Tony & Darcy Cannon - The C Team

Cedar City, Not just a beautiful city, but a great lifestyle as well. Here in Cedar City, Utah, we live in one of the most beautiful areas of the United States, we are the gateway to several National Parks and Monuments.

We are nestled against the mountains and enjoy each of the four seasons.

We also enjoy great opportunities to enjoy the outdoors with walking and hiking trails, ATV trails.

The Brian Head Ski Resort isn't far, and we also enjoy a golf course that is set against the red hill for a dramatic and beautiful backdrop.

For those looking for something more, we also enjoy the Utah Shakespearean Festival, a Tony award winning production of the works of William Shakespeare, as well as many other Broadway caliber plays during the summer and fall seasons.

Another festival that coincides with the Shakespearean Festival is the Neil Simon Festival, many of the great plays of this remarkable playwright come to life each summer. For both of these festivals, professional actors come to perform, making these well-done, professional plays.

There is usually one Festival or another going on, making this the Festival City. So come on up and enjoy this Festival City known as Cedar City, Utah. Stay a day or a lifetime, you will enjoy yourself!

I have been out of town for a couple of days. I did manage to get some pictures taken while I was in one of my favorite places on this Earth, Torrey, Utah. I hope that you enjoy these photos.

Almost the same shot, I dind't mark where I stood earlier.

I hope that you enjoy these!

Yesterday was our monthly Iron County Realtors Board Tour and luncheon. It was a good luncheon, next years officers on the Board of Directors were installed and the ones that were lame ducks were relieved for a lack of a better word, of their duties. Ron Adams has served as the President of the Board of Realtors in Iron County for the past year has done a very good job as have the outgoing directors.

It will be interesting to see what the new President and Board Members will focus on. I know that we're in good hands. The yearly awards were also given out, Darcy won the Board's Special Service Award. She is the Director over the Multiple Listing Service and puts in a lot of time trying to make things go smoothly with our Multiple Listing Service.

The worst part of this was I have known that she was receiving this award for over 3 weeks, the other members of the Board asked me for a brief biography of Darcy, for the award. If you think it's easy to keep a secret from your spouse for several weeks, try keeping it from your spouse who is also your business partner and your main memory reminder! I did my task, she was completely surprised! It was fun watching her become embarrassed as she realized that they were talking about her.

It is an award that she fully deserves, she really does spend more than 25 hours a week trying to fix different issues with the Multiple Listing Service as well as complaints that agents aren't entering listings correctly according to the rules of the Multiple Listing Service. There are weeks when I think that she should be on salary for all the time that she puts into it.

Our office also had the Top Agent award Winner, Joyce Sherratt, which was a good thing. She really does deserve that honor, she is such a great example of what a Realtor should be, she is battling Cancer, yet I have never seen her when she wasn't smiling and happy to see you. What an unbelievably nice person, as well as being a great Realtor.

I just wished to add my little voice of congratulations to all of the New and Old Board Members, as well as the award winners!

We have been to so many seminars and trainings the past several weeks that it has been difficult to go through and digest all of it. There are always things in a training session that you know won't fit into your style of doing business. That being said, there are almost always several good ideas to incoporate into your business plan, whether it's a technique to stay motivated while prospecting or a new way to stay organized, there are generally a few nuggets in each presentation.

One of the gems that I took away from a CE class on Business Planning taught by Rick DeLuca was the concept of not doing many things, but doing fewer and doing them very well. We all know that when we see something new or a client calls and asks if we would consider branching into something new, like commercial real estate or property management, our first inclination is to say something like "Sure!" That goes against what Mr. DeLuca taught.

His concept was to find a couple of ways to find or generate new leads that we're good at and master them. The same with listing presentations, marketing, and, in fact, all aspects of real estate. He did caution that when something new comes along, he used the Internet for example, we need to embrace it when it alters the way that business is done. We need to incorporate that into our business plans and use new technology to help our focus, not necessarily to alter it.

I really liked that concept. I don't know about anyone else, but it seems like each book we read, or seminar that we attend, there is a new thing that we're being shown that we could add to our way of doing business. I do believe that if there is an idea, technology, or concept that is better than what we're doing currently then we should replace the old with the new rather than add something else to what we are doing.

To illustrate what I am trying to say, imagine trying to hit and knock over a can by throwing a rock at it. You can fill your hand with a lot of small gravel and throw it at the can You will probably hit the can, but most likely won't knock it over. What I am saying is that if you pick up a larger rock, one that you can still easily throw and hit the can with it, you will have a better chance of knocking the can over.

You are still generating the effort, but in the long run hitting in once and knocking it over with the larger, more focused effort was more efficient than hitting it several times with a scattered effort that still did not accomplish the goal of knocking the can over.

Once again this is a photo from Provo Canyon in Northern Utah. It is very beautful. I didn't take a photo of the more famous Bridal Veil Falls, but rather a smaller waterfall a little East of Bridal Veil Falls. Like I said in my other Foto Friday Post, you can see why I love calling Utah home! The sky was really hazy, but we thought that it was still really beautiful!