It's has been an amazing week for me!! Crazy, busy productive!! I was gone most of Thanksgiving week and have been playing catch up this week because of it. My schedule was booked back to back. Today is the first time I have had to myself to get online and do the necessary correspondence and blog.
Anyway, I made the decision weeks ago to remain positive & optimistic about our country, my business, life and the future regardless of external circumstances. I also believe that good things are going to come my way. AND THEY ARE!! I am watching in awe as a "The Divine Spirit" is presenting me with things that are all good.
It is absolutely true that we cannot change anything but our attitude, our actions and reactions. It is aliken to the factors in selling Real Estate -
- Location
- Condition
- Terms Available
- The Market
- Price
- Preparation of the Home - Staging®
Sellers truly ONLY have control over the last two - not the first four. So I have made the decision to focus and change the things I can -
- My actions
- My reactions
- My attitude
- What I see & hear
Let everyone else do what they are going to do & act as the will. I want no negative things to enter this head!! I want positive input as it makes it easier to express & expect the positive. Well, let me tell you what is going on ...
As I went through my insane schedule this week -
- I went to an initial meeting with a real estate related business owner that is looking for a Home Staging Professional to bring to his service as an added benefit. Its a visionary concept and I am excited about the possibilities (more later). Here is where is gets cool. Just as we sat down to talk @ Panera Bread one of the RE agents I Stage for came in - I consider Sue a friend as well as a collegue - I promise this was NO set up - she sat down and without abandon spoke well of me. I love her - thank you, Susan Orneck!! I could not have received a better endorsement. Divine Intervention I say!!
- Yesterday, I taught a Home Staging class @ Keller Williams Gulf Coast in Seminole, Florida. I taught out of Gary Keller's book "Shift"; specifically Tactic 8/Staging (read the book - it's great). As I was setting up agent Sandy Hartmann popped her head in the room to tell me a property I Staged for her had an offer & was (at that moment) in negociations; the seller was in the process making her decision right there in the office. Well, the offer was good; cash; the seller took it. She walked by the room as I was teaching. The seller - bless her heart (I love this woman) - she is a hoot - came in and sang my praises to the Realtors in the room. It was completely off the cuff & sweet, sweet!! Again I was in awe - not of myself, not of anything I had done but in the Divine Intervention ...
I cannot say it strongly enough - expect good things and they will come your way!!!
Jan Whitlow, ASPM, IAHSP
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