Do you give others a wide berth...or are you in a bumper car that is constantly getting hit and you did not see it coming?  Do you carry a carrot in your pocket or are you armed and ready with a big stick with the safety off?  Do you bask in the sun and enjoy the moment...or are you loaded down with american tourister issue baggage that keeps opening and robbing you of peace, contentment, joy?  Well with all the talk of depression with agents around the countryside...maybe inventory of how you operate each day is in order.  Where do you live?  At the office? In the city?  In rural america?  Are you where you should be on the planet?  In a comfortable rut..with beautiful surroundings, quality housing, above average kids and still a hole of something missing in your gut when you stop to realize there is a nagging deep inside and a clock ticking in the background?  Reduce, simplify, let go ...kinda like control, alternate, delete.  Doesn't mean pack up the mate and kids and head to the mountains to be like grizzly adams...but maybe your life is in water way over your head...but you suddenly just looked around to see where you are.  And wonder how did you get here?  (cranking head round and round..but not like in the exorcist and no green fluids involved). Now don't do anything rash...but by the time you get to a certain age where you finally know yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses..what makes you tick..and how you were "shaped" by your parents, your genetics and your surroundings,  that's when you might say "Martha..we're outta here..we are heading to the small town life of rural america".  Unfold that map, pin the tail on the property and make the move to an area where life is simpler, choices are fewer, options may be limited...but simple, not overwhelming.  Isn't this small town life the way most of america was years ago?  Feel the sun on your shoulder, smell the clean air, see the bluer than blue sky...and listen...just wind in the pines...natural sounds.  Could you handle the slower pace...the not action packed moment to moment you may be living now?  Can you just be a plain old garden variety duck or must you be a peacock for all to see?

Feel the sun?

 
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4 Comments on Are Your Feathers Easily Ruffled? Using A Carrot Or A Stick These Days?

I'm not sure that a geographic cure works for real estate - just think about the licensing process in the new destination!

03/20/2007 09:54 AM by Tony Marriott, Associate Broker, CRP, CLHMS, CRB, CRS ~~ Phoenix Arizona (Keller Williams Realty Professional Partners)


Didn't say you are going to be working in real estate anymore!  You are going to put on overalls, straw hat, arrange a piece of hay in the mouth and saddle up the Super M Farmall tractor to disc the back forty while the Mrs is cooking up corn bread, chicken and new potatoes as the college kids home on break finish painting the woodshed where they got disciplined when they went astray and needed a talking to.  Provincial..backward or simple ?  He has a 401 K the size of Montana to draw on, her folks left them well off with blue chip stocks...the wife works on call in cardiac rehab in the local medical facility here and there and the pair volunteer at the local library. They go to church.  They say a blessing every meal and count their lucky stars morning noon and night. Kids taught the same gratitude. Kids were one of nine in a class growing up...no metal detectors or security dogs in the halls of these schools.  Their home has wireless internet, a view of a mountain, and everything is paid for on the old New England farm and 200 acres.  Yup...there's a brook, maple sugar grove and woodlot to heat the dwelling with.  Extra attached  shed could become in law apartment for the older family members...family...one that is not dysfunctional..now there is a concept.  Hear the Waltons theme song playing in the back ground.  Yes everyone is wearing shoes and content. No one is in therapy, they use their open porches to drink ice tea and watch sundowns and talk...talk... and share family history and news on the homefront and worldwide.  No gucci handbags. Natural  healty lifestyle.  Antique wood cook stove in the kitchen.  He makes a mean chilli.  Home made bread not made in a machine or bought at a bakery.  When can you bail out and move to Mayberry.  Bring Opie and Aunt Bea too.  Traffic lights..what are those?  Don't need them in rural america.

Wasting time in traffic!

03/20/2007 11:58 AM by Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker (MOOERS REALTY)


These REALTORS® sure ruffled MY feathers...

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03/23/2007 03:52 PM by Linda H


How long have you felt this way ? (motioning to lay on the counch and vent those feelings) Brokers are a tad pushey and sometime aggressive but where would we be without them?  They get the job done! Like lawyers, sometimes they are a necessary "evil"!  They ride herd on the process and make sure screw ups don't happen before they are about to happen.  Realtors...you have a life..they let you lead it!  Their eagle eye to attention gets you into that home or that property sold so you can sleep nights!

Eagle eye brokers don't miss much!

03/23/2007 04:08 PM by Andy Mooers


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