Patti Siebold

Posted By Team Leader - Andy Elliott

I am in Colorado right taking a KW Course on coaching and they held a surprise event last night that taught us how to break boards. I just woke up this morning and I am a little choked up about the things that I learned in this class, so now I'm sharing it with you (so long as a few tears don't short out my keyboard).

I learned that the big things in life take 100% Full On Commitment. This means deciding that "If I Can't, I Will.". Does 100% Full on Commitment, really make such a difference? I mean what if you give it 99% commitment, isn't that ok? Let me ask you a few questions... What if when you took your vows your spouse said that they would be 99% committed to you? Would that work for you? How about driving? What if you committed to driving on the correct side of the freeway 99% percent of the time? That may end a little messy, don't you agree?

I'll be flying back on a plane today and I can tell you that I sure hope that the pilot keeps the engines on 100% of the time. If you've ever been guilty of looking at someone who has achieved great success and wondering why they get so far when you are "almost" as committed to the goal as they are this is your answer, 100% commitment is not 1% better it is far more. It is a break through point that puts you in another place altogether and that strikes me as vitally important in a lot more places than business. It's a world changer and when I say a world changer I mean the kind of change that gets the man right, so that the world will be right around him.

I learned that if you want to break the board you have to look to the other side instead of actually looking at it. Going a step further you get even greater force by looking into the eyes of the board holder. The Bible story of Peter illustrates this point perfectly. Peter stayed on the water as long as he looked at Jesus but when he looked at the water he began to go under. This not only has spiritual implications but there are an amazing number of practical everyday implications as well. Are you looking at your challenges or are you focused beyond them at where you want to be? Do you have a board holder for your practical day to day goals? Would it help you to have someone standing at the other side of your goals that will stare back into your eyes with intense belief that you will break through and be victorious?

What is your commitment level to your goals right now? Are you 100% Full On Committed? Have you decided that even "If you can't, will you"? What would your life look like one year from now if you took a few hours and went on long walk with yourself and came back totally committed to victory? Don't just think about it go out and do it today, take hike and make a decision, it will change your life completely.

Who is holding your board? Do they have a 100% belief in you that you will succeed or would they be satisfied if you stayed right where you are? What do you have to lose by staying on the other side of your board? You certainly don't stand to lose everything but in way what you lose really is everything, breaking through can be that important. Make the commitment to find a board holder that believes in you and look into their eyes to help you focus your strength on breaking through. Most of all please remember that once you break through their will be no greater joy than looking back across and helping someone else believe that they can do it too. Whether it's in business, personal, or spiritual matters the truth is that every board you break may just give you the opportunity to become a holder for the one who's standing behind you.

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If you have further helpful insights or unanswered questions please jump in with a comment, wouldn't you agree that the whole community benefits when we take the time to share? We can rise above the bailout market and provide a ray of hope that may shine beyond someones business and make a difference in their life at home. Take a minute right now and make your contribution because you are the only that can provide your unique prospective.

Thi8s Blog was Posted by Team Leader - Andy Elliott

Regardless of the market we have all been through high and low points in our personal sales cycles and during those low times we are forced to develop strategies to get motivated and stay in the game. Despite what you may hear on the news many realtors are having career years this year! This "sharing session" is directed at helping anyone that is not having a career year, so please read it through and then jump in and make a difference in someone's life by sharing your experiences and strategies for staying in the game.

Here are the agents we're trying to help: Have you ever pulled slowly into the driveway of your home after a long weekend worth of work, turned your car off, and then just sat their..... not wanting to get out because that means you'd have to go in. Out of the car..... and into the house. It's a horrible feeling to know that getting out of that car means you are only about ten steps from walking in the door with nothing to show for another late nights work. There's an ugly feeling that tries to settle in when your heart says you're a winner but your results say you're a loser. What do you do when you give everything you have and still fall short? When you walk in that door without a paycheck does anyone at least understand that you've worked hard? How do you get out of the car at night and manage the courage and positive faith to get back in it again in the morning?

One of the great scripts in real estate is "I'm Busy". It's the script 99% of agents use to deal with the tough question "how is your business" that they get from their friends, family, and other Realtors. It's a script that often rescues an agent from the embarrassing truth that they feel "they are a failure" but it's also a script that does nothing to motivate, inspire, or help others in the field that need some real advice and direction in today's tough market.

With the bailouts, bank closings, and economic instability it's vitally important that we share the tools we use to keep moving forward pushing to succeed despite all of the circumstances trying to bring us down. This blog is an invitation to you as a member of the Realtor community to share your real struggles and strategies you use to keep your head up and your heart in the game.

You can do this by posting a comment. If you do not have any tips and are overburdened by all the pressures you are facing, please join us. Consider this your safe place of community. You are invited to leave the rubber smile at the door and lay your burden on the floor because another realtor may see your comment and have the answer that can help you get back on your feet. If you are reading this blog you ARE STILL IN THE GAME!! How awesome is that! Every adversity brings a seed of equal or greater opportunity and you are one of the realtors who will see the major opportunities unfold because you are sticking it out and overcoming!

One of My Strategies: Find someone to mentor. If you ever want to get your eyes off of your challenges one quick way is to find someone else and give them a hand. You don't have to be a Mega Agent to have a Mega Impact. A simple kind word of encouragement, a few minutes helping someone with their business card, a random motivational phone call or email can go a long way and even change the course of a life!! Of course it won't take long to realize that in helping them you have really helped yourself. It's a Biblical principle about sowing and reaping and I can tell you from experience that you will always reap far more than you sow.

Now click the "Comment" link that is below this article and let the sharing begin.... !

Well it is time to saddle up on the repo horse and learn to ride. It is becoming increasingly clear that it will be difficult to call yourself a real estate professional without intimate knowledge of the foreclosure, bank repo, and short sale markets.

I recently took a client out to look at home and an overwhelming majority of the homes we viewed were short sales. What's a short sale? A short sale is a property that is in a pre-foreclosure state. The bank is willing ot sell it to the public for less than the seller owes them and take a loss rather than going through the expensive foreclosure process.

This means that my team and I will now be looking at training to get to an expert level this area. We need to get so immersed in the knowledge of this process that we can get our clients the best buys possible when purchasing a home. This will be our journey over the next several months. Fortunately we have contacts with those who deal directly with the banks to sell bank owned homes and with agents that have the knowledge we need.

This brings up a good point for sellers too. We will need to find ways to delicately relate to sellers that they are in a time and place where there home will be competing with a very large number of discount properties. This means that their home will have to be in 10+ condition and priced at a competitive rate. This will be writing a blog soon about how sellers can compete with bank owned and foreclosed homes. There are definitley some things that can be done to help get a sale in this market and sellers need to know what those are.

If you have questions about bank owned, foreclosed, or short sale properties, give us a call now, we are available to talk with directly 360-433-8656 or email your question to helpwithforeclosures@eteamcares.com