Do you have a favorite word? Do favorite words influence your life or does your life influence your favorite words?
A favorite word, color, flower, song it all sounds sort of juvenile if not down right childish! Doesn't it?
Have you ever considered why kids have these favorites? I've concluded that child and adult a like, adopt these seemingly frivolous favorites because they are comforting. As adults we too seek comfort and inspiration in these simple things.
I have favorites and they do comfort and inspire me.
My favorite song has to be the Beach Boy's "I Get Around" because it so well describes Lynn Bingham, Tom Guisel, and I in high school and college. It was also contemporary to us. I miss those guys, but the song always reminds me of the good times.
My favorite flower the Tulip. The Tulip always reminds me of digging up those damn bulbs in the fall and replanting them in the spring, something I did for many years with my Mother. Tulips make me feel good.
My favorite color has to be variations of red. My first new car, the only one I ordered to all my personal spec's was Vermilion Red. Brenda and I painted a small, drab bedroom Bright Red once, our daughter was conceived in that room. Red makes me feel good.
Again I don't know if my favorites influenced my life or my life influenced my favorites. (Redundancy is my second favorite word, because it's the way I learn and teach.) I do know that as salesmen, business men, and real estate gurus we're bombarded with negativity each day and our own doubts each night. Little things, pleasant memories can help you feel good, feeling good makes for more sales, more success, feeling good can get you through the tough times!
All of which brings me to my favorite word: FORTUITOUS! My life has been one fortuitous event followed by another. There is opportunity even in adversity if you look for it, if you recognized it! Life is in deed fortuitous! Don't mistake fortuitous for lucky, if a hundred dollar bill blows in your window that's luck, if you use it to publish you first book and sell a million copies that's fortuitous!
Our current mortgage crisis is in deed fortuitous! Never in our life time has there been so much opportunity. Being in real estate today is fortuitous for you have all the tools in place to seceded! The difference between bad luck and fortuitous opportunity is all in your head!
Bill
William J Archambault Jr
The Real Estate Investment Institute
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