No matter where you hang your hat and no matter where you take off your shoes. You still have to meander into the bathroom at some point and have a good look at yourself in the mirror. That person staring back at you is your reflection. How do you look these days. Have you let yourself go a bit in some area or another?Have you been too hard on loved ones? Have you started self destructive activities, "I do too much _______________" fill in the blank.
These aren't the only things that are on that surface of self reflection. We owe it to ourselves to take a deep breath and a hard look at who we are and what we have become. If you take one of those hard looks, the deep ones that last for several minutes, and come up with something you want to change. Then change it. You have the ability to move mountains, or at least sell them.
It is absolutely important not to lose the gift of imagination. It is equally important not to loose the ability to be thankful. Stop in your tracts and the reading of this blog post and thank "Whomever you are thankful to", for the ability to see the words on this screen. Be thankful for the small things in life then the big ones will be appreciated all that much more.
You and I walked into a store to purchase a particular item, let us say we are going to the store to buy a hair dryer. I have not needed one of those for the past 17 years, but what the heck. So we walk in and are looking in the hair dryer department. We look over to the cash register and there are two employees just chewing the fat totally oblivious that we are standing there. But we still look, those employees have to see us. So we cough. But nothing, they are still acting like we are invisible. (probably wondering what I am doing in the hair dryer section, especially if I am shopping with Jeff Turner). The manager walks through and stops and asks if we need help. Why? Because he has more riding on the line than those two chatty kathy's at the cash register. They work hourly, not salary. The manager gets judged on the amount of revenue the store is able to produce and maintain. Which one are you? How do you treat your Real Estate Business?
When you are out and about during your travels, you are probably not always thinking about Real Estate. Some of us do and that is our focal point. But might I suggest that you give yourself more ownership over every where you go. You have a product to sell and it is Real Estate. You carry that ability with you where ever you go. You inventory is not transportable. Therefore you need to develop ways to present it to the masses when you are on the move.
If you are one of those that are waiting for it to happen you will miss out and suffer more in this hard market that the ones that make it happen. Every where you go you must make contacts with the people that you are around. Give them a card or a pen with your website on it. The card is easier to shun, but giving someone a $.28 cent writing implement that that can use is something that will be taken.
Cold calling is great, but I get more response when people can see me purchasing "hair dryers".
