The Physics of Baseball and Selling

Fact:

A baseball thrown 90 miles per hour takes only .483 seconds to reach home plate.

A bat only makes contact with a baseball for .001 seconds. That’s only 1/1000th of a second!

The human eye blinks at a speed of .400 seconds.

According to experts, hitting a baseball thrown at high speeds is the most difficult thing to do in the sports world. The best hitters in baseball say that there is no room for a lack of concentration. You must focus on the ball from the time it leaves the pitcher’s hand until it makes contact with the bat. Things happen so fast, that even taking the time to blink can mean missing everything. It also means that a simple blink of an eye makes you take your focus off of the ball long enough to turn a home run into a strike.

How FOCUSED are you each day? Are you concentrating on the right things? Are you eliminating the “blinks” that can take your focus off of the target? Are you digging in and committing to move people around the bases, as it were? Luckily our career doesn’t require us to do the most difficult things on a daily basis. Our career just requires us to do something. As we approach the end of the month and our next bonus level is within our reach, time is definitely of the essence. It may not necessarily be in milliseconds, but in the life of a Worldpay AE, every second counts.

Skill+Training+CONCENTRATION= Sustained Success

For your joy,

John Davis