THE Peak Performance Newsletter - Issue # 1
This is the very first issue of my new newsletter and I'm so glad you're here.
My aim with this newsletter is to provide you with insights into driving up sales performance as well as your optimizing your mental performance to drive improvements in your business and personal life.
So, let's dive in!
The Sales and Business Growth Corner
Stop Pushing That Boulder Uphill!
Getting other people to buy into your idea or product or service can sometimes feel like pushing a boulder uphill, only to have it roll back down over you.
But it doesn’t need to be that way.
The reason most fail at this is because they are approaching it from the wrong perspective, their own perspective and not the “buyer’s” perspective.
When you come from your own perspective, you can come across as a self-interested “taker” looking to help yourself to their time or money.
This destroys trust and in the worst case, makes them perceive you like a used-car salesperson.
A far better and more effective approach is to be buyer-centric, which means put yourself in the buyer’s shoes and imagine how they might be seeing the challenge or opportunity you’d like to help them with.
And that’s a key point, your goal should be to help them make the best decision that enables them to get to where they want to go.
When they feel you really do care about helping them succeed, you help them buy your idea, product or service, without feeling sold.
As the great Zig Ziglar once said, “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself!
Maximizing Your Mental Performance
My New Brain Project - Building Super Brains
Why I write about the brain:
I've studied how the brain works for over 20 years because I believe it is the most complex and fascinating organ we humans have been gifted with.
I have always felt that understanding how the brain works and then using that knowledge to make it work better would be the key to raising my own performance as well as that of my clients as a peak performance coach.
Then, one day, a few years ago, I suffered a massive TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) after a biking accident.
Once I recovered from the terrible impact of the concussion, I realized that the brain is not only very powerful, but it can also be quite fragile and that if we take it for granted we can ultimately lose what makes us so unique and end up destroying out lives.
I then decided that I can no longer keep what I know to my self and needed to share this knowledge with everyone who wants to perform better in any aspect of their life and aims to live a long enjoyable and prosperous life.
That's why I'm embarking on a new initiative of sharing what I've learned through articles, posts, and online courses with everyone who cares about improving the performance in any area of their life, which all depends on having a healthy and well-functioning brain.
If you're interested in learning more, you can check out a new website dedicated to this here.
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And that's all for this week.
See you in my next issue.
To your success,
Humza
PS If you enjoyed this and would like to receive these impactufl insights and tips directly into your inbox, subscribe here
This is the very first issue of my new newsletter and I'm so glad you're here.
My aim with this newsletter is to provide you with insights into driving up sales performance as well as your optimizing your mental performance to drive improvements in your business and personal life.
So, let's dive in!
The Sales and Business Growth Corner
Stop Pushing That Boulder Uphill!
Getting other people to buy into your idea or product or service can sometimes feel like pushing a boulder uphill, only to have it roll back down over you.
But it doesn’t need to be that way.
The reason most fail at this is because they are approaching it from the wrong perspective, their own perspective and not the “buyer’s” perspective.
When you come from your own perspective, you can come across as a self-interested “taker” looking to help yourself to their time or money.
This destroys trust and in the worst case, makes them perceive you like a used-car salesperson.
A far better and more effective approach is to be buyer-centric, which means put yourself in the buyer’s shoes and imagine how they might be seeing the challenge or opportunity you’d like to help them with.
And that’s a key point, your goal should be to help them make the best decision that enables them to get to where they want to go.
When they feel you really do care about helping them succeed, you help them buy your idea, product or service, without feeling sold.
As the great Zig Ziglar once said, “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself!
Maximizing Your Mental Performance
My New Brain Project - Building Super Brains
Why I write about the brain:
I've studied how the brain works for over 20 years because I believe it is the most complex and fascinating organ we humans have been gifted with.
I have always felt that understanding how the brain works and then using that knowledge to make it work better would be the key to raising my own performance as well as that of my clients as a peak performance coach.
Then, one day, a few years ago, I suffered a massive TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) after a biking accident.
Once I recovered from the terrible impact of the concussion, I realized that the brain is not only very powerful, but it can also be quite fragile and that if we take it for granted we can ultimately lose what makes us so unique and end up destroying out lives.
I then decided that I can no longer keep what I know to my self and needed to share this knowledge with everyone who wants to perform better in any aspect of their life and aims to live a long enjoyable and prosperous life.
That's why I'm embarking on a new initiative of sharing what I've learned through articles, posts, and online courses with everyone who cares about improving the performance in any area of their life, which all depends on having a healthy and well-functioning brain.
If you're interested in learning more, you can check out a new website dedicated to this here.
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And that's all for this week.
See you in my next issue.
To your success,
Humza
PS If you enjoyed this and would like to receive these impactufl insights and tips directly into your inbox, subscribe here
THE Peak Performance Newsletter - Issue # 2
The Sales and Business Growth Corner
People Hate Being Sold but they Love to Buy
I think we all intuitively know this is true and yet I constantly see people behaving like they have no clue.
I’ve seen people shamelessly push their ideas, products, services, and “solutions” on others thinking, “If I just tell them how great it is they’ll buy my stuff.”
