Do you have a quota? Most sales people do. But I’m going to tell you something today that would probably cause your sales manager – if you have one – want to shoot me.

If you have a quota – forget about it.

Why do that? Well, a quota is a goal that belongs to someone else – not you. And when you are working for someone else’s goals you will find it difficult, un-motivating and eventually leading to burn out. Your goals have to be your own or you will find it difficult to reach them. Period.

So here’s what I want you to do: after you completely purge your mind of all the dollar targets, call numbers, appointment counts and anything else that some well meaning – or some not-so-well-meaning – manager or boss (or spouse) has bestowed or otherwise perpetrated on you, get out a blank sheet of paper and write down the categories of things that you think are important that build to success in your sales process. Then set your own goal for each of those things.

What do you believe in? What do you think you can achieve between now and the end of the month or the quarter or the year? What do you think will produce the money you want to make so you can have the house and the car and the vacation that you want to have? Make it all your own and don’t let anyone else’s expectations influence what you believe you can achieve.

Now after you’ve done that you will either be above or below the quotas and expectations that you think determine your job security.

Well if you end up setting goals above those expectations – I won’t be surprised. Good job and get after it.

But if your numbers come out below somebody else’s – then think about this: First, I bet that if you make significant and visible progress toward those ideals that you’ve been saddled with – you won-t have anything to worry about. What I have seen in most organizations is that call numbers, quota dollars, clubs and all of that are mostly intended to get the sales force moving and they aren’t really do or die numbers…no matter what they say. They are unlikely to invest all that is invested in you and just when you are moving, pull the rug out from under you and start all over with a rookie that doesn’t know half of what you do about the company and the market and the product.

But let’s say you don’t believe me or you really do work for a tyrant that enjoys chopping heads off. Well, set your own goals anyway and even if they are below the standards I promise you this: you are more likely to make and believe in accomplishing someone else’s standards if you are moving toward them on the way to your own goals and standards than if you are desperately operating from fear and uncertainty as you fumble toward theirs.

Set your own goals. It’s your career, your effort, your money and your life. Own it.

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1 – There is something new to learn everyday if you are paying attention.
2 – Business people that don’t look for something new to learn everyday have less money and less time.

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Prevent the “Top 12 failures” that keep you from getting 100% out of your diabetic diet – failures that aren’t your fault.

In this article you’ll find out how diabetics can win the “defeat diabetes” game through supplements. You’ll see how Supermarket foods (both processed and fresh) are failing the nutrition test and how to avoid this trap. In addition, you’ll learn how both lifestyle and aging in older diabetics may make the situation more difficult and how you can best deal with it. Lastly, you’ll understand how something simple like controlling blood sugar and weight may just be easily controlled by replacing missing nutrients like Chromium.

If diabetes is 90% preventable, what will help?

Type 2 diabetics, aware of the New England Journal of Medicine published reports, know that diabetes is 90% preventable.

It is hard enough to be a type 2 diabetic, but when you find out that most of today’s processed food aggravates or caused your condition, it’s even harder.(The New England Journal of Medicine September 13, 2001; 345)

Let’s get to “12 Reasons You Might Need Supplements.”

Today, in the era of Holistic Medicine, proper supplemental nutrition is not in competition with traditional medical approaches for controlling diabetes.

Instead, they should be mutually suportive:

12 Reasons Why You Might Need Supplements:

1. If you are over fifty years old, you know that your body loses its ability to fully absorb nutrients, particularly chromium, iron, calcium and zinc. Fiber intake is often lower. This alone is reason enough to seek supplement support.

2. If you are honest about your eating habits, you, and over 90% of the population doesn’t eat the way the Food Pyramid Guide suggests. You can see the need to supplement your diet with high-quality whole food supplements.

3. If you drink Coke or Pepsi, be aware that “soda sucks chromium out of your system,” and chromium is an essential mineral that helps maintain healthy blood sugar levels and minimize the onset of diabetes (Beijing Medical University study, Harvard School of Public Health).

4. If you shop at a grocery store, be aware that many of the Supermarket Foods consist of refined high-fat, high-sugar (hhigh fructose corn syrup). This diet alone contributes to major nutrient deficiencies and diabetic problems.

5. Your favorite highly processed foods often see drastically reduced nutrient content. Processors use highly refined wheat to make white flour that has removed over 80% of its magnesium, 70-80% of its zinc, 87% of its chromium, 88% of its manganese and 50% of its cobalt. Good grief!

6. Food additives can deplete nutrients. Thousands of artificial flavors, colors, dough conditioners, stabilizers and preservatives are added to many foods. While some are harmless and may increase the value of food, many are toxic and can deplete the body of nutrients.

