Should You Practice Happiness?
Should You Practice Happiness?
It doesn’t take long after starting your career as a professional sale person before feeling the emotional impact of your new life as a 100% commissioned salesperson.
Initial happiness can quickly dissipate, and your thoughts can turn to fear and anxiety in a hurry. It’s ok. It’s normal. You’re learning a new game and you can handle it.
Yes, I understand you’re once blissful thoughts of cashing life-changing, fat paychecks may have been replaced temporarily by, “Holy crap! What have I gotten myself into?”, “Is this the right job for me?”, “Will this job ever get any easier?”, “Does my Manager like me?”, “Why does Ken get all the floppers?”
One thing is for certain: the job will NOT get any easier. You’re expected to get better…and you’ve come to the right place.
The great news and absolute truth about 100% commission careers is that sales is a learned skill. Which means if you can find and develop the best habits, you can start having fun while earning a truck-load of money for yourself and your family.
Sales is a feel good business. You have to feel good to do good consistently in sales.
–Jeff Slusarek
No one can control every single thought they have for an entire day. We all have a bounty of both negative and positive thoughts that come and go all day long.
There is one key emotion that you need to focus on in order to transform yourself into a highly paid sales champion: happiness.
While not a formal requirement for employment (anyone can fake being happy through the interview process), being a consistently happy person is the most important emotional ingredient you’ll need to master if you really want to be a highly paid sales champion.
Professional sales is a feel-good business. You must feel good to do good consistently in professional sales.
Finding and practicing happiness no matter your current situation gives you the feeling, “I’ve got enough,” and triggers the law of attraction. Being a happy person keeps you more in
control, moving forward faster, and always leads to new sales.
Get happy and find new things that keep you smiling.
Ask 10 people, “Do you think happiness is a choice or is happiness a skill?”
9 out of 10 people will say, “Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy!”
Making the choice to be happy is a hard-sell to your subconscious mind when things are not going well. It may seem like a reasonable request, but choosing to be happy just doesn’t work. A negatively programmed and doubtful subconscious can quickly reject a direct, positive statement.
Happiness is a skill just like learning to dribble a basketball is a skill. And since happiness is a skill, that means you must practice happiness to get really good at being happy.
Practicing happiness means you make a conscious effort each day to “rise and shine” immediately upon waking. Get yourself organized. You, too, can wake up to a morning full of happiness, clarity, and positive momentum building.
