Lonn Dugan

KING, WARRIOR, MAGICIAN, LOVER are ways of being, from Jungian Psychology.

These refer to what he called "TYPES" or Archetypes.

UNDERSTAND YOUR TYPE, or the dynamics of how the TYPES RELATE and you can be more powerful, more effective in your work or personal life!

To Jung's list of TYPES, I add the following: POWER COACH!

POWER COACHES HAVE KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TO HELP YOU CREATE, ENGINEER, DESIGN THE LIFE or BUSINESS THAT YOU WANT : )

A POWER COACH is one who understands the types, has mastered coming from whichever type is useful at the moment (said another way, manifesting the energy of the type most appropriate to a given situation). A Power Coach is never trapped in the weakness of any type, and can move at will between the types to help themselves or clients harness the energy needed for a particular situation.

Do you want to feel more in touch with the energy of a Warrior? King? Magician? Lover?

Read about it: http://www.kwml.com/contemplate/assembler.php?page=popup&style=king

Take the test : ) >http://www.kwml.com/contemplate/assembler.php?page=test

See My Own Results: >http://www.kwml.com/contemplate/assembler.php?page=feedback&style=warrior&details=warrior:46.2,king:23.1,lover:15.4,magician:15.4

As a great athelete requires a Coach to inspire extra effort, and help with daily discipline and accountability, you too may do well to hire a coach when you want to reach new heights in personal or professional accomplishment.

Power Coaching, or LASER COACHING (in the brief version that does not require any long term commitment) just might be right for you.

If not my service, at least consider the services of an appropriate coach! See www.LaserCoaching.com

April 1, 2009 - Cyberspace, USA:

PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGARDING CONFLICKER.c Worm

LAST NOTE FROM CYBERSPACE Before Clonflicker.c worm wreaks havoc:

Today, April 1, 2009, the famed Conflicker worm managed to connect 1/3 of all computers in the world to each other in a massive, unstoppable, peer to peer BOTNET army.

The ad hoc supercomputer created by the Conflicker worm exercised a brute force denial of service attack that crashed government agencies, military security systems, and the human spirit.

In so doing, the Conflicker worm became not only the largest scale computer web worm event ever - but it was the first time that a computer virus had actually created a new human dis-ease.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:

Small companies and Large Companies, even cities, states and entire countries went dark (off grid) to try to avoid the attack by the Conflicker worm. Some literally unplugged from the www, or shut off the servers and unplugged from the wall, just to be sure the Conflicker Worm could not reach them. They survived, but when they tried to come back online, the internet was not there. It may never to be seen again.

Fire suppression systems in data centers were reported to have gone up in flames due to overheated wiring from trying to handle the volume of data packets sent around the www by the conflicker worm.

AARPANET Infrastructure was so damaged, with DNS Servers and Routers so overwhelmed, that the whole thing had melted.

People were already sick about the whole conflicker worm thing, when, as a final insult, the creator of the Conflicker worm released a biological weapon with a simple antidote. Since nobody could get to the WWW there were no web pages left sharing the simple recipe to counteract the WMD.

TWITTER TO THE RESCUE:

The only people who knew what to do were those on Twitter, because cell phones still worked!

Panic Tweets on Twitter, regarding the Conflicker worm, reached an all time high by mid-day but the Twits all survived!

WHAT'S NEXT?

Twitter fans enjoyed the notoriety while it lasted, but then they realized that without a WWW there was very little work to be done at their employer. Even if their company was ok, their customers were not, Nobody was going to be buying widgets for a while. Not blue ones, not red ones, not big ones, not even small ones. That's when it dawned on them that this was the END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!

Nobody knows what comes next, but you can be sure that Active Rain will be at the center of it - somehow!

PS - WITH THE GLOBAL MELTDOWN, THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF APRIL FOOLS JOKES WAS LOST FOREVER
AND HUMAN BEINGS WITHOUT A SENSE OF HUMOR WERE EJECTED FROM THE PLANET ; )

Yesterday, I decided to "DO SOMETHING" with my twitter account.

I invited Active Rain Network Members to FOLLOW ME! Some of you did, and I thank you.

One of the first to follow me was my city's newspaper....

Now that is interesting... Because of Twitter, I now have a direct line to my paper.

Hmmm.... That is interesting, eh ?

Now, C'mon rainers... I need more people to follow me at Twitter.

I went from the bottom of the rack of twits ranked by followers in my city to mid level... But I have never been mid level anything.... So I need your help!

Please Follow Me at www.Twitter.com/lonndugan

The short sale process is Grinding To Halt, or at least chilling to a slow freeze.

The banks just keep moving slower and slower. Can You Hear the sound of money, rotting?

I have friends who wrote on a short sale almost two months ago. Not my clients - I referred them to somebody who is TOP NOTCH since I no longer practice. The bank has not responded yet. It goes up for sheriff sale next week. The offer is at 80% of asking price.

HELLO MR BANKER!!!!! THESE ARE DEPRECIATING ASSETS. They don't get better with age... Money is rotting in your REO portfolio and you don't seem to be aware of it!

