When someone succeeds in life, people often ask, how did you do it? It’s the same old question from everyone aspiring to achieve something to everyone who already did it. Some would tell you it’s luck or hard work but when you listen to them closely, you’ll hear their enthusiasm about their dreams. I can…
It’s always easy to blame other people or other things when you fall short of reaching your goals or when you lose the will to pursue them. You might have gone through this kind of frustration before, and you probably just can’t afford to look at yourself as someone to blame for the said disappointment.…
If you feel hopeless while working towards your goals and you need some motivation, read this. These are the people who don’t need to introduce themselves anymore because of their achievements in their lifetime. These people are particularly inspiring because they’ve gone through rejection and failures too, but that didn’t stop them from becoming who…
As I write this, it’s the first day of July, which means the year is half gone! It seems like the year is flying by! The fact that the year is at the halfway point has caused me to wonder if you are halfway to the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning…
Recently I was having a “bull session” with a handful of agents in my office. We had just returned from lunch and we were sitting around the conference room table. The conversation turned to an experience that one of the agents had with a seller that was proving to be difficult and unreasonable in their…
At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, June 5th, Apple CEO Tim Cook and friends gave us a full overview of iOS 11. In case you are unsure what that means, iOS is the software that runs your iPhone. It creates the user experience that you have when you turn your phone on and…
Live video is currently an exciting topic among technologists and futurists and it’s widely expected that it will play a big role in the way we communicate online going forward. And for agents, live video is also very exciting. That’s because it presents us with an entirely new audience to market ourselves to, an entirely…
I want to recommend a book this week. In the past I have recommended books, but they have all been real estate specific books. This one is not. The author of the book is Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired) and is titled “Make Your Bed – Little Things That Can Change Your Life…
Your NAR membership comes with some pretty good benefits. One of which is a partnership with Lenovo. Lenovo is the Chinese company that bought IBM’s laptop business some years back. If you are a die hard Windows computer user, then you probably can’t go wrong with buying a Lenovo computer. But you have to move…
I just learned of a new member benefit that is available to all members of the National Association of REALTORS®. We already know that NAR offered free dot realtor domain names back in 2014 (https://www.claim.realtor) and a few of us took advantage of it. Recently NAR announced a new member benefit from real estate digital marketing…
