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Episode 17: Tony Robbins’ Top Field Sales Rep Eli Wilde – It’s Not Motivation, It’s Conditioning

May 9, 2017 By Scott Ingram

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Eli Wilde - Tony Robbins' Top Field Sales Rep (FSR)Eli Wilde — It’s Not Motivation, It’s Conditioning
Your success boils down to your habits and conditioning

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Eli Wilde is and has been the top seller for the Tony Robbins Organization for many years now. He started of with humble beginnings in Maryland, and during a particularly difficult phase of his life, he attended a Tony Robbins session, which changed his life. Since then, he has completely overhauled his life, and has achieved many successes. Tune in to hear Eli talk about how he got to, and has managed to stay at, the top all these years, and the role that conditioning and building habits has to do with ensuring your long term success.

Shareable Clips & Quotes:

Eli’s Mom won $7M in the Lottery. “We need to learn how to create magic for ourselves.”
Developing yourself beyond traditional sales training
Routines on the road: anchors and triggers that kick you into gear
Eli’s vision board on iMovie set to music
Habits checklist: “all goals are supported by habits or rituals”
“The most successful people in the world don’t just consume things. They’re producers.”
Investing in self development and coaching: “when people pay, they pay attention.”
Diagnosing not demonstrating: Putting yourself in a superior frame
Questions that lead to the close
Being a curious explorer: “We have to believe that there’s treasure in people”
People buy feelings. “All sales is, is a transference of emotion… motive matters”
Discipline and conditioning: “Negotiate with your mind”


Key Takeaways:

[:25] Scott introduces his guest for this episode — Eli Wilde.
[1:07] What are the top three things that have enabled Eli’s success?
[6:40] Eli talks a little more about how his relationships with his future connects manifested themselves.
[7:52] Scott gives a shout out to Nudge!
[8:34] How did Eli get into sales? What is his origin story?
[11:24] Eli talks about growing up poor in a small agricultural town, and he had a difficult childhood, which created a drive in him to become successful.
[13:17] What is Eli’s role in the Tony Robbin’s Organization? How did he get to be at the top?
[14:55] What does it take to be #1, in an organization where there’s a higher than average number of overachievers?
[16:57] What gave Eli his foundations — was it merely a massive adoption of Tony’s principles, or did he get the sales foundation that he built for himself?
[19:00] What would Eli have done differently if he were starting over today, with different resources?
[20:42] It took a while for Eli to connect and build the relationship he has with Tony Robbins. How did he go about doing that? Eli also shares some of his highest and lowest points of his career, and how he overcame them.
[31:10] What is the most interesting question Eli has asked Tony Robbins, or the most interesting response he’s gotten?
[33:03] What is Eli’s morning routine?
[35:47] Travel is the hardest part of sales, especially when it comes to maintaining that energy, and managing time commitments. What else does Eli do, to make sure he’s always at the top of his game?
[40:38] What are the specifics of Eli’s supplement measurements? He also sheds some insight into how habits help to support dreams and goals.
[43:38] Eli gives some examples of a few of his goals, and the habits that he has, that support them.
[46:15] Eli has a vision movie that he watches for 6 minutes every day, accompanied by motivational music. What music does he use?
[47:20] What does the rest of Eli’s information diet look like?
[50:40] What are some tools or apps that Eli can’t live without?
[52:17] Is there a particular sales philosophy that Eli subscribes to?
[58:00] What is Eli’s most favorite question?
[1:01:00] How would Eli describe his style?
[1:04:30] What is something that Eli believes, that the average salesperson would think is crazy?
[1:12:52] How does Eli think about motivation in general? What motivates him?
[1:15:27] What is the question Eli would ask other top sellers in other sales organizations?
[1:19:15] Who is the best salesperson that Eli knows personally, or second best salesperson?
[1:20:41] Eli has a quote by Emerson, “What you do speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you’re saying,” and the other is by Emmet Fox, “If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”
[1:20:59] Eli challenges you to create a Facebook group to test different content on people, build your own brand, and communicate your philosophy to others, to create a community.
[1:24:05] Check out Scott’s Sales Success Community. If you’re in the U.S., text “TOP1” to 444999 to get on the mailing list, and get exclusive access to content by Eli and others!

Mentioned in This Episode:

Top1.fm
Nudge
Nudge Chrome Extension
SSS Bonus Episode 1
Eli Wilde
Tony Robbins
Pain Free, By Pete Egoscue
Ryan Blair
POTENTIAL – Motivational Video on YouTube
Acorns App
Facebook
Salesforce
Mint App
Strides App
Jesse Elder
Steve Linder
Zig Ziglar

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