Past Entries
16.03.10
Sometimes life gets really busy, I think the thing to be really aware of is how you feel. It’s easy to get caught up in the busyness and feel like the rest of the world owns you or your time but I have learned over the years that you must take time to re-new your energy. If you don’t you will end up running on half cylinders and even though you are thinking you are working hard, you will be far less effective. I don’t just mean taking time off, sure that’s part of it, but I also mean structuring your day so you don’t have too much on every single day, which is easy to do in real estate. Sure some days you are so flat out there is hardly anytime to breathe but one thing I do now is make sure if I have one of those full days I don’t have much on the next day, so I can clear my plate, spend time prospecting and take great care of my current clients. When you load yourself up to much and too often something suffers and it’s usually your service levels. Richard Branson talks about flowing in and out of work and it’s true. There needs to be a rhythm to your days and I don’t mean music, it’s more about the rhythm of energy. If you feel great and full of energy day in-day out you will achieve double the results just because you feel aligned with the Universe and people will naturally want to deal with you when you are transferring a great energy.
01.03.10
I really want to bring out a diary system for agents, I think I could create something excellent that would help people get the most out of their day. Something for the future I guess.
17.02.10
Been running a group in the office with 7 young sales Guys called “Young Guns”. We are into our 4th week now and it’s really interesting to see the passion in some of these young Guys. They are on an absolute mission to achieve great success. It inspires me. They are so committed to their success journey you can feel it when you are around them.
I was reading Donald Trump’s new book the other day and he said in one of the chapters that he made a decision a while ago to double his work hours and get very committed to his success path (well I guess it’s worked for him), he also said that the way he looks at competition is it’s there but the only way they can compete with him is to keep up with him, I really liked that way of looking at it.
Just like these “Young Guns” they have made a decision to work harder, record their numbers, train hard, continuously focus on how to get better and be constantly open to learning.
Sometimes it’s not the most skilled person that achieves greater levels of success, it’s usually the person that’s most committed and is prepared to do that little bit more time and time again.
Success will come if you want it enough, it’s just a matter of earning it.
08.02.10
Things are great. Both of my assistants are going into sales now on their own, I’m really happy for them. Jimmy is powering in his area at the moment, he is so committed to doing well. I’m doing a video on his launch into sales tomorrow and will be tracking his progression on video. I’m that pumped at the moment listed about 6 auctions in the past few days and they are all great property. I feel brilliant. I feel like I’m bursting with energy. Things are really good. Like Oprah says, the future is so bright it burns my eyes.
02.02.10
I heard Ivan Bresic speak at Arec and the thing that stuck in my mind after his talk was “bread makes you fat”. When he said this I thought what a weird way to open up your talk however he is right. Since then I have stopped eating bread and have lost around 8kg’s. Just at a guess I think I have lost two or three inch’s from around my waist and as you get older that’s the area that becomes hardest to streamline. Sure, I surf pretty much everyday but I was also doing that before. I used to eat 6 to 8 pieces of bread most days with stacks of butter and now I eat absolutely no bread and it is not missed one bit. Everything I used to put on or eat with bread I just have exactly the same without the bread and you really don’t miss it. What I reckon is the bread is food that you don’t need and adds extra kilojoules unnecessarily. Eating the no bread has also made me think about eating healthier in general and now I eat virtually no junk food. Once you get into the habit of eating well it is fairly easy to do. It’s just about making the commitment and sticking to it.
