Hello everyone. Welcome to part four in my series of Climbing To The Top! I hope that you enjoy the story of my life. I have been on vacation this week, and I have had a good time off from work. Please be sure to share any comments that you may have about the story. Please enjoy. Thanks, Ed
After selling flowers seeds I went on to sell greeting cards that following fall. I followed the same way that my mother showed me buy selling to my friends and family first then started on the route that I created. I did it for a couple of years.
Now is a good time to tell you about rejection and success. I look back on this first sales position that I had at the start of my life and I want you to know that in order to get to my goal I believe that I talked to over one hundred people and that I only sold to about only half of them. So you see to get what I really wanted I had to deal with a lot of rejection from what seemed to be a lot of people in order to get the success that I was looking for at that time. I didn’t know at the time that this first lesson was to be a mere stepping stone to the real lesson of life as I would come to know it.
In the business of sales rejection is a normal thing and that is the reason that a lot of people don’t even try to challenge themselves with this choice of a career. The trick is to not take rejection of a sale, personnel. If you go home and you spouse does not show their affection for you, then you could say that is personnel. To get more sales that you must deal with more rejection. Being told no a lot at the age of eight is a hard lesson to learn, but coming home to a mother and father who understood that there were going to be a lot of no’s certainly helped me to understand not to take no to heart.
One day my mother sent me to the grocery store, it was a small market close by. I saw a boy there that was the older than me by a couple of years and I knew his sister from school. We talked a little and he said that they were moving to another state. He had a morning paper route and that he had to find someone to take the route over. I asked asked how old you had to be and he said twelve. I had just turned twelve. I ran home to ask my folks if I could take the route. They were a little hesitant as you had to pick up the papers at 3:00 in the morning. They weren’t too thrilled at that because I would be getting up two hours before them. I begged and they agreed.
