Coaching is Essential

Say you wanted to learn to golf or to scuba dive or sky dive for that matter. What if you had never been bungie jumping and one day you just decided to go out to a very tall tower and tie a stretchy cord on your waist and jump?! The outcome in any of these endeavors without proper training from the experts or the right equipment might be sheer disaster. Real Estate is like any thing you do in your life and training is essential. Having a coach is what brings all the training to focus so that you can really pinpoint what works for you. Accountability is key. I have a coach that I meet with every two weeks. The first week he told me to write out a check for $100 and leave it with him. If I didn't do the things I said I would do I had to let him send the check to any one person who I didn't particularly care for in the business. That sucked so I have worked hard on making sure that I did my calls. It was not that big of a deal to do it. But it is one of those things that you put off because it is uncomfortable. The thought of paying someone $100 because I didn't do it was more uncomfortable.

The past two weeks I've also decided that I'm going to lose weight. I'm tired of carrying around this extra weight and tired of all the offshoot problems associated with it, from lack of relationships with people I feel less confident around to health issues that are starting to creep up. I've been eating 500 calories a day for 2 weeks. That has not been comfortable, but have I died? NO! My thoughts however are changing. My thoughts about food and what my body really needs to live and be healthy are changing. I've begun to realize just how bad my eating was and just how mindless. I think that is what we do with many areas of our lives, it is just mindless jibberish if we don't stop and get aware and see where we need to tweak our thoughts. Our thoughts will control the outcome of what we are doing, what we become. There is no other power that can do it, until we make a purposeful conscious decision.

Coaching is uncomfortable, but I'm going to stay with it and see what I can bring to the table each session, what I can rethink and remake, both personal and in my business. I cannot disconnect the two anyway. One step at a time.

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Got an authorization letter for a home that we are putting into a short sale. Arranged to go take pictures of the listing in Apple Valley tomorrow evening. Have sales meeting in the morning and my son is getting operated on in Casper, WY. Gall bladder removal. I would rather be there.

Monday

I've moved my office to my house. Have holed up inside for several days. I have decided to start a diet called HCG. It involves taking drops that are made from the urine of a pregnant woman. This is gross! But being overweight hasn't been exactly heaven. I have had so many friends and family tell me lately that this has worked for them, ie. my nephew, by marriage, lost 30 lbs in 30 days; my friend at work, Cathy, has lost over 40 pounds in just a couple of months. And I have about 50 pounds to lose. A lot of people have said they've lost over 75 lbs. so I'm going to try it. Now what does this have to do with real estate. I love selling real estate. I love the people I get to meet, I really like it when I find a new home for a young family and I hand them those keys. I like it when I can get someone out of a bad situation and find they HAVE to sell their home, and in this market that is happening a lot. I love it when I get a call from a couple of people that I've helped find their home and they want to know if I will work with their kids to buy them a home. That is the highest level of trust when you turn your kids over to an agent. But I know that my success would be greater if I were not as heavy as I am. I know that it affects my confidence and the way people look at me and how they relate to me. I know they don't take me as a professional as much as they would if I were thinner and dressed more professional. I don't dress the way I would like and the way I used to because I'm not comfortable with how I look. There are professional agents and people in other walks of life and they just have a look. Now I would be the last to judge the person by what they wear or look like at first glance. I will always want to know the person regardless, but I know how society is and they are not so open and forgiving. So this is a journey I have decided to take. My son told me once that he thought I would be a better real estate agent if I were thinner. I asked him why, he said he knew I would be more confident.

This is a journey I started on August 1st. Today is August 9th and I have lost 11.8 lbs. That is over a pound a day. I'm not hungry and I'm excited. I will write more about this journey and how it relates to my business as days go by.

Tomorrow I'm getting the paperwork started to do a short sale in Coral Canyon, I have to go to apple Valley and measure a house and put a sign up on a new listing, horse property on an acre plus. It's a great property for $165,000. I think it will sell quickly.