Your revenue runs at the speed of trust. Think about it: as trust goes up, speed increases and cost goes down. A client who trusts you returns calls, follows advice and refers friends. An agent who trusts their broker stays through a tough market. A lender or escrow partner who trusts you makes the transaction […]
Tag: Goal Setting
Stretching Your Ambition With A 90-Day Sprint
When it comes to growing your real estate business, all the folks I work with have ambitious ideas for growth. Yet, have you stopped to consider that trying to execute too many goals at one time is a barrier to your success? As you and I know, the only way to ensure your ideas for growth succeed […]
The Power of Habits: From Thread to Cable
Horace Mann, the education reformer, put it this way: “Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.” I think about that line a lot. Not because it’s clever, but because it’s true in every brokerage I’ve ever worked with. One thread doesn’t hold much […]
The Economy and Housing, What’s Up?
Just received some edits from my Ph.D. friend, who is giving my textbook on the introduction to real estate economics a test drive. That got me thinking: The…
Persistence
Here is what I know as an entrepreneur: you try 10 things, 9 don’t work out as planned, and 1 (after tweaking it) works. The problems entrepreneurs confront every day would overwhelm most managers. The point? Persistence. If you believe in the problems you are solving, you keep iterating until you find the formula. I’m […]
Doing The Right Thing
One of my lawyer friends quoted Carl Sandburg today: “If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.” My take? Doing the right thing is always the right thing and […]
The Accountability Advantage: How Tracking Your Efforts Drives Exponential Growth
“What is measured improves. What is measured and reported back exponentially improves.” This simple principle has a profound impact on performance, whether you’re an Olympic athlete or a business professional. Consider a study of Olympic-level figure skaters. When they trained on their own, they averaged 60 jumps and spins per hour. But when their coach […]
What Happened To The Real Estate Market?
It’s that time of the month… for the real estate market update. If there were 2 slides out of the 84 from this month’s KCM updates plus 1 from Altos, which…
Up Your Work Game? Get Moving!
What the Research Found In a recent HBR article, professors Bonnie Cheng and Yolanda Li conducted original research on how physical exercise impacts outcomes in the workplace. The benefits of physical activity on general well-being are widely acknowledged, yet there has been a lack of research on how it impacts outcomes at work, including job […]
Conquer Your “I Don’t Feel Like It” Moments: Using Your Imagination for Business Success
Ever hit a wall where you just can’t seem to get motivated, even when you know you need to? There’s a powerful technique, rooted in research on addiction, that can help you overcome these moments and achieve your goals: Functional Imagery Training (FIT). FIT is a psychological technique that uses your imagination and all your […]