Do you need to amp up your sales potential? Is your concept of success to push yourself until you drop in a dead heap at the end of the week? How much longer can you keep abusing your body and mind? Something’s got to give, doesn’t it?
    Take some smart stress and health cues from the world class athletes you watch and admire on television. They know how to play to the max and recover rapidly to go after it again, week after week. How do they do it? Awareness and control of energy. Physical and mental energy is the vital renewable resource that leads to peak performance.
    To increase the voltage on your selling power, try these eight stress-busting and energy-management strategies.

Stop Multi-Tasking.

    Think doing fifteen things at once will make you more efficient? Think again. This just creates more stress, diffuses your focus, and makes you feel and look frazzled. Move from project to project with your focus in the here and now and you’ll do higher quality work and relate to people far better.

Maintain Rituals.

    What’s the first thing to stop when you are busy, stressed, sick or overwhelmed? Right. Your exercise, healthy eating, rest and recovery systems. Make sure you maintain the routines that help you stay on the health track. When you’re stressed, these are even more vital.

Have A Higher Purpose And Call It Training.

    Don’t just try to get in shape or lose weight. Have a higher purpose for doing the work. Maybe you want to run a race, participate in a charity sporting event or bike with your children. Have a bigger reason beyond “losing weight” that will pull you forward on those days you don’t feel like running or working out.

Connect Your New Changes WithThings You Are Already Doing.

    Want to exercise more? Already watching television at night? Link the exercise with your TV programs and you are far more likely to continue the new behavior. What other links can you make?

Make Smaller Rather Than Bigger Changes.

    Huge change efforts tend to stall because they are overwhelming and require too many new adaptations and twists of routine. Those complicated variables will doom your new efforts to failure. Keep it simple and reap the rewards of change.

Create An Environment That Will Support Your New Habits.

    Just starting a new stress management or health program is not enough to be successful. You have to nurture and support it. Get a coach, friend or family member who can buddy with you, give you feedback, advice and train with.

Rest And Renewal Is As Important As Being A Go-Getter.

    If you work 70 hour weeks, weekends, and take two weeks of vacation a year, aren’t you setting yourself up for the cardiac ward or the mental hospital? Remember, the top athletes in the world respect their bodies and minds by taking regular, strategic breaks from competition and training.

Fewer Changes Are Better Than More.

    Don’t go hog wild and try to lose weight, run a marathon, add muscle, change your posture, fix your vocabulary and learn a new language all in the same week. That much change will overload your circuits and have you begging for mercy. Execute bite-size segments and be happy to see real progress, not the back sliding type.

Stop creating short-circuits in your life by trying to do it all, have it all and be it all, without stopping. Learn how to recover and manage your energy and you’ll always be known as the one who has the high-voltage selling energy.