{"id":100,"date":"2011-06-12T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2011\/6\/12\/115204.html"},"modified":"2011-06-12T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:52:04","slug":"choose-your-influences-wisely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/choose-your-influences-wisely\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose Your Influences Wisely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><font face=\"Arial\">Choose Your Influences Wisely<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><span><font face=\"Arial\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">A well-intentioned friend of mine sen<span style=\"color: black\">t me an email this week saying, &ldquo;I thought you&rsquo;d find this interesting&rdquo;, with a link to a story titled &lsquo;Poll; Many Consumers Believe Recession Not Over&rsquo;.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I didn&rsquo;t open it. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I like to think I don&rsquo;t play Ostrich regarding the news that affects my business, but I do consciously seek out positive news, and avoid the negatives over which I have no control.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Very early in my career as a sales person I learned that I felt better, produced more and made more money when I went for morning coffee with the half of our sales team<span style=\"color: black\"> that was always looking for positives and opportunities.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Conversely, I learned the hard way that hanging with the half of the team that tended to whine and complain about how tough things were, aff<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">ected my performance negatively.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I actually looked forward to the last recession because I had developed a unique way of selling successfully during the last four recessions which I was able to share with my clients.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;I welcome the inevitable impending boom as well because I&rsquo;ve made it our mission to help our clients be on the cutting edge of the opportunities which lie ahead.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Henry Ford <span style=\"color: black\">once said, &ldquo;Whether you think you can or think you can&rsquo;t, you are right&rdquo;!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The influences you allow yourself to be exposed to can dramatically affect what you think you can do, and you can do <span style=\"color: black\">whatever<\/span> you think you can. Select those influences carefully!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><u><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">Randy&rsquo;s What If<\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">; What if you invested just 15 minutes every morning aggressively seeking one piece of positive news or an opportunity you could share with everyone you meet today? <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose Your Influences Wisely &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A well-intentioned friend of mine sent me an email this week saying, &ldquo;I thought you&rsquo;d find this interesting&rdquo;, with a link to a story titled &lsquo;Poll; Many Consumers Believe Recession Not Over&rsquo;. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I didn&rsquo;t open it. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I like to think I don&rsquo;t play Ostrich regarding the news that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}