Nudging the boundary of complacency in Real Estate Success

A Real Estate Career is not for the faint of hearts; it is a Challenging Pursuit, and one of the Major Obstacles to Achieving Success is “Negotiating Against Ourselves.” While most Real Estate Agents understand the importance of keeping their promises to clients, they often Struggle to Keep their Promises to Themselves. This insidious absence of Self-Integrity in some, can have serious consequences that can Derail their progress.

Happiness is not an esoteric state of being that is ephemeral and out of reach; it is a deliberate pursuit of bringing “Good” within the reach of those around us. - #KeySuccessIdeas - Happiness lives in Action not passivity and does not have a Dollar amount attached to it. H...

Working your Business as an Entrepreneur is not always smooth; you have to work on some difficult problems; it is not always Sunshine and Roses - you have to get at the difficult tasks and get them out of the way. - #KeySuccessIdeas - You are not going to always want to wake up in the m...

If you carefully study the amount of time and level of difficulty of your Daily Business Activities you will find that 99.9% of them are very straightforward and easy to complete, and only involve a few steps. - #KeySuccessIdeas - They tend to be intellectually uncomplicated; within the grasp of your abilities; and take little time to comp...

A Real Estate Career is unlike any other; it is an Emotional Career - a Career in which the emotional courage of the entrepreneur plays a big part day in day out. - #KeySuccessIdeas - Many consider the word “emotion” as the opposite of reason which is quite erroneous; emotions and logic live side by side and are not on opposite...

Procrastination, Perfection, Fear, Hesitation, Rejection, Competition, Stress, Excuses, Pressure, are all words that enter and reside in the vocabulary of all entrepreneurs. - #KeySuccessIdeas - I want you to consider two of my favorite words: Progress and Done. Progress is very straightforward - we work each day to make progress not to be...

Ah the end of the year, in fact the end of the Decade; we are jumping into the 20’s with a cool numbered year - 2020; it is a year that sounds sexy; it is a decade that we will call the Twenties, or the 2020’s. - #KeySuccessIdeas - The previous decade did not have a name; it was name-wise blah. This one is exciting and it will cause many of us to s...

The ability to tackle Conflict and Resolve it is a daily grind for Real Estate Professionals. Inherent in a Real Estate Transaction is Conflict, and our agents must learn certain techniques that help not aggravate such situations. - #KeySuccessIdeas - Why do I say that Real Estate Transactions...

The Road to Success is not always about obsessing about how to reach Success, but rather about focusing on the fundamentals of your endeavors and of your career. - #KeySuccessIdeas - This is the time a year for you to have clear goals for 2020 and to visualize them so they are clear in your mind, in fact if would help tremendously if you created a vi...

The most significant hunger for Entrepreneurs is the desire to learn; to absorb ideas and find a way to implement them in one’s business. #KeySuccessIdeas - Smart Entrepreneurs know that they are in the business to Personal Growth; they must get themselves in tune with the demands of the marketplace. Personal Development is a daily grind of...

You will hear me nudge Entrepreneurs and Real Estate Professionals to build better relationships with Sleep and Waking Up Early in all my Strategy Courses, Training Programs, and Boot-Camps. #KeySuccessIdeas - It is not a capricious approach to running one’s business - I say it is a Necessary one. I always share the need to ha...

Gratitude plays a big role in the life of Entrepreneurs and especially Real Estate Professionals; your business is a people business and you cannot succeed by yourself sitting on island. #KeySuccessIdeas - You are connected to the community, to your neighbors, and to all the people thinking about Buying and Selling nearby. You are in the busin...

The ability to be present and focus on the task at hand is an unappreciated skill and those who master it have an enormous edge over their competition. #KeySuccessIdeas - So let’s talk about focus and how you may bring some of it into your Business. Let’s start with the good news, everyone has the ability to focus and exercises it dai...

There is an old saying that I like to remind my students to be mindful of: “We Get What We Focus On!” and it has many sides of interpretation; the easiest one is a positive affirmative side; #KeySuccessIdeas - if you choose to focus on the Good and help it become part of your daily existence, the “Good” will start flourish...

Does Sleep matter in the life of an Entrepreneur? Oh my… Our Real Estate Professionals are deprived of sleep; and it is mostly of their making. #KeySuccessIdeas - Sleep in our culture is never prioritized, but eating, drinking, and watching TV are always at the top of the list. We must accept that since the late 40’s our society has graduall...

Stuck, or the feeling of “being stuck” - unable to get out of the morass one gets into, happens to all Entrepreneurs and Real Estate Professionals. #KeySuccessIdeas - It is almost like a dark gray cloud decided to follow you around, and it is its mission to make everything in your life sour. You intellectually know you are stuck and a part o...

When swimming in any Entrepreneurial Career many understand the need to build Knowledge and Systems in a deliberate way, but there is another area that should not be ignored; #KeySuccessIdeas - and some argue encompasses the previous two areas: Confidence, or more specifically Self-Confidence. Culturally Confidence is viewed as an innate t...

Learning to Shift your Attention to the present moment is not only a Skill, it is a major Liberator of Anxiety and Fear; which tend to hinder the progress of many Entrepreneurs. #KeySuccessIdeas - Anxiety over a meeting, a presentation, or simply making calls is driven either by the Fear of Rejection; or the memory of past rejection...

Time is the only important ingredient in Business none of us ever control; #KeySuccessIdeas - Time is so important to the life of an entrepreneur that ignoring how to flow with it can be detrimental in the long run. I can write about this unit of existence for a long time, but I would rather be strategic and invite you to ...

A significant number of Real Estate Professionals are notoriously known for being late, and they always have very good reasons; so what is it about the Real Estate Profession that causes this unhealthy habit? #KeySuccessIdeas - Maybe we should consider a different question: Does being On-Time to appointments matter in the Real Estate Transaction? After ...