Persuade like Edison

The power of persuasion could ultimately be the one thing standing between achieving your goal or not.  The art of persuading others to form a cooperative alliance towards any given goal or desired outcome  has been proven over and over an essential skill.  Thomas Edison for example was said to have only had  three months of formal education. Considering the achievements he accomplished over his career one would have conclude that Mr. Edison was the epitome of “persuader extraordinaire.”

Lacking the education to move forward with his goals he had to surround himself with those that had the attributes and knowledge he lacked.

• Be it chemistry
• physics
• engineering
• mathematics
  

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he sought out exactly what he needed to deliver him to a desired result.
This didn’t come by dumb luck or divine intervention.  This was an intentional applied endeavor.  The ability to attract into his life the individuals with the specific knowledge and specialized skill eventually led him to insurmountable findings that revolutionized an entire world of possibilities.

Every day we attract into our lives the instruments needed to create our desires. Much like Edison we set out to achieve greatness in whatever measure of success.

However, we let random emotions control our destination and whether we like it or not, we inadvertently take a detour on our road trip to fulfillment. The few able to define their desires clearly, whether in words or visions, are even sometimes surprised when unable to recognize the pit stops encountered along the way. The struggle to maintain course is inevitably caused by the activity inside our very minds.

• The ability or inability to control our tempers,
• our actions, our enthusiasm,
• our passion and
• our emotions

ultimately result in our destiny.

• The power of positive persuasion is that which some regard as the highest level of artistry.
• There is no argument of its validity.
• There is no question of its magnetic force.

Those that acquire and maintain positive persuasive skills through the use of applied suggestion and tactful communication achieve the results they are looking for.

There is no better way to achieve the skills of a master persuader than to go into sales. Some believe we are all sales people.

“ We are all selling something whether it is an idea, a concept, the tangible; the intangible says,”  Wally Armbruster, the author of  Where Have All of the Salesmen Gone? “If you have nothing to sell”, Armuster says, you better check your pulse, “you’re probably dead.”

The few successful salespeople that make the art of selling their careers literally earn themselves a badge of courage and arm themselves with powerful lessons of how positive persuasion can affect their lives, lessons that earn them a life of affluence and privilege.  The happiest people are the people that have persuaded into their lives exactly what they wanted.