Out Of The Zone!

How do you feel right now reading this?

 

I imagine you in your robe at the kitchen table ...sipping on coffee.

 

Sitting down at the desk at work getting ready for another day with something inspirational and instructional (hey, that's me!)

 

Or maybe you read it once you get home while dinner is cooking.

 

How do I feel right now?

 

Uncomfortable.

  

Not because I don't believe in what I am doing...quite the contrary.  I have dreamed of helping people (specifically sales people) most of my adult life with the things I am doing now.

 

Not because I dont believe that this is good stuff.  Each day, someone or something reminds me that I am on the right track...another door of opportunity opens.

 

Then why the sweaty palms and heart race each time I hit the "send" button or publish a new book?

  

I am Out Of The Zone...yes, you know the one...The Comfort Zone.

 

I am used to starting and running businesses...generating billions in revenue (not a misprint) and after a few years, doing it again.

 

While I have trained and developed 1,000's of sales people in my life, this author, speaker, sales coach gig is foreign.  The publishing world is a vast arena and I am a small fish in a big ocean.

 

Take a look around you at the things that are in your life today.  Most likely, they are all in The Zone.

 

Now take a moment to think of the things you want in the future;

 

The income that doubles or triples what you earn today (go ahead and smile!). 

 

The marriage to "Mr/Mrs. Right (what are you waiting for?).

 

The business plan that has been on your desk for 5 years (no time like the present!).

 

Notice that everything you want is outside of The Zone.

 

To get them, you will have to stretch a little farther.  You will have to test unproven waters.  You will have to do things that you have never done before or thought you could do.

 

If you are comfortable, you are likely standing still.  Ok, maybe you are catching your breath from the last time you left The Zone...but don't rest too long.  The next opportunity will pass you by if you sit still (think Sir Isaac Newton from yesterday). 

 

My mission is to help you leave The Zone...into a larger place.  A place that utilizes your greatest gifts in service to mankind and provides you with the rewards of that service.

 

Over the next several weeks I will begin tweaking the Daily Sales Crumbs and conducting a series of features that are designed to get both of us into the deeper waters of our lives.

 

The subject matter will be focused on you as a person...who happens to be in sales.  As my audience is growing fast daily, it is a risk...but one my instincts tell me to take.

 

Your instincts will always lead you Out Of The Zone...Trust Them!

 

So while I challenge you while you are sipping coffee, logging on to email, or cooking dinner, know that I am uncomfortable too...

 

but it feels good...it feels right.

 

From this point forward, we are going on a journey to create the best you possible.  To use a Star Trek reference..."To boldly go where we have not gone before"...

 

Out of The Zone!

 

Until tomorrow, I wish you Money, Power, Success! 

 

Next Time: Sales & Marriage

(yes, we are going there!)