am sure there are people who are wondering why I am devoting so much time to the use of Law of Attraction in the process of selling. The reasons I have chosen to do this, is to firstly develop the process. Secondly it seems the results from ones thoughts come quickly and often. Lastly I believe these lessons can be applied to other areas of life quite easily.
Many of the Blogs and forums I read, people are not receiving their the desires when they have chosen to apply LOA principles. They read books, listen to tapes and still their desires elude them. Then it dawned on me this week why this situation may occur. We humans are driven to find a process. A sure fire way, that if we follow it to the letter, the results we desire wii be recieved. You know the way. Follow steps 1, 2 , 3 & 4 and hey presto the desired result is achieved. But I feel that LOA is far too dynamic for this to occur. I often find that I try something and get results. Then when I attempt to follow the same process again I struggle to get results. I find I keep having to refine my thoughts and actions.
One of my favourite authors is Florence Scovel Shinn and she said, (loosely as I cannot find the exact words) “Man’s work is within.” With this she is referring to the control of ones emotions. Abraham talks about “choosing a better thought”. For me this indicates that it is not about following a set and rigid process, but constantly being aware of ones feelings, which are a key indicator of whether we are creating negatively or positively.
In context to this, last week I wrote about an exciting day I experienced. Today I am going to share some frustrations when things didn’t go so well.
The weekend is our busiest period in the store and it is important to achieving a good result, that you make good sales over the weekend. Last weekend was a struggle for me because I battled with my feelings.
One of my colleagues, who is the leading sales person the store, on Friday asked my to take care of a couple of clients for him as he was having the weekend off. I agreed to this, as we have an understanding that when the circumstances are reversed. he would do the same. Which he has done on a number of occasions.
First thing in the morning I had to write a credit for client who had cancelled their items and so I started the day in minus. Not a good start. My colleague’s first client came in. A small washing machine sale and I was able to complete it without much stress.
Soon the second client arrived and by this time the store was now full of customers. This client was a bit more difficult as they wanted me to demonstrate all the appliances. Also it was to be purchased on finance, which made it complicated and time consuming. As we went to sit and write up the deal I noticed face that I recognized, later realizing this was someone I had spoken to about a full set of kitchen appliances 2 weeks previously.
After an hour the deal was wrapped up and we headed to the cash desk to finalise the payment. There at the desk was the face I had briefly recognized paying for $6000 work of kitchen appliances with another sales person. Damn! A great opportunity lost.
The people I was dealing with were delightful and finally they went happily on their way, but my resentment to the amount of time I had spent was rising.
I always try and work on the basis of “there is enough for everybody” and by staying open and positive sales often seem to come to me magically, as I described last week. But the resentment was stuck in my stomach. No matter how many deep breaths or new thoughts I chose the lump of anger and resentment remained. Damn!
I went and had lunch to try and calm down to no avail. I approached a number of people with no luck. Finally I managed to find myself in the moment and calmed down and sold a stove, which countered the credit I had written in the morning. Now I was only $100 in the negative.
By this time the store had thinned of customers and it seemed my day was done and so it was. I walked out of the store disappointed and upset, vowing for a better result the next day. And it was. A lovely lady returned with her husband to make a good size purchase and that combined with a couple of small sales gave me a reasonable day.
Monday followed with a distinct lack of clients and I was able to ponder my weekend a little and came to the conclusion that I arrived at work tired on Saturday because I had stupidly played games on the computer until
12-30am. I was resentful of myself because I was not feeling good or positive and that seemed to paint the colour of the whole day. Also for the previous 2 weeks I had been holding the feeling of being in the top 3 sales people in the store. Up until this point I had held this position but I had lost focus on this feeling and subsequently my performance had slipped. When I return to work tomorrow this is certainly and area I intend to refocus on.
So you can see how important the tone of your feelings can be in allowing your desired creations into your life. Negative feelings including anger and resentment can have a large impact on what you receive in your life and so work on this area as proposed by Florence Scovel Shinn can bring great results.
Many of the Blogs and forums I read, people are not receiving their the desires when they have chosen to apply LOA principles. They read books, listen to tapes and still their desires elude them. Then it dawned on me this week why this situation may occur. We humans are driven to find a process. A sure fire way, that if we follow it to the letter, the results we desire wii be recieved. You know the way. Follow steps 1, 2 , 3 & 4 and hey presto the desired result is achieved. But I feel that LOA is far too dynamic for this to occur. I often find that I try something and get results. Then when I attempt to follow the same process again I struggle to get results. I find I keep having to refine my thoughts and actions.
One of my favourite authors is Florence Scovel Shinn and she said, (loosely as I cannot find the exact words) “Man’s work is within.” With this she is referring to the control of ones emotions. Abraham talks about “choosing a better thought”. For me this indicates that it is not about following a set and rigid process, but constantly being aware of ones feelings, which are a key indicator of whether we are creating negatively or positively.
In context to this, last week I wrote about an exciting day I experienced. Today I am going to share some frustrations when things didn’t go so well.
The weekend is our busiest period in the store and it is important to achieving a good result, that you make good sales over the weekend. Last weekend was a struggle for me because I battled with my feelings.
One of my colleagues, who is the leading sales person the store, on Friday asked my to take care of a couple of clients for him as he was having the weekend off. I agreed to this, as we have an understanding that when the circumstances are reversed. he would do the same. Which he has done on a number of occasions.
First thing in the morning I had to write a credit for client who had cancelled their items and so I started the day in minus. Not a good start. My colleague’s first client came in. A small washing machine sale and I was able to complete it without much stress.
Soon the second client arrived and by this time the store was now full of customers. This client was a bit more difficult as they wanted me to demonstrate all the appliances. Also it was to be purchased on finance, which made it complicated and time consuming. As we went to sit and write up the deal I noticed face that I recognized, later realizing this was someone I had spoken to about a full set of kitchen appliances 2 weeks previously.
After an hour the deal was wrapped up and we headed to the cash desk to finalise the payment. There at the desk was the face I had briefly recognized paying for $6000 work of kitchen appliances with another sales person. Damn! A great opportunity lost.
The people I was dealing with were delightful and finally they went happily on their way, but my resentment to the amount of time I had spent was rising.
I always try and work on the basis of “there is enough for everybody” and by staying open and positive sales often seem to come to me magically, as I described last week. But the resentment was stuck in my stomach. No matter how many deep breaths or new thoughts I chose the lump of anger and resentment remained. Damn!
I went and had lunch to try and calm down to no avail. I approached a number of people with no luck. Finally I managed to find myself in the moment and calmed down and sold a stove, which countered the credit I had written in the morning. Now I was only $100 in the negative.
By this time the store had thinned of customers and it seemed my day was done and so it was. I walked out of the store disappointed and upset, vowing for a better result the next day. And it was. A lovely lady returned with her husband to make a good size purchase and that combined with a couple of small sales gave me a reasonable day.
Monday followed with a distinct lack of clients and I was able to ponder my weekend a little and came to the conclusion that I arrived at work tired on Saturday because I had stupidly played games on the computer until
12-30am. I was resentful of myself because I was not feeling good or positive and that seemed to paint the colour of the whole day. Also for the previous 2 weeks I had been holding the feeling of being in the top 3 sales people in the store. Up until this point I had held this position but I had lost focus on this feeling and subsequently my performance had slipped. When I return to work tomorrow this is certainly and area I intend to refocus on.
So you can see how important the tone of your feelings can be in allowing your desired creations into your life. Negative feelings including anger and resentment can have a large impact on what you receive in your life and so work on this area as proposed by Florence Scovel Shinn can bring great results.
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