Where do you want to go today?
[See in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago]
Does this refrain sound familiar to you? It does to me, having lingered in some dusty backroad in my mind ever since it debuted as a Microsoft ad in 1994. Billed in a New York Times review as "a winsome, humanistic approach to demystifying technology" the ad may have been doomed because it was perhaps too winsome.
No matter, I love the phrasing. I love it because of the essence of hope that it implies.
Where do you want to go today?
Where do I want to go? Of course there are practical considerations of where I want to go. This morning I had to process a contract with a buying client for a Wicker Park home, show a Bucktown listing later in the morning, go to a closing for a South Loop condo in Chicago's Loop this afternoon and run comps for a buying client thinking of making an investment purchase in Streeterville.
But where I want to go aside from the tick marks in my appointment book? Part of the answer is easy - I want to be a good father and a loving husband, to be a thoughtful member of the community who is respected as an individual and as a Chicago real estate professional, to be honored among my friends, family and clients.
But some responses to this question are a bit more difficult. A few months back my wife and I bought a condo in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood. We just finished the redo of both the kitchen and the bath (which turned out ridiculously nice).
Anyway, for the first time since buying we have stayed in our new place this week. And it feels like we are on vacation (despite my full dance card with respect to appointments).
I mention this because when thinking about where I want to go the answer is intertwined with my wife and my sons and a significant part of the reply has to do with being in different locations. In other words, traveling.
Both near and far.
My good fortune is that I love representing people who buy and sell homes in the Chicago real estate market. And if you haven't met me yet, these folks tend to think highly of me as an attorney with whom I have worked called today to refer an Old Town townhome listing and another couple I met a few weeks back contacted me this morning to see a West Lakeview single family.
In a day or two or next week or so these conversations will comprise tick marks in my appointment book that will determine in part where I want to go that day. And as I return this evening to our Lakeview condo in partial vacation mode I will bask in the glory of my family while contemplating still where yet I want to go. The great news is that the answer rests with me. It dwells in my hopes and aspirations and will, with my family, be answered.
Where do I want to go today? I will let you know. But so far I am off to a great start.
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