Earning and Achieving More in 2021
By: D. Ray Smith
Tags: Training And Development, Sales Training, Sales Development, Sales, Business

As we wrap up our holiday celebrations and our last week of 2020, we reflect on a year of awakening and empowerment. While we navigated the maze of Covid, we experienced a world wide awakening to the consistent horrors and reality of racism and abuse and the moving of the masses in uniting to voice concern. Now we face a new year that promises a new horizon in achievement and growth for many, as 2020, among several titles, can be called a year of empowerment. However, for this empowerment to be real and lasting, and not the dazzle and fizzle of an Independance Day sparkler, we have to embrace it at the ground level and build off of the momentum created through continued individual growth, development and achievement. A universal truth is a whole entity can not advance or achieve until the majority of its individual members are doing the same.

Individual growth, development and achievement starts with one word… coachability. To be decent, good, great or excellent at anything it’s going to take good coaching. Ask billionaire athlete Michael Jordan, as he was cut from his high school Varsity team sophomore year. Ask Lebron James as he bypassed his college eligibility to enter the NBA draft as a teenager. Ask anyone who appears successful at anything how they got there and they will all tell you the same… they had good coaches along the way.

While, coaching and training are extremely difficult for a large number of individuals to embrace, they are the door way to unlimited success and achievement. The challenge is the mind has a self defense mechanisms that is also a self destruct mechanism… it doesn’t like being told what to do. If you are one of those, as many of us are and were, let’s simplify what being coachable is to end the struggle and get you on the pathway to achieving and earning more in 2021. Being coachable is simple… it’s being dedicated… having an open mind to learn… and being proactive.

If you want to become better at anything and earn more, first it’s going to take a higher level of commitment. That’s a firm and absolute dedicatation to the task and activities that lead to outcomes. This means in 2021 you can’t be on the fence. If you have an opportunity to earn and others are earning, its time to make a 100% commitment rather than waking up every other day with the thought that you are going to quit. It’s going to take a higher level of dedication to clients, associates and the company. Most of all it’s going to take a higher level of dedication to seeing your own outcomes improve. If you don’t want it… no one will want it for you.

A high level of dedication will fuel your hunger and drive. Rather than complain about the top earners earning you will want to know what seperates them from you. A higher level of dedication will fuel your thirst to learn what they doing are different. To discover those answers, and unlock the key to greater outcomes, you have to be willing to invest time learning. That will require patience, an open mind and humility, as you will no doubt need to read some, watch instructional videos, and learn directly from others that may not look like, think like, or talk like you. If they know how to help you achieve more and they are willing to help, they are a valuable resource that you should take full advantage of.

However, it’s not enough to be dedicated, and open to learning… you have to be proactive and apply the valuable techiniques shared by others rather than waiting to be told or challenged. Two positive things happen when do and two negative things happen when you don’t. When you’re proactive in applying what you have learned, you will a great majority of the time see immediate outcomes. This will result in higher earnings and more importantly positive nods from those who invested time in you. When you don’t, you usually stay flat. Your outcomes don’t improve, nor do your earnings. In many cases your earnings go down, as those who invested in you disapprove. So it is imperative to be proactive in applying the valuable lessons and techniques learned from others. Make it a part of your daily system and work flow… and be consistent, daily applying the practices that lead to solid consistent results and outcomes.

Individuals that show a consistent pattern of success, werent born that way they had to commit to their field, they had to learn and they had to be proactive in applying the lessons and techniques they learned from others. The difference between highly successful individuals and most is highly successful individuals never stop the cycle… which is why we call them SUCCESSFUL. The one thing they all have in common… they are coachable. They are dedicated. They are open minded and willing to learn. They are proactive and consistently apply what they learn. The key to achieving and earning more in 2021 is in one word… coachability.