This is a great meditation to use when you’re working toward a goal or have a vision for your future, but you’re feeling limited or stuck for any reason. In this creative & relaxing session, you’ll step outside of your habitual thinking, slow down, and let yourself be guided through a visualization.

Meditation & creative visualizations can help sales professionals detach from mind chatter, connect to the present moment, shift into a desired state of being (mood), and feel less stress. I’ve been using these techniques for most of my sales career, and I truly believe it's a habit that has helped me have success in sales and grow my professional career (and hey, at the very least, these exercises are fun!).

Originally published on the Creative Meditations podcast (title: Quantum Leap (Highest Self) Meditation).

Emotional Intelligence + Sales = More. Money.

Stand out from the crowd of sales reps by having a strong Connection to Self.

Two of the four EQ domains are directly related to Connection to Self: Self-Awareness and Self-Management.

With solid self-awareness and self-management tools, you will have less stress when handling objections or facing challenges, more confidence, better decision-making, and more effective action-planning.

When a strong connection to self is in place, genuine connections to others follow.

Complement your sales strategy by approaching your work with the beginner’s mind. This will help you reduce bias and eliminate harmful assumptions. You will build stronger customer relationships, because you’ll interact with people without preconceived notions or generalizations. You will approach your work with more curiosity and creativity, which will make you a better problem-solver.

Go out of your way to see things from a new, never-before-considered perspective. Your results will improve, and you'll have a lot more fun :)