When All Hope Is Misplaced

Let me ask you a dumb question. Have you ever lost your keys? Wallet? How about your phone? We all have been there. But in how many scenarios were they really misplaced?

Tough times can rattle oura ability to cope with pressure and decisions. In the business world, when the sales aren't coming or the traffic is dead, all hope could be "lost." Maybe that large sale fell through. Perhaps that client went with a competitor at last minute. Truth be told, the only numbers you are seeing go up might belong in the liabilities column. The trend may not seem to reverse and you may just feel like throwing in the towel and liquidating.

But I want to ask when was the last time you turned your problem on its head? When was the last time you tried a new product line or adjusted your market approach.

One thing I have come to believe is that markets never really disappear unless they're lost to a newer, more efficient market. You just have to be the smartest, most efficient person when it comes to marketing your idea. You may have to create a new product, or advertise in a different region. The fact is, your business is not hopeless.

I would like to encourage you to find the gold among the rocks. You are an intellectual and a creator. There is always a method of approach. Hope is only misplaced. You can still find it.

I Am The Curious Salesman

Helen Keller once said "Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all." Yet we seem to loose this sense of adventure with time as we grow older. Instead of conquering the next frontier, discovering the next miracle, climbing the next highest mountain, or building the next giant monument, etc... we settle for possessing trinkets and merely occupying space.

Alarm goes off... Get up, get dressed, blast the morning news, cut yourself shaving, go to work, punch in, work, punch out, back to home, back to the evening news, back to bed.

Yes its important we work. Yes its important to have routines. But what about living a life of adventure and discovery? At what point do we become too mature to think and grow and enrich our lives? "When you're green, you grow. When you're ripe, you rot." Whose words were those? The guy who franchised the business that made popular the Big Mac, Filet-o-fish, Shamrock Shake, etc.: Ray Kroc. Thinking and learning are critical parts to business growth and innovation for McDonald's, as with other businesses (Get an inside taste of McD's innovations with this article by Huffington Post: http://huff.to/12fD6SG). Innovation gives them great new menu ideas, ways to keep costs low, and ways to get the message out. But ideas could be conjured without curiosity?

Curiosity is defined as the desire to know. Essentially curiosity is the catalyst to innovation. This is why I constantly ask questions. You see, I spent my time growing up merely wandering through school and not observing and questioning the world around me. I lost valuable time hopping from failure to failure. But I recognize my intelligence, and I realized I was rotting.

Now I choose to grow. I study, I learn, I apply, and figure what works, what excels, and what fails. This is what streamlining is about: adopting efficient skills while eliminating waste. And this is also what this blog is about: Recording lessons and passing them to others that they may learn and become better as well. I am curious.

My career is sales. I am the Curious Salesman. It is not enough to only sell and practice sales. I desire to become the best. I desire to become a Sales Leader and Expert. And I recognize that leadership is one part reaching up to the hand above and another part pulling up the hand beneath. I invite you to follow along as I grow. And I invite you to grow with me, celebrate each success, ponder each failure, and take this daring adventure of Success and Fulfillment. I invite you to BE CURIOUS