I think at some point in a real estate industry career and your life for that matter you have to ask yourself this fundamental question,

      Are You A Flying Squirrel?

Despite this rather humorous photo that illustrates this post of a floating through the clouds rodent, do you know that flying squirrels really do exist? They are just different. Unlike "ordinary" squirrels that run up a tree then down, across the ground, and up the next tree, a "flying squirrel" goes about life a different way.

They are "out of box thinkers." They leap between trees, spread their hide and literally glide between the trees. They do not follow the normal patterns of doing things the way everyone else does them. Think of the Wright Brothers who were basically bicycle men in the days of horse and buggies. They tinkered with that winged contraption at Kitty Hawk till that gas engine finally lifted it off the ground and they "were doing something a different and BETTER way."

We need to examine our stale and staid ways from time to time and make that quantum leap to a better way of thinking, and a better way of living both in our careers and in our life. Different routes to a destination, better tools, a more ideally suited targeted client, ways to have richer, deeper relationships with people. Be a flying squirrel and soar and let the others look for the dried up acorns on the ground. You are better than that!