Brian Tracy says anyone pursuing big goals will face doubters warning of failure. Sales agents especially need to stop waiting for external motivation and start hunting for leads themselves, taking personal responsibility for their results.
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Whenever you try to do something out of the ordinary, people will line up to tell you that you can't do it, why you can't do it, that you'll lose your time, you'll lose your money, that you will in effect die in the desert. Even people who should know better will try to discourage you. To achieve anything great or worthwhile, you must train yourself to rise above these people, ignoring them and pressing on toward your goal regardless.
I think that's where agents struggle, is that they think someone's going to come in, get them out of bed every day and make sure that they got deals to close and leads to call and you know, activity to do. If you want to eat, go out and kill something. Get to work.