The problem is, it just doesn’t work.
Why?
Because people buy for their reasons, not yours.
Think about the last time you were actually excited about buying something.
If you’re like most people, it’s not because you had to buy it because you were forced to but because you WANTED to buy it.
And because you WANTED to buy it, you actually enjoyed the experience.
So, what if we could help people realize that we can help them get what they want?
And what if we also made it easy for them to buy from us and provided them with a great experience that made them feel good about it?
Don’t you think we’d all get a bit further in selling things that actually matter?
Maximizing Your Mental Performance
The Neuroscience of Rejection
There's a very good reason why rejection stings.
From a neuroscience perspective, when someone rejects your offer/proposal, it feels like they are rejecting you personally.
Our brains are wired for connection because historically (or prehistorically) being rejected/ejected from the tribe meant almost certain death.
That's why it hurts so much, our emotional centres of the brain thinks we're being thrown out of the tribe and it's a matter of life and death.
The best thing you can do is get your thinking part of the brain back online by reframing the rejection as "it's not the end of the world, they're not rejecting me personally, they just said no to the offer, so if I figure out why, I can improve my chances of getting a yes next time."
BTW, speaking of neuroscience, I'm working on a project to help people improve their performance by unlocking the mysteries of how our brains work. If you're interested in learning more, you can check out the details here.
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And that's all for this week.
See you in my next issue.
To your success,
Humza
PS If you enjoyed this and would like to receive these impactufl insights and tips directly into your inbox, subscribe here
The Sales and Business Growth Corner
People Hate Being Sold but they Love to Buy
I think we all intuitively know this is true and yet I constantly see people behaving like they have no clue.
I’ve seen people shamelessly push their ideas, products, services, and “solutions” on others thinking, “If I just tell them how great it is they’ll buy my stuff.”
The problem is, it just doesn’t work.
Why?
Because people buy for their reasons, not yours.
Think about the last time you were actually excited about buying something.
If you’re like most people, it’s not because you had to buy it because you were forced to but because you WANTED to buy it.
And because you WANTED to buy it, you actually enjoyed the experience.
So, what if we could help people realize that we can help them get what they want?
And what if we also made it easy for them to buy from us and provided them with a great experience that made them feel good about it?
Don’t you think we’d all get a bit further in selling things that actually matter?
Maximizing Your Mental Performance
The Neuroscience of Rejection
There's a very good reason why rejection stings.
From a neuroscience perspective, when someone rejects your offer/proposal, it feels like they are rejecting you personally.
Our brains are wired for connection because historically (or prehistorically) being rejected/ejected from the tribe meant almost certain death.
That's why it hurts so much, our emotional centres of the brain thinks we're being thrown out of the tribe and it's a matter of life and death.
The best thing you can do is get your thinking part of the brain back online by reframing the rejection as "it's not the end of the world, they're not rejecting me personally, they just said no to the offer, so if I figure out why, I can improve my chances of getting a yes next time."
BTW, speaking of neuroscience, I'm working on a project to help people improve their performance by unlocking the mysteries of how our brains work. If you're interested in learning more, you can check out the details here.
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And that's all for this week.
See you in my next issue.
To your success,
Humza
PS If you enjoyed this and would like to receive these impactufl insights and tips directly into your inbox, subscribe here
THE Peak Performance Newsletter - Issue # 3
The Sales and Business Growth Corner
People Hate Being Sold but they Love to Buy
I think we all intuitively know this is true and yet I constantly see people behaving like they have no clue.
I’ve seen people shamelessly push their ideas, products, services, and “solutions” on others thinking, “If I just tell them how great it is they’ll buy my stuff.”
The problem is, it just doesn’t work.
Why?
Because people buy for their reasons, not yours.
Think about the last time you were actually excited about buying something.
If you’re like most people, it’s not because you had to buy it because you were forced to but because you WANTED to buy it.
And because you WANTED to buy it, you actually enjoyed the experience.
So, what if we could help people realize that we can help them get what they want?
And what if we also made it easy for them to buy from us and provided them with a great experience that made them feel good about it?
Don’t you think we’d all get a bit further in selling things that actually matter?
Maximizing Your Mental Performance
The Neuroscience of Rejection
There's a very good reason why rejection stings.
From a neuroscience perspective, when someone rejects your offer/proposal, it feels like they are rejecting you personally.
Our brains are wired for connection because historically (or prehistorically) being rejected/ejected from the tribe meant almost certain death.
That's why it hurts so much, our emotional centres of the brain thinks we're being thrown out of the tribe and it's a matter of life and death.
The best thing you can do is get your thinking part of the brain back online by reframing the rejection as "it's not the end of the world, they're not rejecting me personally, they just said no to the offer, so if I figure out why, I can improve my chances of getting a yes next time."
BTW, speaking of neuroscience, I'm working on a project to help people improve their performance by unlocking the mysteries of how our brains work. If you're interested in learning more, you can check out the details here.
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And that's all for this week.
See you in my next issue.
To your success,
Humza
PS If you enjoyed this and would like to receive these impactufl insights and tips directly into your inbox, subscribe here