Respect plays a significant role in many phases of our daily life; your respect at school, family respect in the community, respect from your peers in your career, respect from your competitors. However the starting point for respect begins with your self-respect..the person in the mirror. How are you using your resources, your talents , your opportunities?
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By Jack Perry
Whether you like it or not, looks matter. And while most people don’t like to admit it, every human being subconsciously uses looks to size people up and draw conclusions about them. If you’re a business owner meeting with a prospective supplier and a man with a tailored suit walks through the door, your opinion of him will be different than if he’s wearing cowboy boots and jeans. If you like wearing cowboy boots and jeans, that doesn’t mean you can’t be successful in the corporate world, but you will usually start in second place. When you go to work, you must dress the part.
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By Jack Perry
Greed is an unfortunate sickness that all too often flourishes in the business world. While a desire to be wealthy and successful can be important to an individual, those desires can go too far and actually cause people severe life-time pain. Remember Michael Douglas’s character from the movie Wall Street? During his speech to stockholders he said, “Greed is good… it works.” But in the end of the story, greed destroyed him and ruined his successful career.
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By Jack Perry
Everyone has goals. In fact, no one would be able to function day-to-day without them. However, most people don’t choose to invest the time and effort to go through a deliberate process of selecting and implementing their goals. Statistics show that less than one percent of adults in the United States and Canada actually write down their goals. And even fewer people create action plans based on achieving them!
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By Jack Perry
All goals require some degree of change. Maybe your goal is to buy a house, become more physically active, or to start your own business. Regardless of your goal, change is inevitably required if you want to achieve it. Obviously some goals are big, while others aren’t as life-changing. But to grow into any new goal, you must accept the fact that you will have to move out of your comfort zone.
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By Jack Perry
In all areas of your life , character goes before the prize. Having a firmly entrenched code of honor and being a person of integrity are much more important than making money, winning fame, or earning any other prize life can offer. With integrity as your compass, you will gain the respect of your clients and prospects. And with respect, you have the foundation to build a relationship.
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By Jack Perry
In the minds of most people, everyone is just a standard commodity. However, if you choose, by design , you can position yourself as much more than a common ordinary commodity….as a unique individual, as a special professional. Positioning sets you apart from everyone else and brings your unique qualities to the forefront.
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By Jack Perry
People often talk about being hungry, especially in the sales profession. They hunger for the sale. They hunger for success. What exactly do they mean? Being hungry is an intangible, driving force based on a personal need to achieve a goal. Think of it as a fire in the belly.
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By Jack Perry
As a sales manager, you learn quickly that before you meet the perfect salesperson, you have to kiss a lot of toads, to paraphrase the old romance cliché. You also know that when you get the right people on your team, you have half as much work to do, but if you make the wrong hiring decision, there’s not enough time in the day.
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By Jack Perry
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man, she was breaking the law. But she was fed up. She knew the Jim Crow laws were wrong and she decided she wasn’t going to follow the rules, even if it meant getting arrested. It was time to take a firm stand . This unrelenting courage is called grit. We remember Rosa Parks today because her personal grit started a movement that changed the whole country….the world.
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