Doing business in Oklahoma from a Florida Beach

I love to go to Active Rain the first thing every morning. I sit with my coffee, my drug of choice, and my granola in soy milk, and lately the blueberries have been great. However, I have change the routine just a little bit. The amount of post that tell people to shut up, or call something socialist, or attacking Realtors because they are not up to our standards has got to be too much. So a bit of change of pace would be nice and I would like to contribute a bit of peace on Sunday morning, kind of like Charles Osgood does on CBS. Charlene and I are going to book a townhome on Jupiter Beach in the West Palm area of Florida, take the dogs, and do business for the month of January. It get ugly weather wise that month in Oklahoma.

How can we do this? Experience was the teacher. First we have a team that is expanding to 5 people including us. Second, Charlene and I spent 3.5 months in Houston last year while I underwent cancer treatment, and so far I am doing well. But you realize how finite, unpredictable, and precious life is. You also realize that this internet, social networking, Skype video connecting, mobile world we live in. In 3.5 months with two people on the ground in Oklahoma, we did a terrific amount of business, and I became a regular blogger and internet marketer. Real Estate has changed. No longer is there floor time, no longer do we have to even ever meet our clients. Since 2005 I have closed over 500 rental properties in Oklahoma that maybe 100 of them have seen.

Ninja Selling starts with a mantra, "The biggest problem we have as Realtors is, we think like Realtors". We are masters of telling ourselves it can't be done that way. We spend a lot of our time criticizing our industry, as if it should be perfect or ever will be perfect. A rant is okay now and then, but i would rather focus on what can work for my team, and if i can help anyone to gain more knowledge and I have it, it is theirs.

What does it take to break away from routine? Imagination. We have to dream it, then want it, and then go for it. Could this experiment fail? of course,, but nothing is ever a complete failure, and without judgement rendered, we modify the experience and try to do it better next time. I can't wait to blog to you about how we do. And if business ever gets to tense, Charlene and I with the poodles Hope and Henri, will take a walk on the beach. Like the line that Morgan Freeman delivered as Red in Shawshank, "Get busy livin, or get busy dyin". "Damn right".