The Sales Prescription Podcast

How To Stay Motivated In Challenging Times

Episode Summary

It can be difficult to find the power to keep going when times get tough. At some point in our lives, whether in our professional or personal lives, we have felt like giving up. It's during these challenging moments that it's essential to keep motivated in order to move forward. But when it comes to motivation, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. What motivates one person may not motivate another. However, there are certain things that are universally motivating, and knowing your 'why' is one of them. Knowing your purpose makes it easier to stay motivated, and motivation awakens inner strength and power. Believe it or not, your inner strength is a powerful tool that can help you achieve anything you set your mind to. In today’s episode, Rusty and Ron are joined by Craig Terry, Director of Medicare Sales at GoHealth. They will talk about the many ups and downs of Craig's personal and professional career, how inner strength can accomplish the impossible, and how knowing your motivation can help you reach your full potential. Enjoy!

Episode Notes

It can be difficult to find the power to keep going when times get tough. At some point in our lives, whether in our professional or personal lives, we have felt like giving up. It's during these challenging moments that it's essential to keep motivated in order to move forward. 

 

But when it comes to motivation, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. What motivates one person may not motivate another. However, there are certain things that are universally motivating, and knowing your 'why' is one of them. Knowing your purpose makes it easier to stay motivated, and motivation awakens inner strength and power.

Believe it or not, your inner strength is a powerful tool that can help you achieve anything you set your mind to.

 

In today’s episode, Rusty and Ron are joined by Craig Terry, Director of Medicare Sales at GoHealth. They will talk about the many ups and downs of Craig's personal and professional career, how inner strength can accomplish the impossible, and how knowing your motivation can help you reach your full potential. 

 

Enjoy!

 

In This Episode

3:33 - The many ups and downs of Craig's professional career

 

07:06 - What drove Craig to bring himself back to a peak point 

 

09:00 - What you believe is what you will achieve

 

11:44 - An event that shook Craig's world but never let him down

 

16:50 - How to become a leader who pushes people to reach their full potential 

 

19:51- Craig's leadership philosophy

 

25:18 - The power of inner strength to make impossible things possible

 

27:49 - Success stories about people who were able to tap into their inner selves

 

31:16 - Craig's advice on how salespeople can tap into the reservoir of motivation and pull themselves up

 

Favorite Quotes

32:29 - "Always figure out what your motivation is and then just don't give up. Don't let things that come in your way, be in the way. I firmly believe that we can do whatever we want to do. You just have to do it. Just find out that grit, that inner thing that you have, that's gonna separate you from everybody else." - Ron Halbert

 

06:32 - "Sales career in life is just like a river. Sometimes you're going through rapids and you got to hang on, you gotta face the storm and just do what it takes to make it through. Other times you're floating along, getting a suntan. It just all boils down to what your motivation in life is." - Craig Terry

 

06:55 - "Life is just a series of ups and downs. And you have to hope that you have more ups than downs. But when you are down, you need to climb your way out. You need to get your way back up." - Ron Halbert

 

07:47 - "You have to believe that you can do better. You have to believe that you can be in a better spot than you're in right now. And it's that internal belief that I can do better than this. I just have to find a way to do it." - Craig Terry

 

08:21 - "People don't realize what human potential is. We have the potential to do unbelievable things. But the people that actually show that potential are the people that believe that they can." - Ron Halbert

 

11:04 - "To get people to become motivated, sometimes they have to dig deep. They kind of have to have grit and they have to dig deep into a reservoir to kind of pull up who they really are. And sometimes it takes traumatic events for that to come out." - Rusty Jensen

 

18:02 - "There are core things within people that drive them and motivate them. You just have to be able to understand how to lead somebody from within themselves. You can't lead them from outside. You have to lead them from within." - Craig Terry

 

26:51 - "Human beings can do anything they want to do if they just tap into that inner strength." - Craig Terry

 

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