As I was winding down this evening with my family, we were watching TV.  As luck would have it, the inventor of the Dyson Vacuum was doing a commercial talking about his designs on his vacuum cleaners.  He talked about how they made 5000 prototypes of the machine before they were satisfied with the results of the machine.  He acted excited that they had made 5000 prototypes prior to finding the one that worked.  They weren't failures, just 5000 ways not build a good machine.

I also liked what he said about a design award that he recieved, he mentioned that it wasn't designed for beauty, but rather function.  If an ugly machine would have worked better, he would have gone with that.  I thought of the story of Thomas Edison and the light bulb, very similar, he took several thousand attempts to find the right way to make the light bulb.

I guess where I am going, is that we need to keep going until we find what works for us in Real Estate and in life.  It may take several thousand attempts to perfect our listing presentation, or maybe our pricing formula on homes, what ever it is keep going until you get there.  Also if it works, you may want to keep the ugly model instead of a sleeker model that doesn't work.  Again, Happy Holidays to all!!