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Many people officially give up on sales,
saying the cliché lines you’ve heard before, like, “I’m just not cut out for sales.”
I believe sales is a core aspect of each
of our life’s work, whether or not we’re
officially in the “sales” field. I believe
as we find our
strengths we
will find joy
and fulfillment
IN sales, pruning the weak
or undesirable
aspects of our
behavior and
cultivating our
powerful passionate aspects.
3 final thoughts
on the subject –
First,
referencing
last
month’s article,
are strengths,
talents,
and
things we must
be tenacious
about 3 distinct
things? No, in
fact, you’ll find
if you haven’t already, that some talents
you have will become strengths through
tenacity, and some things you are tenacious about will become strengths, even
if not talents initially. They’re all part of
the process.
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Second, once identified, the choice is
yours as to whether you will BE-come
all you can through “playing to your
strengths” (or however you wish to word
the concept), or whether you will shrink.
Author Marianne Williamson stated,
“Our deepest fear
is not that we are
inadequate. Our
deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light,
not our darkness
that most frightens us. We ask
ourselves, ‘Who
am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented,
fabulous?’
Actually, who are
you not to be?
You are a child of
God. Your playing
small does not
serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened
about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to
shine, as children do. We were born to
make manifest the glory of God that is
within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s
in everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give other peo-