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Chicken soup for real estate?

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Real Estate Agent with Orlando Area Real Estate Services

chicken soupSo as I stated in an earlier blog entry, I am currently enjoying a few days at the beach. This gives me the time to do what I usually don't have the time to do - READ! Quite a problem for a published author let me tell you.

Anyway, one of the things I a reading that normally I NEVER read,, is this month's Realtor magazine.

I've already discussed the unbelievable league table of most requested information - which lead to my blog post Are agents responsible for the state of their own markets?  -  but now I want to discuss something else I have been talking about and frankly it is essentially the same subject - Realtors being responsible for their own success.

You see there is an interview in the very back of the magazine with Jack Canfield - author of "Chicken Soup For The Soul" and a whole variety of other "Chicken Soup" books.

Jack CanfieldWell now Jack has written "The Success Principles" and the interview is about that. Let's look at this Q&A:

Q. What elements are most people missing?

A. People don't understand the power of their own thoughts. What happens is most people are reactive thinkers. We're thinking thoughts in relation to something going on outside of us, and then we say that the outside condition is the cause of our current reality, when what is known for sure is that our thinking is what is creating current reality. So if I'm thinking negative thoughts I will start to create a resonance with everybody else in the community who's thinking negative thoughts.

Hmm - I know you have read that in the entries to this blog before. This is not simply positive thinking - this is The Laws of Attraction in action - how about this one?

Q. Are you optimistic about the state of the economy and the country overall?

A. The reality is there's always a way to react to the current environment to get the outcomes you want. There are still going to be houses bought and sold. People get transferred. People die. There are divorces. You want to be known as the person who can sell a house or can help buyers find the perfect house no matter what the market is doing. You've got to change your thoughts and visualize achieving the goal. Close your eyes and see the results you want. Feel the feelings you would feel if you already had that result.

Feeling your success. Imagining it. These are huge concepts to embrace, but embrace them you must if you are seriously interested in changing your level of success.

As for me - I guess I need another vacation because here is yet another book I need to find time to read!

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(Copyright © 2007 By Simon L Conway All Rights Reserved.)

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Joeann Fossland
Advantage Solutions Group - Tucson, AZ
Master Certified Coach to Motivated Agents
It is a good book & he is authentically a guy who walks his talk!
Dec 08, 2007 01:19 AM
Simon Conway
Orlando Area Real Estate Services - Orlando, FL
Thanks for stopping by Joeann - you are exactly correct. Check out the story of his life BEFORE his first successful book.
Dec 08, 2007 01:25 AM
Tom and Stephanie Hansson
Cortiers Real Estate - College Station, TX
Hansson and Hansson Real Estate Team
There isn't one statement there that is not the truth.  I for one, am trying to learn how to let go of the bad stuff and allow the good stuff to come in.  I have found that it is from the heart, not the head.  BTW  that soup looks good, does it come with a receipe?
Dec 08, 2007 01:27 AM
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QEC Internet Services - Long Beach, CA

Actions will translate the thoughts to reality. Too many folks continue to think without acting.  With all the books written on the subject and all the people who have read these books cover to cover, we should not be living in a world where we are borrowers instead of lenders, violence and crime are rampart in every community,  wars are being fought  for oil and greed, divorce at an all time high worldwide, and children completely out of control.

If we would only act on the good stuff we read.   I only wish we would read the good stuff, act on it and share it with another human being to get them to act also.  What a marvelous world it would be?

I'll have a bowl of that soup! 

Dec 08, 2007 01:30 AM
Simon Conway
Orlando Area Real Estate Services - Orlando, FL

Stephanie - First of all the soup - you perhaps need to go and join my friends relatively new group - The AR Cookbook....enter your favorite recipes here for all to enjoy.

As for the rest - the heart is certainly as important as the head in these matters.

Dec 08, 2007 01:38 AM
Simon Conway
Orlando Area Real Estate Services - Orlando, FL
Ntsike - you have to start somewhere my friend. Start with your own life. Watch it change and then spread the word.
Dec 08, 2007 01:39 AM
Patricia Aulson
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES Verani Realty NH Real Estate - Exeter, NH
Realtor - Portsmouth NH Homes-Hampton NH Homes

True, think positive and positive things will come your way.

 

Patricia Aulson/Hampton NH Real Estate   www.patricia4realestate.com

Dec 08, 2007 02:04 AM
Gary Smith
Agent Marketing Today - Commerce Township, MI
Simon, Thanks I didn't get any further than the Cost vs Value report in this months mag.  I'll definately check out the interview.  And thanks for the food group.
Dec 08, 2007 02:13 AM
» Bill Burress Nationwide Mortgage Originator
» Bill Burress Nationwide Mortgage Originator - Fort Myers, FL

Simon:

Wow.  I never knew you were such a deep thinker.  Looks like good stuff.  Thanks for sharing.

Dec 08, 2007 02:46 AM
Simon Conway
Orlando Area Real Estate Services - Orlando, FL

Patricia - thanks for stopping by - you are right and good things will happen for you

Gary - Cost vs Value was interesting, but this is even more interesting!

Dec 08, 2007 06:07 AM
Simon Conway
Orlando Area Real Estate Services - Orlando, FL
Bill- I strongly recommend you read some of this man's stuff - as well as numerous blogs I have done on the Laws of Attraction.
Dec 08, 2007 07:26 AM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!
Simon-What a great post! Jack Canfield is the man! I love books. His own story on how he got the first Chicken soup book published when every publisher said no one was interested in short stories! WOW, I bet those publishers are eating crow now! The publisher that finally did accept his book said it would never sell more than a few copies and then he wrote his first 1 million dollar check to Jack, the biggest check he ever wrote to a writer! Katerina
Dec 08, 2007 12:21 PM
Simon Conway
Orlando Area Real Estate Services - Orlando, FL
Katerina - I know! I am a published author - four short stories, but no one has written me a Million Dollar check..... YET!!
Dec 08, 2007 12:26 PM