Hey Loan Officers, have you ever stopped to think where everything comes from? I'm not talking in a spiritual way, or an evolutionary way, but rather a chicken wing sort of way. Here's what I'm talking about....
I was at a local establishment the other day watching a sporting event with some friends, when I started noticing something...the number of chicken wings being served.
So here's the big thought I had, where did all those chicken wings come from? Let me throw another piece of this puzzle out and then we'll ask that same question.
I counted 20 people eating wings while I was there, so I'm sure there were more before and after. Using basic math, let's do some siferin'.
If each of those 20 people ate 10 wings, that's 200 wings. Let's say there were 10 establishments in 2 cities in every state serving wings. Yes, I know there is a lot more, but I studied math and I know my "tens table" pretty well, so we'll just say 10 for now.
So, that's 10 restaurants in 2 cities in 50 states, that means 1000 restaurants. On any particular day, I'll bet it's safe to assume there are at least 20 orders of wings at each restaurant. If my math is right, that would be 20,000 orders of wings, with 10 wings per order. Now, let's just say each of these restaurants only sells wings on 100 days of the year. That means 20,000,000 wings per year.
20,000,000 wings means 10,000,000 chickens (remember, we're using VERY conservative numbers and only using 100 days a year)
Remember my original question; where did those chickens come from? Let's take it even further. Is there some farmer out there that raises 10,000,000 mini chickens a year just for the chicken wings? What does he use to feed them? How much chicken wire does he have to use to keep them all together? How many acres are used to raise 10,000,000 mini chickens? Do these mini chickens lay mini eggs? It can get real mind boggling when you think about this, but please, leave the siferin' to the experts.
So, what's this have to do with mortgages? Nothing. But it does have something to do with your thought process, or Inner Game, of a Loan Officer and towards the mortgage business. If you constantly look at the world in different ways you will train yourself to look at different aspects of your mortgage business as well. For instance, what other ways can you market your particular business? Can your phone calls be different? Get it?
Just something to think about.
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