Little Things In LifeThe quotation illustrated in this blog post is so essential to engrain its understanding in your head as you go through both your business and personal life.

Pay Very Close Attention To The Little Things.

Little things can have huge meaning, and ignoring them or not finding them can cost you big time in money, feelings, bad memories, lost opportunities.

Recently on an appliance repair I ALMOST had to pay an additional $7,000 but the repair guy and I instead found a $5 part that caused it not to work. The space shuttle Challenger EXPLODED due to a lower cost rubber O-ring that could not seal properly in the cold. In an after school lunch program I participated in with little kids and I helped them with their math homework a little girl no older than seven hugged me, didn't even know me that well, "Thanks Mr. Gary." Meant the world to me. I was making her day. A smile, a kindness, a cheerful uplifting email or chat or text or smily face with a Facebook comment or Tweet, you go to great lengths with your little things of turning the world around.

 

Even just raw persistence with something, tenaciousness paying attention to the "littlest of details" with people with your senses of vision, sound, and feeling, make a HUGE difference to others.

Your assignment for tomorrow is this PAYING ATTENTION game to the "little things." My examples were just tiny tidbits. There are millions of them out there. Watch ones you receive. Look at the ones you send out.

Little things. They ALL count. And MEAN so very much in the grand scheme of things.

 
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20 Comments on Pay Very Close Attention To The Little Things

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Little things are the big things...when I first started in Real Estate, an agent checked a small box indicating that the seller would pay up to 3% in closing costs...she didn't mention it when we discussed the contract and she used a form not familiar with my RMLS - I missed it, as did my mentor Broker.

It cost me my commission on the deal - there was no way I was going to make my seller eat that mistake...even though she offered. So, yes, yes, the little things are big things. And normally, they are also wonderful things. :) A smile, a bird's song, a child's hand. Have a good one Gary.

1:53pm • #1
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Gary   You just said a mouthful...It is the little things in life that makes the world go round and touch our hearts
2:00pm • #2
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Powerful, powerful stuff. Minding the little things keeps the major things in perspective. Thanks for a great reminder and challenge.

Cal
2:08pm • #3
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It is all in the details. Especially in our Real Estate business, we must be very meticulous of every step and process to move forward to stress free situation.
2:34pm • #4

So true..
2:42pm • #5
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Paying Attention Game, the rules seem easy enough that anyone and everyone can play.  I'm in Gary!  Does it have to be just for tomorrow or can we play indefinitely?   
2:43pm • #6
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Amazing how you always seem to come up with what is needed exactly when needed.  Passing on....
3:04pm • #7
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A wonderful message Gary and most assuredly one of life's most important. I am learning to be a master of little things and leaving the big decisions to others more qualified. 
4:24pm • #8
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Hi Gary ...one of the keys to happiness !!!     Thanks Mr Franklin
5:01pm • #9
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Gary:  This statement is so true for me in looking back at my time spent with my children when they were young!
5:48pm • #10
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Gary- this is so true... the little things we may say or do for others... the little things we forget to do..... they all can end up being very big things to us or to others. 
5:59pm • #11
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Gary, I have known it is the little things in life that make a real difference for a long time.  That is why I pay close attention to deatail
7:02pm • #12
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Gary - big things constitute events, and small things constitute life. You always amke me think, it is good, but sometimes difficult
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A 5 buck part costing you almost 7000 = over a 1000% increase LOL WTFF?
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Gary - For better or worse I can pick up on the slightest nuances in people and know if something is bothering them. I've never been wrong. People always ask how I know. I really can't explain it, but I can read people as if I'm in their head. Sounds weird, but it's true. Sometimes it makes my loved ones crazy.
11:08pm • #15
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And that is really true with your kids.  They love the little things such as spending time with them playing a game, dancing to a pop song, etc.  Those are the things they remember.
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Debb: Details in business SO IMPORTANT for sure and those other quiet things, subtle things you see or hear or experience in life, the pay attention, means everything.

Hannah: Couldn't have said it any better about making the world go round. Little things make the difference.

Cal: The little things are powerful even if they are little.

Eli Maria: I've heard with love that what people really want is that dedicated focus from the other. You make an excellent point in taking care of the little things that indeed are so important making a Prince or Princess feel just like that.

Eileen: Meticulous is a very spot on word about being "careful" and about a caring person. A wonderful quality to have and I admire it in others as well.

Tom: Yes, thanks.

Kevin: Ha Ha, keep playing, no time limit....

John: Just stuff rummaging around in my brain here lately LOL.

William Johnson: Mastering the little things you can control, delegating other bigger things outside your area, very wise move.

San Antonio Bob: Happiness is a result of being a good steward of the little things. 

Jane: The time flies with the children looking back and you do see all those little things, good and bad, adding up.

Kathy: The "omissions", the things we forget as well, excellent point, just hurt others. A great thing to consider.

William Feela: I am glad you already know this about the little things, a reminder for the others.

Jon: I like that life is made up of the small things. I think I have heard them say it is "moments."

Laura: I would have had to replace the whole appliance around $7,000, due to it not working.

Kristine: That sensing nature of others is a gift, almost like a sixth sense. I know you use it for everyone's benefit.

Kathryn: The focus on kids with the little things is a BIGGIE. Just watching everything they do, it all seems big.
5:47pm • #17
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True what you say, so true.  We don't always think so until later in life unfortunately.

 

Patricia Aulson/  Seacoast NH & ME REALTOR
9:36am • #18
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What a wonderful quote, how true it is......thanks for making me stop and reflect for a few moments:)
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Patricia: That hindsignt is an amazingly accurate thing isn't it??

Erika: I'm glad it got you thinking, this is good : )
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