Today is Friday February 03, 2012

Thought For The Day

“On with the dance; let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there’s any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine.”
-Mark Twain

 

I Have Been Thinking

It is often very hard for me to think about the many people in this world that absolutely depend on a paycheck to earn a living. Working for a company or corporation may have it’s perks, but it isn’t who you are. You are not what you do.

All business from the tiniest sole proprietor to the largest multi faceted conglomerate are built based on ideas, marketing strategies, product, and good organization. Believe it or not, these things can all be learned. Let me digress a little. When I grew up, women were supposed to get married, have children and stay at home to take care of the home and family. When I married for the first time I had only a high school education and little or no marketable skills. When my husband left, I had three children to provide for. I had to do something and I had to do it fast.

When my second husband passed away, I had many more skills, but was still left in a position where the nest egg we had set aside was eaten up with medical bills. His illness meant that I had to provide an income and I had to do it quickly. Fortunately the years between meant my going to school getting an education, getting experience in business, finance, project management, and teaching computer data management. I had skills that were marketable. It also meant I was getting closer to the age when retirement was just around the corner. Again I had come to a fork in the road. If any of you know what it is to live on just your social security, then you know prospects look pretty slim.

There are many people working in their 60s and beyond. Experience and education, while they may not be profitable to you working for someone else, they are skills you can pass on to others and at the same time make life just a little easier for yourself. Commission is not something to be feared, rather it should be viewed as, “what do I know or can do that others want to learn?”

Would You Hire You

This may seem like an odd sort of question. Can you motivate your self to get up in the morning, dress and follow a day of your own planning to accomplish both small and big goals? Can you do a job for yourself that you did in the workplace for all those many years?

You will be paid as much as you believe your knowledge and skills to be worth to another person. Remember! You boss had to make a profit form the work of everyone in his corporation or the money would not have been there to pay you or anyone else for that matter.

Do some research. Outline you experience and skills. Look at the marketplace, what are others with the same skills earning? When you know what the skills are worth, then and only then can you look at building a business and hiring yourself. You then know what you should be paid and can set out putting together the plans to create such and income.

Attitude

It all begins with attitude and attitude about money and an attitude about the value of your skills. It is only when you work on commission that you can set your own wages. No one else can tell you how much you can earn. No one controls you except you. One of the books that influenced my attitude and thinking was a book by Og Mandino called The Greatest Salesman In The World. It is still available from Amazon or your local bookstore. It is well worth the read. You can do anything you believe you can do. It might take learning something new, but that’s OK, we should be learning something new every day any way. It might take changing some behaviors, but if what we are doing isn’t getting us where we want to go or what we want to do, then it is wise to change behaviors, right? It is all attitude!

Confidence

Confidence begets confidence. Sure when you start to do something new it is difficult and uncomfortable. The more you do it, the easier it does become. If you have never worked on your own without that micro manager over your shoulder, there may be many things to overcome. I found me, myself and I had many battles to push us over the hurdles and barriers.

Opportunity is never lost
It goes To Those Ready to Accept It!
Your Success is my Greatest Interest
CWinslow

Ice Breakers

The Best Part Of Being A Policeman

A salesman, tired of his job, gave it up to become a policeman.

Several months later, a friend asked him how he liked his new role.

“Well,” he replied, “the pay is good and the hours aren’t bad, but
what I like best is that the customer is always wrong.”

 

Grandma Wisdom

 

When your attitude is in the right place, you can build the confidence you need to know that commission is your friend it is not an enemy to be feared. In Mandino’s book I learned that if you want to make “x” number of dollars in a day, then you don’t quit until you earn “x” number of dollars in the day. It doesn’t come by wishing or hoping, it comes through having a plan, then doing that plan.

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