No two people looking at an object see exactly the same thing. Sometimes, one person can see differing images of the same thing over a short period of time. Take, for instance, me. I had cataract surgery for my right eye on Wednesday. Hanging around the house that afternoon, I went to hang up a pair of pants. I've always considered these pants to be gray. Now that my cataract is gone, everything has a bluish tint and these pants look slightly lavender. Not brighter, just a different color.
I've had several friends over the past few months who have also had cataract surgery. We all have different doctors. We all followed different pre and post op routines. But we all finished with the same results - no more cloudy lenses.
One of my friends had multiple bottles of eye drops to take days before her surgery. Each bottle required a different number of drops multiple times a day, and the number of drops changed as she got closer to her surgery date. She had to create a checklist spreadsheet to keep it all straight. My doctor gave me one bottle of drops (he combined multiple types of drops into one prescription) and I used one drop four times a day for just two days prior to surgery (the KISS principle). The same for post surgery steps for both of us. I have the same bottle and use one drop each time as prescribed. She recreated her spreadsheet to follow her post-op instructions.
Another friend was told after surgery not to bend over or lift anything heavier than 10 pounds for two weeks. She got one of those grab-it things to pick stuff up off the floor. My doctor explained it a little differently, and less restrictively. I can't lift heavy objects for one week, and if I have to bend, keeping my eye higher than my heart (squatting) is the way to go. I can resume normal activities this coming week.
We also had differing ways to cope with the second eye prior to the surgery for that one. My doctor had the simplest solution. I have a 30-day contact in my left eye. I don't need glasses anymore, except for reading glasses. The contact balances out the corrected eye. I was a bit apprehensive, having never used contacts before. But after he inserted it, he asked how it felt and I honestly can't feel it.
So what does this have to do with real estate (or anything else, for that matter):
- Make it as simple as possible for your clients. There are ways to make things more complicated than they need to be, so don't (multiple vials of drops with differing amounts to apply from each vs one vial with simple instructions).
- Realize that there are many ways to achieve similar goals (we all had successful cataract surgery despite alternative ways of preparing).
- Cause the least amount of pain and discomfort as possible (one contact and reading glasses vs multiple glasses, or one removed lens from the frames of the old spectacles until the second eye is corrected).
Not wearing glasses for distance is taking a little getting used to. It's an adjustment. I'll gladly give up the contact lens, though, when I get the left eye done in a few weeks. I'm looking at the world differently now!
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