Discover and leverage your greatest strengths

When Benson Smith and Tony Rutigliano wrote "Discover Your Sales Strengths" the two Gallup organization research specialists departed from traditional thinking that had companies and individuals working on correcting weaknesses and spending inordinate time trying to fix faults. What they discovered after years of research on successful sales professionals is surprising and strategic for anyone who wants to improve by leveraging the special gifts that each of us are uniquely endowed with. The book provides plenty of insights and practical exercises and a fun and insightful component is that at the end the reader is invited to take a an online exam, by use of a secret access code provided in the book. The exam registers one's top five strengths and further encourages the reader to build on those strengths as an efficiency mechanism towards success and ultimately happiness as well. I recommend "Discover Your Sales Strengths" as an interesting, practical and useful tool in helping understand one's own motivations and perhaps gaining some insight into why some activities or endeavors seem to come to us so naturally and why, in others, we struggle as if swimming against a current.

Where does inspiration come from?

Its free of course. And it is everywhere. But an interesting thing about inspiration is that it comes to us only when we are ready to receive it.

Success (and this blog) Begins With Belief

These writings are intended to be practical tools but may seem short, static with burst's of thoughts, meteors flaming through the mind, reflections, acknowledgements of hope, experiences, encounters and statements of faith intended to inspire, encourage and engage anyone who desires to reach for the stars or for the next step.

FAITH:

It all begins with faith. We need hope. We need to believe we can make change, make a difference, move forward, step up, gain momentum, achieve our dreams, make a better life, give of ourselves. Faith comes from someplace deep inside.....a kind of trusting of the unknown. A key for us is to develop a trust that we are destined to succeed. For some that means validating the steps of their lives that have brought them to this point. For others it means that the past means nothing (in terms of achievement) and that only the present and the future are focal points on which to build. All of the "good mother" messages, all of the encouragement from friends or family, all of the books, the tapes, the outside motivations.....mean little. It must come from within. Belief, trust, hope are self statements of the heart. Success is a step by step process ("little steps") ("a journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step, one before the other"). Begin with faith.........find that deep light of faith within yourself and follow it to success. Faith is the foundation the starting point of all success and achievement.