Solution. A solution is needed when there is a problem or a situation. I used to have a friend that would call me all the time. Almost always it was, David I have a problem. Well, I didn't like her always telling me that she had a problem, cause that always sounds so bad.
So I use to reply, No, you don't have a problem, you have a situation. Then she would say, OK David, I have this situation. Then she would tell me her situation.
I would analyse it the best I could and told her how she might handle her situation. Usually after that she would calm down and we could talk of more pleasant things.
I remember working at McDonald's as a kid back in the late 70's after high school. You see I was the only grill person there, but I was running out meat. So I ran down stairs into the basement and into the walk in freezer. I didn't have too much time so I would grab three boxes of meat, about 90 pounds.
They did have a conveyor belt, but it went too slow, so my solution to my situation was to take the stairs 2 steps at a time carrying all that meat. It saved me a lot of time and it kept me on time in my cooking.
Now that I look back at that, I think it was pretty dangerous of me to do it that way. I could have asked a manager to help me, but they hardly ever used to help me.
Well, it worked and I did it several times during my career at McDonald's. Now days I wouldn't do it as in my youth I could do many things like that, but I am old now and it is a good thing I don't work at McDonald's anymore.
Later in life when I had to do sales at my telephone company job, I would study sales at home and in my car. If anybody is into sales, the best thing to do is to study sales through sales audio.
You see, the situation that young salespeople run into is they might not know how to ask for the sale. The solution for that situation is to study the closing part of sales. A really good audio to listen to is 24 Techniques For Closing The Sale by Brian Tracy.
It would be good to learn all the techniques, but also to have 2 or 3 favorite techniques that you would use all the time. So that I would keep these techniques in my head, I would play the audio in the morning as I got ready to go to work, then on my lunch break I would eat my lunch in my car and play that sales audio in my car and when I went back home I would play that sales audio again as I was fixing my dinner at home. I actually got good at it and to me it was kind of fun.
I didn't get anymore money than anybody else as I was paid a set salary. But I did the sales really seriously as it was our office's sales that made our office last as long as it did. You see the office was set to close 2 times before, but they changed their minds about it two different times.
The office did finally close and I decided to retire as I already had enough years to retire and at the time of our closure I did get a bonus to retire. I thought the office closure was political as our sales was much better than another office that they kept open, but a few years later even that office closed.
So what ever the situation is, there is a solution. It must be sought after.
Let's end with a scripture, as it is written, with Jesus speaking, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Matthew 7:7.
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Thank you, David.
