The Sandwich Shop Story

I had just moved to a new town and was looking for a job. I went into a local sandwich shop that was hiring, and filled out the application. The owner sat me down, and asked me one question: “If someone came in and paid for a sandwich, and you gave him change for a ten, but he said he gave you a twenty, what would you do?”

My answer was, I’d give him the extra ten. Right then and there.

I was wrong.

The owner’s solution was to tell the customer to come back at the end of the day (closing at 11pm), and if the drawer was over, he would get his ten dollars. If not, sorry.

Well, here’s the thing, I’m thinking, this guy could be a regular customer, so if he spends, say, eight dollars every time he comes in, three times a week, that’s 24 dollars a week or $1,200 a year. So am I going to piss somebody off for ten dollars, and lose a potential $1,200? Not likely.

Sure, it may not happen often, but why take a chance? Like they say, A happy customer tells one friend, an unhappy customer tells everybody.

Was I wrong? Comment and let me know.

RB Wallis is a speaker and author, providing motivational and entertaining speaking programs enhanced with the art of magic.

RB shows folks just like you how to achieve Astounding Success! Contact him at www.thewallisgroup.com.

Success is about choosing what you want in life! (by The Transition Man, Johnny Campbell)

Success is about choosing what you want in life!

You can choose success. Do you believe this? If you do not then you have chosen (yes chosen) a different route and success will not be a prominent feature! Success is about choosing what you want in life and taking the necessary steps to achieve that goal. Success is not stopping until you get there!

Read the last two sentences again. Easy to say but how do you get there? What are the choices made by the successful? What are they doing differently from everyone else?

Choose to remove whatever is holding you back. Has something happened in the past to affect your self esteem? Do you immediately have negative thoughts as soon as money and success come to mind? If you are not choosing success then it is likely that something is blocking your ability to change and follow a new path. To remove the block you must have focus. To have focus you must first have an all consuming dream of where you want to be. Only when you have defined that dream can you start to focus on it. Focus so intently that everything you do is done with your dream in mind. Only then can you move toward that dream.

Choose to live your success. Live your life as if you were successful, as if you had already achieved the goal that you are focusing on. When you are at work, visualize what your workplace will be like when you have reached your goal, and place yourself there. Sit at your desk as if you were running the multimillion dollar business that you are focusing on. When you get into your car, visualize what your dream car will be like and see yourself sitting in it. Visualize yourself driving away from your dream house. When you are in your home – look around it and see your new surroundings. Get inside the feeling – really be there.

The more you do this, the more your subconscious will think that you are successful and move you towards these things. Live your success expecting to realize it. Living it now is a practice run for when it comes to you. After all, you want to be prepared, don’t you?

Choose to believe in your success. What your conscious mind believes, your subconscious strives to achieve. Look around at your friends and acquaintances and ask yourself how many of them have unshakable belief in where they are going. Are they successful? Possibly not – they may be in a good job and have a nice life but they do not have the success factor. Perhaps you do know of someone with unshakable belief. They may not be successful now but they will be moving in the right direction. Watch that space….

Belief is the catalyst which takes the dream and turns the focus into a plan to get there. Never underestimate the power of belief.

Choose to be emotional about your success. Belief plus emotion are unstoppable. If you have utter belief then you will develop emotion. If you want something badly enough it is emotive. Maybe it is to get out of debt. If you have suffered the hardships of this situation you will feel everything to do with debt and money is charged with emotion. This is the reason behind so many ‘rags to riches’ stories. Sometimes only the most devastating of emotional circumstances are the catalyst for change and a move toward success instead of away from it.

You can choose success. Or you can choose to stay safe and do what you do now. Guess what – you will still be doing the same in ten years time. The question is – do you want to?

Johnny Campbell- The Transition Man
Accredited speaker
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Visibility at Work, courtesy of The Nametag Guy

Scott Ginsberg, blogging on one of my favorite topics: Increasing your Visibility at Work

“It’s a mistake…to cut the advertising budget.”

Everybody’s cutting, that’s for sure. but the one thing you don’t want to cut is your promotion. That’s your lifeline to the world.

“You want to stay in contact, maybe three or four times a year, let them know when you’ve got sales going…you can’t be afraid to reach out to those clients,” says Craig Burress, retail specialist with brokerage CB Richard Ellis. “This is standard stuff, but for some reason, not everybody is doing it.”

This is standard stuff, but for some reason, not everybody is doing it.”

“It’s a mistake for a retailer to cut the advertising budget. That is not a smart move,”says George Whalin, president and chief executive officer of Retail Management Consultants, of Carlsbad, California.

Hear hear, Mr. Whalin. Remember Marketing Mistake #1? They don’t know you exist.

Taking action…

is the ultimate solution to every dilemma.

That’s Not My Monkey!

Everybody’s got a monkey on their back. The trick is to keep others from passing their monkeys on to you.

Every time you find yourself trying to solve other people’s problems unsolicited, remember this phrase:

That’s Not My Monkey!

Knocking Out the T

When I was young. I spent many days in the doctor’s office. Yes, you could I was a sickly child.

I don’t remember much about those days, except that one of my doctors actually smoked cigars. In the hallway. Hey, it was the 60’s.

Anyway, in the Pediatrics waiting room they had a lot of storybooks. I have no idea where they came from, but they were like no other storybooks I had ever seen. The one story that sticks with me the most is one called ‘Knocking out the “T”‘

I don’t even remember the story, except that it was about a boy who always says he “can’t” do something. Then one day he meets a teacher who tells him that, to succeed, he needs to “Knock out the T,” effectively changing “Can’t” to “Can.”

Sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it?

Don’t you think it’s time you knocked out a few T’s?

Here are the Six Steps

1. Vision – Figure it out in great detail.
2. Emotion – Feel it – be it – live it NOW
3. Knowledge – Study the masters.
4. Plan – Work out the steps to get ther, backwards
5. Action – DO something!
6. Persistence – Don’t stop. Don’t ever stop.

Rob Wallis is an author, speaker and trainer specializing in success training and personal development. He is founder and CEO of The Wallis Group, a productivity firm located in California. Contact him at TheWallisGroup.com.