Non Example

One of my best friends in this world has been (until recently) over five hundred pounds for probably about ten years. When it comes to health and nutrition and what you should and should not do to get your metabolism working properly, he has more knowledge than any other two people that I know.

If a person is looking for just about any kind of dietary information or advice, he either knows it or knows where to direct a person to find it. He can give long lectures on the benefits of one food or the hazards of some supplement. People do ask his opinion,but they rarely follow his advice when it comes to being healthy.

Why?

Because he has failed to show by his own actions that he truly understands and agrees with the advice that he gives. The two most likely options are, either he is following it and he is wrong about its effectiveness, or he is not following it and he is right. Neither of those two circumstances inspire faith in what he says.

A slim in shape person is going to have people begging them for diet, exercise and nutrition information. And people will listen to and follow what they say with near religious devotion. They MUST know what they are talking about. See how great they look!

Whether you are giving someone advice or selling them a product, people are going to judge you based on how that thing is being used by you personally.

If you go door to door as a shoe salesman you had better wear some of the very same shoes that you sell, because if you do not, people are going to want to know why not. If the shoes are not good enough for you to wear, they are not good enough for other people to want to buy.

Sometimes when I go out, I will go to a mall and stop at the food court. If I see a new restaurant that I have not eaten at before, I will go over and ask the employees how the food there is. If their response is that it is very good, sometimes I give it a chance. But every time an employee has told me they do not know, they eat somewhere else, they have never gotten a sale.

The point here is that you need to lead by example. What you say and how you say it are almost completely non important, when compared to what you do. If you provide the right example in your way of being, your advice, your product, whatever it is that you have to offer, sells itself.

Take your own advice. Be the person you are suggesting others be. Use your own products and be able to express to people what your life was like both before and after having them. If you show by your way of being that the things you are offering have enhanced your life in a way that seems appealing to others, they will want what you have.

And they will practically beat down your door to get it. You won't even need a sales pitch. All you will have to do is show up and collect payment.