What is the primary challenge that sales and business people face today?

by Stephen Lentini

<table border="0" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="95%" align="center"> <tbody> <tr><td height="714" vAlign="top"> </td><td vAlign="top"><p align="left">The primary challenge is between their ears. I listen to people as part of what I do. I listen intently to the words they use. Words have power. Words are the building blocks of everything we do. </p><p align="left">Listening to sales and business people lately I hear a lot of self defeating language. </p><p align="left">"Steve, you have to get real, the economy is really bad" or "Steve, I have been doing this for years and never have I seen it so bad" or "Price is what everyone is looking for" or "This is what I do and I can't change" or "Cash flow is bad."</p><p align="left"> The problem with language like the examples I give is that it is limiting. We can limit our future with limiting thoughts and words. Words program our subconscious. When we use words that are limiting we gather evidence to prove them to be true. All you have to do right now is listen to the news or read the papers and bingo... proof of the above examples... "See, I told you the economy is bad"... is what your ego would say to the headlines.</p><p align="left"> The top producers and entrepreneurs keep pushing beyond limits. They do not use limiting language. They only see success in their minds and it reflects in the words that they use</p></td></tr> </tbody> </table><br>

There is no recession in a Universe.

by Stephen Lentini

<p>We are one with the Divine Mind and IT must respond to our thinking. That is It's job. Now is the time to think in terms of Infinite, Unlimited. If you think and believe all that the news stations are reporting, you will be enrolled in the idea of a whatever it is called. </p><p>Stop watching the news. Listen to music or better yet, listen to someone who is inspirational. Study the Kaballah or Wayne Dyer or Jim Rohn or Dennis Waitley. Do something that will stretch what you think is possible. Do not see limits<br></p>

Smile and the World Smiles With You

by Sharon Sayler

A smile sends a message that endears someone to you or repulses you. It can express empathy, happiness, sadness or even embarrassment. There are real smiles and fake smiles and all sorts of smiles in-between. In his book The Face: A Natural History, author Daniel McNeill, suggests that “the first smiles appear two to twelve hours after birth and seem void of content.” As the mother of two, I assure you, even if my newborn sons had no content to their smiles, their smiles certainly had emotional content for me.<br>

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