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Seven Steps To An Attitude Transplant
| Guest post by: Dave Ferguson |
Article Overview: 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 one of those who are on this negative bandwagon or just someone who needs some guidance, you’ve come to the right place.
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Seven 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 one of those who are on
this negative bandwagon or just someone who needs some guidance, you’ve come to
the right place.
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 an “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 Is Right: Let’s 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.
Do you need an Attitude Transplant?
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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   Evalulate your Sales Team Coaching through the Recession Get The Most Out Of Coaching More To Walking The Talk Need More Sales Upgrade Your Sales Team |
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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
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- I reveived Bill Bartmann's DVD "9 Steps To Achieve Any Goal" as part of my monthly pack from Success University a few months back.
It is a great presentation. I've watched it several times but not for a while so I'll view it again in the coming week.
He is one of the greats. Like the best success mentors, he speaks with authority because he has come through much tribulation.
His program sounds like a great bargain at $100 a year.
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.
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