EXIT Realty Convention, Day 1 of Speakers, October 15th, 2008
The day started with speaker Richard Flint speaking on “How to Stand Tall When Others Are Falling Down Around You”. Flint was an outstanding speaker that spoke about leading a life by simple principles and coming back to basic in life. Building your life and business around relationships, true real relationships, conversations and connecting with one another. He is a true believer in we chose our attitude and the places in life we are at. He was comical, particle and to the point. On a scale of 1-10 I give him an 11.
Canadian Garth Turner spoke to us about “The Future of Real Estate”. Mr. Turner is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and politician. He is a popular public speaker on financial issues. His discussion points as I am sure you have guessed were about where our market was, how it got where it is today, and what we he perdicts to be where we are going. Key points of his speech was about the lending restricution lifting and because of that we will not see in our lifestime something so laxed again. He shared that boomers are the movers and shakers of our investments. The consumer confidence is the worst it has been in some time and the boomers will switch their investments from the stocks/bonds to real estate once again. Note I said once again, his point is that real estate is cyclical and that as real estate has become incredably afforable and our finacual markets distrought the money that is looking to be invested will once again turn to real estate as it has so many times before. Once elections are over and about in a yr or so we will be seeing a positive lift in our real estate world.
Dr. Robert Rohm was our afternoon speaker. He was comical and very energized. He is the personality expert that works with the D I S C personality system. D I S C is a system that breaks down personalities so we can understand how to work better with one another based upon personality comminalities in the 4 different groups. He had the group moving around the room ultimitly dividing the group up into the 4 different personality types. He took time to discrib the 4different personalities and give recommendations how one personality can work best with another. Angle Tucker is the EXIT traininer that specializes on the D I S C profiling. I would highly recommend taking the D I S C personality test to find out about your personality and developing your skills to identify others personalities. This is a powerful tool not only for your business life but also for your personal realtionships as well.
The evening ended a beautiful cocktail party that was abondant of food. The location was in the Delta Island of the Gaylord Opryland Resort. This setting was in the river walk area that has small bridges over the water, over looked water fountains and falls, and was surrounded by the shops. In the core of the location you felt like you were on the streets of a small, small town. You were surrounded by outstanding food, pleanty of bars so no long lines and the envirment was warm, encouraging of networking.
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