7/18/2024-On this day, Nadia got a 10

Nadia Comăneci was playing for Gold medals; you’re playing for big commissions. Both of you know you need to be maniacal about the behaviors and habits that drive the results you want.

In 1976, at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games in Montreal.

At the same Games, she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals.

(Standing O, anyone??)

So why is this important to you, Olympic Athlete Seller?

Nadia’s accomplishments are a reminder to shoot for 10s.

Nadia wasn’t competing for average. Neither are you.

Nadia was the first gymnast to successfully perform an aerial cartwheel-back handspring series on the balance beam.

What is your aerial cartwheel-back handspring?

While you should always focus on "development areas" (a benign term for "weaknesses"), don’t forget about your numerous strengths. There’s nothing wrong with shouting from the rooftops: "Nobody’s better at X than me."

Today, think about one of your specific superpowers and plot a way to push it even further.

Play to your strengths!

Nadia Comăneci was known for her clean technique, innovative and difficult original skills, and her stoic, cool demeanor in competition.

Four years after her epic "10" performance in 1976 at the Montreal Games, Nadia won two more gold medals and achieved two more perfect 10s in the 1980 Moscow Games.

During her career, Nadia won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals.

While medals aren’t handed out in Sales, big commission checks are. It’s the primary way to keep score. The other way is to constantly take on residency in your company’s TOP 10% of sales performers.

Either way you score it, you first have to be maniacal about the behaviors and habits that drive the results you want. No doubt Nadia would spend weeks practicing one tiny part of her performance to make sure she nailed it in front of the judges…when the heat was highest.

If you’re not getting the results you want – and think you deserve – learn how to develop a plan that creates habits and skill application that will get you what you are working for.

By now, you’re curious about what "perfect" looked like in 1976 to the gymnastic judges at the Montreal Games.

Sit back and enjoy Nadia’s grace, athleticism, strength…and perfection in this highlight clip from her timeless Olympics performance.