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If You Look Down You Go Down.

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with KGC Properties LLC, Tucson Property Management & Real Estate

When I taught my daughter how to ride a bike, the challenge of course is "falling down".  To help her get past that, I would run ahead of her and tell her - look at me - look where you want to go - "if you look down you go down".  

That became our phrase when it came to overcoming many challenges in life - or when trying to help her set goals and accomplish them.

It's along the same lines of, if you keep looking back you will never go forward.

So the motivation thought today is, whatever you want to do - look up and don't look back!

Wishing you a great Saturday.

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This blog is written with my opinions and my opinions are  presented with accuracy but not guarantees. Please talk to a professional before making any real estate, financial or agency decisions.    Gabrielle Kamahele Rhind - 2014. If you want to reprint parts of this - just email me for my permission: KGCProperties@gmail.com .

 

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Linda Piper
Planatek Financial, Inc. - Ventura, CA

Gabrielle:

I am going to print that phrase and tape it to the wall right in front of me.  Thank you very much for this morning's inspiration!

Linda

 

Sep 13, 2013 11:59 PM
Frank Castaldini
Compass - San Francisco, CA
Realtor - Homes for Sale in San Francisco
Beautiful. What you focus on become your reality. Look forward and that's where you're headed. What we visualize become our reality.
Sep 14, 2013 12:15 AM
Richie & You
people first-then business - Riverside, CA
Author & Consultant

I'm in...good post, comments...and its a lovely day too

Sep 14, 2013 12:17 AM
Matt Kombrink
One Source Realty - Geneva, IL
Your #1 Source For Real Estate
Great advice to pass on to your daughter and apply to your own life.
Sep 14, 2013 01:08 AM
Amanda Christiansen
Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843 - Fort Wayne, IN
Christiansen Group Realty

Amen!  This is great advice for all of us.  Thanks for sharing, and have a great weekend!                                      

Sep 14, 2013 01:10 AM
Harry F. D'Elia III
WEDO Real Estate and Beyond, LLC - Phoenix, AZ
Investor , Mentor, GRI, Radio, CIPS, REOs, ABR

I always look up when I enter a home with a buyer. Better to look up than down.

Sep 14, 2013 01:20 AM
Michelle Francis
Tim Francis Realty LLC - Atlanta, GA
Realtor, Buckhead Atlanta Homes for Sale & Lease

Gaby, 

Great advice.  Positive thoughts will help you success verses focusing on what could happen bad, it almost is like you will do what you are thinking and looking down will cause you to fall.

All the best, Michelle

Sep 14, 2013 01:34 AM
Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty
Waves Realty - Melbourne, FL
Florida Space Coast Homes

Gabrielle...what a great post. Very deserved feature on this one for sure!

Sep 14, 2013 01:56 AM
Gabrielle Kamahele Rhind
KGC Properties LLC, Tucson Property Management & Real Estate - Tucson, AZ
Broker/Owner

HI JEFFREY ... thank you - was a surprise.

HI MICHELLE ... nice added words for the message - thank you

HI HARRY ... that too.

HI AMANDA AND JARED ... thank you

HI MATT .. have to teach them young how to look up and on the bright side

HI RICHIE ... so far .. thank you!

HI FRANK .. like with Michelle, nice addition to the post!

HI LINDA ... that's so nice ... 

HI TOM ... great -- it's an easy phrase to remember I think.

HI MARYKAY ... I like that one .... my daughter is a swimmer, I'll share it with her

HI MICHAEL ... and the name of the CDs?

HI REBECCA ... adopt away ..nice compliment

HI BRENDA ... thanks and enjoy your Saturday

HI JUDY ... thank you

HI JOE .. oh yes, I haven't heard that one in a while ... but true

HI PETER .. thank you for liking!

HI CINDY ... it seems to work with my daughter ... took me less than an hour to get her riding on two wheels

HI GLORIA ... well thank you - glad you like it

HI DEBBIE .. feel free to use it anytime.  With anyone!

HI MIKE!  Yes, I rode mountain bikes for a while and every time I looked down ... there I went!

Sep 14, 2013 02:31 AM
Gabrielle Kamahele Rhind
KGC Properties LLC, Tucson Property Management & Real Estate - Tucson, AZ
Broker/Owner

HI B ... If it's said out-loud, then ... right?? Still very hard but changing a mindset helps ... thanks B - you are my biggest supporter!

HI DENNIS ... True and thank you

HI ROGER ... You know - I think it does too!

HI BRUCE .. you are so right - always tell my daughter that when we see people running for a touchdown or in a sprint, I ask her, "Where do you think they are looking?"

Sep 14, 2013 02:33 AM
Carla Muss-Jacobs, RETIRED
RETIRED / State License is Inactive - Portland, OR

Very good life lesson to teach your daughter at such a young age.  I almost drowned in the Pacific Ocean when I was a teenager.  I was caught up in a rip tide and it pulled me under and somersaulted me in the under-surface wave.  I was disoriented and didn't know which way was up.  The sun was the light at the surface.  Looking toward the light, looking forward . . . yes, these are practical lessons, indeed.

Sep 14, 2013 06:28 AM
Laura Cerrano
Feng Shui Manhattan Long Island - Locust Valley, NY
Certified Feng Shui Expert, Speaker & Researcher

Isn't that a fable story too? I seem to recall hearing that one.

 

Love and light,

Laura

Sep 14, 2013 10:57 AM
Joan Whitebook
BHG The Masiello Group - Nashua, NH
Consumer Focused Real Estate Services

Good advice ~  If you keep looking back, you will never go forward.  How profound and how true!

Sep 14, 2013 12:08 PM
Lou Ludwig
Ludwig & Associates - Boca Raton, FL
Designations Earned CRB, CRS, CIPS, GRI, SRES, TRC

Gabrielle

Very inspirational post and a life lesson.

Good luck and success.

Lou Ludwig

Sep 14, 2013 12:11 PM
Lana Robbins Realtor ® Licensed Real Estate Broker
Aloha Kai Real Estate - Clearwater, FL
Licensed in Florida, Washington, and Hawai'i

Hi Gabrielle. Yes... "imua." Don't look back... keep moving forward. Hope you and your daughter are doing okay.

Sep 14, 2013 01:17 PM
Praful Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Burlington, MA
Metro Boston Homes For Sale

Gabrielle, love both the lines - looking down or looking back is not what one should do!

Sep 14, 2013 02:43 PM
Christine Donovan
Donovan Blatt Realty - Costa Mesa, CA
Broker/Attorney 714-319-9751 DRE01267479 - Costa M
Gabrielle - Look up or forward. That just makes so much sense.
Sep 14, 2013 03:05 PM
Noah Seidenberg
Coldwell Banker - Evanston, IL
Chicagoland and Suburbs (800) 858-7917

Gabrielle very positive thoughts. Great photo and words to live by

Sep 14, 2013 10:53 PM
Laura Foreman
Referral Maker Real Estate CRM - Carlsbad, CA
Copywriter, Buffini & Company

Great advice!

Sep 16, 2013 06:55 AM
John J. Woods
Big Dog Press, LLC - Winder, GA
Going where no man has gone before - wouldn't you?

 

   Wonderful anecdotal post!  I've seen so many videos with children just learning to ride bikes or skateboards or scooters, etc., where the kid looks right at the thing his/her parent is yelling at him/her to avoid and then he/she runs right into it.  Often, it's the only obstacle within several yards and was never even in their intended path.

 

Sep 16, 2013 02:31 PM