For years I've been a believer that it was best to "Work smart so you don't have to work hard".
I am sorry to hear that you've been unsuccessful in your endeavors to not have to work hard. Obviously you are extremely successful, but even after all of your success you are still one of the hardest working people I know. Surely if you were as smart as you are a hard worker, you would be one of the smartest people in the world. Any observant person can see that you are one of the hardest working.
Let's take a look:
1. You are in the top .001% of top point earners on ActiveRain. In fact you are #1 out of over 100k people. It takes a lot of work to achieve at that level.
2. You are up bright and early, 6AM, writing a blog post on ActiveRain. You are an SEO maven and know that blogging on ActiveRain is one element of work that generates SEO results. You would be surprised how few people start work at 6am. I would bet hard cash that you don't clock out at 5pm either. We're talking 12 hour days and 60 hour weeks. Definitely hard work.
3. You generate a ton of buyers on your website homefinders.com. Now a smart person would just sell or refer those leads outright. But you take the extra work to speak to nearly every prospect and set them up as slam dunks for your referral agents.
4. You registered homefinders.com in 1995 and have doggedly stuck with it for over a decade. I bet the first few years were lean. Lots of hard work investing in the internet when the smart money was on telemarketing.
5. I also understand that you programmed most of your website. I'm guessing that you don't have any formal training as a computer programmer, but you needed it programmed so you just did it. Doing the dirty work that you should have just outsourced allowed you to learn first hand how to increase your SEO. How's that SEO knowledge working out for you now?
The most successful people in nearly every industry are not so smart. To rise to the top you need to do things differently than all of the other smart people. You need to take risks that smart people think are ludicrous. You are a top producer now, but don't forget what it took to get there. You are doing our members a great disservice if you tell them that becoming great is going to be possible without an extra helping of stupid-hard work.
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