Last week I held a fundraiser art show in my home. (I've been really big on fundraisers recently. I've still got another going for a friend of mine with Leukemia.) My friend (the artist) and I spent several hours over the course of a couple of days getting the paintings on the walls and labeling them with the prices. The fundraiser was for a fairly small cause, so our mailing list was rather small as well. Subsequently, we didn't have a lot of people show up. All that work for nothing!
Or was it?
You see, now that the work is up on the walls, I'll probably leave much of it there (at least until my friend needs it for a show). Being the social butterfly that I am, there will probably be many people who will visit my home in the coming month who will see the paintings. And perhaps someone will buy one. And in the meantime, I'm getting to enjoy my friend's artwork (which I quite adore which is why I agreed to host the show in the first place).
It's funny. This week I started working on a joint venture business with another friend. I was feeling really overwhelmed with the amount of work it would take me to get this off the ground but then he asked me to send him everything I already had that might be cross-purposed for this new venture. 13MG of information and two links to another 80MG of information later and I was feeling not so bad about how much I needed to do. You see, it seems that I've been doing a little bit here and a little bit there and a lot for my primary business and it all adds up. Much of the stuff I sent him I would have told you was wasted effort on my part from years ago. But not so now.
The moral of the story?
Not everything you do will work right now. It might not even work next year. Some of the things you do will take you years to reap the rewards of them. And some might never work at all. But some of what you do will hit now. And some will come back later to fill your pipeline in the future as if by magic. Don't worry about it. Just keep moving forward. EVERYTHING you do puts energy into the process and will therefore bring good things to you, even if the particular thing you did didn't show immediate results. It's progress, not perfection that counts.
In short - keep on chuggin'.
Kelle Sparta is the author of The Consultative Real Estate Agent - Building Relationships that Create Loyal Clients, Get More Referrals, and Increase Your Sales, as well as being a speaker and trainer specializing in the real estate industry. Kelle is the founder of Sparta Success Systems, a real estate training company that provides tools, products, and training to empower agents and brokers to create lives and businesses they can love. For more information, visit her website at http://www.spartasuccess.com/. © 2007, Kelle Sparta.
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