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
Otto Herzog in 1911 was the first climber to have used the carabiner device, a metal loop with a spring-loaded gate used to quickly and reversibly connect components. It is an essential component in climbing success. The Real Estate Carabiner equally understands the importance of being able to connect components, whether people, systems, tasks or networks to create a better business. There are three critical parts of the Carabiner: the anchor (you), the loop… Read More »Real Estate Carabiner
It’s been awhile but the Two Minute Tip is back with Tip 24: two (well, three) new technology additions from Apple, a joke (hilarious) and a call for tip topics. Enjoy….
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
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!
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
The Two Minute Tip on Better Blogging Imagine you’re in the checkout line at the supermarket. Someone you know or don’t know strikes up a conversation with you. They discover you’re in real estate. They ask THE ONLY QUESTION THEY ASK: How’s the market? SO….. You tell them. Somewhere in that chat, you mention that your particular market is sort of a seller’s market and multiple offers abound. They say, “isn’t it… Read More »Tips For Great Blogging and Why You Don’t
2013 has been an outstanding year for my little project, Rich Sands Seminars. I taught 93 days this year, which was just short of my goal of 100 (work on that next time). I was fortunate enough to travel from upstate New York, to Pocatello, Idaho, to Birmingham, AL. And a lot of places in between. As far as topics, courses, subjects go, fifteen CRS two day courses were at… Read More »Thanks!
It’s Black Friday. That means retail season is upon us and consumers are out in plenty. It’s a time where stores make or don’t make their biggest profits and also a time where good or bad customer service is as easy to see as a giant zit on the end of a nose. It’s crunch time. In athletics the phrase crunch time is used to describe a time in a… Read More »Hug A Retail Worker Today