Trainer’s Notes for SUCCESS from Siva (TNSS 25): Who Dares Sells, and Who Sells Succeeds

Hi,
What do you think? Is selling good or bad? Are salesmen good or bad? Do you know that you too sell? Is there someone in this world who doesn’t sell? How important it is for one to sell to become successful in profession or even in LIFE? To find the answers, you must read the book, “WHO DARES SELLS - The Ultimate Guide To Selling Anything To Anyone” written by Patrick Ellis.

So good and powerful some of the messages in this book are that I thought I should reproduce them as such in today’s TNSS for your perusal. Given below are just a few of them……

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Everybody, everywhere, everyday is selling or buying products, services or ideas. Individuals, groups, companies and governments partake in this fundamental and most important function that can offer achievement, power, fame, fortune and success to those who excel in it. Non-achievement, powerlessness, mediocrity, poverty, despair and despondency lie at the other extreme for those who fail at it,

The infant crying for its mother’s attention is selling. A school child trying to avoid being reprimanded by the teacher for not doing his homework is selling. A candidate for employment or a job promotion is selling. A boy wooing a girl or a girl wooing a boy is selling. A politician canvassing for votes in a constituency or a government offering its policy to the country is selling. A musical entertainer or an orchestra is selling. The pastor in the pulpit is selling. A high-powered team attempting to negotiate a major contract for plant, machinery, or aircraft is selling. And so the list goes on. The end result will either be that the sender’s (seller’s) message is received and acted upon by the receiver (buyer) or it will fall on deaf ears, depending on how effectively the message is sent through the spoken word, written word or through non-verbal means. The result is Success or Failure, Win or Lose.

Look after yourself – you are the most important person that exists on this planet. This is your world. You’ve got to know where you are going and how to get there in the shortest possible time. But remember – the most important by-product of success while you are climbing or when you have made it to the top of the ladder, is your ability to help others come up. You can only do that from a position of strength – not weakness. Those who do that are the truly good people of this world.
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Going by Patrick’s wisdom, everyone in this world, including you and me, sells. Selling is inevitable for all, be that a Professor or a Student, a CEO or a Supervisor, a Scientist or a Secretary, a Government Official or a Voluntary Worker, Husband or a Wife, Father or a Son or a Daughter, and for that matter everybody and anybody. Those who are good at it live a better life. There is no need to feel shy to sell, for selling is indeed helping someone in need with a product or a service or an idea. And, why to fear to identify the right customers and extend them that helping hand? Getting rid of the ‘fear’ to sell will get you THE BEST in your life as well as that of others you care for. WHO DARES SELLS, and who sells succeeds, in LIFE too....

To your SALES SUCCESS,
With love and regards,
Siva
value4value@gmail.com

Trainer’s Notes for SUCCESS from Siva (TNSS 24): EGOLESSNESS, the key to abundant JOY of LIFE

Hi,
It has been a hectic time of 2 months with quite a bit of travel and training that I truly missed writing and sharing the TNSS with you. I am glad to be back, and I started feeling the joy of writing and sharing again. Knowing my quest for learning more about Lord Jagannath and the Puri Rath Yatra festival, a dear friend of mine, Mr. Haresh Pradhan, gifted me with the book ‘Shri Purushottama Rahasya’ written by Baba Chaitanya Charan Das. I have been reading it and finding immense joy in learning so many secrets. I would like to share with you one of them today.
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In the era of truth (satya yuga), in the solar dynasty, there was a king whose name was Indradyumna. He was a ruler of the kingdom of Malava with the city of Avanti as its capital. He was truthful, well mannered, and lover of justice. He was a humble devotee of Lord Vishnu with a strong desire to see him. Having come to know that the Blue Mountain in Purushottama Kshetra (the present city of Puri in Orissa) in Utkala Kingdom as the most holy place where he could see the Lord with his own eyes, he went there only to find that the Lord had disappeared from the place and that it was all covered with golden sand. The king then decided to stay there thinking of the Lord and praying for his Darshan. One night, the king had a dream in which he saw the lord Vishnu and was extremely delighted. and his message, based on which he built a temple of about 1500 feet in height and installed the deity of Lord Vishnu in the form of Lord Jagannath, and also those of his brother Balabhadra, Sister Subhadra and Sudarshana made of wood from the celestial ‘daru’ tree.

The legend states that Lord Jagannath, pleased with the love and devotion of King Indradyumna, granted him special blessings and offered a boon that he could grant. The king asked, “O lord, let there be no descendent in my family so that no one out of ego will claim that ‘this temple belongs to us.’” He sought a place at the feet of the God. And the Lord said, “”This truth I tell you with affirmation, again and again: never will I leave this place, even if the temple is destroyed. even if in the future someone else builds a temple here, your reputation will remain untarnished.”

The deities of Lord Jagannath and others were brought out of the temple once a year and taken in a procession called ‘Rath Yatra (Chariot Festival)’ during which the king himself swept with a broom the chariot around the place where the Lord is seated. The same practice continues to happen every year even now.
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The above acts of the King asking for a boon that his family be issueless and performing the ritual of sweeping the chariot with a broom are clear examples of selflessness and egolessness to learn from. There is no distinction between upper and lower castes or classes on the campus of Shri Mandir (the Jagannath Temple) in Puri. Those without ego reach higher levels of achievement and obtain abundant joy in what they do.

With love and regards,
Siva