I had earlier in life had terrible listening skills as far as listening to conversation and paying attention. Working with more and more clients now I ask my open ended questions and just sit back, shut up, and pay attention. This weakness was offset by a GREAT ability I had with listening with m
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11/16/2008
I am convinced I have become a resident contrarian in almost every aspect of my life. I think it has to do with this natural ability of seeing what every one else misses. The weakness for me is overlooking the obvious, and missing what everyone else sees. So please help me out on that blind spot
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11/15/2008
Following a week in which I saw too many upside down smiles in person from those around me, and from reading blog posts from those under stress, I thought I would write just a few reminders to those that find this post about Knocking Down That Wall Of Worry. There is no doubt one of the st
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11/15/2008
There's no question that with the boom years most recently in the 2003 to 2006 timeframe more Realtors continued to be added to the mix in addition to those added in the 1998 to 2001 timeframe. Estimates are now that the market pie we all have to live off of needs to shrink from 1. 3 million i
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11/14/2008
You too can be homeless. No, I don't mean starving Realtors thrown out on the street after a bad year or two, although that does happen. I mean in life we all are a cast of characters. We play various roles whether subjected unto ourselves by our environment, fortunate or unfortunate circumstance
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11/13/2008
When it comes often to figuring out your best route to getting something done, the path to get there is not immediately obvious. Sometimes early in the day for example, you know by the end of the day at least by mid afternoon you have to start working on a critical project say for example April 1
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11/13/2008
In working with a client the other day where another woman Realtor was involved it amazed me that the client talked about some personal troubles concerning her family and this other woman kept her focus on business at hand and didn't acknowledge this area of the client's concern. Don't Becom
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11/12/2008
Sometimes in looking around the world of Active Rain at the friends and family I have acquired, I say to myself what an "interesting bunch." Well I probably say motley bunch, me included, but you didn't hear that. Such fun loving people I have attracted here with diverse shapes, opinions, backgro
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11/11/2008
With the turning of colder weather and more rain toward the winter months for many of us, have you carved out comfortable places in your life? Seattle folks have coffee houses. Some wives say their men have man rooms with the big screen TVs. Some have "happy places." Reading rooms or formal livin
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11/10/2008
A trend noted by the Marketing department of the Harvard School of Business says that a new class of consumer will slow the economy down further. Unlike the go go days of the late 90's and 2000's of buying large screen TVs, SUVs and oversized houses for three families when only a couple lived the
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11/09/2008
