Gary Woltal - Associate Broker REALTOR® Dallas Ft. Worth

Chemistry definitely has a role in selecting a real estate agent. It even starts with the presentation to the public from their web site to a profile description of what they say they specialize in. A younger person may want a younger agent. An individual that wants personal attention might completely steer clear of a team or large group type of agent because they feel they are too impersonal. A shy person may run away from a high ego TOP PRODUCER. Someone wanting to buy farm and ranch properties would shun the residential specialist.

Even marketing yourself with years and years in the business may be a turn off to someone who perceives you don't have the marketing prowess to use the latest tools for the greatest effect for Internet exposure in selling your property.

I have asked clients why they "didn't" chose a particularly well qualified Realtor. Well, some said, it looked like all they did was have listings and lost touch with showing homes and working with buyers. On and on it goes. Many agents with longer careers in the business get dulled to fresh eyes looking at what their materials actually say they are targeting, not realizing that if they do work with buyers but their materials don't say that, they are losing business.

So have another person with neutral eyes review your materials from time to time and tell you what THEY think you are trying to attract into your life and business as your "ideal client." People don't have to work with any agent out there. And Realtors should know who their ideal client is. Some like vanilla, some like chocolate ice cream. It is not a right or wrong, but just trying to get a good match out there for everyone with the business.

My good friend, Realtor and Active Rainer Susan Mangigian reminded me the other day about the interchangeable spelling between God and Dog. We need to

Be The Loving Reflective Mirror People Need In Their Lives.

All of us have good in us. Sometimes it takes another with a tremendous amount of unconditional love given to you for you to feel good about yourself again.

Dogs are masters at this. God is too.

But for the rest of us flawed human beings we need to work at this. Just think of an image of a dog and you'll have your loving mirror self down. Touch people this way. You'll change individuals, one person at a time. And you'll make a real difference in the world.

All we need is love!!

I think I am a two stepper thinker finally on this observation.

Sifting Through Infinity Takes Brainpower and Heart.

Think of all these social media connections you may develop for your business or for your personal life. You have 1,000 friends on Facebook, 500 people follow you on Twitter, on LinkedIn you have 200 associates. Your "connections" are certainly making you connected much better than the six degrees of freedom from EVERYONE on the planet. But the tradeoff is

TIME.

Which relates to the QUALITY of the connection. Thats where your brainpower and heart come in. You can't comment back to everyone or touch them all each day. Prioritize what is important to you with the connection.

And the heart part? Sometimes even a connection that isn't a real top business transaction or close "real" personal friend is crying out for your help, a little attention, a deeper connection, or PERHAPS today is their day for you to be the giver of love to them in your life.

The explosion of information was daunting enough for us all and no end in sight with it. The explosion seemingly toward INFINITY with human connection on the planet (or at least a finite 6 billion) shows no slowing down. Do we need to know all 6 billion? Probably not. But whomever you do connect with on a significant and meanigful level, use that heart A LOT, and make today count for something. Your little voice in another's life has a lot greater impact than sometimes you will ever know or realize.

You know you must be getting closer to geezerhood rather than further away from it when you want to sit on the porch and say, "Sonny boy, back in my day!" Two latest Christmas gifts for this year are life size insects and a hamster character (a Zhu Zhu toy) that can run around in a little car. What happened to live bugs and real hamsters? Aren't they cheaper too?

Hamsters Shouldn't Require Batteries!

I think this is the current generation that everything has to be electronic.

I remember with my pet guinea pigs. I started with two and then somehow magically one day I had sixteen in the fish tank I was raising them in. Something about knowing the difference between male and female would have helped. Maybe I didn't properly read the bar code underneath them that provided me this information or something. Oh well, I won't be a stick in the mud on these new electronic gizmos. What will they think of next? Electronic butterflies that bang into the walls of your house? Maybe they will be controlled by a remote as you sink into your Lazy Boy Recliner.

What did we ever do before electricity? Don't get me started about my Dad talking about the ice box and the horse drawn wagon coming down the street with the blocks of ice. For real. It was less than eighty years ago!! One can only wonder what the marvels of technology will bring to us next. Of course, cleanup after the new Zhu Zhu version is probably better. Just the fun probably runs out when the batteries go dead after a day!!