Looking for Austin real estate with hardwood flooring? We've got Austin homes with plenty!
One of the most popular features in the real estate market is hardwood flooring. It's easy to take care of, and much more lovely to look at in ten years. We have a wide selection of Austin houses with hardwood floors. In-fact many older homes in Austin, especially the central area, already have wood flooring from when they were first built, so you know it will last.
If you are looking to taking on a remodeling project with older houses in Austin, you may be in for a surprise. Many older homes have hardwood flooring hidden underneath old yucky carpet.
So if you are like the many people who are interested in an Austin home with hardwood floors, you know who to call!
Please give Rose Castro a call at 512.656.3281.
NOTE: As a thank you for reading this blog post, we are providing you with a free excerpt from Dan Castro’s book CRITICAL CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES.
Have you ever sat in traffic behind someone who was trying to decide whether it’s safe to merge into traffic? From where you sit, it may look like a 747 airplane could have merged by now. Their decision to wait for a bigger opening is based on their own perception of the traffic and their lack of confidence in their own ability or the ability of their car to thread the gap. They don’t move because they believe they can’t make it, whereas, if they thought they could make it, they would go. Sometimes you just want to kick them in the pants and yell, “Go for it!” or some other expletive. Similarly, our beliefs can limit our actions or spur us into action. Sometimes what we need is a good kick in the pants and to hear someone yell, “Go for it!”
When my father got his real estate license, it was during a severe recession in Texas. To make matters worse, the prevailing interest rate on home mortgages was a shocking 18%! His timing for entering this profession wasn’t perfect, but his enthusiasm more than made up for it. His excitement and desire to succeed made him oblivious to the obstacles. His company repeatedly gave him awards for being in the Million Dollar Club. One day, another realtor, reading the newspaper with his feet propped up on his desk, caught my father on his way to an appointment with a client. Looking up from his newspaper, he said, “Hey, what do you think you’re doing? Don’t you know no one is buying? We’re in a recession!” My father looked at him blankly and in his innocence and said, “Well…no one told me about it,” and he walked right out the door and kept selling. Remember, many of life’s problems aren’t caused by what we see, but by how we see.
The world famous Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) was playing before a large audience when a string on his violin broke. He improvised beautifully and continued to play. Then another string broke. Then another. Soon, he had only one string left. Paganini continued to improvise and completed the entire composition with just one string. When the applause finally died down, the conductor turned to the audience and shouted, “Paganini . . . and one string!” The audience roared and Paginini began playing again on that one string. It is amazing what we can accomplish when we have already decided that nothing can stand in our way. This is the decision behind the decision.
If our belief is that the goal is so important and exciting that it’s worth pursuing at any cost, then our belief alone launches us into action, and nothing can stop us. This massive action alone, coupled with an undying belief in the goal, prevents us from ever giving up. Tenacity and time are often enough to make our dreams come true. You can create your own self-fulfilling prophecy if your belief is strong enough to get yourself off the couch. But this requires that you choose to exercise the power of your imagination and focus on what you see with your mind.
How strong is the power of imagination? Maxwell Maltz explained in his book Psycho-Cybernetics that experimental and clinical psychologists have established beyond a doubt that the brain cannot distinguish between an actual experience and one that we’ve only imagined. In one well-known clinical experiment, behavioral scientists actually concluded that visualizing throwing a basketball through the hoop is more effective at improving scoring than actually practicing throwing it through the hoop. In the experiment, one group of basketball players was allowed to practice throwing the basketball through the hoop. The other group was only allowed to visualize throwing the basketball through the hoop without physically doing it. In the final test, the second group far outscored the first. What does this tell you about the power of visualization?
If it can help you score more baskets, can visualization help you accomplish your goals and dreams in real life? You be the judge. While in the death camp, Viktor Frankl frequently closed his eyes and visually transported himself to a classroom where he was a professor, teaching bright young students, who were eager to hear what he had to say. He focused his attention on the good he had to offer the world and momentarily shut out the bad things around him. His imagination became his reality during that otherwise dark time. He used this powerful visualization process to remove himself from his circumstances and give himself hope and a reason to endure. His vivid imagination was his grappling hook that gave him something to hold onto in the future and kept him alive.
Several years after he was finally liberated, Frankl found himself teaching eager young students, just like he had visualized. This was no accident. It was not fate. It was not the fulfillment of a divine prophecy. It was the result of a conscious, deliberate choice that Frankl made to escape his circumstances through the power of his imagination while people all around him saw only suffering and despair. What Frankl saw made all the difference.
Similarly, Lance Armstrong used the power of imagination to help him get through the torturous process of chemotherapy. In his book, Every Second Counts, Armstrong explains that:
You can alter any experience with your mind – it’s up to you to determine what the quality of each moment is. Concentration and belief can make even chemo, no matter how sickening it is, a positive experience. It takes practice, but it’s possible. I used to tell myself when I threw up or when it burned so badly to urinate, that the sensations represented the cancer leaving my body. I was pissing it out, puking it out, coughing it out.
Heroes choose what they focus on despite what is going on in the world around them. Are you focusing only on what you see with your physical eyes or on what you can see with the eyes of your imagination? It could be that all of your hard work up to this point is about to pay off. Who knows, the very next thing you’re about to try may put you over the hump. But you’ll never know unless you keep trying. There’s hope. There is always hope.
THANK YOU FOR READING THIS EXCERPT!
Remember, if you are buying or selling real estate in Austin, please call Rose Castro at EXIT: Options Realty.
Comments(0)