Save & Be Happy: Ant vs Grass-hopper

Save & Be Happy: Ant vs Grass-hopper

You must have all heard the story of the Ant and the Grass-hopper. The grass-hopper would eat-drink and make merry / enjoy during summer time. The ant would pain-stakingly gather and save every bit of food that he could find. The grass-hopper would mock the ant for being so forward thinking and not enjoying the moment. The smart ant, enjoyed the moment and also saved for rainy days. During monsoon, the grass-hopper did not have anything to eat and hence was miserable. On the other hand the small, tiny ant could have proper meals throughout the day and even in times of difficulty could stay happy.

How many of us are willing to undergo small difficulties in the present so that our future is happy?

We all are here to be happy? Not to be miserable and sad. Yet many a times we get swayed so much by happy times that we forget that “There is nothing permanent in life”. Good / Comfortable times or Bad / Difficult times do not last forever. And it is also true that difficult times actually put so many burdens on us that for a long time we are kept away from happiness and enjoyment. We forget to laugh and be happy. Every small barrier seems like a mountain, coz we do not have the needed resources.

By saving, small amounts we can ensure difficult times do not last for long. We can build reserves. We can ensure that even in difficult times, we are not troubled; or at least face minimum troubles. Having a back-up has never put anybody at loss. On the contrary it has mostly helped book profits and progress. It has helped continuity. It has helped growth. It has helped attain peace of mind.

So SABH: Save And Be Happy!

Save judiciously. First save in financial instruments that give you assured returns.  Then play a little. Take a little risk and save your money in equities, debt funds, commodities market, gold, etc. Also keep some hard cash / money (3 to 6 months income) with self to be used for contingencies.

Remember that the top-most purpose of saving money is to ensure continuity of money; and hence continued happiness for self and family. Money cannot buy you happiness. Money smartly saved and invested can multiply your wealth and can give you avenues, situations to be happy.

SABH: Save And Be Happy!

Think +ve, Be +ve

Ajit Vidyadharan

Certified Wealth Manager / Financial Advisor
Certified Trainer, Certified Leadership & Performance Coach
Sabhav Wealth Management Services
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Are Top Sales Reps arrogant?

Articel by Shamus, Sales guru --

Are Top Sales Reps arrogant?

The short answer is "It depends".

It depends on who's answering the question.

If you ask this of the satisfied customers of the Top Sales Rep, the answer will probably be No. His customers most certainly like and respect him.

One thing that Top Sales Reps figure out how to do is to talk and think like their target market. They are able to talk, think, dress, and act like the decision-makers that they sell to.

What do you call someone who talks, thinks, dresses, and acts somewhat like you? I call that person my friend. Such things are the basis of unconscious rapport you see.

And I never think of my friends as arrogant.

Do you?

I mean your friends that you like, not ones that you just tolerate.

Now if you ask the people who didn't buy from the Top Sales Rep, is he arrogant? The answer may (or may not) be Yes.

The people who didn't buy from the Top Sales Rep may sometimes be upset at how he handled them.

They'll be upset if they expected free demonstrations, advice, proposals, etc., etc. and the Top Sales Rep didn't give it to him.

Instead he qualified them.

He qualified them hard.

He asked tough questions about how much bux they had to spend, why they were even in the market right now, would they really buy something or was this just a fishing expedition.

Some prospects (not all, but some) would find these questions annoying.

They want to be catered to.

They expect the salesman to "serve" him. After all service is what they get when they go out to eat or go shopping at Nordstrom.

And when the professional salesman, the Top Sale Rep, declines to give blind, free service without getting something in return, he may get called arrogant.

So what.

It doesn't really matter.

Because true business people understand why you ask hard questions. True business people appreciate the hard questions, because it shows you know something about business, and it shows that you are trying to understand
their business, and it shows that you are interested in and capable of helping them.

So to the best prospects, and the real decision makers in power that matter, the Top Sales Rep is never seen as arrogant.

He's a business partner.

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Think +ve, Be +ve.  Save & Be Happy

Ajit Vidyadharan

Certified Wealth Manager / Financial Advisor
Certified Trainer, Certified Leadership & Performance Coach
Sabhav Wealth Management Services
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Your Best is Nothing

An article by Robin Sharma (The Monk who sold his Ferrari) --

Daily Kickstart: Your Best is Nothing. Ok--before you say that i'm being hard on you or that i'm encouraging people not to celebrate their gifts+talents+progress, pls allow me to explain. This morning I worked out. Hard. I was doing squat jumps and jumping jacks and all sorts of strange manoeuvers with my trainer. Then we got to the pushups. "Go to failure," she instructed. "I don't do anything to failure," i said--only half-joking. And then i got down on my hands. And gave it my best. I pushed out maybe 40 pushups and then stopped. It's like my chest and arms just froze up as i reached the edge of my strength. "Now go for more," she said. And guess what. I gave 15 more.

So here's the point that I'm messily trying to make: often, we push to our best and fall into the trap of thinking this is all we have within us. But the truth is: that's just our mental limits at play. We have more. We can do more. We can pushout more. And we can become more. Your best is nothing. So today, play big. Or go home. Your fan, Robin

Think +ve, Be +ve

Ajit Vidyadharan

Certified Wealth Manager / Financial Advisor
Certified Trainer, Certified Leadership & Performance Coach
Sabhav Wealth Management Services
+919664966416