If you are old enough you may remember the song from the movie MASH. The dentist had some issues so they were going to give him a little pill to solve everything.
I think as REALTORS we often look for the magic bullet or pill (as a society we do too) There has to be another solution, a better quicker, "painless" way. A few years ago it was rapidly appreciating property and selling as an investment, then low rates (I remember when we said "if rates would just get down to 12% we could really do some business") now government tax credits. Tomorrow a better faster and quicker web site (or was that yesterday?).
Truth be told, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz... we all have and have always had the solution within us.
Not very exciting and certainly not very controversial but the solution is best summed up in a single word...WORK! Actually two words 'HARD WORK". Plus, experience tells me the easier it is the harder you probably worked.
You see it really makes no difference what is going on. There will be people needing to buy or sell or move out or move up. And those are my (and your) clients. All the other stuff...incentives, foreclosure, market conditions are just peripheral circumstances and they will change tomorrow and the day after. So the solution is to just keep you head down... slogg through each day in a pattern and consistency and the rest really doesn't matter, as you will succeed.
The old tortoise and hair analogy comes to mind... life isn't a race it is just day to day. Sure you need to adapt... but don't confuse adaptation with the answer to success.. the answer is in you and it always has been... just "work" on it!
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