Stop Gambling, Gambling is for Losers [Start Your Week]

According to a Wall Street Journal study, 95% of heavy gamblers lose money when they gamble. And in the same study, big losers outnumbered big winners, 128 to 1. In a larger study of over 4,200 gamblers, nearly 90% lost money. I guess that’s not a surprise to most people. Everyone knows gambling is a game of chance and the chances of coming out on the winning end are very low. But people continue to do it. Some can afford to gamble with their money, most can’t.

But gambling isn’t associated only with money.

Most people don’t know that gambling has become a common practice among salespeople, especially seed sellers.  Every day, 99% of all sales reps gamble with their future. In fact, the level of gambling by seed sellers has become so high, that it’s become an accepted method of running a sales territory. They gamble all year long with the greatest number of chances taken and the greatest number of losses occurring  during harvest season...