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10 Fears You Can Turn Into Courageous Decisions

Anthony Iannarino

If you’re tired of living in fear, here are 10 fears you can turn into courageous decisions. The antidote to the fear of scarcity is the courageous decision to recognize abundance. Inadequacy to Confidence. The decision to be confident isn’t the belief that you will succeed. Scarcity to Abundance. Change to Growth.

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The Confidence to Start

Anthony Iannarino

If you have to choose between being overconfident in your abilities or lacking confidence, it’s better to be overconfident. If you lack confidence , then you will not try. The kind of overconfidence I am talking about reminds of a quote from Zig : “Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”

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Learning How to Swim in the Red Ocean

Anthony Iannarino

Courage and Determination. Where the water is deep and dark, you need pluck, “spirited courage and determination.”. Be a disruptive force and create a scenario and create a scenario where there is no competition, where you are a category of one. At worst, be a big player in a class with very few competitors. Check out Eat Their Lunch.

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Nine More Character Traits to Speed Results In Sales

Anthony Iannarino

Confidence – Believing in Yourself. If you had to choose between being overconfident than being under-confident and afraid to act, you are better off being overconfident. Spending more time doing something ends to provide greater confidence, especially as your competency tends to grow alongside it. Be who you are.

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The Best Way to Close Deals Faster

Anthony Iannarino

When forced to see every prospect in his territory as part of a growth plan, he summoned his courage , walked through the front door, and asked for the person who had fired his company. The most popular theory now is to improve your sales velocity, the speed at which you complete “the sales conversation.” Here is an example.

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Leadership and the Remarkably High Cost of Low Expectations

Anthony Iannarino

They don’t recognize their gifts and their capacities, and many (most) haven’t had the experience of working for someone who cares enough about them to see something in them that they can’t see themselves, or something they can see but haven’t had the courage to become. The word “encourage” means to support and provide confidence.

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The One Thing I've Been Right About In Selling

Anthony Cole Training

I heard an expression once that went something like this: Every boxer walks into the ring with confidence until he get punched in the face the first time. And so it is with the new year when sales teams, led by courageous sales leaders like you, submit sales plans, business plans, financial budgets or revenue projections.

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