A mindset is a mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person’s responses to and interpretations of situations. Some people believe that mindsets are fixed. I believe mindsets are capable of growth and change. The Listing Mindset, therefore, can be developed, It is not present at birth. So how do we get there? First (and foremost) you must THINK listings. It is said that what you think about expands, so think… Read More »Get the Listing Mindset
A great journalist and entertainer, Stuart Scott, died after a seven year fight with cancer Sunday morning. He was 49 years old. My sons grew up with Stuart. He was their introduction to sports from a perspective to which they could relate. He was different, he was fun, he was COOL. Stuart Scott was more than cool, however, he was a leader. He was a Black leader in a business… Read More »Five Leadership (and Life) Lessons From Stuart Scott.
0% financing has induced car buyers into taking the plunge because it doesn’t cost anything to use someone else’s money. While mortgage rates are not at zero, they’re close enough that many buyers are applying similar logic. Qualified mortgage interest is deductible on taxpayers’ returns subject to the maximum acquisition debt of one million dollars. For the fortunate homeowners who have paid off their mortgage, their acquisition debt was reduced… Read More »Reducing Interest Expense
Occasionally life and work can become amazingly simple. A goal(s) can make things clearer. Sometimes all we’d like to do is get/be better. Fortunately, there is a pretty simple three step process to achieve that and it was given to us by Tony Robbins. First, if you want to be better, you have to have a higher standard. If you want to be “better” then yesterday’s expectations, yesterday’s standard, must… Read More »A Better Life: Two Minute Tip 25
Yesterday marked the halfway point of the year. It’s halftime so to speak. So, how’s the game going so far? You winning? Losing? Not keeping score? While it’s a pretty good idea to consistently monitor your goals throughout the year, halftime is a logical time for an in-depth check and maybe some tweaking, restructuring or ditching. Some of your goals are right on the money. You’ve done the work and… Read More »It’s Halftime: Tip 22
The real estate business is high pressure, high anxiety, high stress, not to mention a lot of work. To be able to function at your best: to be practicing what we like to call full engagement, takes it’s own special kind of effort. So with your permission, let’s talk about your LIFE! To be at your best, you have to be….well…. At your best. There are a plethora of areas… Read More »Butting Into Your Life: Tip 21
The newest addition to my course repertoire is CRS 103: Mastering Positive Change in Today’s World. This course is different. This course is about your life. You know, your life, that pesky thing that can get in the way of all kinds of productive work time. Just kidding….. Maybe……. I digress. Anyway, in CRS 103, we look at ways to have a better business as well as a better life.… Read More »Two Minute Tip: CRS 103 A Class Worth Taking
I’ve seen a lot of exciting things in 47 and a half years of running. I’ve never been more excited, or more moved than last week, watching the 2014 Boston Marathon on my iPad in a hotel room in Nashville, TN. Yes, Meb became the first American winner since 1983 and yes, it can a year after the tragic event of Boston 2013. More than that, it was Meb and… Read More »3 Things We Can Learn From Meb Keflezighi’s Boston Marathon Win!
Are you communicating well? For years people in all walks of life have discussed UCLA psychology professor Albert Mehrabian’s discovery that face to face communication can be broken into three components. 7% of what is believed when we speak comes from our words, what we say. 38% is accounted for in the way we say what we say, some call it tonality. And what others see (body language) accounts for… Read More »7 + 38 + 55 = 100 Communication: The Two Minute Tip Week 10
Our minds are like image sensitive computers. The images we carry around about ourselves and what we can and cannot do are huge influences in how we respond to the world and our level of achievement. Noted scientist, Dr Maxwell Maltz believes that the human brain is incapable of distinguishing between something that actually did happen and something that was vividly imagined. Bottom line, your brain believes what you tell… Read More »Visualizing Success: Two Minute Tip Week 6