I'm a granddad, and I love it. Yep, my granddaughter will be 1 year old in a 
few weeks, and I couldn't be happier. I've always heard that having grand-kids is different, and it's more than the fact that you can hand them back when you get worn out. By the time our granddaughter arrived, we were both older, well experienced in life and had learned not to care what a lot of people think about a lot of things.
Of course, I still hear the same old questions. "Is she walking yet?" "Is she potty trained." "Does she still have a nukie (what we always called a pacifier)?" "My daughter walked at . . . ." "My son was potty trained at . . ." You know what? I don't care. It doesn't matter when, it just matters "that" it happens at some point. My father-in-law always said, "God didn't call us to race them. He called us to raise them." Words of wisdom for all young parents.
What does this have to do with real estate? I recently had an agent who was irritated with me call to give me a lecture. He started his diatribe with, "I've been in the business for . . . . years, and I've sold . . . . houses, and I've won . . . . awards, and . . . . " It's potty training competition time.
When a baby is potty trained probably won't have any impact on when he gets his first job promotion. What will get that promotion is how well he does his job, how he interacts with others, how he communicates, how he gets things done. No one will care when he was potty trained when the deal is done. No, they'll be thankful that he was a professional with the skills to complete a task.
I really don't care when you were potty trained as long as you are now, and I don't care what you accomplished over the last decade as long as you can accomplish the task set before you today in a competent professional manner. Let's be grown-ups in business and make good things happen.
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