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Who Needs A Shrink?

By Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL

Real Estate Broker/Owner with Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408

February 06, 2012 04:11 PM

Nobody loves the government. Even Real Estate agents… Real estate agents do not like what government is doing… Real Estate agents are smarter than the government…

Maybe, maybe, maybe…

May be not…

I think that we on AR mirror the “big” government.We just do not notice it.

Take so popular challenges on AR, especially those serial challenges, running for weeks and months. When the government comes with a stimulus (challenge) with a lot of dough (points), it works poorly.

I wrote that, then stumbled on “it works poorly” and then figured that this is a senseless phrase. The exact statement is not “works poorly”, but rather “it does not work”.

Folks, it does not work, period. Not in challenges on AR, where we are rushed to write x number of posts in y number of days, and naively believe that this has positive effect on the business…

Not in government, which believes in a wonderful Christmas notion, that if you give people a lot of money, then they will buy all the crap you give them. And we will have healthy economy.

Perpetuum mobile of stupidity happiness...

If a kid would say this, we would smile, but when the big government says that ... we go and vote for them.

Somebody here needs a shrink.

Who could that be?

* Photo by Pawns via flickr.com

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Tim Lorenz

TIM LORENZ - Elite Home Sales Team - Mission Viejo, CA

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I had not thought of it that way but you are right. It does not move the ball forward for the clients or the agents.

Feb 06, 2012 04:13 PM

Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL

Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL

Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices

Tim - there is a good saying that we have the government we deserve, and in this sense we mirror our government. And when we yell that they are not efficient, are we?

Feb 06, 2012 05:00 PM

Dale Terry

Yadkinville, NC

Jon, I like your comment on children and how we patronize them, they see the truth and are willing to admit it. We see the truth and ignore it.

Feb 06, 2012 10:22 PM

Ginny Gorman

RI Real Estate Services ~ 401-529-7849~ RI Waterfront Real Estate - North Kingstown, RI

Homes for Sale in Southern RI and beyond

Jon, is is all for the enthusiasm generated these contests...i do not believe it mirrors the government because many say it like it is BUT i don't see negative contests going on either...why would we focus on that I wonder? Is it not best to tell the truth all around?

Feb 06, 2012 10:37 PM

Andrea Swiedler

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties - New Milford, CT

Realtor, Southern Litchfield County CT

Jon, when I first started blogging I took a class from a non real estate related guy, it was a great class and he is a fairly well known blogger. (I can't remember who he was at this point in time, my brain is still fuddled from yesterday, sorry.) The class was called 31 days to better blogging. We blogged consistently for 31 days, daily for 31 days, with a different assignment for each day. There were different style assignments, such as writing a "list" posts. Then we put the link in the assignment post and many went to check them out, came back and told you what they thought.

It was hard to keep up, but I did. And it taught me consistency is best. Of course there are times when you just can't come up with one damn thing to say, but it did teach me many things. I look at these contests as a way to do the same thing, but there is no direction in the process.

I do know how much you dislike the contest thing, and you have stopped me from entering in a few of them. I admit that. There are some that just strike a chord within and I join in the challenge. But it has to work for me. It has to push me in some way.

Now you have turned on another light bulb. Thank you... LOL. Not what you intended to do I bet.

Feb 06, 2012 11:39 PM

Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL

Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL

Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices

Dale - maybe because kids do not know all this "how it should be" thing? I am watching the news and I see that if the general election would be held today, Obama would have won Romney with 51% of votes.

And I am puzzled. How much more damage should one President bring upon his country for it to start even seeing that?

So, every day we are unhappy, but then will go and vote for him?

there is no freaking shrink that could help us here...(LOL)

Feb 07, 2012 01:50 AM

Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL

Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL

Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices

Ginny - there is a common notion that some nations are great nations, and their only problem is the government they have. I do not believe it. In a sense, governments mirror their people, except maybe military juntas

Feb 07, 2012 01:52 AM

Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL

Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL

Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices

Andrea - I know, I know, I know...

Yes, you can master the skill, and in that sense what you described was fabulous. Look, there are great teachers, great minds and if you spend time with them, you become richer in the best sense of the word.

There are a lot of times when the same is mimicked, and it is a waste of time.

It is easy to take great for mediocre and declare it great, when it isn't. Many challenges on AR were mimicking activity, and are no more than great waste.

Thee are things that can lift you... It is difficult.

Serial challenges for the most part were not lifting experience. You are describing your 31 day exercise as exercise. Different tasks, different stuyles... Loooks like a good learning experience. The major part here is that they were about learning "how to blog". they were supposed to prepare you for blogging.

Many serial AR challenges were not about how, they were about writing the more, the better, and it was actually open to the public.

What we are failing to understand is often that there are two sides.It is form and substance. You can train the form (how to), very diificult to "train" the substance (talents, good education to an extent). Form without substance is worth very little, but we came with the idea of pushing the form over substance, as not a single time these serial challenges and many other challenges were about substance

And in this sense it is mirroring the way our government works. Makes no sense to throw good money fter bad money, but this is what they are doing, again and again and again...