I recently completed Matthew Ferry's "15 Bulletproof Strategies", an incredible test of honesty and soul searching that I found truly inspiring. Strategy number 1 was to write a "pophecy letter";a letter written at a future point in time, after all of your goals have been met and you're right where you want to be.
This was an incredible exercise in that it's a vision of what life is like AFTER your goals have been met. So, if you've got a goal of closing 100 transactions next year, what does life look like after you've closed 100 transactions? What have you done with the income you've earned, what's happened with the personal relationshilps in your life and what is it that you're still looking forward to.
I won't share my prophec letter here, it's an intensely personal exercise. I will say that as I wrote the letter, some of my goals began to redefine themselves. Matt Ferry, somewhat unlike his father Mike, beleives that all success flows out of positive relationships and, that became ever more clear to me as I wrote my prophecy letter. Working hard matters (I walked in at 10, after hitting the office at 7AM but, it's not an end in itself.
Andy Raffle sells Bucks County Real Estate. Check out my website for Yardley homes and information, search for properties, read my informative Real Estate Articles and read my Bucks County Real Estate Blog
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This letter writing is something that my mentor group has done several times....we all write a letter dated 6-12 months out there...one person holds all the letters - each in sealed envelopes...on that special date, we open them, share and "measure up" to our prophecy!