Commitment plus Sales Training equals Touchdown: by Bob Beck

To achieve anything today requires pure dedication, true commitment and quid pro quo sales training.

Yes, our economic times are tough and challenging and developing your mindset for dedication, commitment and training can help you achieve anything. This is the real work. It’s the secret to success in your sales endeavors and the ultimate “touchdown” that can increase your company’s ability to drive revenue and close business.

No matter who you are or where you are in life, the secret of football is for you, too. Once you learn the secret of the game, you’ll be able to succeed in whatever you choose to do.

"The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor." -- Coach Vince Lombardi

Football players understand this or they don’t make it. They learn all kinds of lessons that don’t come naturally to any of us. Getting up at the break of dawn to run a few miles; running full speed into someone who is twice your size; laying out to catch a ball; spending endless hours watching films; and lifting weights until you can’t move your arms are just a few of the “unnatural” routines a player commits to.

All sports include “unnatural” elements. The continuous practice and reinforcement of these unnatural elements is one of the ways football differs from any other sport and makes it the greatest game on earth.

Webster’s defines “commitment” as the state or an instance of being obligated or emotionally impelled.

Everyone would certainly agree you have to have a commitment to play any sport. The essence of the word “commit” is from Latin roots and means cutting away from. When you are committed to something or someone, you are cutting out all your other options and other possibilities. You are also cutting away all the justifications and excuses for not following through.

Unfortunately, not everyone understands what commitment means or how to apply the meaning of the word. It’s not a natural phenomenon. It’s an acquired, hard-earned trait.

If your everyday life was like football, every time you made a mistake, someone would blindside you, knocking you into next week. How would that motivate you to learn? I would guess you wouldn’t make that same mistake twice.

The point is, if a football player does not execute what he has learned and practice it everyday there is a negative consequence waiting for him around every corner. That is exactly how it works in the world outside of sports too, whether you realize it or not.

We don’t have hordes of coaches consistently encouraging and correcting everything we do. Most of us certainly don’t have a group of teammates blocking for us, knocking down obstacles as we make our way to the goal line of success.

Ultimately, everyone finds out that you have to count on yourself. If you want to achieve any level of success in your life it’s up to you.

In football, players learn early and often what it takes to be successful. It is reinforced at every practice, every game, and even in the off-season.

The trick is to convert lessons learned on the field to the game of life.

A football player’s work ethic, practice, discipline, commitment and learning all should transfer easily to the game of life. If a player does not implement these learned skills in the game of life, they can forget them and struggle unnecessarily.

The good news is, when a player truly learns something and practices it for any period of time, it will come back once he rededicates himself to the disciplines needed to regain that skill.

Sometimes is take extra training when you are reaching to be the best.  As a sales professional follow the lessons of football and learn just how quid pro quo sales training will help you learn to develop the skills so you can make YOUR TOUCHDOWN.