personal growth plan: Astute Marketing Is Your Key to Attracting More & Better Clients - 01/16/12 11:48 PM
Earning a living by helping clients buy and sell real estate is hard work.
To succeed, it’s necessary to work long hours.
In and of itself, working long hours does not automatically lead to success.
It is after all, fairly easy to fill your time with things like random paper-shuffling, lengthy telephone conversations with family and friends, surfing the Internet and so on.
Successful people have learned to work smarter and not harder.
Whether consciously or instinctively, everything they do focuses on achieving specific goals.
Working smarter is all about goals and ideas.
It involves focusing on goals that you would … (5 comments)

personal growth plan: A Simple Formula For Success - 03/15/10 12:10 AM
Brains + Motivation = Success
In order to succeed...whether in life or in business...some reasonable level of intelligence is required.
This level of intelligence is not a specific IQ...nor is it specific score on a psychological assessment. It is more your ability to use the intelligence that you have than how much brain power you possess.
For practical purposes, if your brain has brought you to this post, you have the necessary brain power to succeed in both your business and your life.
Motivation
Motivation is that internal force that drives or pushes us to achieve specific results and … (1 comments)

personal growth plan: The Right Stuff For All Businesses - 10/26/09 10:48 PM
Yesterday I wrote about what went wrong when purchasing a new car from Morningside Nissan.
Fortunately that was an isolated situation.
In most cases, things go right with most businesses...including car dealerships...most of the time.
To recognize things going right...and to re-establish the positive tone that I try to maintain, here is a list of some right stuff...for all businesses.
1. Core Values That Help You Succeed
A huge component of success is taking the right actions at the right time to achieve your goals.
But your goals are not some objective distant results that have little or no meaning … (5 comments)