Welcome friends to another great episode of Minute To Grow. SOOO happy to have you join me today and I truly hope you are having an amazing week! Thank you to all of those that have connected with me and for your encouragement! You make this fun and I enjoy getting to know each of you!

Today, I thought I would shift over and talk a little about sales. Many of you are either in sales directly or starting a business so the topic of selling is big. I have found that really it doesn't matter what you do in life, you actually are always in sales. You either have a product, a service, or you are selling yourself. And some have all 3 like me!

As I talked about on my previous episode, I got my start in commission based sales as a used car salesman many years ago. I was in a desperate situation that I need to get out of and I jumped on the first opportunity that came my way. Typically I process everything and plan it all out but this time however I jumped without thinking. Do so, I found myself in car sales and the first morning I seriously second guess my choice.

It wasn’t long after that, that I found myself really enjoying the challenge of selling. It was unlike anything I have ever done and the funny thing is I never would have chosen that occupation if I hadn’t been in such a desperate position with my prior job.

The point here is simply that sometimes life can get hard...really hard and you are desperate for change. In those times, you just need to jump and do something you never have done and may be uncomfortable with. That may even be you right now. That may be what you are currently doing and now wondering how to make it all happen. If so, I hope this podcast will be of help to you along the way.

If there is one thing I want you to take away from this episode is that you were intelligently designed to do amazing things. The only thing that separates those that do and those that don’t is their own self limiting thoughts. It’s not your raising, its not your education, it's not your finances, it’s not even your handicap. It is only your thoughts. What you SEE, is what you BELIEVE and what you BELIEVE is how you BEHAVE. If you see yourself as average, then that is your belief and how you will behave. If you see that you are not able for a greater life, then you will believe this to be true and your behavior will align with that limiting thought.

All that said, today I want to focus on one of those struggles we all face in building our business. And that is making sells. Sales is exciting, trying, profitable, demanding, confusing, aggravating. Selling is the core essential for any business. If you are not selling, then you are not in business. Being that it is vital for success, and one of the top things people doubt they can do, I want to share with you some of my best tips for selling.

There are many styles of selling and many programs, process, and suggested best techniques. In reality, the best technique is the one that makes you successful. What works really well for me may not be the same for you. However, there are some generally accepted best practices.

So today I want to share with you 10 sales tips that work well for me and typically for most others.

Welcome friends to another great episode of Minute To Grow. So glad you have tuned in and it’s an honor to have you join me today. I hope you are doing amazing and living life to the fullest.

On this episode, I want to talk with you about building influence. I’m going to share with you why influence is essential to success, why it’s not hard to do, and 6 ways to start building influence today.

To build a life of success, you will need to lead others. And leadership is something learned and crafted over time. There are many qualities that produce a great leader but John Maxwell simplifies it for us by saying “Leadership is influence. Nothing more. Nothing less.” But how does one gain influence? Well, that’s what I’m going to share with you today on this episode.

You’ve heard that it’s more about who you know than what you know. That my friends is simple truth. And to take it a step further, it’s who you know that is willing to help you. And that will require some real influence. What I mean is that to make things happen you need to influence others. And not to get confused with persuade. You can’t build a highly successful life without other people involved. We are community driven society even in this highly digital age. And until you embrace that, you will struggle.

Influence is nothing new to you. You are surrounded by it all day long. It may not always be obvious, but it is present. If you have kids, you have influence. If you have a job, you have influence. And no, you don’t have to be a manager to have the influence either. Just as you don’t have to have a title to be a leader. Authentic influence is based on permission, not position.

One thing I want to clear up about building influence is that it’s truly not hard to do. Most of it is so simple. And so, in this episode I want to share with you my simple process of influencing. Now I don’t use tricks, I don’t play crazy mind games, or any special techniques. What I do is very natural. It’s organic really. So what is it?

Well, it is that I always look at the situation from their side. I’ve done this from sales to leadership and it is universal. Though I can’t truly position myself in their world, their paradigm, I do try my best to approach interactions in a way that I feel what they feel and how they want to be treated. And this is done in a handful of ways. And I’m going to share 6 of them with you now.

So, Here are 6 solid ways to build your influence with others

Welcome Friends! So glad that you have you tuned in and I’m excited about what I have to share with you today. I hope that you have been doing great and are achieving your goals.

Remember that you must constantly be setting short term goals with a long term goal in mind. If you don’t know where you are headed then how do you know when you get there?

The way to prosperity is by intentionality. It doesn’t happen overnight and it doesn’t happen without action. You are responsible for your results and I believe you can be great at your life.

You have a passion to build a life of substance and doing what you were designed to do, right? To do so, it takes focused direction and making the necessary steps is all up to you. You can be given the material and even the tools, but that does not do you ANY good if you don’t put it to use. Only you can apply the action. And that action requires Self Leadership and positive Habits.

And Success Habits is what we are going to cover on this episode. I want to share with you 10 vital habits you should have to capture success in life.

We live and function on habits every day and your most important task on your journey to real success is learning and implementing the habits that will impact you the most.

Those success habits set the direction and pace to which you advance in your endeavors.

The quote by Lao-tzu, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” is never so true as it is with your journey in both life and career. And to take this journey, you need to be headed in the right direction when you take that first step.

Habits perform basic parts of our daily lives. Our minds are able to put those actions on autopilot so we can concentrate on other things. Think about how hard it would be to think about everything we did every second of the day. It would be ridiculous, right?! We’d never get anything accomplished!!

Habits simplify our life and even make us more productive BUT only if we create the right habits.

It’s estimated that out of every 11,000 signals our brain receives from our senses, our brain only consciously processes 40. That’s NUTS!! What this means is you must have good habits that put you on autopilot.

So I did some research and compiled a long list of Habits that highly successful people tend to have in common. And then I cut it down to just 10 for this episode.