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In this episode, JP from Soap-Free Procyon discusses the importance of proper cleaning techniques and products for a successful spring cleaning. As the winter months leave our homes with residue and dirt, it's crucial to start with thorough vacuuming and washing of carpets and upholstery. JP emphasizes the need to shift our mindset from shampooing to washing, in order to avoid the soapy residue that most commercial cleaning products leave behind. He demonstrates the difference between a popular spot stain remover, and Soap-Free Procyon's Spot and Stain Remover, highlighting the absence of suds in Procyon's product. This residue-free solution ensures your carpets and upholstery stay cleaner for longer.

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Emerson says write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You've done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be encumbered. With your old nonsense, this new day is too dear with its hopes and invitations to waste a moment on the yesterdays. 

Ok. Thank you, Mr. Emerson. Now what do we do with that? You know, perhaps I've said before that my best days are the ones where I get up with an attitude of what am I going to give to the world today as opposed to what am I going to get.

I find that when I'm focused on the giving part, the getting just comes. But my spirit is much more focused on the importance of being part of my community, starting with service to my dear customers friends family that's where we should be focused and this works really well with your customers. You know you are delivering a super important product, keeping a home healthy and clean, super important for your customers. But it doesn't end there because they don't need a cleaning every day. But they should know that you are their friend every day, that you are a resource and an advisor.

If for example, it may be that somebody trusts your services. I may ask you if you know a good plumber, good electrician who should come and maintain their air ducts or their furnace, whatever it might be. So consider who you know and who you serve and build those connections and deploy them for your clients. You know you can order from Procyon your custom spot and stain bottles to offer to your customers, but you know it doesn't end there. Tell them that you're there to be of service every day of the year. Even in between cleanings, why not offer your service? Offer your help, ask people what else you can do for them. It very rarely at some point nobody going to actually tap you for that. But you know what? It keeps you top of mind and it doesn't hurt to be thought of as the most generous, nicest vendor service provider that they know. So please keep that in mind. Even if you don't have gifts and boxes to give. You have the gift of yourself and your connections.

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Effects of inflation and rising costs and Extreme Pre-Spray, Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner, and Spot and Stain Remover as a solution. Quote from Patton Oswalt, "All of life is chaos, and all we can do is be kind." We just can't know what chaos is operating out there beyond what we can hear and smell and see. But it's out there and it's different for every person. So I just want to encourage you. Two things. The first is to remember there's chaos out there and all we can really do is be kind.

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One little way that you can make the world a better place - you can for yourself and for your customers use the healthiest product that I know to be available in the world. And that is Soap Free Procyon cleaning products. So let's get out there. Let's do our best to love our families. Love our neighbors. Take good care of our customers in that small way. No matter what else is going on, that's beyond our control. We can make the world a little bit better, and also if we can help you out, you give us a call at 1-800 P R O C Y O N. Or look for us up on the web at https://www.soapfreeprocyon.com.

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We've got some terrific custom spotters we can fashion for you to give to your clients to keep you top of mind. We'll also be very happy come April to start sharing our infographic kit for you. Also, if you're interested in embroidery for your shirts or decal for your equipment or trucks, we're all about that. We're here to support you. So let's all get out that door today.

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I'm speaking to our professional carpet cleaners. You can clean carpet and upholstery with expert skill, and you've got excellent tools. So here's my suggestion for your BHAG. 

I want you to consider dedicating yourself to either becoming a Rainmaker or improving your rainmaking skills.

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Commit to green cleaning do some study, look at our Soap Free Procyon on website for some ideas and to get some information about why it's important to cut down on the VOCs in your house and to make your atmosphere as healthy as possible for your lungs and your skin.

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So I've got a few things to dwell on for all of us as we're thinking about that. Let's start with the green cleaning part.

Yes, I'm going to talk about dwelling time again, but I'm going to keep it short and sweet. I'm looking at a bottle of all of our favorite Soap Free Procyon Spot and Stain Remover. And here it is. If you've got a stain, it says spray on the spot, allow cleaner to penetrate soiled area using a bleach free, white cotton towel, blot until spot is removed. In extreme cases, allow it to dwell five to ten minutes.

So on that theme of dwelling, remember, if it's a bad stain, give it some time. We are so gentle to your health, to the environment, to your carpet, your upholstery, your lungs. And so you've got to give it that dwelling time. Okay, so that's it for the green cleaning part.

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How do you handle those holiday stains? Wrap up and review of Annual ISSA Show; Time to be thankful.

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Okay. All right. You're on. Hey, this is JP from Procyon. Thank you for joining me on another Soap Free Podcast today.

