“Get your head in the right space to allow you to perform and be the best version of yourself” – Scott Ingram in today’s Tip 652
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Scott Ingram: You’re listening to the Daily Sales Tips podcast and I’m your host, Scott Ingram. Today is November 1st. The start of another new month as we get very close to bringing 2020 to a close.
How are you doing right now? How’s your mindset?
Today’s tip might be more for me than it is for you, but I hope it’s helpful for you because I have no idea where you’re at coming into these last two months of the year. You might be riding high and just looking to maintain momentum into a strong finish. Others of you might have struggled this year. Maybe a little, maybe a lot. My own situation is a little bit mixed. I still get to say that I’m the #1 performer on the small team that I’m a part of and I’m just a little behind my full pre-covid number year to date after losing a little ground in October.
It’s actually that little bit of lost ground that I’m looking to overcome. Personally, I’ve been in a little bit of a slump lately. I haven’t had my head fully in the game. There are a lot of areas where I’ve been going through the motions for the last few weeks, and if I’m really honest. I often struggle a bit through the holidays. So as I think about what I can do, and what I can control over the next two months the word that comes to mind is recommit.
If you listened to either the interview I did with David Schwartz in episode 102 of the Sales Success Stories podcast or heard his presentation on Mental Health at the Sales Success Summit, then you heard him talk about controlling the bullseye. There are so many things going on around you that you don’t control. A lot of things come to mind as I think about what I have close to zero control over. There are some big ones this week, but if I’ve learned anything about sales success over these last few years, it’s that the most important thing that you do have control over is your mindset. So I’m recommitting to working to manage my mindset. That’s going to give me the best chance to finish 2020 strong and build some solid momentum into 2021.
I’m working on refreshing my morning routine and incorporating simple mindfulness and gratitude practice. I’m going to enroll a few friends to help hold me accountable to doing this work, and this tip is actually part of the process. I wanted to be a bit more public about some of my own struggles, but more importantly about what I’m proactively doing about it.
With any luck, you’ll be hearing from another friend or two about this topic and what they’re doing to overcome depression and setbacks because it impacts all of us. If you’re struggling, I promise you’re not alone.
So let’s help each other. That’s actually its own great little hack. Helping someone else through their own struggles is an excellent way to work through your own. You’re always welcome to email me. Send a note to [email protected]. I almost always reply, and I love hearing from you, and perhaps you’ll join me in recommitting. Recommitting to yourself really, these last two months of the year. To take just a few simple, daily actions, to get your head in the right space to allow you to perform and be the best version of yourself. That’s what I’m working on. Thanks for listening!