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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Pareto Realty - TN #251071
Tips and commentary For Home Buyers & Sellers and REALTORS with primary focus on LIVE - Work - Play - Life Rhythm - Life Performance Oriented thinking for regular folks

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2007 

When your fear of failure overcomes your fear of rejection (Thank you Gary Keller), you no longer hesitate taking action . . . next thing ya know, prospecting becomes a breeze because the reality sets in that not everyone out there is just sitting there just patiently waiting for an opportunity t...
12/12/2007
An associate in our Market Center sent this link to a short EXTREMELY INSPIRATIONAL Video clip . . . Oddly, I did not click on the link until today (He sent it some months ago. I guess it was just time for me to hear this message . . . I was cleaning my in-box while fishing for a document I know ...
12/12/2007
"Smooth seas don't make skillful sailors" is an African Poem I have heard from many different sources throughout my travels. Today, I ran across it in some old notes, and each time I see it, I find myself pausing for reflection. This is wisdom that has the real essence of life lesson - and is ext...
12/11/2007
This is the SHORT version after having spent several hours with several people determining their fastest path to results from farming . . . The best way for me to do this is the same way I do most everything - Stream of consciousness thought . . . so I hope your expectation is not that you will b...
12/10/2007
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The below text is something I wrote on my other blog www.creatingspaces.blogspot.com - I re-post it here because of the sheer power of it and the implications/lessons it has to share. Of course, not everyone will share in the views of the creators of this 20 minute video . . . What's undeniable i...
12/09/2007
WHEW! the energy is festive but low here in our market Center . . . I think mental the shift towards "vacation" is gaining momentum for many people . . . Yet I have been keeping a close eye on the activities of the more productive Agents, and I am noticing that their intensity is as high if not h...
12/07/2007
We had a great Listing Presentation LAB today. One of our 443 participants was my Seller and "her house" was another associate's listing close to our office. We did it all from first call to prelisting work to a tour of the house to signing the agreement - @ a dozen intrepid explorers joined us. ...
12/06/2007
Last night was my daughter Jessica's first basketball practice. Jessica LOVES basketball, and literally changed clothes THREE times before we got out the door (She's 8). She wanted everything to be perfect. I gave her the time and space she needed to get it right even though I saw the clock movin...
12/05/2007
THAT's a mouth full of words. I have been coaching several highly productive agents who are at that delicate point of thinking about building a team . . . While at the same time, I have other clients who have already formed teams "down-sizing" their operations by decreasing overhead/random expens...
12/05/2007
I took a few days "off" from posting in this space. Deb and I and the kids wandered to Memphis, so Deb could run in the St Jude's Marathon (She did the 1/2 and had a great run) after which we explored Beale Street and the down-town art district. We returned to Nashville on Monday morning and have...
12/04/2007
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Stream of consciousness commentary on the real estate industry from the perspective of a Principal Real Estate Broker and Founder of Pareto REalty, LLC in Middlle Tennessee - Also a Career Development Coach with vast Organizational Development/Transformation training and experience - in the industry since 1993