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Why You Shouldn't Play The Game Of Trivial Pursuit

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty 0575737

TriviaIn real estate you will find a lot of prima donnas. Not everyone, but there are top producers, there are team leaders, there are the #1 agents in a town who are just FULL OF THEMSELVES. Our grandioisity and pompousness needs to be put in perspective. First off, many of these people's lives are completely out of balance, when you look under the covers. Success in sales, failures at home and in marriage. Secondly, self-importance in many areas of our life is trivial in the big picture.

   We Shouldn't Play The Game Of Trivial Pursuit.

This means whether you think you are a big shot, or even if you spend all day on Facebook worrying who stole your material. So much of what we do and spend countless wasted minutes of our lives on pursuing or worrying about, is trivial. How about this line for perspective? A hundred years from now no one will care about your worries and your pursuing of money or what you consider achievement. Success is most likely doing things which are important and last with others past your time here.

We all do trivial things. Just don't make a life out of doing them.

Jeanna Martinez
RE/MAX Access - Schertz, TX

Gary - Wow!  So true...it is so easy to get caught up in mumbo jumbo and forget to focus on what is REALLY important!  Thanks for the reminder and the smile! :-)

Apr 07, 2010 07:39 AM
Paige Walker
Paige Walker - Pineville, LA
Real Estate Guru - Alexandria Pineville LA

Gary,

Great post! Everyone needs a reminder from time to time to keep what's important close to the heart.

Have a great day!

Paige

Apr 07, 2010 09:58 AM
JL Boney, III
Coldwell Banker - Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC Real Estate

There are more than enough problems in life without being trivial on top of it.

Though I do know several of those agents like you describe my friend.

Apr 07, 2010 02:51 PM
JL Boney, III
Coldwell Banker - Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC Real Estate

There are more than enough problems in life without being trivial on top of it.

Though I do know several of those agents like you describe my friend.

Apr 07, 2010 02:52 PM
Don Wixom
RE/MAX Executives Nampa, ID - Nampa, ID
"Looking out for your next move..."tm

Hey Gary, it is so true! My son is home this week, for spring break & I have allocated time to go golfing with him, go 4 wheeling, to work on our car project & to help him work on his motorcycle. This time has been much more fulfilling than my regular days at the office or showing properties. Thanks for the reminder!

Apr 07, 2010 03:04 PM
Maggie Dokic /Indialantic | 321-252-8696
Magdalena Dokic - Indialantic, FL
Selling the beach in Florida's space coast

Sometimes the prima donna's own customers realize they stink and end up calling the competition ::big smile::

Apr 08, 2010 11:42 AM
Maggie Dokic /Indialantic | 321-252-8696
Magdalena Dokic - Indialantic, FL
Selling the beach in Florida's space coast

Sometimes the prima donna's own customers realize they stink and end up calling the competition ::big smile::

Apr 08, 2010 11:44 AM
Irene Tron
Valparaiso, IN

Unfortunately, it's easy for many to lose focus on their priorities.  The problem is all around in any business. 

Apr 08, 2010 02:54 PM
June Lewis
Northwood Realty Services - New Castle, PA
Realtor Northwood Realty - New Castle,Pa Lawrence Co 7247304571

Pardon me I would like to post this blog in every Real Estate office in town....well said.  Now I think I will go back and read the other comments.  ( Just heard of a confrontaion between two agents over a stupid situation and was nothing more than a power struggle......)  What a contradiction to the mission we need to aspire to  Thanks for this post gary

Apr 10, 2010 02:29 PM
Paige Walker
Paige Walker - Pineville, LA
Real Estate Guru - Alexandria Pineville LA

What a wild post! Had no idea where you were going with it when I first read, "Why you shouldn't play the game of Trivial Pursuit"!

But how right you are! Great post Gary! Thanks! - Paige

Apr 10, 2010 03:19 PM
Cathy Lee
CL Design Services Home Staging - Danville, CA
ASP, IAHSP, RESA Danville, CA

This is not only in Real Estate-this is in every professional-Great post! So many spend time on FB getting fans when our fous and biggest fans should be our family.

Apr 11, 2010 10:44 AM
Martha Brown
Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc., Annapolis MD 21403 - Annapolis, MD
Your Homes Around Annapolis Agent

So true....very very true. I know of one primadonna agent who spent all her time when her kids were young always working. She retired a few years ago, her kids are grown now and for some strange reason have no time for her. Not strange at all...they made their own lives without her. Sad 

Apr 11, 2010 04:49 PM
Maria Morton
Platinum Realty - Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Real Estate 816-560-3758

Good one, Gary!

Apr 11, 2010 04:59 PM
Gary Swanson
Century 21 Harris & Taylor - Grants Pass, OR

Great post Gary.  We have a few prima donnas in our office, but I wonder just how happy they really are.

Apr 11, 2010 05:36 PM
Mary Douglas
United Country Ponderosa Realty, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado - Red Feather Lakes, CO
REALTOR, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

Hi Gary, I have missed stopping by your posts!  I'm sure I've been busy doing trivial things LOL!  Nice to see you again, and how right you are.

Apr 12, 2010 02:08 AM
David Cahill
Century 21 Cahill Associates - Boston, MA

You are right.  Waaaay too many!  People need to spend the time to make the deals happen, not other "trivial" things.

David in Boston

Apr 12, 2010 02:55 AM
Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
Real Estate Broker Retired

How can you disagree with such an agreeable guy?  

Apr 12, 2010 12:00 PM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Hey, Gary, are you telling me that I should stop playing Plants vs. Zombies? I'm up to level 18 for the endless vases puzzle.

Apr 13, 2010 02:22 AM
Suzanne McLaughlin
Sabinske & Associates, Inc. (Albertville, St. Michael) - Saint Michael, MN
Sabinske & Associates, Realtor

I really like Trivial Pursuit...the game not the life.  Words of wisdom again.  As I am aging, I find less to worry about.  If I can't do something constructive about the problem/issue, I quit stewing about it until I come up with something from my subconscious to do with it. 

Miss you.  Thanks. 

Apr 14, 2010 01:31 AM
Sonja Patterson
Keller Williams - BV - College Station, TX
Texas Monthly 5-Star Realtor Recipient for the Hou

Yes, I have to check myself at times to not "major on the minor". :)  Family first.  Of course, most of the time, my clients feel like family!!!

Apr 20, 2010 03:08 PM