{"id":1940,"date":"2016-02-04T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:19:04","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-focus-on-the-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/04\/thoughtful-thursdays-focus-on-the-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Focus on the positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reacting to, and managing situations&nbsp;that can potentially lead to&nbsp;less&nbsp;than positive&nbsp;sales&nbsp;outcomes is a conversation I have with many of my clients.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s thought is about&nbsp;being&nbsp;mindful of&nbsp;the negative,&nbsp;but focusing on the positive.&nbsp;A positive&nbsp;state of mind is a much better one to work with. Here are some tips on how you can maintain or regain a positive outlook.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work with the resources&nbsp;you have rather than wishing for what you don&#8217;t have<\/li>\n<li>Tap into your network and ask for their thoughts<\/li>\n<li>Do the math<\/li>\n<li>Take the point of view of maintaining the sale, not losing it<\/li>\n<li>Think growth not shrinkage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Be mindful of the negatives and use them&nbsp;to inspire the positives.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakanashiandassociates.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact Sakanashi and Associates Inc.<\/a> and I will respond.<\/p>\n<p>Please share Thoughtful Thursdays posts with people you feel may find the topic interesting and helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reacting to, and managing situations&nbsp;that can potentially lead to&nbsp;less&nbsp;than positive&nbsp;sales&nbsp;outcomes is a conversation I have with many of my clients. Today&#8217;s thought is about&nbsp;being&nbsp;mindful of&nbsp;the negative,&nbsp;but focusing on the positive.&nbsp;A positive&nbsp;state of mind is a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/04\/thoughtful-thursdays-focus-on-the-positive\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,3],"tags":[60,35,73],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-sales-2","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}