A Life Insurance Agent's Only Limits
Are Self-Imposed Mental Handcuffs!
I truly believe that the United States is the greatest country in the world. This is the only place on the planet that you can achieve ANYTHING if you want it bad enough and if you’re willing to make the necessary sacrifices.
Take Arnold Schwarzenegger for instance. Here’s a guy who came to America with nothing but a dream. Through persistence and pure determination he created a hugely successful career in the body building industry, and another success as a movie actor- in spite of an accent. And now he’s the governor of California with aspirations to alter U.S. law to allow a foreigner to be president…With his determination, I think he will succeed.
Now maybe that’s an extreme example but there are also many life insurance agents out there whoe are testing the waters and pushing the limits and proving that great things can happen if you only have faith in yourself and actually pursue your goals.
But the sad thing is most life insurance agents never get anywhere near testing their real limits; they stop far short, well within their self-imposed limits.
In your business life, you should constantly be asking yourself; what is holding me back, what will it take to achieve my goals. As you confront the reasons, you should then question whether they are real limits or self-imposed limits.
In my Leaders Producers Group, for example, we have an agent who was just starting to sell annuities… He was thrilled with his initial success but he felt confined to his own area and therefore was limited in his growth.
At that point he hadn’t tried selling to his life insurance leads over the phone or by mail, he felt more comfortable selling face to face. With a little guidance and a little nudging, I’m happy to say that he is now selling life insurance and annuities throughout his state over the phone and he is in the process of expanding to 2 bordering states.
Often, limits are self-imposed because we ask ourselves very limiting questions. For instance, the agent in which I was referring to had asked me, “How can I get more out of my area?” Instead of answering him, I proceeded to ask him if he ever considered the question, “How can I expand my area?” If you only ask small questions, you can never get “big” answers!
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