I make my own luck…………

Where I work, it is a sales job and if you don’t meet your quota, you are canned…and quickly…

I usually do pretty well and am either at the top of my floor in sales or do well enough to be off the radar…

Though, what this means is that on a regular basis my friends get fired.

I hate that, good people, people with kids, people with plans; they get fired for not making a certain number of sales.  Never mind that the training can be deficient, the equipment sorely lacking and the quality of true leads non-existent,…no, they are expected to meet a quota and when they don’t, they get fired.

About 2 weeks ago another team member and I were talking about this very thing, she told me, “every day I am afraid for my job, I am afraid that I will get fired.” We talked about this for a while and she felt that is was only our team that is this nervous…..I wondered about that…is the manager of our team prone to quick firings and ramping up our nerves, or does this feeling permeate the whole floor of 60-70 sales reps.

Right after this conversation, I saw one of the TOP reps from the team that I was on 3 months ago. I asked him, “Are you ever afraid for your job?” to which he replied, not really, I asked, “Do you need this job for money, or is it just something for you to do in your retirement?”, he explained that the money is good, but he needed it for the insurance.  Then he said something really profound, “I don’t worry about things that I can’t control.”

I walked away vowing that I would never say something so incredibly stupid in my entire life, because as you see…..I MAKE MY OWN LUCK….

1 week later he was fired for not making quota.

I make my own luck…..I know the deal here, I am not stupid…..I sit on this dialer everyday and I make my own luck, I search for jobs, I apply for jobs and I work my ass off to MAKE MY OWN LUCK….

Part of not being  ‘PAUSED’ is not to let anyone else control my destiny but me…..I work hard to have a positive attitude because this enables you to make the best of every situation, giving you power over your circumstances instead of allowing your circumstances to have power over you!        

                                                                                     

                                                    I am reading this book...it is just FABULOUS!!!