7. Because we eat so much refined, low-quality food loaded with additives, our digestion is impaired. This further impairs nutrient absorption and increases nutritional needs.

8. Stress! This single most evil problem is not unusual to many of us. Stress can deplete your energy, cause clinical depression, lead to acceleration of aging process and degenerative diseases. The symptoms of stress include fatigue, depression, panic, anxiety, loss of appetite, and insomnia. Depression can be a result of high blood sugar. There are natural supplements that aid in the natural “production of serotonin” -a naturally occurring chemical to prevent depression.

9. Do you smoke? Chew tobacco? Drink Alcoholic beverages? Eat meals of microwaved food? Take Oral Contraceptives? If your alive in 2008 you most likely are in this group. All of these lifestyle factors dramatically increases your need for nutrients that diet alone just can’t provide.

10. How about your food-store eggs, they are a lot older than you think. Nothing is fresh and grown within a mile of your home. Many foods are grown thousands of miles from your home. These fresh foods spend weeks on trucks or trains to reach you. As soon as food is harvested, the level of certain nutrients begins to diminish, sometimes in a day. This is another factor that reduces our nutrient intake and increases the need for supplements

11. Antibiotics in our food. More than 80 million pounds of antibiotics are consumed each year in the U.S. Residues of antibiotics are detected in livestock, farm-fed fish and commercial eggs. Antibiotics kill friendly bacteria in our intestines. We need these friendly bacteria to help our bodies absorb nutrients – especially B-vitamins. Such deficiencies can result in a variety of nervous and digestive conditions.

12. Soil depletion (the cry of the Mid-West the Big Goiter capital of the US. Commercial farming, the use or artificial fertilizers and synthetic pesticides and acid rains, have caused soil depletion. So we deplete the essential nutrients in the soil. The nutritional values of fruits and vegetables are greatly reduced. In fact, the vegetables you eat today taste bland due to lack of minerals in the soil. According to a recent study sponsored by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), about 17% of land in the world has been damaged.

Re-discovering Supplements in the United States Is it a wonder that diabetic supplements and herbal remedies have been rediscovered and become so popular overnight? Diabetes is a dangerous and complicated disease that demands a lifestyle change vanquish it’s debilitating effects. This demands:

• Diabetic Diet: Not just “lose weight” but eat healthy. This means adding supplements focused on blood sugar and weight loss.
• Exercise. This means getting out and moving around briskly – like the famous “Rove Exercise” of Live Longer Now fame. http://www.provenresultshealth.com/books/index.htm
• Weight Loss. The Supermarket system is not helping here, so you need to learn how to safely navigate the dangerous food aisles of your grocery store, avoiding those foods that cause the most diabetic damage and focus on foods that will help make you healthy.

So take control of your destiny and educate your self, be your number one heath researcher and counselor. Make those lifestyle changes, and see if supplements might not be the key to better health.

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Stress is a killer. But in this article, you’ll learn how to kill the stress, not the other way around.

I really hate stress. I’ve had it bad in my time and sometimes you just don’t know why your body is reacting like that. But luckily I have some relief at hand for you, just check out these tips:

Just Say No

Modern life is so much different to the days when we lived in a cave and foraged for food and there wasn’t really much to do. Just to keep up with the rat race these days it seems like you’ve got to remember to pay the bills, file your taxes, post that package, keep up with friends and that’s before you even get to work!

Learn how to say no to people. That means friends who want to see you all the time and managers who try to take advantage of your good abilities by giving you the tedious work for no extra pay because they don’t trust anyone else. Your amount of responsibility is directly related to your stress levels so just stop trying to please everyone and tell them “no”. It’s time to look after yourself from now on.

Get Some Laughs In Your Life

You know, laughter has been studied in clinical trials and its proven to improve our health. The easiest way to get laughter is to just watch it on TV. We’ve never had it so easy and those guys with comedy channels have it even better. Heck, just go to Youtube and type in “Takeshi’s Castle”. I found it last night and it was hilarious!

Get Active

Exercise is a strange thing. You wouldn’t think that doing a workout has got anything to do with your stressful job or home situation, would you? But your mind and body are inextricably linked and, somehow, I don’t know how but somehow, doing just a short workout will help you relax more. I know one thing for sure – you will be able to get to sleep a lot more easily. I’ll bet that some of you stressed out people reading this have trouble sleeping, I know that I did when I was stressed. When you have worked out that day, you’ll be able to drop off like a baby.

Not enough tips for you? Want to discover more stress management tips that will convert you from a stressed junkie to calm and relaxed person full of the joy of life? Then commit to a better future now and enroll on my weekly e-course at http://www.Stop-Getting-Stressed.com

It isn’t bad enough that you have spent the last several months or years running from or hiding from collector and their abuse and or law suits, but now your faced with an even tougher decision. Should I file for bankruptcy?

