success: 5 Tips for Achieving Happiness
- 05/15/15 01:23 AM
Happiness isn’t permanent; it’s a choice you make every day. Happy people aren’t passive about their happiness. They take an active role by adopting a positive attitude and fully committing to their happiness. Here are five tips to help you become happier each and every day.
1. Commit to growth. Personal and professional development are essential to improving your relationships and enhancing your career. When you read, take classes or workshops or otherwise find ways to grow, you not only boost your brain power, you also become happier as a result. If you want to maintain a higher level of happiness, look (7 comments)
success: How Success is Linked to Your Choices
- 05/05/15 01:34 AM
Many real estate professionals pursue success only to have it elude them time after time. Sure, they set goals, commit to daily lead generating activities and offer great service to their clients, but they seem to miss something along the way, and what they’re missing prevents them from reaching their ultimate goal of success. What they’re missing may boil down to the choices they’ve made. The choices don’t have to be large, life-impacting ones, such as moving to a new area or changing companies. More likely, the choices are small, seemingly insignificant ones that they make every day. Perhaps they choose to (17 comments)
success: How Having a Purpose Impacts Success
- 04/21/15 01:06 AM
What’s your purpose? According to American author Washington Irving, “Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” Having a purpose—a reason to get up in the morning and work hard toward your goals—is hugely beneficial to your business and your life. If you want to succeed and make this your best year ever, it’s important to find your ‘why.’ Not convinced? Here are three ways that having a purpose impacts your success. It gives you focus. A purpose gives you a reason to cut through the clutter of life and focus on the tasks and activities that are essential to reaching your goals. (4 comments)
success: 3 Tips for Reaching Your Goals
- 04/16/15 01:16 AM
If you’re like many people, you set business, health, financial or other personal goals in January. However, a few months into the year, it becomes more and more difficult to stay on track to reach those goals. Just take a look around your gym the next time you’re there to workout—chances are, it’s less crowded now than it was in January. So how can you stay on track to reach your goals? Follow these three tips. Visualize success. Visualizing is a powerful technique that can help you set goals and achieve them. Take a few minutes to visualize the moment that you (1 comments)
success: Stay on Track to Reach Your Goals
- 04/09/15 01:06 AM
Many people set goals in January, only to forget about them in April. While it’s important to set goals, the act of creating your goals is only the beginning. The next step is to participate in activities that make it possible to achieve your goals. Here are a few ways to keep you motivated and help you do what it takes to accomplish your goals by the end of the year.
Track. Tracking not only allows you to record your progress every day, it also helps you form a habit so that working toward your goal becomes automatic. When you’ve completed an (3 comments)
success: How to Manage Yourself
- 03/25/15 01:07 AM
Many of us became real estate professionals because we wanted to be our own bosses. However, the downside of being your own boss is that you may become the most difficult person to manage. Your success becomes dependent upon the choices you make each day, and if you make the wrong choices or foster the wrong habits, it can impede your progress. Here are three ways to make managing yourself easier.
“The key to success is the choices that we make.”
-Brian Buffini
What are your strengths? We’re all good at something. The (1 comments)
success: 5 Habits of Successful Real Estate Professionals
- 02/10/15 12:14 AM
If you want to have your most successful year ever, look no further than your habits. The habits we practice have a big impact on our level of success. Although many of us want to be more successful, bad habits tend to act as roadblocks in our paths and prevent us from reaching our full potential. The most successful people have many good habits in common. Here are five to help you get started. 1. They start the day right. Research shows that the most successful people in business begin their days when the sun does. Waking up early allows to you take (3 comments)
success: How to Make 2015 Your Best Year Ever
- 01/12/15 12:16 AM
Whether you would rate 2014 as “awesome” or “meh,” you have the opportunity to start all over in 2015. After a restful holiday, it’s time to get back to work and focus on your business. Make this year your best year with these helpful tips. Tap into the science of selling. If you’re like many real estate agents, you may think that to be successful you have to generate a never-ending supply of leads all year round. While it is true that you should generate leads year round, there is a science to how many you’ll need to generate to reach (2 comments)
success: 3 Reasons to Get a Mentor This Year
- 01/08/15 12:12 AM
One thing that the most successful business leaders have in common is that they have at least one mentor in their lives. Many may even credit their mentor for helping them reach their potential and build thriving businesses. If you want to take your business to the next level, a mentor can help you get there. Here are three reasons to get a mentor this year. 1. To help you reach your goals. If you want to reach the goals you set for yourself and your business this year, a mentor can help you reach them. In addition to providing the (1 comments)
success: 5 Lessons We Learned from Brian Buffini’s Success Tour 2014
- 12/09/14 12:02 AM
As the year begins to wind down, we begin to think about the past year and lessons we learned. If you attended Brian Buffini’s Success Tour, the real estate event of 2014, you’ve picked up useful tips from five of the best and brightest minds in business today. If you missed it, or would like to refresh your memories, here are five lessons we learned from the guest speakers of Brian Buffini’s Success Tour 2014. 1. The key to success is acting on your ideas. Many of us are full of ideas. According to best-selling author and entrepreneur Brian Tracy, the Success Tour’s special guest in (2 comments)
