Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
November 26, 2007 Issue 276
From the Desk of Bob
Ice and Gravity Update: My healing has been a slow and arduous process. I have been reminded again that in an instant ice and gravity can change a person's life. A few inches to the right and I would have broken my back on those slippery steps. It felt like someone hit me in the back with a sledgehammer. OUCH!!! I was so very fortunate that I fell like I did. It could have been much worse. Thank you to all for the notes of encouragement for healing with a swift recovery.
The GOOD NEWS is that I am back in action and focused on my mission of helping people achieve their goals, dreams and desires!
If you know of someone who is hungry and needing some help with increasing their sales or growing and improving their business let me know. Or better yet, have them contact me directly. I have experienced quite a bit of success these last few months helping people increase their sales and closing ratios in business and doing more and more ONE-ON-ONE training and coaching sessions over the telephone and email too. Besides being successful, this training methodology is really a lot of fun!
Selling-whether an idea, a product or a service-is a process. I love teaching and sharing with professional salespeople how to maximize this process. I must have a passion for it as I have been doing it for 30 plus years. If you are not achieving your sales and business goals, and this is frustrating you we should talk. If you want to increase your selling abilities I can share with you the tools, resources and ideas to make things happen fast for you.
you are inspired to count your blessings.
Enthusiastically! Bob
bob@mrattitudespeaks.com
In this week's issue
Life Attitudes
Seeds of Success: Hope Is Contagious–Pass It On!
Sunny Side of Life
Mr. Attitude's Life Tested Tools
Life Attitudes
"What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." -Emil Brunner
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -Helen Keller
"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." -Anonymous
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Seeds of Success: Hope Is Contagious–Pass It On!
By Robert A. Prentice
Hope is looking forward with great expectations. Hope is a belief of good things to come in a person's life circumstances, situations, and experiences. Hope is where the heart resides in love of family and fellowship with friends and wherever it is found, it is contagious.
We hope for material things and financial success; and we hope for the things that money cannot buy, such as a brighter future for our children and their children, love, peace, joy and good health. Sometimes we're not even sure what it is we are hoping for; we just know we long for something better in the days, weeks and months ahead.
I could not imagine a life without hope. The fact is, we all need to possess an attitude of hope, for hope is what pulls each of us forward through this journey we call life and keeps us going when the road gets long and painful. How sad and how dreary it would be to live having no hope, and yet we all probably know someone who is struggling right now and has little or no hope.
When we meet someone like this, we need to make it our mission and purpose to bring hope into their situation, for hope is actually something we can easily give to others. Giving a simple smile, sharing our enthusiasm and optimism, or speaking a word of encouragement can go a long way towards helping another person to become more hopeful. It's so easy to let those around us know there is still hope when we take the time to share with them the beauty of nature or a humorous story or a time when we have triumphed over a difficult experience of our own. And as we share our hope with those around us, hope will spread like a wildfire flamed by the winds of persistence, confidence and trust.
I hope you have hope today. If you don't, I encourage you to find someone you can talk to that does. If you do have hope, do not let the busyness of the season rob you of the joy of sharing the hope that is within you, for you know how contagious hope can be! So go ahead-pass it on!
On the Sunny Side of Life: The Big Sale
It was the day of the big sale. Rumors of the sale (and some advertising in the local paper) were the main reason for the long line that formed by 8:30, the store's opening time, in front of the store.
A small man pushed his way to the front of the line, only to be pushed back, amid loud and colorful curses. On the man's second attempt, he was punched square in the jaw, and knocked around a bit, and then thrown to the end of the line again. As he got up the second time, he said to the person at the end of the line...
"That does it! If they hit me one more time, I won't open the store!"
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