Keyword: success
What determines peoples’ success in life?
What is success? Recently, it was asked on Quora what determines peoples’ success in life and the answers were expectedly various, but one particular answer was dead wrong but got me to thinking about what determines success. I know for sure that it isn’t “the quality of friends [you] keep” as the one person opines. Because let me tell you, ...
Success is not about the chosen few, but about the few who choose
We’re just a touch over 90 days into the current year, and as the flowers start to bloom, it’s a good opportunity to sit down and review your performance in first quarter 2010. One a scale of 1-10, where would you rate your performance thus far? One of the biggest challenges we face as Realtors is the volatile nature of ...
How Do You Define Your Real Estate Success?
Going into the holidays where we are all so busy, running from party to party, celebrating with friends and family, buying gifts, being stuck in traffic, trying to find time to finish “the list”….I thought it would be appropriate to ask a question of Agent Genius Readers. The definition of success is the following: the accomplishment of an aim or ...
Relationships Key To Success
2008 sucked. Pure and simple. The economy sucked. The real estate market sucked. Many people’s lives were really not good in 2008. We all know that 2008 was a rough one for many of our friends, family and associates. Excuse my lack of eloquence but enough suckiness. Let’s get positive! I was tired about hearing about how bad 2008 was, ...
It Will All Be Over Soon
T-Minus 37 Hours and Counting Within the next 37 hours or so, we’ll know who the next President of the United States is going to be. I’ve reached the point where I’m less concerned with who it is than simply knowing which one it will be so we can return to our lives as normal (or as normal as they ...
Staying Positive in a Negative World
Bad News fosters Bad Attitudes It’s hard not to fall prey to the incessant bombardment of bad news from Wall Street and Capitol Hill, as financial markets continue to crumble, sending out shockwaves of gloom and doom that trickle down into every corner of the world, and threaten our sense of comfort and security. No Market is an Island There ...
Are You An Opinion Leader?
photo credit: www.rishimodi.com Management vs. Leadership Management is telling people what to do. Leadership is teaching them how to think. Opinion leaders tell people what to think. Despite various surveys indicating how low the general public ranks real estate agents, some agents are highly respected by their clients and peers. How does that happen? To understand how that is accomplished, ...
Yeah, But … Shut Up
Tell a Friend Look who’s back … back again … Dalton’s back … tell a friend … And he even brought his self-conversation device back with him. (Which will teach people not to tell me that they enjoyed it … my business card reads “beating literary devices to death since 1988.”) Wow There was an article on RE/MAX’s Main Street ...
Are You a Champion?
photo credit If We Stop Now… For all we have accomplished, for all that blogging and new media have done to change the real estate industry, we have done nothing if we stop now. If we rest, satisfied with what has been achieved, if we think that everyone else isn’t going to catch up, then we are in big trouble. If you want ...
A Talk I Gave to New Agents
This was for new John Hall agents and the room was very hot, so I had two big fans going at the same time. Unfortunately, you can hear the fan noise. The talk is a bit over 90 minutes total and it has been split into nine parts. It is in mp3 format and clicking on each of the links ...
Ninja Genius & the Enemy Line
Really Part 2 Okay, this is really, Enemy Line, part 2. Part 1 was here. The reason for the delay: I was in Orlando for Starpower and this is the first chance I’ve had since I got back to town. This post was prompted by the various questions I received in the comments section of that first post. Please forgive ...