I'd like to talk to you about the power of smiling. How is that related to cleaning? Well, we'll get to that at the end of the podcast, but would like to share some thoughts on smiling. So did you know that your voice sounds different when you talk while smiling? It was instructed or suggested to me early in my career that when I answer a phone or I'm talking to people, especially when I'm maybe not feeling cheerful or it's going to be a difficult phone call that I should remember to actually physically smile before I answer the phone or when I'm speaking in those situations because it makes you sound different even over the phone, certainly in person.

It changes people's perceptions in order to reinforce those thoughts and share with you more thoroughly. I want to refer back to one of my not in person, but through book mentors Dale Carnegie, who you heard me mentioned before on the Soap free podcast. Carnegie is famous for teaching sales and personality habits to people who want to become very successful business leaders and salespeople. This is from his how to Win Friends and Influence People. Let me just read to you for a minute or two and then call, he says.

The chairman of the board of directors, one of the largest rubber companies in the United States, told me that according to his observations, people rarely succeeded anything unless they have fun doing it. This industrial leader doesn't put much faith in the old adage. That hard work alone is the magic unlock the door to our desires. I have known people, he said, who succeeded because they had a rip roaring good time conducting their business. Later, I saw those people change.

As the fun became work. Their business had grown dull. They lost all joy in it, and they failed. So you must have a good time meeting people or talking to them. If you expect them to have a good time meeting you.

I have thousands of business people to smile at someone every hour of the day for a week and then come to class and talk about the results. How does it work? Let's see. Here is a letter from William B. Steinhardt, a New York stockbroker.

This case isn't isolated. In fact, it is typical of hundreds of cases. I love this guy. You're going to love it, too. I've been married for over 18 years, wrote Mr.Stunheart, and all that time, I seldom smiled at my wife or spoke two dozen words to her. From the time I got up until I was ready to leave in the morning, I was one of the worst grouches who ever walked the street. When you asked me to make a talk about my experience with smiles, I thought I would try it for weeks. The next morning, while combing my hair. I looked at my glum mug in the mirror and said to myself, Bill, you're going to wipe that scowl off your sour Puss today you're going to smile and you're going to begin right now.

As I sat down to breakfast, I agree to my wife with a good morning, dear and smiled as I said it. You warned me that she might be surprised. Well, you underestimated her reaction. She was bewildered.

I told her that in the future she could expect this as a regular occurrence, and I kept it up every morning. This changed brought more happiness into our home in two months since I started than there was during the entire last year. So he goes on to say at some length that he began to smile at everybody as he went through his day. He had the cashier in a subway or somebody holding the door for him, etc. And he goes on now to say, I soon found that everybody was smiling back at me.

I treat those who come to me with complaints or grievances in a cheerful manner. I smile as I listen to them, and I find that adjustments are accomplished much easier. I find that smiles are bringing me dollars many dollars every day. So for our professional cleaners out there inside, take note of that. Nothing else.

That smile is going to improve your customer relations and bring you more dollars and repeat business and referrals. I promise you. So going on, you don't feel like smiling. Then what? Two things?

First force yourself to smile. And by the way, I had to do that to start with. This is back when I was practicing law and almost every discussion I had was generally on the challenging or unpleasant side. You don't feel like smiling. You force yourself to do it.

If you're alone, force yourself to whistle or humm a tune or sing, act as if you are already happy, and that will tend to make you happy. Here's the way the psychologist and philosopher William James put it, action seems to follow feeling, but really, action and feeling go together. And by regulating that action, which is under the more direct control of our personal Wills, we can indirectly regulate the feeling which is not under our control.

Remember this, everybody in the world is seeking happiness. There is one sure way to find it and that's by controlling your thoughts, happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. And so in conclusion, on that part, I just want to tell you remember to try this out, even if you don't feel like smiling when you're communicating with others.

If you have to force it to begin with, do it, you'll change your habits. And this is a big change for the good. So smart. How does this relate to cleaning? Just occurred to me that for a lot of people, maybe those same people who don't smile when they're talking.

If we're going to change that behavior consciously remember, it is a conscious choice to go from the cleaning methods and cleaners that we used growing up in the time we were children. Soaps and detergents and the smell of clean to most of us in a bathroom involves bleach. It involves caustic chemicals to clean tile, et cetera. So just like every day, forcing yourself and learning the habit of smiling at people or smiling when you're talking and your communication being positive, we have to bring that same diligent, conscious effort to making healthy choices about how and what we clean with a great place to start here's.

The pitch is Soap Free Procyon's Spot and Stain Remover.

I suggest if you haven't used it before you go to our website at soapfreeprocyon.com. Spelled P-R-O-C-Y-O-N and check out our beautiful line of products. But the first one to buy and your hero product every day will be our spot and stain remover. So two things get that Spot and Stain Remover and smile. See how it changes your life.

And if it does, we would love to hear from you. The entire family at Soap Free Procyon wishes you a wonderful day. And if I don't publish another podcast before, Happy Halloween. Trick or treat.

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