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Saturday, February 04, 2012

3 Questions Successful Entrepreneurs Ask Daily

It takes courage to be first and more courage to step into the place between yesterday's story and tomorrow's story yet to be written. From that dangerous, risky place, an entrepreneur seems to create something where there was nothing.

If you're an entrepreneur, you've got an idea and you know how to share it. You've learned to articulate it to the right people and you understand the law of timing. One of leadership expert, John Maxwell's 21 principles of leadership, the Law of Timing, can be attributed to every great idea.  Perhaps your idea in the right hands at the right time can be successfully launched into a profitable, thriving and sustainable business and an organization and community of people exceeding even their own expectations.
Truthfully, most ideas die.

What moves an entrepreneur to the right place, at the right time, with the right people, doing the right things?

3 questions they ask themselves daily:
1. Who did I see today?
2. What did I do today?
3. What did I learn today?

Self reflection has nearly disappeared in today's hustle and bustle society, the confusion of countless ideas and the chaos of work-life competition. Taking the time to think about anything intentionally and long enough allows you to move an idea or vision forward. Developing thought, storming your creative side for ideas (any ideas), thought focus on what's really important, sorting out the priorities, asking yourself really good questions and giving yourself honest and contemplated feedback, reflection on a day in your life.

Here's where some entrepreneurs develop in their leadership and grow personally, their ideas becoming philosophy and defining the way we think, shaping family, community, organizations, the world.













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Friday, February 03, 2012

What's Happening in the real estate market?

What if there were hundreds of families that owned homes in the market that needed my help?

What if I could easily find them?
What if I could actually connect with them and help them determine that today’s market is a good time for them to make their move?
What if I understood them and their specific goals and what holds them back?
What if I provided a proven, successful plan and could articulate the plan, help them prepare, give them the guideposts, provide the connections they need, and lead them all along the way?
What if I had a proven communication plan they could count on?
What if they were able to realize their goals?
What if my focus was people and relationships and I had opportunities to help every day?
What if I could consistently help people move toward their goals and they paid me for my help?


I can. Through consistent, intentional effort in communicating and then connecting with the people, shifting my focus from an overload of information delivery to being genuinely curious and deeply caring about them and what they want and need, I have met hundreds of people that need my help. I make it my job to go to where they are and find out what they want and need and they will naturally be attracted to me and what I have to give to them. I have a passion to make a difference and generously give it up when ever I have the chance. I'm blessed with helping so many wonderful people by giving them all I've got; an open ear, someone they can trust, someone to count on, somebody that understands them, that listens and that knows the way and shows the way forward. They will follow. And I will be doing some good.

That’s today’s real estate market. 

Connectors, are the people who "link us up with the world ... people with a special gift for bringing the world together."[5] They are "a handful of people with a truly extraordinary knack [... for] making friends and acquaintances."    Malcolm Gladwell 

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

On being selfish



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