Many successful people in any industry start off excited about their role, feeling like they are learning and improving each day for several months, and then eventually begin to stagnate.
You plateau and start to get comfortable in the day to day life of repetition. You are no longer as excited about work, you start dreading getting up in the morning for your commute to work, and you have the classic Monday blues every week.
If you truly feel this way, you’ve got two choices. Continue to make no changes and pray that a miracle will happen, or start taking action.
This is always the hardest part because action is not just a pill you can just take to make things better. This is when most people get analysis paralysis. You become frozen between decisions about quitting, hiring a sales coach, switching jobs, or even moving towns.
Ultimately, the most important thing is that you just START.
First, ask yourself what it is that you want. A large percentage of the people that I coach have no idea why they feel lost. They just wake up every day not feeling excited. Life is meant to be exciting. You are supposed to learn, grow, and have fun. If you don’t know where you want to go, then how do you expect to get there. Sit down and start writing until you've come up with something you want to achieve and then work backwords from there.
The second step is to ask yourself, “what is one thing I can do today to move me just 1 inch forward?” If it’s about starting a business, don’t get bogged down with the stress of building a website, finding customers, and learning Facebook ads. Just start with one thing to move an inch forward and you will be amazed how quickly things start to pick up.
If you want to get better at sales, you can start by just reading 1 chapter a day of any book on sales. Maybe listen to a podcast on your way to work? Sure, this is an extremely slow process, but it’s a start.
We created Sales Foundations not just to help people become better at sales, but also to help them improve their daily lives and become content with themselves.