In setting the stage for this topic I want you to imagine that you are a little child ready to go out on the big stage of the elementary school auditorium. You are to walk out in front of 500 people to a microphone and sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We all have been there at some point in our
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11/08/2008
I ask other Realtors all the time what background did they work in past lives? Many have come out of the field of "Human Resources." That's the old "Personnel" department if you have been around long enough. You know the managing headcout guys. I've always hated that headcount term. Kind of like
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11/08/2008
If you work with enough people over time your see the spectrum of the age groups of life from people working to buy starter homes with children to seniors looking for retirement living. It is a great reminder to all of us of the swiftness of time and that our days, whether we acknowledge them or
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11/07/2008
I think I have this one figured out. It can help out with the long faces in real estate and society that I see entirely too often these days. It has to do with having a realistic view of what makes you happy. It's The Lucy - Charlie Brown Effect. It all has to do with "attachment" to an expec
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11/07/2008
It used to be with stress, they had these little balls, stress balls I think they were called, that you squeezed on and off, and supposedly this was the magic de-stresser cure for all your problems. Nowadays you are Needing More Than A Stress Ball. What you need is a laughing stress ball. In th
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11/07/2008
In the world of silly contests funny ones that always occur to me include timed hot dog eating where two people gorge themselves to eat the most hot dogs within a certain amount of time. But, did you know they also have National Cannonball Championships? This dude here in this picture is a champi
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11/06/2008
Somewhere in a past life I had canaries and parakeets as pets at the house and other than them coming out of the cage flying around the house banging into the walls and hiding in the Christmas tree I mainly remember them for their droppings on the gravel paper liner at the bottom of the cage. Thi
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11/05/2008
With many people finding in buying houses these days that the lenders are offering up tougher requirements to get that home loan, I see them throwing their hands up saying they are just not lucky I guess. The idea of whether luck exists or not has always fascinated me. I think luck is a human con
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11/05/2008
As change continues in our real estate world, our national economy, politics, life in general, I have listened and heard from others all about their search for joy. That inner peace that we all seek, that contentment, that feeling that life is good despite the up and down experiences we all share
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11/04/2008
I have thought long and hard sometimes what separates some who achieve big dreams whether in real estate or life and I have concluded IT ALL IS BETWEEN THE EARS. They dream big.They execute on a plan. The dismiss fear in their lives. They go for it. Those great sailing ships were not meant to st
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11/03/2008
