Gentlemen -and Lady — Start Your Engines!
As we thunder or stumble or crawl into this new year of 2018, we’re reminded of the resolutions we set last week or made jokes about. I resolved to spend less money on concert tickets and adventures – more toward kicking up the real estate another couple notches. This blog is part of that so, as a reader, I implore ya to “keep me honest!”
Supermoon welcomes in 2018! Photo by Caitlin Ryan
My friend Randall quipped about his mad dash toward procrastination on twitter, my first LOL of the year – but as an American icon once said ‘it’s funny ’cause it’s true.’ – Homer Simpson.
This morning I was 15 minutes late to the first of our weekly Knoxville real estate ‘Crush the Goal’ conferences where we discuss specific tasks and targets we plan to accomplish for the coming week. In doing that I learned an important lesson about myself – it’s one of the things Keller Williams teaches in our Bold Training – there are reasons and there are results! There are plenty of reasons why my alarm wasn’t fully affective, 7 degree temperatures outside of an exceedingly warm bed, frost on my windshield, wallet and keys out of place. In retrospect, those late night football games weren’t really that compelling though I loved the camaraderie of spending time with my guys and No Regrets about the epic Chicken Carbonara or the fun that accompanied it.
The #goals are challenging there are several Kellerisms that I’m going to try to keep bouncing around in my head to keep on task. Gratitude, positivity and consistency aren’t usually measurable – I expect to have some measure of each of those in the words I use each day in life and each week here in written form.
Our new office General – Carrie – has already shown us how much easier it is operate a professional service when there is a focal point with an eye on everything thank God for her gentle reminders and checklists.
Unlike a lot of people who are ‘successful’ in our business, we have no interest in specifically beating the competition – as I’ve heard others say. I don’t feel like someone’s success diminishes my own. I’m not stealing food from your children’s mouths when I close a deal. There were 19,111 single family homes sold in Knoxville this past year. All tolled, we sold 107 of them. It seems like a tiny drip in that pond, but it’s a mix of challenge and encouragement. When we decide we’re going to sell a bigger piece of that, it’s not going to hurt someone else. This year the pool was a little diluted when a lot of new folks decided to jump into the business – the same thing happened in 2003 when I jumped in with a bunch of other people!
Who knows how much any of us are going to actually sell this year? We do! Because we decided to set our goals and keep everyone on track to hit them!