adapted from a speech given to Realtors - January 10, 2008
Happy New Year.
Katie and I sponsor the Mystery House for various reasons. But I have only two goals each week when I come up her:
- Be passionate
- Have every person here leave this room, more fired up for their success than when they came in.
Today… that’s going to require audience participation. So, repeat after me:
“HAPPY NEW YEAR”!
How many of you are happy to see 2007 in the rear view mirror?
How many of you are looking forward to A Great 2008? Go ahead and say it, it’s fun: “A Great 2008” again “A Great 2008”!
- Speculators are fully out of the market, allowing prices and volume to stabilize this year – Giving us: “A GREAT 2008”
- Lenders will develop new products to address many of the sidelined buyers in our market this year – Giving us: “A GREAT 2008”
- One or two of the nation’s largest banks may go bankrupt, sending the economy into a recession this year – Giving us: “A GREAT 2008”… just seeing if you were paying attention.
- The press sold papers telling everyone the sky was falling… until it finally did. More gloom and doom will not sell more papers and the press will begin reporting on the “hidden” deals this year – Giving us: “A GREAT 2008”
- Locally, people will recognize the phenomenal opportunity of low prices, low rates and high rents this year – Giving us: “A GREAT 2008”
- And last but certainly not least… most of the pretend agents – the “I’ll make lots of money in my spare time with no experience, discount service and low commissions” agents – have moved on to the next get-rich-quick scheme; leaving more business for the professionals this year – Giving all of us: “A GREAT 2008”
You know, this year, and this business, are not sprints; they are marathons. The most important ingredient to success is putting your feet on the floor each morning with a smile and a great attitude. There are many ways to do that and I am going to leave you with one method; elegant in its simplicity. I have never met any one with a better demeanor or more even keeled than my father. When I was around 12 years old I realized this and I went to him. I said, “Dad, what makes you happy?” He looked me straight in the eye and answered, “The absence of excruciating pain.”
HAVE A GREAT 2008…
Filed under: LENDERS, LIFE THAT POPs, REALTORS , Economy, The Press
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