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What You SAY is What You Get - How to Speak Your Way to Success
If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to believe that you are capable of making it happen. You have to believe you have the right stuff, that you are able to pull it off. You have to believe in yourself. Whether you call it self-esteem, self-confidence, or self-assurance, it is a deep-seated belief that you have what it takes – the abilities, inner resources, talents, and skills to create your desired results.

Using Positive Affirmations
Using positive affirmations is a proven technique that works miracles in many lives. Ideally, you should look yourself in the eye as you make these positive affirmations. Don't be shy; go ahead and get started! Repeat the following statements to yourself every Monday morning to get your day and week off to a great start:
Revealing Ourselves
We reveal ourselves in many different ways: By the people with whom we associate, the way we use our free time, our clothing, our sense of humor, etc. We even reveal ourselves by the way we walk, talk, the way we handle our successes and our failures.

What You SAY is What You Get: How to Speak Your Way to Success
In the previous issue of Success Strategies, I talked about how in order to be successful, we must first define what success means to us, and that means getting CLEAR about what you want, writing it down, and thinking BIG!

Uncle No Name
His name was Wally Amos and he built a $100 million business selling his "Famous Amos Cookies." Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, he lost his business. He went from fame and fortune to a debt level of one million dollars.

Appearance Counts
According to a study I read, the way we look has a direct bearing on our paycheck. Employment data from 7,000 adults was analyzed. Interviewers divided the group according to looks and then compared what those working similar jobs in each category were paid. Those who were below average in appearance earned less than those rated “average.” Those who rated average earned less than those who were rated “above average.”
We’re Both On the Same Side
One of my favorite stories concerns a young lad who was confronted by three bullies with violence in mind. Quickly, the little guy drew a line on the ground, stepped back several feet, looked the biggest bully in the eye and said, "Now, you just step over that line." Confidently, the big bully stepped over the line, preparing to commit mayhem on the little guy. Quickly the little fellow grinned and said, "Now we're both on the same side."
What Creates Confidence?
Do you lack personal or professional confidence? Do you often wonder at how others can appear to feel so confident? Discover the path to both personal and professional confidence.
Personal Branding - How To Do It In 5 Easy Steps
If you think of yourself as not being very different from other salespeople, please read this to learn 5 easy steps you can use to develop your personal brand.

Celebrate Your Talents
As an adult with ADHD, it is very easy to focus on your weaknesses and areas “to be worked on.” So much thought can be given to these areas that it’s easy to forget about your talents. Many adults with ADHD are humble to a fault and dismiss their talents because they come so easily. Naturally, they don’t feel they can be proud of these traits, or that they aren’t valuable. Nothing could be further from the truth. When you notice what you are good at, you can spend more time utilizing your strengths and less time worrying about your weaknesses.
Humor at Work
It’s often said that laughter is the best medicine. But, not only is humor good for our health, it can also be a valuable workplace tool. Because humor has an uplifting effect on people, organizations can benefit by using it to create a positive and more productive workplace.

THE HEART AND SOUL OF RETAIL SUCCESS
There's more to retail success than putting stuff on shelves and hoping it will sell. This article goes into the more personal aspects of feeling successful and how that impacts your business.
Do You Have the Courage to Keep Faith?
Do you have challenges that seem to overwhelm you at the most inopportune times? Do you find yourself needing extra strength and courage to keep going? Learn what to do in the face of adversity. Learn who to gather immeasurable courage from during the trials and tribulations of everyday life.
The L.I.F.E. Approach to Positive Humor
Benefiting from our sense of humor
Practice Safe Stress
A brief guide to using your inner sense of humor to become more productive, efficient, creative and profitable
The Customer Hidden Inside
There’s a customer hidden inside each of your prospects. Are you able to find them? Salespeople got spoiled during the super-heated market of just a few years ago. The demand exceeded the supply, money was cheap and readily available, and there were more prospects than we were physically capable of handling. This was particularly true of Realtors and Car salesmen.
Ready to Snap Crazy Busy and the Lure of Modern Life
We expect our brains to keep track of more than they can handle and then find ourselves losing and forgetting things — impatient, anxious, worried and plagued by short attention spans. Modern life, for all of its timesaving conveniences, is sapping our creativity, humanity, joy and, occasionally, our sense of humor.

TOP 10 TIPS FOR YOUR NEXT PRESENTATION
Make your next presentation your best one yet.
TOP 10 WAYS TO CULTIVATE HAPPINESS
Ten steps to take to be a happier person.
Small Talk
A trained professional salesperson uses small talk to try and qualify the prospect and make sure they are indeed a prospect. Real estate agents are notorious for it. They slide in things during the small talk like “Oh, where do you work?”, or “What do you do for a living?”, or “How long have you been doing this?”, that it sounds exciting?
Tips for Relighting After Burnout:
Eileen discusses our current stressful political and economic situations, provides a list of burnout symptoms and then offers help on how you can regain control. A must read for those who are overwhelmed.

