Habit Change – are some bad habits impossible to give up?

To overcome bad habits successfully, you have to find a way that suits you.

If you are an introvert and the only job you can get is in selling, this could be seen as a disaster.  Your boss could tell you to get over your bad habit of being unable to make cold calls, either on the phone or on the doorstep.

As an introvert, you may have this terror of the phone or of asking people to buy your wares, so what do you do?

You find another way to sell.  There has to be a way for introverts to sell, so you set about finding it and then you are equipped to be the best sales person in the firm.

Whether you call this giving up a bad habit or circumnavigating around a weakness until you find a way to sell that suits you is up to you!

Being an introvert and unable to pick up the phone is not a bad habit, however, if it stops you selling and the only job you can get is selling, then it could be construed as a bad habit.

To keep your job, it is up to you to do something about it!

Introverted sales people can be very good at selling as they tend to listen to their customers, discover what prospective buyers want and then find the best product or service to suit.

Perhaps if it is possible, you will team up with an extraverted colleague who is super at getting appointments, and then you go and convert the prospective clients and share the bonuses.

The extravert is happy with cold calling and you can be happy with giving excellent service and winning the business.

This is not to say that extraverts are not good at closing the deal, it is just a way to job share successfully.