ONE RACE AT A TIME

I just watched a remarkable race swam by a remarkable young lady who accomplished a remarkable feat.

If you are following the Olympics, and I don’t know anyone who isn’t, you probably already know who and what I am talking about. 17 year old MISSY FRANKLIN just won her first Olympic Gold Medal in the 100-Meter backstroke, in the her first Olympic individual event 10 minutes after swimming a qualifying heat in the women’s 200-meter free style and qualifying for tomorrow’s final.

This is a Herculean task by any swimmer, but for a 17 year old at her first Olympics it becomes unparalleled.

In the interview from poolside right after the race Missy talked about the advice her coaches gave her as to how to cope with the back to back races. She said they gave her several tips but she just took the races ONE AT A TIME!

Every day as sales reps, and just about any other professional, we have back to back to back to back appointments and meetings. We run from one customer to the next, answering our phone and e mails in between sales calls. Our managers and co-workers are asking more and more from us each day and we need to win our gold medals along the way as well.

 I think that we can all learn from the wisdom of this 17 year old swimmer and simply take all of the tasks, appointments, and duties we have one at a time. The customer you are in front of IS the most important customer of the day, the meeting you are in IS the most important meeting of the day, and the task you are performing IS the most important task of the day.

If you focus on your next customer, meeting, or task you will not give the present one the performance it deserves.

I will be watching the Olympics for the next 2 weeks like the rest of the world, you can expect to hear more of my INCREDABLE OLYMPIC MOMENTS turned into INCREDABLE SALES TIPS!

Lorin