Finding motivation

Finding Motivation and staying motivated can be a challenge. That’s why so many New Year’s Resolutions go by the wayside. They may be driven by good intentions, but it needs more than good intentions for us to succeed.

And in business, finding motivation to stay on target and on plan, especially when times are tough can be hard. It’s all too easy to get drawn into believing that you won’t win the sale or make the order.

Sometimes that conversation that we have with ourselves is as important as any we have with colleagues and customers.

Watch this video ( if you can not view this video it may be that your firewall is blocking it, which can sometimes happen with corporate IT systems - This video is worth watching - take a note of the link http://www.intelligentdialogue.com/finding-motivation.html and have a look when you are at home )

We all draw motivation from different things, from providing for our families, to getting recognition, to working in a team, to job satisfaction.

Motivation is one of those factors which contribute towards our resourcefulness. Our ability to adapt to change, and believe in ourselves even when times are tough.

Resourcefulness is a mixture of your attitude and your action.

How you conduct yourself matters.

This isn’t a “think nice thoughts and nice things will happen to you” article, but your beliefs about yourself, your skills and your actions will help you to succeed.

Selling in tough times is hard. Achieving targets is more challenging than we’ve all probably experienced before, but as sales people ( and we’re all in sales aren’t we? ) we have to find the motivation and help to keep going ( our resource centre at the bottom of this page is packed with ideas to help you )

The line from the video you’ve just watched sums it up for me.

“you are the most influential member on this team, if you walk around defeated so will the rest of them”

As sales people or managers if you walk around defeated how does that make your colleagues in operations feel?

If you are positive, organised, professional, that will transmit itself to the rest of the business.

If you are walking around moaning “it’s tough out there” what impact do you think you are having on the rest of the business, the people who are going to deliver the orders you win?

Your Attitude + Your Action will get you the results you deserve.

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