{"id":2038,"date":"2016-04-07T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:32:02","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-maintaining-a-positive-sales-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/07\/thoughtful-thursdays-maintaining-a-positive-sales-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Maintaining a positive sales attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know people who&nbsp;always seem to have a positive attitude and wonder how they do it.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what you do to&nbsp;for a living, there will be days that challenge your resolve to do the very best you can.&nbsp; Not every day will be your best.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s thoughts&nbsp;are about ways that can help you perform the to the best of your ability each day.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize that&nbsp;your best can be different each day.<\/li>\n<li>Draw on positive experiences from the past. For example, how did you feel when you closed your first sale? Approach the day with that feeling.<\/li>\n<li>A negative attitude is the easy way out. Make a habit of not allowing yourself to succumb to the easy way out.<\/li>\n<li>Start your days meeting with your favourite customers.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid adding needless stress to your day. Allowing sufficient travel time between meetings and prepare for your meetings.<\/li>\n<li>Have responses ready for questions you fear.<\/li>\n<li>Get enough sleep<\/li>\n<li>Eat healthy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maintaining a positive sales attitude will make&nbsp;your worst sales performance days better than your competitors best days.<\/p>\n<p>Attitude is everything!<\/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>You probably know people who&nbsp;always seem to have a positive attitude and wonder how they do it. No matter what you do to&nbsp;for a living, there will be days that challenge your resolve to do&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/07\/thoughtful-thursdays-maintaining-a-positive-sales-attitude\/\">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-2038","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\/2038","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=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}