For the past year and a half or so, I have been discovering Brian Tracy and his many books on self-development. Much of Brian’s focus is on selling, but even if you don’t consider yourself to be in the category of salesman, you owe it to yourself to read some of Brian’s books. “Many Miles to Go” is a true story about a sojourn that Brian and two of his mates made when he was young, from the western coast of Canada, they headed east, across the North American continent, over the Atlantic, down through Europe and ending with a perilous trip through the Sahara desert to the tip of the dark continent in the country of South Africa.
Brian ties the trip to many lessons that he learned about himself, people and business. Brian has books that cover self-development topics from time management, to money management, to business management and everything else in between.
I highly recommend any of his books if you are working to develop yourself to your full potential.
One of the more interesting discoveries that I have encountered in the past ten years of my research into self development is the importance of spirituality. It is amazing how many experts in the field of self development have all reached the same conclusion about how important faith, spirituality and karma are to your ability to develop yourself to your full potential.
And I must say that after several years of field research and using myself as a “ginnie pig”, I have seen the remarkable results first hand. There was a time in the not too distant pass, that I was the center of my own universe. Every action that I undertook was designed to benefit me first and everyone else second. The results from this type of thinking was not very good.
I struggled financially, career-wise and in several other areas. I finally decided to try and turn things around for myself by educating myself through reading books about selling. It was through my reading that I soon discovered there was a common theme running throughout most of the books that I was reading. That common theme was “karma.”
You reap what you sow. Having tried just about everything else I could to increase my income and make a better life for myself, I figured I had nothing to lose, so why not try giving this “karma” thing a try. It was the most amazing transformation of results within an unbelievable time frame. You really do reap what you sow. I could talk about it for hours and you could chose to believe it or not. But the best way to see if it really works is to put it to use for yourself and see what your results are. Have faith.
If you’re in sales, have faith that you can be the best in your field. Put others first. Work hard and study hard. When things don’t go your way, as they inevitably won’t sometimes, just remember that you grow best through adversity and have faith that there is a reason that things go bad sometimes and try to find the lesson in these things. Life first has to get better in your mind before it can get better in your world.