It gives steps to becoming a great salesman/saleswoman and you may ask why this is important. The reason is simple. Every single one of us is selling. From Main Street to suburbia, from the church to the coffin, we are all selling. And what are we selling? We are selling ourselves. My friend Barbara Kincaid reminds us often that people want to do business with people they "know, like and trust." And the fact of the matter is this - not only do we want to do business with people we know like and trust, we want to be friends with, serve with, create with the same.
Last time I talked about deciding to make each and every day new - saying - Today I begin a new life! Take a minute - go look in a mirror and say that outloud.
The second step begins with this declaration and builds on the first: (repeat after me)
"I will greet each day with love in my heart."
This is about our attitude towards everything. We live in a polarized world. We can either grow or die. We can be passionate about life or just let is slide by. We can either love or hate. I believe these are the choices and to not choose to grow is to choose to die. To choose not to live passionately is to let life slide by. To choose not to love is to choose to hate.
This decision to greet the day with love is to decide before you get out of bed how you will relate to everyone around you, how you will spend your energy, how you will speak every word. This decision is a decision as Mandino says to encourage rather than discourage, applaud instead of criticize and to praise instead of gossip. This decision is to build bridges between people instead of walls for bridges make opportunities rise and walls keep us locked away from success.
How do I do this today? You start first with yourself - and you tell yourself first that YOU are loved and through the day you will always act like you love yourself. When you meet someone on the street or in the market or wherever you go think to yourself before you ever speak - "I love this person."
And remember this - to love someone is to expect and desire for them all the good that there is. To care for them, to see and to meet their needs, to support and build up each one you meet.
The results will be amazing. Start each day new. Greet each day with love in your heart.
Watch your world change and have a great day!
Choose this day.....to live with love in your heart!