There are several things to consider, and these consideration must be made bast on fact. In order to see the facts for yourself, do not take the word of any company or private attorney. Get the fact yourself from the Federal Trade Commissions Website at FTC.gov. You will find it interesting that even our Federal Government forces us to use the very company that is funded by the banks we owe, CCCS. New requirements for full debt relief under chapter 7 bankruptcy from 2005 are quite clear. Some of these requirements are as follows:

“The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 opened a new era: Consumers who plan to file for bankruptcy protection now must get credit counseling from a government-approved organization within six months before they file.

The Department of Justice’s U.S. Trustee (UST) Program oversees the administration of bankruptcy cases, including approving organizations to provide the mandatory credit counseling. Only organizations that appear on the UST’s approved list may provide the required counseling. ”

Counseling and Education Requirements

As a rule, pre-bankruptcy credit counseling and pre-discharge debtor education may not be provided at the same time. Credit counseling must take place before you file for bankruptcy; debtor education must take place after you file.

In general, you must file a certificate of credit counseling completion when you file for bankruptcy, and evidence of completion of debtor education after you file for bankruptcy – but before your debts are discharged.

Pre-bankruptcy Counseling A pre-bankruptcy counseling session with an approved credit counseling organization should include an evaluation of your personal financial situation, a discussion of alternatives to bankruptcy, and a personal budget plan.

Post-Filing Debtor Education A debtor education course by an approved provider should include information on developing a budget, managing money, using credit wisely, and other resources. Like pre-filing counseling, debtor education may be provided in person, on the phone, or online. The debtor education session might last longer than the pre-filing counseling – about two hours – and the typical fee is between $50 and $100.

Important Questions to Ask When Choosing a Credit Counselor

• What services do you offer?
• Will you help me develop a plan for avoiding problems in the future?
• What are your fees?
• What if I can’t afford to pay your fees?
• What qualifications do your counselors have? Are they accredited or certified by an outside organization? What training do they receive?
• What do you do to keep information about me (including my address, phone number, and financial information) confidential and secure?
• How are your employees paid? Are they paid more if I sign up for certain services, if I pay a fee, or if I make a contribution to your organization?

To make this nightmare even worse, should you leave out an asset or make an honest mistake, you can be charged with bankruptcy fraud.In most cases, CCCS will file a request for a contribution or portion of your payment from the creditor each and every time you make a payment in any program they offer, in addition to what they charge you.

It is strongly recomended you avoid Bankruptcy when you can to avoid disaster at work , home, personal finances, depression and a public record for your entire life. Though a bankruptcy will get removed from your credit after 7 or 10 years, it is still a pubilc record that is there for life.

To learn other options you should consider talking with an IAPDA Certifed Debt Arbitrator either before or after talking a Bankruptcy attorney. If your a Texas Consumer there is little chance you should file or even consider Bankruptcy.

Tom Bates,CDA
CEO,President
Absolute Debt Solutions, Inc.
http://www.absolutedebtsolutions.com

When people think of affiliate marketing, generally, they don’t think about the main way you make the money. One thought is that all you have to do is sign up with an affiliate company and the money will start coming in. If only it were that easy. Unfortunately, there isn’t any type of money maker out there like that.

Affiliate marketing is about being passionate about something and promoting it. Trying to sell something you aren’t passionate about will not work. You must have an interest in it or no one will ever believe you or trust you. There are a small handful of people who could do this, but they are already very smart marketers and like to sell. Most people just getting started in affiliate marketing are not that advanced.

When you first get started marketing, you must realize that you have to sell to a list. If you don’t have one, you will not make sales. It’s all about the list in marketing. You must develop relationships with your prospects and market to the right people. People who are looking for your particular product. Otherwise, you are wasting your time.

If you don’t know the first thing about marketing, you owe it to yourself to get educated. One of the first and most important things to learn is how to narrow down a niche. If your niche is too wide and covers a vast number of people, you may not do well. Work on finding the best niche out there with the smallest amount of competition to start.

When choosing a niche, it is a good idea to choose something that you would use yourself. This will make it easier to sell. When you already have a good list of people to market to, you will know what they like and are looking for. What types of products or programs will bring value to your prospects? These are what you should be marketing.

First and foremost, if you don’t even have a list, you must build one before doing anything else. To build this list, you can use a web site that has an opt in, or write a blog with an RSS feed..

The most important part about affiliate marketing, I believe, is that you market something you are passionate about. This is something that will shine through in your marketing approach. Be honest and genuine. This will get you the results you want.

Patrick Godknecht an online marketing expert who wants to share his secrets with the world. To find out more…

Patrick Godknecht