As I’m watching the Olympic Games, I’m just absolutely amazed at the mental toughness that these athletes have.
Can you imagine preparing your entire life for this one moment. As in most of these athletes cases it really all comes down to a moment.
Yesterday, Lolo Jones from United States, hits a hurdle with her leg in a 100m women’s hurdle.
The thing is that she was on track to be first and get the gold. She finished first in U.S. Trials, and was clearly a contender for the medal.
As a result of this moment, a minor mistake of either not raising her leg to high, or starting the jump too soon, she finished 7th.
Or you watch these gymnasts who are seem like they’ve got springs in their feet, as they do triple somersaults and land on one leg on a beam, and all of a sudden they fall or a small balance check shaves points right off and the medal goes to someone else.
The thing is that every one of these athletes have superior ability. Incredible strength and perseverance.
They’ve done their routine thousands and thousands of times.
They’ve visualized the successful accomplishment and the outcome, and one little nano-second can be the difference that gets them the gold or nothing.
And yet they gracefully get themselves up and keep going. What’s more is that a lot of them push themselves harder to be back in 4 years and do even better.
Now you think about the world that we live in. I mean the business world where we get to perform every single day.
It doesn’t come down to any one moment does it?
The Olympians have one shot at the gold. We don’t.
Everyday you have the opportunity to go for the gold in your business. Everyday we have choices we can make that can move us forward.
If you make a mistake, don’t get the deal, lose a client, your ad fails, or whatever…. so what?
What’s the worst that can happen? Nothing? So be it. You pick yourself up and do it again, and again, and again.
There’s no trials to compete in. There are no judges that deduct points whether fairly or unfairly.
There’s just a marketplace and they vote with their wallets.
For a long time I was quiet mediocre in sales. But I’ve drilled this thought into my head. “There are people out there. Whether I do anything or not, they will buy financial products from someone. So what do I have to do to get them to buy from me?”
And I held this thought for a long time, reminding myself of that every time something didn’t go my way.
It led me to believe that:
1. It’s possible
2. That I can do it.
It also led me to get better in sales, take courses, read books, excel in communication. And I developed this almost cocky confidence that I’m good. My belief level changed and so did my results.
How can you do the same?
Does your market have room for one more? If you’ve been affected by the economy, look deep into your niche and be brutally honest with yourself. Is it you or the marketplace. Are there others who are doing great, and it’s something you can model, or do you need to go into a different niche?
Maybe that’s the answer. The brilliance of marketing is not trying to create a need and force the market to conform to your wants and needs, but rather to tap into an existing one and get better at providing that.
And even if you make a mistake, and we all do, time and time again, as long as we have more wins than losses, than we too get to take home the gold.
And we don’t have to wait 4 years for that one shot.
Last night I was thinking about this very thought watching the “games” and was wondering why so many people who are calling me…well…are hesitant. They want to wait and see. They want to DO NOTHING and expect results. They want me to do the work for them.
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ONE YEAR !! Think about the YEARS that the Olympic contestants train, just for ONE SHOT at the gold.
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