WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?
“I don’t even know what I will be doing next weekend, much less, for the rest of my life!” was my child’s answer to my question. Kids are so ‘to the point’. When you start to think about it, they have such an unencumbered outlook on daily situations and events that all of us adults bring to each encounter, more or less, as baggage. Our views are weighted by our own past experiences and memorable events in history, that we often pre-judge situations and make blanket decisions based on our life-tutored experiences.
There is a lot to say about learning from the past, but it should not be our only point of reference. If that were the case, then the woman who invented the wheel should have just kept pushing the big boulder through the hot sand and left well enough alone. “Wilbur, don’t go to the beach with that damned stupid winged contraption! I need you to stay here and fix these bicycles!” You go, Wilbur…you ‘da’ man.
The fresh ideas and enthusiasm that are often expressed by youth should not be discounted and likewise, when someone tells you, the salesman, “no,” if you give up convincing them that your idea is worthy, then you do not believe in what you are doing and you are destined for failure. The confidence and tenacity or enthusiasm you profess because you know that your products will best serve your accounts, is the reason why you will endure and become successful. The test that your account is giving you is to see if you really do believe in what you are offering.
The “No” or the “Stop” is something that every successful person has had thrown in their face. The “winners”, or the successful, have all had to overcome negative experiences and those experiences are what allow some to become leaders while others keep pushing the stone through the sand.
After having this same meaningful discussion with my son, I know that I succeeded because he told me he now knew what he was going to do this weekend; he was going to the beach. (Like all parents, I am unable to get my well thought out points across all the time.)
In closing, I would like to say that if you know what you are doing for the rest of your life and that it is sales, then be a winner and don’t take “no” for an answer when all your accounts really want is for you to be persistent and close with confidence and conviction .
Good Selling
Tom Mosher
Executive staff
Monday, September 20, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Superior Lamp’s open letter to America: GREENER YET
Superior Lamp’s open letter to America:
GREENER YET
How green is green enough? I am assuming that you have made some attempt by now to “Go Green”. Maybe you no longer use plastic bags at the grocer; good move. Maybe you purchased a more fuel-efficient vehicle; also not a bad idea. You know the funny part about all this is that we are being encouraged to use things that are good for the environment and the additional benefit is that they all save us money. Saving money is a good thing, right?
Think about it; the greener we get, we are not only helping to save the planet but it also helps us save money at the same time. The only thing that plastic bags do is help us preserve the garbage we end up putting in them for hundreds of years. My garbage is just not that important to me.
The only thing that we have to change is our habits. I would have to find a place to keep my reusable canvas shopping bags. I would have to think about turning off the energy-saving lamp when I came out of a room. I would have to remember to combine shopping trips in order to save fuel. What do all these things have in common? We have to think about them. It always takes more thought to save than to spend, but that is how saving works, right?
If one positive thing comes out of the Gulf Spill, it is to give Americans another nudge as to why we have to be energy conscious. Digging holes in the ground to use toxic compounds to make our life better short-term is not a good idea. There is a cost to everything we do and a responsibility that comes along with every action we take. If we do not stop and take a serious look at the bad habits we have developed in the past 150 years, we are eventually going to need to speed up our space program…so we can find another planet with a like atmosphere and similar climate to screw up next. Oh, and by the way, Scottie is not ready to beam you up yet.
I am sure that each one of us can invest 5 minutes to take the next action we need to in order to get greener; think about it.
Listed below are some links that can help you get involved with ideas of more “Greening”:
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/go-green/back-basics/
http://www.howtogogreen.com/
http://www.thegreenguide.com/
Tom Mosher
Executive Staff
GREENER YET
How green is green enough? I am assuming that you have made some attempt by now to “Go Green”. Maybe you no longer use plastic bags at the grocer; good move. Maybe you purchased a more fuel-efficient vehicle; also not a bad idea. You know the funny part about all this is that we are being encouraged to use things that are good for the environment and the additional benefit is that they all save us money. Saving money is a good thing, right?
Think about it; the greener we get, we are not only helping to save the planet but it also helps us save money at the same time. The only thing that plastic bags do is help us preserve the garbage we end up putting in them for hundreds of years. My garbage is just not that important to me.
The only thing that we have to change is our habits. I would have to find a place to keep my reusable canvas shopping bags. I would have to think about turning off the energy-saving lamp when I came out of a room. I would have to remember to combine shopping trips in order to save fuel. What do all these things have in common? We have to think about them. It always takes more thought to save than to spend, but that is how saving works, right?
If one positive thing comes out of the Gulf Spill, it is to give Americans another nudge as to why we have to be energy conscious. Digging holes in the ground to use toxic compounds to make our life better short-term is not a good idea. There is a cost to everything we do and a responsibility that comes along with every action we take. If we do not stop and take a serious look at the bad habits we have developed in the past 150 years, we are eventually going to need to speed up our space program…so we can find another planet with a like atmosphere and similar climate to screw up next. Oh, and by the way, Scottie is not ready to beam you up yet.
I am sure that each one of us can invest 5 minutes to take the next action we need to in order to get greener; think about it.
Listed below are some links that can help you get involved with ideas of more “Greening”:
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/go-green/back-basics/
http://www.howtogogreen.com/
http://www.thegreenguide.com/
Tom Mosher
Executive Staff
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