Is it Easy to Forgive and Forget?

#4. Respect: Esteem for a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability. Also, the condition of being esteemed or honored.

Reality Check:

Do we ALWAYS Respect our clients? Do we look down on them because they are in a different price range? Do we ESTEEM and HONOR our clients in ALL price ranges? Or is our esteem/honor for them proportional to our potential commission?

Every Person is Special in Some Way:

Each person is uniquely special in an infinite number of ways. Some people are great conversationalists and are sociable. These are the easiest people to like because they already have social skills and have tons of friends. They are just plain easy to like. Should we commend ourselves for respecting someone who is already easy to like?

Life is Not Always Easy:

What about the person that is usually angry, abrupt and, sometimes, downright mean? What can POSSIBLY be admirable about these people? My experience with these people is that they are not usually angry at us per se. They are usually "hurting" or are angry over many of life's setbacks. They will not tell you (initially) about their divorce two years ago and how they lost their kids, their home and life as they knew it. Nor will they tell you that their boss is micromanaging their lives every minute of the working day. They will almost never tell you that they feel unloved, alone and that they miss their favorite family member that just passed away recently.

Don't Enable Them, but at least Give Them a Chance:

I am not saying to accept abuse from anyone. Nor am I saying to keep your difficult Clients. What I am saying is to give the respect that they deserve. Give them a chance.

What can we possibly respect?

How many people in today's world have decent/good credit? How many people have enough financial discipline to save thousands or tens of thousands of dollars for a downpayment? How many people have the courage to make the jump from renting to Buying? I am saying that our Clients Do deserve SOME respect and admiration. Life is ALREADY full of judgemental people. However, many would be surprised how much warmth respect provides even to one who's heart has grown cold.

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