“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” ~ Christopher Reeve Making any change in your business is all about taking action. The top 1% leverage the compound effect by taking small steps to win the day. Action verbs in your purpose statement can be helpful in taking daily action, like this one: “To inspire and guide myself […]
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The High Cost of Indecision: Why Acting Now is Essential
“To delay is to make the right decision harder.” This simple statement holds a powerful truth: indecision itself is a decision: a decision to let circumstances dictate the outcome. Think about it: not making a choice is still a choice. It’s a choice to remain stagnant, to miss opportunities, and to potentially face more difficult […]
Don’t Let Your Conference Inspiration Fade Away: A 4-Step Post-Conference Guide
Just attended a real estate conference like Inman Connect? Feeling inspired and loaded with new ideas? Conferences offer incredible opportunities to boost your knowledge, network with peers, and get pumped up for your business. Here’s the key: Turning That Inspiration Into Action. So many attendees return home overwhelmed and never implement what they learned. Don’t […]
It’s Not Necessarily How Hard You Try; Ask Avis
It’s not necessarily how hard you try; ask Avis. The top 1% know you can spend an inordinate amount of effort inefficiently and gain nothing, and sometimes you can invest less effort more efficiently and gain plenty. Choose more often what’s important over what’s urgent. The best entrepreneurial drug: momentum. And the hardest part of […]
You’ll Get Knocked Down And Then Get Up Again
“You’ll get knocked down and then get up again” is more than the lyrics of Tubthumping by Chumbawamba. The top 1% know that there are so many outcomes we can’t control. Even Epictetus (55 – 135 AD) wrote, “control what you can and let go of what you can’t control.” Every high-performing individual I’ve worked […]
Successful Thinking
Successful thinking. David Schwartz said it well: “Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.” From Maxwell: When Jack Welch would tell a GE employee that an ongoing relationship was more important than the sale of […]
Fear vs. Focus
The top 1% understand this: Fear causes you to lose your focus Greed causes you to lose your focus The remedy? Do the opposite: Hope creates focus Generosity creates focus Alignment with your purpose creates focus From 1957 till his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. traveled over six million miles. He spoke over twenty-five […]
Growth Does Not Just Happen
The knowledge you need to reach your dreams isn’t going to track you down and force itself upon you. Growth does not just happen. The top 1% have become intentional learners. There are numerous benefits to becoming an intentional learner: You become more creative, and you develop your own unique perspective and exposure to ideas on […]
Your Goals Must Be Activated!
Insights from the top 1% … “Your goals must engage and activate you!” Having concrete goals increases confidence only if they inspire and stir you to consistent action. Said another way, the difference is getting clarity on what you really want and why. So what is it you really want? Ask 5 times until […]
Stop Incremental Growth: How to Take a Quantum Leap in Your Real Estate Practice
We live in a world of exponential change. Just think, today’s smartphones have the computing power of the entire US government in 1983! This kind of rapid advancement isn’t limited to technology; it’s possible in your business too. Are you tired of slow, incremental growth? Do you dream of making a significant leap forward? The […]