"Imperfect Action”

A few weeks ago I decided to change our flooring. The original floors were tile and were likely there from when the house was originally built, so it was time for a change.

I didn’t think it would be a huge deal because I would be laying down laminate wood flooring which I have done before.

Plus, I had some help on the way.

I figured, demo on Saturday and lay the laminate on Sunday, "should be quick and easy”…

Or so I thought.

There is a saying my dad has told me on occasion, “Man makes plans, God laughs”.

I found that saying to be pretty accurate.

My help ended up getting hurt at work and wasn’t able to make it. “No big deal”, I thought. “Get some rest and heal up”.

I decided to continue…

The demo started out great, the tiles were popping up without hardly any resistance, at one point there were about 8 tiles that came up at once.

“This is so easy”

Then I got to a spot on the floor where the tiles were just stuck to.

This was just small portion of the floor, about 40 square feet, but it took me just as long here as it did to rip up the other 700 feet.

So now, my Saturday project had just moved into Sunday. Causing me to not lay a single piece of flooring until 5pm Sunday night.

Like I said earlier, I have laid laminate flooring before, so I was still confident I could finish it rather quickly.

That was before I realized that this particular flooring was multi-width/multi-length planks.

Typically they are all the same size and you can just lay them in place and cut when you get to the wall.

Not this stuff.

I had to layout 3+ rows prior to installation to make sure that the planks would line up correctly when I got to the point that they’d meet.

I just stepped into a different realm of flooring that I had zero experience with.

By Tuesday I was done with the kitchen and before you know it, that 2 day weekend project I had planned, took me 9 days to complete.

It was frustrating, I wanted to quit no less than 30 times.

I looked at the bare floor thinking to myself, "this will never get done”.

But I still continued.

I made hundreds of cuts, none of them perfect.

I made plenty of mistakes, but didn’t let any of them stop me.

It reminded me of what being a business owner, entrepreneur, and creator is all about.

It is not about building something perfect before it is shared with others.

It is about a collection of mistakes and imperfections that lead to a desired result.

And, that result can become an incredible transformation.

Was it easy? Nope.

Was it Fun? Kinda.

Did I learn something from it? 100%.

Am I Craftsman now? Not even close.

So how did I transform this ugly tile floor into something beautiful?

I did it the same way you can transform yourself in any area of your life.

By taking action. By taking…

"Imperfect Action"

“The Maven. The Connector. The Salespeople.”

In Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point”, he describes 3 types of people.

The Maven - Creates change through information & ideas.

The Connector - Creates change through people.

I connect buyers and sellers.

I connect experts and their advice with listeners that need to hear it on the podcast I used to host.

I was actually just reminded recently of an episode about depression and addiction when someone thanked me because they reached out to my guest Kristine for her advice after reading this post and listening to the episode. 

-Side note: How awesome is that?!?!

And just recently I have been lucky enough to be put in a position to connect others in my industry with opportunities they weren’t even aware existed.

So while sales may be my job, it's not “what I do”.

What do I do? 

I connect.

Hey guys, thank you so much for joining me in this very first podcast of the learn for two podcasts. I'm very excited, uh, to get this thing started for one and very excited, uh, to go on this journey with all of you. And that's, that's what it is. It's going to be a journey. Um, I'm not a professional podcaster, so you know, hopefully that you're not, you're not looking for that cause it's definitely not. But, um, but what it is is it's a chance for all of us to grow together and learn some things. Um, the podcast is called [inaudible] for two reason being is that, uh, I've really taken the approach of learning for too, every time I learned something, I take it with the idea that I'm going to teach it to someone else so I can learn for myself and learn for one other.

Uh, and that's been a great, great thing for me as far as being able to retain a lot of the, a lot of the stuff that I learned. So basically what we're going to get down to is the real estate model is broken. Uh, the real estate industry is changing whether or not you want to believe it is or not, how we're, how we're approaching it. Um, I may be moving a little bit faster and bigger cities and then there's smaller cities and uh, you know, smaller towns and things like that. But there's definitely changes on the horizon and it's up to you. Do you want to be on the tracks when that train comes through or do you want to be able to adapt and get out in front of it? And my choice was to go ahead and adapt and get out in front of it.

Um, so my goal through this podcast is, uh, to create something that, that can be duplicated, uh, that I can pass along to others and put them in position to continue to strive, uh, and be successful far beyond the stretch of the current real estate model. So back up a little bit to the traditional real estate, you know, cycle of, of a, a real estate agent. Um, and in actually let me back up for a second. One of the reasons that I'm really passionate about this. Um, just to kind of get out the, on the get go. I had an epiphany, you know, a few months back where I was sitting at open house and I w I didn't really have anybody come through and I was sitting there wondering, you know, I'm 37 years old right now. Is this something that I'm going to have to do when I am 60 years old?

Not, not that I want to, but then I'm going to have to do. And that really scared me. Um, so, you know, I, I started thinking a little bit more about, okay, so what happens if as a real estate agent right now, if I don't have anything in the hopper or you know, anything in escrow or what's in escrow, once that closes, as soon as I stop, I'm done. I'm done with any income that's coming in. And so that, that also scared me. So I needed to figure out a way to where I could go ahead and build additional revenue streams and treat my business like a business. And I'll, I'll get to that in a few minutes about, um, what also got me thinking on, on that level. But right now we're sitting here with a natural progression of a real estate agent. Okay. You'll get your license, you come in, you're likely joining a team or you have a mentor or trainer or something, and then maybe you become that trainer.

This is the trailer for the upcoming Learn For 2 Podcast. This podcast is to document my journey to impact the lives of Real Estate agents, putting them into position to create a life they never imagined possible.