{"id":438,"date":"2010-09-03T08:17:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/wordsofwisdom\/?p=438"},"modified":"2010-08-23T13:37:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T18:37:54","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/wordsofwisdom\/what-if\/","title":{"rendered":"What if?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words of wisdom for this week<\/b><\/p>\n

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”<\/i>
\nEllen Parr<\/p>\n

What if for the rest of this year;<\/p>\n

You made one more prospect phone call every day?
\nYou asked every prospect and client for a referral?
\nYou eliminated one destructive sales habit?
\nYou increased your market awareness with better networking skills?
\nYou attended a sales seminar or sales boot camp that your company didn\u2019t pay for?
\nYou stopped accepting prospect\u2019s excuses?
\nYou became one of the most knowledgeable person in your industry?<\/p>\n

These questions are endless and I won\u2019t give you more to think about than you have time for today or even this week.<\/p>\n

But I will share with you a simple truth \u2013 if you want to sell more every year you have to get better every year.<\/p>\n

Let me get to the heart of the matter. If you have been receiving my tips for more than a few years you know that I have spent little time promoting my books, CD\u2019s and boot camps. If you enjoy my tips and benefit from just a few hundred words once a week I would ask you \u2013 have you yet purchased one of my over 200 books, manuals or CD\u2019s?<\/p>\n

If yes, I hope you have enjoyed them and benefited from them. If not, why haven\u2019t you? Is it the money? Remember the cost of not learning is far higher than the investment in learning. Is it the lack of time? Or some other reason or excuse?<\/p>\n

Let me repeat at the sake of sounding redundant. If you want to sell MORE every year you MUST get better every year. <\/p>\n

So let me ask you;<\/p>\n

What is on your agenda this year to improve your skills?
\nWhat is your budget this year for improving your abilities?
\nWhat time have you allocated to learning and improving?
\nWhat career development organizations are you going to join this year?
\nWhat books are you going to read this year?<\/p>\n

Let me leave you with some of the statistics and concepts that have driven my personal development philosophy for over forty years.<\/p>\n