I was indirectly referred this book by a fellow publisher in my company and decided that I needed to take action on something in my life. So I have chosen this book to kick off my new found desire to move forward. The book is titled, "How I Conquered Call Reluctance, Fear of Self-Promotion, & Increased My Prospecting!" by Sidney C Walker. Since I have a really difficult time motivating myself to make calls to set up appointments, and I have an equally hard time doing drop-ins where I stop by a business, ask for a business card of the person who handles marketing, I knew I needed something to change. I started with a time of 30 minutes reading a day. I got through Chapter 1 in that amount of time. In chapter one it asks a bunch of questions and I wanted to do something I haven't consistently done ever...I wanted to answer those questions. Here are the questions that the author poses with my answers below. Feel free to write down these questions and as...
I always have the best of intentions, but in reality, I leave them as just that, good intentions. I have had some success in my professional life, but never the success that I set out to have. I haven't started my dream companies. I don't do what I love. I am not able to help those that I desire to help. I have set some majorly awesome and inspiring goals in my life. I have inspired others to set huge goals and to achieve them. I have been supportive of all who cross my path. And while doing all of this, I have secretly sabotaged my success, little by little, so that I find myself wholly unfulfilled and unsuccessful. I find myself at the beginning...again. I have motivation, like so many other times, to actually do the work necessary to achieve what I want. This time it'll be different. I tell myself that every time in the hopes that it's this time that I'm right. Well, this time I am right. This time it's my time to shine. I have lived in the shadow of my d...