"Optimism is the one Quality more Associated with Success and Happiness than any other"

• It is so much easier to frown.
• It is so much easier to get down on yourself and your business.
• It is so much easier to look back at what was.
• It is so much easier to be distracted.
• It is so much easier to be depressed.
• It is so much easier to go to work late.
• It is so much easier to leave work early.
• It is so much easier to get caught up in not doing the right thing.
• It is so much easier to get out of the Real Estate business.
• It is so much easier not to fight for the business you have been in for your adult life.
• It is so much easier to wave the white flag.
• It is so much easier to work at Starbucks.

Did we get into this business because it was easy or because it is what we love to do?  If you answered easy then get out of the business.  If you answered because you love it then you must fight for what you love.  You must work harder than everyone else.  You must knock on doors, and talk to people.  People are no longer coming to you.  You need to come to them. 

We are very fortunate to be in the real estate business.  A busineess that we love, and if you find yourself no longer loving it then my advice is GET OUT.  We do not need you nor do the customers.  You are doing a disservice to your customers.  Let someone who loves what they are doing handle your customers. 

In this difficult market you have to love the real estate business.  You have to have passion in the business or again Get Out!!.

Here is wishing everyone who stays in to be passionate, and prosperous in 2009!!