The banks did this to themselves by trying to play both ends against the middle. It started with their long term practice of arrogant refusal to recognize a little something in real estate law called "STATUTE OF FRAUDS". This law says sales agreements are required to be in writing. Banks have long refused to accept in writing. Instead they routinely offer verbal acceptance with the caveat that if a better offer comes along they will take it. Now it has gotten so bad they don't even acknowledge the offer or give verbal acceptance for 30-60 days or more.

Finally, area agents have had enough and no longer want to show or write on short sales.

Toledo Realtors are reporting that Loss Mitigation departments at major mortgage lenders are telling buyers the following when the agent calls to confirm receipt of offer:

• I am not sure if we have received your offer yet
• I can't tell if we received your hardship letter, because our files are in Texas and I am in Boston.
  
• It could take a few weeks to get your documents logged into the file.
• If we do have your offer, it will take 30 - 45 days to assign a case manager or negotiator.
• Negotiation could take several weeks.
• It would be normal for you to have to wait 2 weeks or more for a simple response to a document or phone call once negotiation begins.
• We cannot accept the offer in writing yet. It may take until a few days before closing.
• Until then, if we get a better offer, we will take it.
• I would love to help you but the Sheriff sale is scheduled for tomorrow and your offer is not here as near as I can tell...

Potential buyers, with good credit, and walking away in frustration... They want to buy a house. I mean C'MON - these kind of buyers are not exactly a dime a dozen these days. Who can blame them for bailing?

How long will it take for the banks to realize they have to answer offers promptly, accept in writing, and close within reasonable time periods if they want to get dead weight REO off their books?

These Bank people are supposed to be smart about money. So why are they treating these short sale properties like canned goods instead of the perishable products (DEPRECIATING ASSETS) that they are?

Buyers who are looking for bargains are encouraged to shop foreclosed properties and steer clear of short sales!

It has been written: "Life Imitates Art" Hmmm....

I wonder if Real Estate Imitates Art As Well - especially when it comes to agent compensation?

The public often thinks Realtors are overpaid. The "Million Dollar Round Table" designations have contributed to this - as though all members are millionaires. It's just not so - as the average Realtor makes less than $30,000 a year. But even Realtors have been know to wonder out loud about about the large financial rewards available to those who succeed in this career field. Extraordinarily high incomes, well over 6 figures, are possible for those in the top 2% of all agents.

Jennifer Allen wrote, in "SELL WITH SOUL"

"...Successful real estate agents can make big bucks. For a career that requires only a month or two of education, the rewards can be tremendous."

Now - we know what Jennifer meant. We also know that it takes more than month or two of classes to make big bucks in real estate.

Jennifer does go on to make this point as well... covering the low income of the rookie year and "the Realtor learning curve".

What it takes is a month or two of classes, PLUS lots of EXPERIENCE. As she says, there is an expectation that a new rookie who does not know something is INEXPERIENCED, but after a certian number of transactions, a Realtor ought to know what they are doing or they me termed incompetent instead!

Once a Realtor has that EXPERIENCE, they can make the big bucks.. right? Well Maybe : )

IN SOME CASES, IT APPEARS THAT AN AGENT MAKES $1000 PER HOUR - BUT IT'S JUST NOT SO! After handling some number of deals, and learning along the way, a Realtor might seem to make $10,000 for 10 hours of work - at least on one or two of the easier deals in a given year... But appearances are deceiving in these cases.

AN ILLUSTRATION - From The ART WORLD, On The Same Point:

A friend of mine was an accomplished artist, and was often hired to paint portraits. People would come for a sitting, expecting to stay and hour and have to come back a few times.

The artist would often announce, at about the 20 minute mark - ok, we can stop now. The client would generally say, "That's OK, We can keep going - I'M NOT TIRED YET". The artist would laugh and say, "BUT I AM - SO WE NEED TO STOP."

The client would often be disappointed, saying something like, "I thought you wanted me to stay an hour", and "OK - BUT when should I come back...?" The artist would say - "NO NEED - the portrait is finished".

Clients would then complain - "I paid $300 for that portrait - I want my money's worth, no need to rush..."

The artist would offer that he had done his best. The speech went something like this, "I could not do any better if I started over or took more time with it. Why don't you view the portrait before you decide if you are happy with it or not? If you do not like the portrait then you may leave it and owe me nothing.

Just before the client looked at the painting, he said, " I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THIS PAINTING TOOK MORE THAN THE 20 MINUTES OF WORK YOU OBSERVED. IT TOOK 20 MINUTES - PLUS 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE BEFOREHAND!"

It turns out that Everybody - 100% of the time - wanted to keep the painting and pay the fee.

After he told me this story... I thought about it for a minute: At $300 per painting, and 20 minutes time each, he could paint 3 paintings per hour.

So I asked him the obvious... Do you really make $900 an hour? . He answered with a smile... Well, if I averaged it over my painting career, including classes, practice time, out of town workshops on advanced techniques, weekend exhibitions... as well as sales calls and all that driving around for all of those, plus prepping canvasses, and then mounting and framing and delivering finished pieces... It comes out to about $18/hr. The good thing is, I love it, get to work for myself, don't have to take orders from a boss, and there is nothing I would rather do!

Now, his point was well made - don't you think!

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Note: Image used in this article is used under fair use doctrine, I am writing an article about the art of painting and comparing this to the art of selling. the illustration is used respectfully, and illustrates the article appropriately. The copyright is reproduced intact, and the source of the art is given as www.Michael-Arts.com