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Sales Gravy: Jeb Blount

Quick Tip 4: Contentment is the Mother of Mediocrity

Sales Gravy: Jeb Blount

Jeb Blount

Marketing, Careers, Business, Management, Entrepreneurship

4.7588 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

On this Sales Gravy Quick Tip, you will learn why becoming content after achieving a goal can keep you from reaching your true potential.


 

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm John Blunt, author of Fanatical Prospecting in Cells EQ, and this is a sales gravy quick tip.

0:09.8

When you've been working so hard, so long at a goal, singularly focused, it feels like you've reached an apex.

0:17.6

You've climbed a peak. You're at the top of a mountain and on that mountain you can stop

0:22.2

and you can rest. You can stop and enjoy the view. You can be content. You can allow yourself

0:29.7

to believe for the first time in a very long time that it's all downhill from here. So celebrate.

0:38.1

Congratulate yourself.

0:39.8

Be here in this spotlight.

0:41.3

Enjoy the moment.

0:42.3

You deserve it.

0:44.0

But do not slip into the false comfort of contentment

0:47.7

or into the belief that it's all downhill from here.

0:52.5

You see, far too many people before you have done just that.

0:57.6

They achieved their goal and then they quit.

1:00.9

They didn't stop and chart a new course.

1:03.1

They didn't stop and set new goals.

1:05.7

They quit climbing and they failed to reach their true potential.

1:10.4

And because they didn't have any direction, they drifted.

1:14.4

And contentment turned a life of promise into a life of mediocrity.

1:21.0

Thank you for joining me for the sales gravy quick tip.

1:24.0

Go to goals.s.sgravy.com.

1:25.8

That's goals.s.gavey.com to get access to my online course on

1:30.7

goal planning.

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