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Relationships Are Classrooms

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty 0575737

ClassroomIn both our business agent-client professional as well as personal relationships in our life we need to be aware that

     Relationships Are Classrooms.

Mainly, meeting others we learn from them, there is an ebb and flow between the communication depending on who is the student who is the teacher, and vast opportunity for growth for us, IF we pay attention to the lesson and learn. Wake up, sit up straight, use your head for something other than a hat rack as my Mom used to say. We are truly not as thick headed some days as others would guess about us, maybe just lazy in our thinking.

It is not a pass/fail class or getting a grade class it is just an opportunity to learn. You really in life with these relationships only get promoted on to the next better one till you learn the lesson here, so in essence you can get left behind. The class is about what comes to you in life and how you handle it too with relational success or adversity. If you keep making the same mistake over and over again if you look around in your life you probably have not learned the lesson. Some are good students and learn the lesson right away, others take longer. Some refuse to take the learning as theirs and want to point the finger at others to blame for what is happening to them or circumstances beyond their control. The lessons test your fortitude as well to see if you give up or persist.

Every experience, every new person we meet as a relational experience is a classroom for us. Each of us is on our own unique path into the future and we should embrace everyone as a gift giving all of ourselves to them and getting as much back from them in the interchange, to learn new lessons, and become the best ourselves we can be.

Hannah Williams
HomeStarr Realty - Philadelphia, PA
Expertise NE Philadelphia & Bucks 215-820-3376

Gary..This is so true..Thank You

Helpfulhannah

May 02, 2011 08:01 AM
Judy Klem
Transition Stage LLC - Shelton, CT
Home Staging, Senior Move Management, Fairfield/New Haven counties

Hi Gary - Well said!  Thanks for sharing this.

May 02, 2011 08:05 AM
Steve, Joel & Steve A. Chain
Chain Real Estate Investments & Mortgage, Steve & Joel Chain - Cottonwood, CA

Gary,

Great topic of conversation; in our current social climate the only businesses that seem to be thriving are those that place a high value on relationships.

Best,

Steve

May 02, 2011 08:05 AM
Li Read
Sea to Sky Premier Properties (Salt Spring) - Salt Spring Island, BC
Caring expertise...knowledge for you!

Very well said...life is a process, lots of learning curves, but always interesting and instructive...if we listen well!

May 02, 2011 08:07 AM
Cherise Selley
Selley Group Real Estate, LLC - Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Springs Realtor

Gary,

It all depends on how well we listen.  There is little difference between the classroom and interpersonal relationships... g

May 02, 2011 09:23 AM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

This reminds me of all those women who continually get into abusive relationships or business men who keep driving businesses into the ground.  Dr. Phil once said something about having to do an autopsy on a failed relationship before expecting the next one to be successful.  IF you don't fully understand what went wrong with the past one, you are destined to repeat your mistakes all over again.

May 02, 2011 10:13 AM
Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

Hannah: Glad you liked it.

Judy: You are welcome.

Steve and Joel: Relationship even trumps recognition by a REALTOR in a marketplace or performance statistics.

Li: How fast we go down the learning curve determines when we get the next lesson.

Gordon: Listening is something that must be worked on hard.

Sharon: I see that also, a lesson not learned you see it cycle round and round with the same pattern.

May 02, 2011 12:29 PM
Mike Wong
Keller Williams Realty Southwest - Sugar Land, TX
Realtor: Commercial, Residential, Leasing, Invest

Great post Gary. I think today I experienced every type of student you described.

May 02, 2011 12:35 PM
San Antonio Texas New Homes for Sale
www.sanantoniotexasnewhomesforsale.com - San Antonio, TX
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Hill Country

Gary ... So much Wisdom !!!    Yoda ..........Great Post !!!

May 02, 2011 12:38 PM
Kate Elim
Dockside Realty - Spotsylvania, VA
Realtor 540-226-1964, Selling Homes & Land a

Hi Gary...We are constantly learning, if we are open to it, and we are teaching others much of the time also so it is important what we do and say.

Kate

May 02, 2011 02:07 PM
Sondra Meyer:
EXP Realty, LLC - Corpus Christi, TX
See It. Experience It. Live It.

Hi Gary, I like your comment about if we are making the same mistake over and over, we obviously haven't learned the lesson. 

May 02, 2011 04:40 PM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

Private tutorial or amphitheater type-classroom...it's all about absorbing. Learning can be free and life-changing if we pay attention instead of paying tuition.

May 02, 2011 04:41 PM
Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

Mike: Lots of times we are the student, often we are the teacher too.

Robert: Yoda speaks ha ha.

Kate: If we learn something it is so in another's best interest to pass on that knowledge and experience.

Sondra: I know that repeating the class in life a few times to get the lesson has happened to me.

Gayle: So much of our life classroom of hard knocks or OJT is free you are right.

May 02, 2011 04:48 PM
Team Honeycutt
Allen Tate - Concord, NC

This is the first time I have read your blog and have really enjoyed it.  We share a similar philosophy.

May 04, 2011 05:06 AM