success: Recharge Your Battery
- 11/26/14 12:17 AM
Are you an adrenaline junkie? While there is a time and place for that (perhaps on the side of a mountain with skis strapped to your feet or when you have a parachute strapped to your back and you’re flying through the sky), work isn’t one of them. In this clip from the real estate event, the MasterMind Summit, Brian Buffini explains why being an adrenaline junkie in your business can put you on the fast track to Burnout City
Adrenaline kicks in when we’re in situations when our fight or flight instinct is piqued. This often occurs in times of stress, (5 comments)
success: Les Brown’s 3 Essential Goals
- 11/17/14 11:39 PM
You may be aware that it’s smart to create achievable goals, but do you create goals in these three areas of your life? Best-selling author and motivational speaker Les Brown gave live audience members and those watching online the scoop on goal setting at Brian Buffini’s Success Tour in Toronto. When you set these types of goals, you’ll help to succeed in business and life. 1. Personal goals. Les Brown had a goal to buy his mom a house when he grew up. When his mother was 78 years old, he made good on his promise and bought her dream home and had it (2 comments)
success: How to Prevent End-of-the-Year Burnout
- 11/12/14 12:29 AM
Although burnout can occur at any time, many real estate professionals tend to experience it the most toward the end of the year. Think about it: You’ve been going strong—charging hard—all year doing the daily activities that are necessary for your business to thrive. Maybe you put off your annual vacation so that you could close a few more deals. Or, maybe something happened that caused you to veer off track in the pursuit of your goals and you’ve been working hard to get back on track. While your hard work may have resulted in more business, it also may have (7 comments)
success: 6 Life Lessons We Learned from Les Brown at BBST2014 Toronto
- 11/10/14 12:28 AM
If you didn’t get a chance to see Les Brown speak at Brian Buffini’s Success Tour when it stopped in Toronto last week, you missed out on a giant dose of inspiration. Les Brown came from very humble beginnings, but with the help of great teachers and mentors he was able to achieve his dreams and share his story with others to inspire them to shake off mediocrity and harness their potential. Although you can catch up on what you missed on the Live Blog, here are the main highlights. “What we do and accomplish in life is the result of what (0 comments)
success: Why You Should Get a Coach
- 11/07/14 12:15 AM
We could all use a bit of encouragement when we pursue our goals, especially if we dream big. A coach is a person who will help you to stay on track when it’s oh-so-tempting to fall off course. A coach is both your biggest cheerleader and the person who will call you out when you need a push. Most importantly, a coach acts as a sounding board for ideas and will offer a new perspective on the challenges you may encounter. Here are three reasons to get one: 1. Accountability A coach is the ultimate accountability partner who will praise you when you (0 comments)
success: The Importance of Planning
- 10/29/14 12:17 AM
Do you have a plan? In this clip from the real estate event, The Peak Experience™, Brian Buffini explains why it’s essential to plan for your success.
“Build a plan for where you’re going, not where you are.” –Brian Buffini Tweet this Planning is essential to our business. We have to know what is coming so that we can prepare for it. However, if we’re like most real estate professionals, we’d rather not think about it. People who don’t think about it end up living. Thinking about what can happen and planning for it allows us to get ahead now. When (1 comments)
success: The #1 Strategy to Help You Achieve Your Goals
- 10/28/14 12:42 AM
Have you ever set a goal and then had trouble achieving it? We’ve all been there: We set a goal and sketch out a plan to achieve it. Then life happens and we get so busy with other things that the pursuit of the goal moves to the backburner and it’s difficult to muster the motivation to get back on track. The secret to sticking to a goal is simple: You must see it before you can achieve it. As humans we’re visual creatures—we think in pictures. Having a visual reminder of your goal that you’re sure to look at every (7 comments)
success: Survive The S-Curve
- 10/15/14 01:26 AM
What stage of the S-curve is your business in? In this clip from the real estate event, The Peak Experience™, Brian Buffini delves into the phases of the S-curve and explains how you can help your business to thrive.
“Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.” -Tom Peters Tweet this The S-curve for business was developed by Harvard Business School to describe the life cycle of the company. Phase 1: Start or concept Phase 2: Entrepreneurial. This phase determines 75% of business success. Most business fail more during this time than any other time during the cycle. Phase 3: Growth Phase 4: Profit Phase 5: Maturity. After (1 comments)
success: Why It’s Important to Adjust Your Expectations of Success
- 10/08/14 01:22 AM
As you travel through live, your definition of success and your goals will change. In this clip from the real estate event, The Peak Experience™, Brian Buffini explains the importance of adjusting your expectations to reflect seasons of your life.
Having goals is essential to success in your business and your life. However, as you grow older, your definition of success and your goals will change. Why? Life happens. Events will occur that require you to adjust your mindset and expectations, and change the way you approach things. As you grow older and wiser, you’ll make different choices about your (2 comments)
success: 5 Tips to Be Happier
- 09/26/14 01:18 AM
Would you like to be happier this instant? The good news is that happiness is within reach every second of the day. You don’t need to be richer, thinner or have the latest gadgets and toys to be happy. Happiness is a state of mind. It’s a choice that you make every day and a by-product of your daily habits. Happy people are more successful than their peers, enjoy stronger social connections and deal with stress better than others. Are you ready to be happier? Start right this instant with these tips: Choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice we make every (22 comments)