Michelangelo on The Details

 

Trifles make perfection,
and perfection is no trifle.”

– Michelangelo (1475–1564)

Italian painter and sculptor

The story, 1820, slightly edited to modernize it.)…

A friend called on Michelangelo, who was finishing a statue. Sometime afterwards he called again. The sculptor was still at his work.

His friend looking at the figure exclaimed, “You have been idle since I saw you last.”

“By no means,” replied the sculptor, “I have retouched this part, and polished that. I have softened this feature, and brought out this muscle. I have given more expression to this lip, and more energy to this limb.”

“Well, well,” said his friend, “but all these are trifles.”

“It may be so,” replied Michelangelo, “but recollect that trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

Proverb on Loving Sleep

 

“Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.”

–Proverbs 20:13

Today is 20% of your salesweek.

Two salesdays are 10% of your month. (A salesmonth is made up of roughly 20 days.)

To lose only two salesdays each month to fatigue or a desire to wait for a better day to make the call would be to lose more than a full month of salesdays each year (insane… do you see that?).

Imagine if your income reflected your slow days… and know that in the long run, it probably does.

Including today, roughly 30 salesdays remain in the quarter. Tic toc.

TBIF (too bad it’s Friday – the last salesday of the week)

Who should you remind? Get your printable salesdays for 2011.

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Hayes on Rust and Rest

“If you rest, you rust.”

–Helen Hayes (1900–1993)

American actress

Academy, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy winner

Today is 20% of your salesweek.

Two salesdays are 10% of your month.

To have only two ‘slow days’ each month is equivalent to having one full month of ‘slow days’ each year.

In sales, we can’t allow slow days – it directly impacts our income (and our company’s income).

Imagine if your income reflected your slow days… and know that in the long run, it probably does.

52 salesdays remain in the quarter. Tic toc.

(who should you remind?)

TBIF

(too bad it’s Friday – the last sales day of the week)

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