Gary Woltal - Assoc. Broker REALTOR® SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

If you interview ten real estate agents you will undoubtedly get ten different BACKGROUNDS of where they came from now on their second or perhaps third career path in life. It all of course makes them better agents but the public or friends and family might have a different sense of WHAT WE DO. I found this fun graphic.

Sometimes to solve a problem needing creative thinking you need to

Find The Big Picture Whle Living In The Weeds.

You know, SEE the forest instead of the trees, see the mass of foxhounds and oh by the way I can see the fox in there too now. Think of Christopher Columbus if he had the photo of the Earth taken from the Moon, no one would doubt the earth was round. But mired in port enlisting sailors to venture forth on the flat earth sea, and FALL OFF, this was not easy.

There are two things you can do to readily get this clear big picture state to help solve problems:

1. Ask another person who is not as close to the situation as you. You will be amazed almost instantly how their perception, their take on th big picture is much better than you.
2. You step away with relaxation, and distance like another location to think or take a vacation or meditate. Just TIME away besides distance will freshen up your mind to see things how they really are.

This photo with the fox hiding out is quite fascinating. Why? Did you know sometimes the best place to hide something is right under someone's nose? WHY? They never suspect it can be that easy to find something. Everyone is making this big picture view harder than it really is. Ask another, or step away. YOU'LL see the fox.

For those who really get it as real estate agents they THRIVE as the ringmaster of events. It is

The Idea Of Leader Not Manager For The REALTOR

We do not "manage" a transaction. We LEAD it. Leadership is too often underrated but VERY important in getting to the end goal, the closing table. We coordinate EVERYONE. People FOLLOW us, come to us as the CENTRAL RESOURCE that sees everything. We are the mouthpiece to talk to everyone. Find agents that LEAD others and are confident with that skill set.

GREAT agents LEAD!!

I had a conversation with a client the other day about 55 and older or 35 years old and older ACTIVE ADULT communities. We discussed them as for "Mature" adults. So,

Mature Is A Code Word For What?

Most would say older people, but I disagree. I know MANY quite mature individuals at age 15, 20 or 25.

Mature to me means SMART.

People who have some wisdom, common sense, and learned their lessons in life from their mistakes. They respect people, do not hurt people, are not offensive, are loving, and ABOVE ALL ARE CARING.

People like the singer MIA at the Super Bowl flipping off the crowd may be talented and have good songs and perform BUT NOT BE MATURE. People who act as IDIOTS are not mature.

We all can have an idiot phase to our life, but it wears on you over time and IS NOT FUNNY ANYMORE.

Be mature in life as soon as you can. Intelligent, not vulgar or offensive, or crass or filthy. Your audience will be 100 times wider and deeper than the juveniles idiots attract.

One can grow older in life, YET not grow up. Let that NOT BE YOU!!! BE SMART!!

Have you ever thought

How Do You Know Your Goal Is Big Enough?

Simple or easy goals while better than NO planning are really not worth it for you to grow. The key in a 'BODACIOUS' goal is it is not going to be easy. John Kennedy in setting the vision to go to the moon said we are going there not cause it was easy but cause it was HARD. Try new things you never have done before.

It is BIG if you constantly MISS it as you keep working on getting there. THEN you will know it is a BIGGIE. And so worth it when you have footprints on the moon.