{"id":13198,"date":"2010-09-08T07:32:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13198"},"modified":"2010-09-08T07:32:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:32:12","slug":"learning-the-art-of-selling-consciously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13198\/learning-the-art-of-selling-consciously\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning the art of selling consciously"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do not contribute much mostly due to my fears of my writing not holding up well next to so many of the great writers here. However, the only way my writing can improve is by writing and submitting so with that in mind.<\/p>\n

I sell real estate<\/strong>. Those four words do a great job of describing me as a professional. Of course there are other things I do with my life but the engine that powers the other areas is selling real estate. I have been on a path to living more consciously for the past few years.\u00a0 One of the take aways from living consciously is that I need to be focused on whatever task I am working on when I am working on it. I cannot be thinking or worrying about anything else but the task at hand. I have found putting this into practice to be more challenging than I would have ever thought. It is a constant effort to be present in the moment and not be thinking about something completely different. While this has been a struggle it has had success too. When I find myself in the moment I often do not realize it until later when I realize that I just knocked several things off my to-do list and I did not even realize it. It is in that moment that I know I am growing and beginning to master being conscious.<\/p>\n

Taking this concept and applying it to sales and prospecting is currently on the top of my to-do list daily. Learning how to sell consciously will allow me to grow my business and my professional abilities to levels that in months past I had only dreamed\/wished of. When I committed publicly to prospecting six or more hours a day for the next 120 days I was really pulling out the last of the excuses I had so carefully crafted to keep myself from succeeding\u00a0 at levels that frightened me. Now I have nowhere to hide. I have opened myself up to accountability and critique if I do not do what it is that Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do not contribute much mostly due to my fears of my writing not holding up well next to so many of the great writers here. However, the only way my writing can improve is by writing and submitting so with that in mind. I sell real estate. 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