• Becoming A True Believer
• The Definition of Happiness
• Determine Your Values
• Fuzzy or Clear?
• Building Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem
• Action Steps
In my conversations with hundreds of top salespeople over the years, I
have found that they all have one thing in common. They have taken the
time to sit down and create a clear blueprint for themselves and their
future lives. Even if they started the process of goal setting and
personal strategic planning with a little skepticism, every one of them
has become a true believer.
BECOMING A TRUE BELIEVER
Every one of them has been amazed at the incredible power of goal
setting and strategic planning. Every one of them has accomplished far
more than they ever believed possible in selling and they ascribe their
success to the deliberate process of thinking through every aspect of
their work and their lives and then developing a detailed, written road
map to get them to where they wanted to go.
THE DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS
Happiness has been defined as the progressive achievement of a
worthy ideal or goal. When you are working progressively, step-by-step
toward something that is important to you, you generate within yourself
a continuous feeling of success and achievement. You feel more positive
and motivated. You feel more in control of your own life. You feel
happier and more fulfilled. You feel like a winner, and you soon
develop the psychological momentum that enables you to overcome
obstacles and plow through adversity as you move toward achieving the
goals that are most important to you.
DETERMINE YOUR VALUES
Personal strategic planning begins with you determining what it is you
believe in and stand for – your values. Your values lie at the very
core of everything you are as a human being. Your values are the
unifying principles and core beliefs of your personality and your
character. The virtues and qualities that you stand for are what
constitute the person you have become from the beginning of your life
to this moment. Your values, virtues and inner beliefs are the axle
around which the wheel of your life turns. All improvement in your life
begins with you clarifying your true values and then committing
yourself to live consistent with them.
FUZZY OR CLEAR? Successful people are successful because they are very
clear about their values. Unsuccessful people are fuzzy or unsure.
Complete failures have no real values at all.
BUILDING SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM
Values clarification is the beginning exercise in building
self-confidence, self-esteem and personal character. When you take the
time to think through your fundamental values and then commit yourself
to living your life consistent with them, you feel a surge of mental
strength and well being. You feel stronger and more capable. You feel
more centered in the universe and more confident of accomplishing the
goals you set for yourself.
ACTION STEPS
Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.
First, decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize
your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve
them.
Second, begin with your values by deciding what it is you stand for and
believe in. Commit yourself to live consistent with your inner most
convictions – and you'll never make another mistake.
"Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results."
.
• The Definition of Happiness
• Determine Your Values
• Fuzzy or Clear?
• Building Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem
• Action Steps
In my conversations with hundreds of top salespeople over the years, I
have found that they all have one thing in common. They have taken the
time to sit down and create a clear blueprint for themselves and their
future lives. Even if they started the process of goal setting and
personal strategic planning with a little skepticism, every one of them
has become a true believer.
BECOMING A TRUE BELIEVER
Every one of them has been amazed at the incredible power of goal
setting and strategic planning. Every one of them has accomplished far
more than they ever believed possible in selling and they ascribe their
success to the deliberate process of thinking through every aspect of
their work and their lives and then developing a detailed, written road
map to get them to where they wanted to go.
THE DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS
Happiness has been defined as the progressive achievement of a
worthy ideal or goal. When you are working progressively, step-by-step
toward something that is important to you, you generate within yourself
a continuous feeling of success and achievement. You feel more positive
and motivated. You feel more in control of your own life. You feel
happier and more fulfilled. You feel like a winner, and you soon
develop the psychological momentum that enables you to overcome
obstacles and plow through adversity as you move toward achieving the
goals that are most important to you.
DETERMINE YOUR VALUES
Personal strategic planning begins with you determining what it is you
believe in and stand for – your values. Your values lie at the very
core of everything you are as a human being. Your values are the
unifying principles and core beliefs of your personality and your
character. The virtues and qualities that you stand for are what
constitute the person you have become from the beginning of your life
to this moment. Your values, virtues and inner beliefs are the axle
around which the wheel of your life turns. All improvement in your life
begins with you clarifying your true values and then committing
yourself to live consistent with them.
FUZZY OR CLEAR? Successful people are successful because they are very
clear about their values. Unsuccessful people are fuzzy or unsure.
Complete failures have no real values at all.
BUILDING SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM
Values clarification is the beginning exercise in building
self-confidence, self-esteem and personal character. When you take the
time to think through your fundamental values and then commit yourself
to living your life consistent with them, you feel a surge of mental
strength and well being. You feel stronger and more capable. You feel
more centered in the universe and more confident of accomplishing the
goals you set for yourself.
ACTION STEPS
Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.
First, decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize
your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve
them.
Second, begin with your values by deciding what it is you stand for and
believe in. Commit yourself to live consistent with your inner most
convictions – and you'll never make another mistake.
"Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results."
.