Our Chihuahua Bunny is now 16 years old. She's long retired from her award winning days as a therapy dog. She and Liz made a great team visiting hospice, schools, VA medical centers and other places in need.
The picture was taken some years back. Now, Bunny's eyes are a bit cloudy. While she's not totally blind, she doesn't have much vision left, but her hearing still picks up an American Cheese slice wrapper crinkle from across the house :)
There's a hitch in her giddy up too, so she gets chiropractic adjustments. And the potty break area for the dogs? Out the back door and down 4 steps, steps that became a big problem about a year ago, so we bought a 6' foldable wheelchair ramp and added side walls to keep any of the Chihuahuas from bumping each other off the edge. Combined with some outdoor rugs attached for traction, that worked for about a year.
But lately, Bunny's four paw drive just doesn't have the traction it used to, so she's starting to rush down the ramp and the risk of a bad tumble meant we had to make some adjustments. First trial of moving the ramp down one step to flatten the angle didn't work. Bunny took a leap rather than easing down, so I reversed course and put the ramp back to it's original position to the top stair, but added about 5" of lumber underneath the bottom to provide a more gradual slope. No more Bunny hops! She can now go up and down without concern.
I'm now coming up on my 22nd year in real estate, and I've made some adjustments there too. Unlike Bunny, I'd say my time in real estate has improved my vision. It's a lot easier to see the red flags potential clients are waving right in front of us, all but shouting DO NOT WORK WITH ME!! While Bunny has a hitch in her giddy up, I sometimes have a hitch in my heartbeat (intermittent afib), so recognizing high stress clients is actually good for my health.
Other adjustments? The old template websites (especially the broker provided ones that you do the work customizing to build the brand SEO and are left holding the bag if you change) was traded for our own Wordpress IDX site.
Blogging adjusted too, from just about anything to a niche focused approach, to now weekly Ask An Ambassador posts (while the older long tail posts still work for us).
We're continually adjusting. It's a key part of Life in general. Work with the facts in evidence, and adjust as new facts replace old assumptions.
If something's not working, why not?
Or better yet, is it even worth doing at all?
But we've always done it that way doesn't stop you from adjusting tomorrow.
Until next Tuesday, just Ask An Ambassador if you need help,
Bill & Liz aka BLiz
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