Looking In All the 'Right' Places
What do you need to strengthen your leadership? Are you looking in all the expected places? What aren't you thinking of?
The Art of the Story in Training and Sales
What I am referring to is taking whatever situation you are presented with and relate a simple real life story that connects your message or point so the client or student can understand it better.

Change Results In Stress
The stress faced by workers is substantial. For many workers, it is intrinsic to the job itself, where competing demands and pressures cannot be escaped. The sheer volume of work can also be overwhelming at times, whether one is a social worker, teacher, doctor, sales person, factory worker, supervisor or manager. Anyone in this kind of job knows, either from their own direct experience or from observing colleagues, that stress can have very serious consequences.
Leadership Ten Ways To Be Better At Leading Teams
Leadership is a fascinating art. A balance between getting things done and having enough about you to maximize both the motivation and engagement of all of your people for now and the future. Building a team that works so well for you is a challenge, so here are a few ideas that will help you along the way.
Competitiveness, Sense of Humor, Passion and Appreciation
Life's (Sales) Lessons from the Links of Ireland. Our team of merry golfers from North America reaffirmed in me the importance of Competitiveness, Sense of Humor, Passion, and Appreciation in both golf as well as business. There are lessons all around us as to what we need to grow.
10 Steps to a Stress-Free Holiday
Shift into action and get things done, then sit back, relax, and enjoy the holiday season. Get clear on what is most important, know what you need to do, what you need to buy, and what you want to create this holiday season. Take these steps to a stress-free and joyful holiday.
Bullying and Boundaries
If you are the victim of bullying the chances are that you think the opening quote is harsh and unfair and not applicable to you. But I’d like you to think about it a little more…and realize how liberating it is in reality. It means that you can CHOOSE how to react to the actions of a bully.

Personality Traits Of Effective Leaders - Part Two
We continue our discovery of traits effective leaders with five more each of us can use to develop ourselves on the way to the top.
Make 'em Laugh Customer Service
Shawn was using humor to provide customer service, “I could have simply ignored selling the higher-priced tickets, but I got a kick out of seeing the customers laugh. I don’t recall anyone not buying the upgrade after I gave my little sales pitch.”

Other sense of humor Related Articles

Revealing Ourselves
We reveal ourselves in many different ways: By the people with whom we associate, the way we use our free time, our clothing, our sense of humor, etc. We even reveal ourselves by the way we walk, talk, the way we handle our successes and our failures.

The L.I.F.E. Approach to Positive Humor
Benefiting from our sense of humor
Practice Safe Stress
A brief guide to using your inner sense of humor to become more productive, efficient, creative and profitable
Ready to Snap Crazy Busy and the Lure of Modern Life
We expect our brains to keep track of more than they can handle and then find ourselves losing and forgetting things — impatient, anxious, worried and plagued by short attention spans. Modern life, for all of its timesaving conveniences, is sapping our creativity, humanity, joy and, occasionally, our sense of humor.

Humor at Work
It’s often said that laughter is the best medicine. But, not only is humor good for our health, it can also be a valuable workplace tool. Because humor has an uplifting effect on people, organizations can benefit by using it to create a positive and more productive workplace.

Small Business Brand Identity Strategies
"Does a brand identity matter when you are a start-up?" Sleepless nights, a staff of three to do the work of 20, and the doubters will test your stamina to survive the start-up game. I suppose if it were easy, every person with an idea would be doing it. Start-ups require lots more than possession of an idea. They require an uncanny drive to succeed, a fearless spirit, a sense of humor and thick skin.

How to Use Humor in Marketing
Humor is a universal language for effective communication and hence widely used in marketing. This article focuses on the appealing aspect of humor in marketing as well as the pitfalls to watch for.

Funny Works - Insurance Sales Training
Using humor in your business life says many things about you. It sells tons of product and brings down walls of resistance. Here are some tips on how to incorporate humor into your professional communications.
Competitiveness, Sense of Humor, Passion and Appreciation
Life's (Sales) Lessons from the Links of Ireland. Our team of merry golfers from North America reaffirmed in me the importance of Competitiveness, Sense of Humor, Passion, and Appreciation in both golf as well as business. There are lessons all around us as to what we need to grow.
Take Care Of Your Business, XI
In your business mission, there will be times when you are off your game - just like an ordinarily-competent golfer who has a round in which he can't seem to hit the green to save his life. Before you reach for help from a pro, make sure you'll get the most out of your coaching by first coaching yourself. And don't be your own worst critic - be your own BEST critic with Brutal honesty, renewal of your personal standard of Excellence, a Sense of humor, and enough guts and adventure to keep Trying....
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