
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