The Law Of Attraction And The Art Of Sales: Part 3 Mind Your Own Business

Mind Your Own Business As I have worked hard for the last 18 months to become an accomplished sales person of whitegoods, kitchen and electrical appliances one of the larger obstacles I have had to overcome is being intimidated by other people’s performances. Especially in the beginning I would be overcome by how much other people had sold for the day and all the bragging and chest beating that went with this. Our busiest day was usually Saturday and it was frenetic as the sales people swooped on the customers, trying to generate the most sales they could. Periodically we would gather around the coffee machine and compare results for the day. I found this very negative as I would focus on how well other people had done compared to me and become fixated on how poor I felt I had done in comparison. I also found it off putting when sitting at my desk, which was directly opposite the “star” sales person of the store, as he always seemed to have someone sitting there writing an invoice for a sale. My mind would race with thoughts of doom and gloom and self–admonishments of my poor performance in comparison and generally beat up on my self and worry about the consequences of not selling as much other people. As you know the Law of Attraction dictates that like is attracted to like. So obviously all these negative feelings and thoughts I was having meant this was the type of experience I was attracting into my life. I was attracting the exact opposite of my desires, by focusing on other people’s results, which highlighted my own supposed lack of success. Things I found to help alleviate this were to: • Cheer for other people’s results, as discussed in the previous blog, as there is enough for every one. • Ask. “How do I feel? What do I want?” Often the feelings we have about ourselves aren’t a good reflection of the situation. “Is it the end of the world? Are they going to come and sack me right now? Have I go lots of time left in the day to get a good result?” • Search for what I want. “What if I served 3 customers this afternoon? What if I sold $X this month? What a great review I am going to have this month.” So you can see moving to better thoughts will move you to a position of attracting positive things and therefore create a life more closely aligned to your desires. Focusing on your desires rather than what other people have or a doing is important in everyday life as well. Noticing that someone has a better car or house or whatever so that it emotes feelings of lack and inferiority is a sure fire path to creating negatively. You will continue to attract lack into your life. It is important to focus on thoughts that emote the feelings of having and completion and these should move you to feeling good which is a major indicator that your are creating positively. Often as we focus on our desires we will have thoughts that this is not real and such a result or occurrence is preposterous and all this is just not rational. This is the overhang of the “rational” world we grew up in and inhabit. It is important to focus on what you want and not the world as it seems as this is the key to deliberate creation. Next: Setting the tone.