Just two days ago I spoke about my new beginning, and I meant it. I was going to give myself specific times to do things and stick to them. I was going to get my work done and have a normal life. DO NOT DISTURB! Well, the problem is that the rest of the world doesn't operate in the time frame I have committed myself to operate in. They have jobs too and often can't leave the 9-5 world to meet with me.
Yesterday afternoon I received a call from a business associate. I had been scheduled to meet with him and his wife on Sunday, the day of the first big snowstorm in Ann Arbor. My country road and probably his were not passable so I called to cancel - he was expecting my call. I had met with them originally on November 3, 2007, to be exact - I know that since the listing documents were all zip-formed for that day. I knew I was the only agent they were considering and was kindly cruel in my assessment of their family home that day. Things needed to change. I left materials with them and a long "to-do" list. Tonight they were free and I was back out there again. I CANNOT believe what they have accomplished in such a short time.
The trouble is, I said I was going to time block and not let business interfere with family life, yet here I had scheduled a 7:30 appointment. Why? Well, bear with me through some rationalizations. Number one, dinner was already made. I attended a network meeting at 7:00 AM with my choice of holiday morning food - scalloped ham and potatoes, homemade with loads of butter, half and half, and cheese. (Get out of my way - I need to get to the cardiac care unit, STAT!)
It stayed hot and I didn't fear salmonella while I ferried it home and ate it for lunch, dinner, and left it for the others for dinner too - a multi-function sort of casserole. Number two, people cannot always make their time frames line up with mine - surprise! This couple is incredibly busy - he owns his own business and she travels extensively for an auto manufacturer and has spent about five minutes at home in the last couple of weeks. Their children are grown though one still lives at home. The others are ever present. The recounting of her schedule of cities was exhausting just to hear. Who am I to complain that I am two hours past my scheduled "close shop time" in order to meet their needs?
Tonight I finally listed their property, a wonderful country home bounded on its longest border by the Saline River. I won't bore you with the details (12895 Dennison, Milan mailing, York township, ML#2717151). We priced to sell and hope to sell quickly. The market will tell us if we got it wrong or right.
So here I am again, way past my bedtime having just finished entering the listing into the Ann Arbor MLS and blogging about my failures of commitment to myself. I am incurable, I fear.
P.S. For those of you following my travesties - I haven't yet done my online continuing ed, due December 31, 2007. But I do have a Saturday showing for a foreclosure that requires a waiver and a mask - lucky me - and another for the 1/2 million buyer I have been carefully courting for months now - he likes one I sent him, hurrah! I have that con-ed scheduled in while my husband steadies the Christmas tree tomorrow evening and my children hang the ornaments. It's gonna be OK; I just need to pick up a few gifts after that...no problem! No problem at all....
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