Learn For 2.0 with Brandon DeVere

Today was great!

I got a new agent to fill out an application to join the team and they are very excited to get rolling.

But yesterday was different.

I had a client, the day after showing the houses for the first time text me that they had found a new agent.

I had a couple of ways I could respond.

Get mad and try to talk them back into working with me, keep moving forward and focus on my growth, or pack up shop and quit.

You probably already know what I did.

Our #1 excuse is always, "I don't have time".

Can you spare 10 minutes a day for the next year?

If you can, that will give you 3,650 minutes, which equals  60 hours you can focus on what it is you want to accomplish.

Just that little amount of time can be a huge improvement on yourself.

When I first got into real estate I was so excited about the opportunity to collaborate with others that thought like me.

Unfortunately, that wasn't really the case.

Not until about 2 years ago did I get the real opportunity to collaborate.

Now I'm in the process of building something special that we will be able to provide to others to help them succeed. 

Finally, I get to collaborate.

Today I was scheduled to do a training class, and although I prepared for it, things just didn't go as planned.

After a 15 minute late start due to technical difficulties, I was playing "catch up" and fell way behind.

Causing me to scramble to put the pieces back together.

I had 3 options:

1) Quit right there.

2) Make a ton of excuses

3) Absorb the hits and battle through, completing the class.

Although I wanted to quit, I didn't.

I did, however, make excuses unfortunately.

But ultimately, I stuck it out and finished the class.

Maybe not the best class ever, but I finished, and as we know...

Done is better than perfect.

Every action we take has a significant effect on our future selves.

If I did this differently.

If I did that differently.

Think of some of the most "meaningless" decisions of your life and think of how impacted your life today could.

It's a trip.

Today as we celebrate our freedom here in the U.S. I think about the reason most of us got into the real estate industry.

Most of us got into the industry to have freedom.

Freedom in our careers.

Freedom in our personal lives.

Freedom to do what we want to do, when we want to do it.

Freedom to work on and in our business how we see fit.

Freedom to make as much money as we want.

But as we have worked so hard for this freedom, how many of us have actually found it.

Are you still bound to work with whatever clients you get because you can’t afford NOT to work with them?

Are you stuck at your brokerage because they provide you leads and you haven’t learned how to generate your own?

Are you stuck at your brokerage because you think you are getting 100% of your commissions?

Is your growth limited geographical by the chains of an OLD and OUTDATED model?

Think back to when you entered the real estate industry…

Was freedom a part of your business plan? Is it still?

If so, how close are you to achieving it?

If not, how come?

As you might know, I have completed writing my book and it has been sent off to a new editor.

Last night when I received the contract for their services my name was misspelled not once, but twice.

I corrected the error and sent it back. I had edited the editor.

This morning the editor was so embarrassed but OWNED the mistake while providing solutions to prevent it from happening again.

After owning up to it and offering solutions, I was even more willing to use their services.

In Napoleon Hill's Think And Grow Rich, he states...

"General knowledge, no matter how great in quantity or variety it may be, is of but little use in the accumulation of money"

I was reminded of this over the past couple of days.

My computer went in to be fixed and the cost will be $430, even though the actual part being changed is only $130.

But because the man with the service repair company possesses a specialized knowledge in a certain field, being an "authorized" servicer, he has the ability to charge what he wants.

I have 4 choices...

1) Not have it fixed and just deal with it.

2) Buy a new computer.

3) Try to fix it myself and run the risk of ruining it.

4) Pay him to do the task for me and limit the risk of killing the computer.

I chose to suck it up and pay the man for his knowledge and skill set.

He spent the time to learn and acquire the skillset necessary to charge a certain price. 

Recently I have had major issues with my internet and computers.

I'm not really sure how I have even been able to function with them until this point.

Now that I know what is available, I can't believe what I was actually able to accomplish with such a low level of tools to be used.

It reminds me of the NCAA tournament when young "no-name" teams end up beating some of the perennial big-name colleges, mainly because they don't know that they aren't supposed to be losing to these other teams.

Sometimes when you don't know your limits you can be greater than others believe you to be. 

Today I spoke with a friend of mine and asked him about the boat he just got.

He wasn't very excited about it and told me that he didn't really want to get one.

His response was...

"Time"

He told me that it was going to take up a too munch mental real estate worrying about it.

He was excited that he'd be spending all of that time focused on worrying about a boat.