{"id":2159,"date":"2019-08-25T04:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T09:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/top1.fm\/DailySalesTips\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2019-08-24T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T03:44:08","slug":"sales-tip-218-have-a-bias-towards-action-even-imperfect-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/top1.fm\/DailySalesTips\/sales-tip-218-have-a-bias-towards-action-even-imperfect-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Tip 218: Have a Bias Towards Action, Even Imperfect Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/top1.fm\/DailySalesTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/Web-sqScott_Ingram-0030-Edit-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Scott Ingram\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1141\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/top1.fm\/DailySalesTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/Web-sqScott_Ingram-0030-Edit.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/top1.fm\/DailySalesTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/Web-sqScott_Ingram-0030-Edit.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/top1.fm\/DailySalesTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/Web-sqScott_Ingram-0030-Edit.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/top1.fm\/DailySalesTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/Web-sqScott_Ingram-0030-Edit.jpg?resize=250%2C250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/top1.fm\/DailySalesTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/Web-sqScott_Ingram-0030-Edit.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/top1.fm\/DailySalesTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/Web-sqScott_Ingram-0030-Edit.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>&#8220;There\u2019s always stuff that\u2019s going to try to throw you off of your game. I think the trick is to just keep going.&#8221; &#8211; Scott Ingram in today&#8217;s Tip 218<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u2019re not on that listener list and already getting those emails, then what are you waiting for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailysales.tips\/218\/#disqus_thread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Join the conversation below<\/a> and join now the listener list!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Top1.Fm\/Book2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sales Success Stories Book &#8211; Volume 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/top1.fm\/sales-success-stories-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sales Success Stories Book<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/top1.fm\/b2b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">B2B Sales Mentors Book<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/top1.fm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sales Success Stories<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended\/dp\/B01COR1GM2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/top1.fm\/summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Sales Success Summit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have feedback? Want to share a sales tip? Call or text the Sales Success Hotline: <strong>512-777-1442<\/strong> or Email: <strong>scott@top1.fm<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Transcript<\/h3>\n<p>Scott Ingram: You\u2019re listening to the Daily Sales Tips podcast and I\u2019m your host, Scott Ingram. Today is Sunday, August 25th and if you happen to be one of the quick consumers of these tips and listen to them right away, right now I\u2019m probably either setting up my transitions or maybe even actually doing my triathlon. I\u2019m pretty sure I shared before that I maybe didn\u2019t adhere quite as closely to my training plan as I had hoped to, but isn\u2019t that almost always the case. It\u2019s crazy hard to execute anything perfectly because of\u2026 well\u2026 life. There\u2019s always stuff that\u2019s going to try to throw you off of your game. I think the trick is to just keep going. Having a bias towards action, even imperfect actions is going to get you a lot further than if you\u2019d thrown your arms up in the air and either quit or decided that you needed to start over at the beginning because you weren\u2019t perfect in the middle. I think you\u2019re going to learn more from going all the way through, as messy as it might be, having had the complete experience vs. just getting really good at the beginning and never knowing what the end is like. Does this make sense? I\u2019d really love to hear your thoughts on this one. The other angle I thought about taking was talking about how talk is cheap and actions matter more, but that felt a little cliche and I think what\u2019s more important, especially if you, like me tend to think about this stuff a little too much, is to really have that bias towards action. Most of the time you\u2019re going to learn more from actually doing something, even if you screw it up, then you are from thinking about it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Now it doesn\u2019t look like there\u2019s going to be a really great place for me to share my Triathlon results with you here in the podcast. Instead what I\u2019ll plan to do is talk about it in the weekly email I send to everyone who\u2019s on the listener list. If you\u2019re not on that listener list and already getting those emails, then what are you waiting for? Just click over to <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysales.tips\/218\/#disqus_thread\">DailySales.Tips\/218<\/a> and just drop your name and email into the form to get started. Then watch for that email probably on Wednesday. That\u2019s usually when I send them out.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening, and don\u2019t forget to come back tomorrow for another great sales tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There\u2019s always stuff that\u2019s going to try to throw you off of your game. I think the trick is to just keep going.&#8221; &#8211; Scott Ingram in today&#8217;s Tip 218 If you\u2019re not on that listener list and already getting those emails, then what are you waiting for? 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