Author : Al Lipper
Many of us yearn for life to be smooth and easy someday. We imagine a place where everything is in order and nothing unexpected happens, life just pleasantly passes like a gentle Summer breeze. Our present reality may seem radically different, however. Interestingly, many of the most successful people throughout history have somewhat shifted their perspective on this idea of a "smooth life." A funny old man named Colonel Sanders tried to sell his fried chicken to over 1000 restaurants before one agreed to try it – now KFC has over 5000 restaurants in the U.S. alone. People like this have adopted a belief that life is "lumpy," not smooth and even. This is simply the nature of being human, of being truly alive. When we expect life to be problem-free, we are often disappointed. However, if we expect that every week there will be unanticipated problems and furthermore, we know that we've made it through countless weeks like this before, then it doesn't seem so bad. The other next part of this is to treat "failures" as lessons.For example, if you are trying to sell a product or service, each time a potential customer fails to purchase, ask yourself "Why didn't they buy?" And keep track of it (this step is essential). After a short while, you can look over your list of reasons and draw conclusions like "Cold calls don't work 85% of the time" or "Nearly all sales attempts of our products to non-profit organizations are failures." Then you could modify your sales efforts to either eliminate ineffective efforts, or to even dig deeper and find out why these sales efforts don't work for you. It is always such a pleasure for me to help a client through a process where they examine what doesn't work in their business (or personal life), and then reduce or eliminate the time spent there. The rewards are countless as they have more time, feel more motivated and inspired (because they have far more successes than before), and most importantly, they get to spend more time on the things that really do work for them.So, in summary:Know that life is "lumpy", and expect each week to have its share of lumps.Each time you try something and it doesn't work as hoped, ask "Why didn't this work?" and write down the reason (if you're not sure, ask a friend or co-worker for their opinion)Look over your list of reasons why things didn't work out and try to see common threads.Revise your approach to reduce or eliminate effort at methods or techniques that don't yield good resultsOptionally, examine the things that don't work well and try to figure out why they didn't work, then revise your approach accordingly and try againA final part of this, which many of you already do, is to keep track of your successes as well as "failures." If a particular method works really well, then be sure to use it again and again. Here's to your success!Al Lipper offers Personal Life and Small Business Coaching services for holistic people seeking life balance, small business professionals, and men's issues.
Contact him for a complimentary session to find out how he
can accelerate you towards getting the life you want.
http://www.destinysuccess.com
Keyword : life coach, life coaching, business coach, business coaching, goal setting, personal improvement
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