How Your Attitude About Sales Affects Your Sales

Have you ever stopped and examined your attitude on sales? About having to be a seller?

When someone asks you what you do, are you embarrassed to say you’re in sales? Do you find it degrading?

I used to. I used to harbor the belief that it was better than just being a salesperson.

For years, I was waiting to go back to school to get my graduate degree so I could start my real life. See, I was smarter, better, I had more to offer than just “sales.”

My real attitude was that sales was an aggressive occupation for people who could do nothing else. He could always feel the underlying frustration of someone stuck in a job he didn’t like: sales.

Strange to say, but that’s what it looked like to me too. It was better than what I was forced to do for a living.

And I didn’t know I felt that way until my manager challenged me to examine my attitude about sales.

And that’s when I also realized that my attitude was costing me the success I wanted so much.

My attitude prevented me from excelling and enjoying this profession.

And that’s when I reformulated what I was doing. I embraced sales as a profession, not just a temporary “job.”

I realized that as a sales professional, I was in a unique position to help many people.

As a sales professional, you could fill an essential position in the business world and help companies and individuals grow and get what they need to excel and lead a better life.

And once I realized the value, the true value of being a sales professional, my attitude changed and I made a commitment to be a leading producer in my company.

Oh, and I also realized that as a high-performing sales professional, I had the ability to make a lot more money and provide a much better life for my family than I could achieve if I went back to school to become ( whatever).

Also, you would enjoy better hours, have more vacation time, drive better cars, enjoy a better retirement, etc.

Once I changed my feelings about sales, I was able to fully commit, fully apply myself, and experience unimaginable success and satisfaction.

I made millions in sales, had a great time, supported my family and gave them the best life, and met and worked with thousands of people.

But I almost missed it, because I never stopped to examine my underlying attitude about sales. I never stopped to see what was stopping me from achieving the success that I saw others achieve.

But then I did; I changed my attitude and embraced this wonderful profession.

And I have lived the best life.

I hope you take some time today to examine your own beliefs about sales.

And that, while you are in this wonderful profession, you will give it your all; you will choose to be the best you can be before you go ahead and try something else.

If you do so, you may find, like myself and other top-tier sales professionals, that you are already in the profession that can allow you to live your best life.

And that’s sales.