What Will You Tolerate

TWO HUNDRED FOURTY SEVEN POUNDS . . .

 That’s what the scale said when I got on it about 2 years ago now. (I know this because I journal, and you should too). I was overweight to say the least.

Finally, I made up my mind that I was no longer going to tolerate my body being the way that it was. I was no longer going to tolerate the way that I was eating, and the things that I was eating; the lack of fitness – The Whole Damn Thing. 

You see, it became intolerable to me, and I was no longer going to accept the standard that I had decided was previously acceptable.

Think of what you are tolerating within your professional sales career! Your best chance for change comes when things become intolerable to you. This is a hard reality in some cases.

 The # of calls and emails that you're willing to make / send every day.

The quality of the conversations you are willing to have on every sales call.

How hard you close.

How much passion you bring to this game EVERY DAY. 

 All of this comes down to what you are willing to tolerate. Your current state is a result of your current level of tolerance (in any aspect of your life and especially within sales). Will you tolerate small commission checks or big ones? Will you tolerate missing your goals or blowing them out? Will you tolerate not pushing yourself every day and in every way?

 The only way that you are going to produce the results that you want is to have the result that you are currently experiencing – and don’t want – to become intolerable. Until that happens, you will get more of what you already have.  There is a game going on inside of our heads, that is calling to each of us to decide if we truly want something more for ourselves. If you are brave enough to answer that calling burning inside of you and to demand that you get more from life, you first have to get real about where you are now, and to be clear about where you want to go. But, it only works if where you are now – your current reality - becomes disgusting to you.

 Once you no longer accept your current reality and decide to move forward with passion and purpose, you will change your standard and ultimately . . . your reality. 

 So ask yourself . . . What will you tolerate? 

Save nothing for the next life