This is Part 3 for the January 2025 Challenge Planning for success for Leanne Smith. My focus is to be an active participant in building my future without depending on real estate sales. Now is the time to pause and come to grips with what I need to do for myself and my future. I live and breathe via spiritual guidance through education. Always and forever, I thirst for knowledge. Now is the time to be proactive and use my own ingenuity and creativity. Being an active participant in two book clubs and reading the book, “Women Who Runs With the Wolves,” helps me to explore the challenges that stand in the way of self-awareness, and the “necessary growth cycles of life.”
Hello, my old College Friend, Carl Jung
As I explore the “pitfalls and the intent on rediscovering” the lost pieces of my life, it became obvious. The past 21 years I put all my buyers and sellers’ best interests before my own. Due to issues buyers had in 2024 that caused them not to succeed, or that when a seller dies and the listing stops before it starts, I discovered the cost to do business took more out my retirement savings then helped me to grow financially. Inflation, low inventory, and the state of the economy did not help. I really loved serving people to help them find their dreams. Without sales, the cost to do business and transportation expenses, real estate fees, etc., coupled with three rear-end car accidents in 2024 by drivers who were texting while driving were very stressful. What happens when other driver's recklessness causes havoc, and buyer's no-fault inability to get a mortgage occurs, the results are the domino effect. And it really impacted me hard. The future has no guarantees. If I don’t fail, my successes won’t mean anything. I'm just on a different path. No matter what adversities I am facing, it takes courage to never give up on life, and to find the courage to find another direction.
Using my own creativity, this is the cover of my Meditation Journal
My decision to quit the business finally came to me on the morning of Christmas Eve. It came to me in a dream and all I knew for certain was to move forward into my future, I had to leave the past behind me. I'm following my instincts; not the crowds. The only one I can depend on is me.
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