Our personality holds the keys to our success.  It has been proven time and time again that your personality coupled with your skillset is the driving force behind the curtain of your leap to the top.  Whether in sales, management, administration or entrepreneurship, there are three key components of your personality that must be explored closely in order for you to excel.

Based on the Winslow model, these three traits are most influential on impacting your ability to weather the storm of tough times.  According to Winslow, Dr. Denis Waitley and several more experts in the field it is critical to get focused on your Self Confidence, Ambition and Mental Toughness (SAM).

Breaking down each one of these and seeing their interrelationships is vital to understanding why, in no particular order, they work so well for us and can crush your chances to succeed.

Self-confidence, from an athletes perspective is the ability to tap into that all important God gifted, Universe gifted or where ever you believe it comes from base talent we all have inside of us.  These core gifts we have is what our Confidence is based on.  I really like the definition of this as it relates to an athlete.

The athlete with high Self-confidence is described as having unfaltering confidence in self and the capacity to deal with things; handles unexpected situations well; speaks up for beliefs to coaches and other players.  Athletes have a wide range of talents in different areas and athletic competition invariably involves a test of those abilities.  Accompanying this talent is the belief in one’s ability, knowing one’s potential as well as one’s limits.  Athletes high in Self-confidence have great belief in their skills, knowledge, experiences and ability.  They have a strong feeling they can accomplish the goal.  More importantly, they possess a willingness to accept challenges that may exceed their capabilities.  Confident athletes continually strive to meet and test the limits of their capacity.

Taking this explanation and overlaying with your business practices can lead to great insights into how critical it is to “think” like an athlete.  Read that explanation again and you quickly see your “thinking” expose itself.  I would suggest you capture this thinking and see what parts you can apply to yourself or your team.

Next is Ambition.  Just as I mentioned in a previous post, your Ambition / Drive are key in the decision strategy you operate from while making choices moment to moment.  While it is quite obvious that one’s ambition contributes greatly to your success,  I like to point out how easy it is to spot the upcoming burn-out factor if you fixate on this part of success.  Please read my previous post, “High Ambition / Drive” so as to understand why and how this plays such a key role.

By the way, I recently taught a class attended by 50 plus Realtors and asked what they thought the top three traits of success were?  Of course their answers included Self-Confidence and Ambition however they couldn’t come up with the third trait quite so easily.  Just as I asked this group -  I have asked this a hundred times to many other groups always getting the same result,  people most always overlook this third trait, Mental-toughness.  People have asked me over and over why that is and I can only hypothesize that it’s a result of no “formal” sales training.  Long term sales success is predicated on recovery and one’s ability to get back in the saddle.

Periodic failure is an unavoidable aspect of operating your own business or working within someone else’s.  Although there are many potential responses to these setbacks, the mentally tough person is able to respond by “bouncing back” quickly and at times even becomes stronger as a result.  This ability to recover means across the board.  Whether it is finance, clients, co-workers, supervisors or the universe, this person can quickly pick themselves up, dust themselves off and get back to the business at hand.

Self-confidence, Ambition and Mental-toughness, examine it within you and check your internal map.

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