{"id":10764,"date":"2014-12-16T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=10764"},"modified":"2014-12-16T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:45:53","slug":"i-want-it-all-i-want-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/sales-and-service\/2014\/12\/i-want-it-all-i-want-it-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want It All, I Want It Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/spoiled-brat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10765\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/spoiled-brat-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"spoiled+brat\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>With just thirteen days\u00a0left in the month and the year, I find myself $70K short of securing a spot to our Presidents Club trip in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>However, I still have eleven selling days left to the month. Thus, the way I think of it, is that I still have half of the month left to hit the number.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also thinking I can add two Saturdays and increase that number to 13 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaturday, why are you going to work on a Saturday?\u201d asked the little voice inside my head. After 33 (or is it 34 years) of down-the-street sales I still have the desire to make things happen.\u00a0I can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t wait for things to happen, and you&#8217;ll never hear me say that I&#8217;m defeated and I&#8217;m going to quit<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>My momma did not raise a quitter.<\/p>\n<p>You see, I grew up on the wrong side of town and got mixed up with the wrong people more times than I care to remember.\u00a0 I grew up angry because someone had given up on me, and in my younger days, well, let&#8217;s say I didn&#8217;t give a damn about anyone or anything.\u00a0 I later found out, the hard way, that the\u00a0life style I was leading was not the path I wanted to follow in life. When I finally got things straightened out, I made a promise to myself that I would never ever give up on anyone or anything ever again.<\/p>\n<p>Sales is what you make of it.\u00a0 &#8220;The harder you work the luckier you get&#8221;, was someone my old dealer principal always used to tell me.\u00a0 Funny, he always stated that line just after I had turned in a large\u00a0sale, or busted my quota for the month or the quarter.\u00a0 I liked hearing that, it brought a sense of accomplishment and acknowledged that he knew the time and effort that I put into my job.\u00a0 You can work hard and have nothing to show for it\u00a0on any given month or quarter, however if you always work hard you&#8217;ll find yourself having banner months, quarters, years and careers.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, 13 days, seems like it may be an unlucky number, but, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll find a way to make it my lucky number.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just thirteen days\u00a0left in the month and the year, I find myself $70K short of securing a spot to our Presidents Club trip in 2015. However, I still have eleven selling days left to the month. Thus, the way I think of it, is that I still have half of the month left to hit the number.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also thinking I can add two Saturdays and increase that number to 13 days. \u201cSaturday, why are you going to work on a Saturday?\u201d asked the little voice inside my head. After 33 (or is it 34 years) of down-the-street sales I still have the desire to make things happen.\u00a0I can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t wait for things to happen, and you&#8217;ll never hear me say that I&#8217;m defeated and I&#8217;m going to quit.\u00a0My momma did not raise a quitter. You see, I grew up on the wrong side of town and got mixed up with the wrong people more times than I care to remember.\u00a0 I grew up angry because someone had given up on me, and in my younger days, well, let&#8217;s say I didn&#8217;t give a damn about anyone or anything.\u00a0 I later found out, the hard way, that the\u00a0life style I was leading was not the path I wanted to follow in life. When I finally got things straightened out, I made a promise to myself that I would never ever give up on anyone or anything ever again. Sales is what you make of it.\u00a0 &#8220;The harder you work the luckier you get&#8221;, was someone my old dealer principal always used to tell me.\u00a0 Funny, he always stated that line just after I had turned in a large\u00a0sale, or busted my quota for the month or the quarter.\u00a0 I liked hearing that, it brought a sense of accomplishment and acknowledged that he knew the time and effort that I put into my job.\u00a0 You can work hard and have nothing to show for it\u00a0on any given month or quarter, however if you always work hard you&#8217;ll find yourself having banner months, quarters, years and careers. Hmmm, 13 days, seems like it may be an unlucky number, but, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll find a way to make it my lucky number. Good selling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,1638],"tags":[106,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10766,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions\/10766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}