My year started off with a bang...and I thought, Wow! Finally things are looking up and my hard work is paying off.
But that initial burst of business has trickled down and it gets harder to keep up my positive attitude. When I was in the "corporate" world Monday's were always hard. A new start to another long week of, paperwork, deadlines, pessimistic co-workers and demanding supervisors. In a cubicle with rows upon rows of people in a similar situation in a company that was slowly being destroyed by market forces and where Thursdays were the days when the latest round of "downsizing" came it was hard to keep a positive attitude.
So, I remember those days to keep me centered in this current market situation. Sure, it feels like it will never stop. The downward spiral of decreasing prices. The same bad market indicators day in day out. Experts that couldn't predict this downturn trying to predict the upturn. Everyone is full of doom and gloom and the sky is falling, the sky is falling running through people's mind.
Meanwhile, other's are having the best year of their careers while others have left and are working at WalMart. Well, I, for one have no desire to work at my local Starbucks or Sam's Club. I may be the age of the "average" Realtor but I refuse to give in to the naysayers and the rest of the gloom and doom population.
Just like eventually we all must die and continue our spiritual journey, eventually everyone needs to find a home. Whether it is to buy or to rent, people need shelter.
A place to call their own. A place to make memories, dream dreams, have families, sleep, eat and pray.
So, it's another Monday, and what do you plan on doing? Reading the newspaper, watching the news, listening to another agent talk about how "bad" it was at the open house, the lack of response to mailings or a myriad of other non-productive talk.
What are you going to do with the rest of the day, week or month? Perhaps, this will give you a bit of a push to change your attitude. Think of what you can accomplish?
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