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Life Expectations and Satisfaction
  • Most people react to life rather than plan and achieve what it is that they really want in life.
  • It has been determined that 90% of people in the world are living lives that they would rather not live.  They are unhappy doing what they are doing.  They keep doing it because they the known is more acceptable, desirable than the unknown.
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Most Lives Begin and End As?
  • Most people in the United States go to school.  They are trained to get along, not make waves, exist and let be.
  • Most graduate from high school, many are encouraged to go to college, about 35% graduate with a college degree.
  • The irony is that they generally have not consciously made a decision to pursue a life long career in any given area that might be available.
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Hope Remains
  • Most people simply become aware of a few opportunities where a person can make a living.  From that few they make a decision to try one that looks like it could be interesting, even enjoyable.
  • The facts are they know very little about what it is they are going to be doing for the rest of their lives.
  • They continue doing what they chose to do, hoping tomorrow will be a better day, perhaps bring some miraculous change that will lead them to a future of great happiness and prosperity.
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The Mysterious Job
  • More often than not a person runs into someone
    they knew in school, and that someone asks “are you working?”, they reply “no, I’m looking for a job.”  Their friend tells them about a job opportunity at the GM Plant, they interview for the job, they get the job, they rarely know what the job pays, or even what it is that they will be doing.  They go home and tell the mom “I got a job at GM”, the mom says “what will you be doing?”  “I don’t know” they reply.  “How much will you be making?” the mom asks.  “I don’t know, but of the guys I know that work there do alright.”
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They Look Around
  • When they start the mysterious job, and get their unknown wage – they begin looking around their new atmosphere and seek what they perceive to be “the best thing, or job, for them” and they do what it is they think is necessary to achieve what they perceive to be a desirable position.
  • They often achieve the position, enjoy it for a year, maybe two, and then they fall into a disgruntled, boring, apathetic life style that they hate.
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Dissatisfaction, Pessimism Follow
  • Once settled into their new lifestyle they reluctantly get up in the morning, go to a job they hate, come home and bitch at their family, watch a T.V. show they don’t really like, and generally pass their days on earth without much noticing what is going on, and suddenly retirement day comes.
  • They reluctantly retire from a job they never liked, to a retirement they like even less, and somewhere between two and seven years they die, and are laid to rest in a spot they never picked, reluctantly leaving a life they never lived.
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Some Don’t Follow That Path
  • Some people work their lives a little backward to the norm.
  • They try and find out what it is that they want to achieve in life.  When they arrive at a decision about what they think they want in life, they find out what it is that they have to do to achieve that, they do it, and it looks as if life is going to be an enjoyable, exciting, trip to a happy future.
  • In a year or two they begin falling into a dissatisfied state of life, boredom, atrophy.
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The Same End - Better Beginning
  • The planning helped initially, they found something that looked like it would work, something they could enjoy for their entire journey here on earth, but something happened.  It wasn’t that anything really went wrong, it was just that some undesirable apathy settled in, they no longer woke up in the morning full of energy, wanting to get to their work as soon as possible, they no longer planned their day the night before and could hardly wait for morning.
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A Better Way?
  • Some people found a better way.  They found a life full of interest, fun, and enjoyment.  They had their share of problems and disappointments but somehow they got through them, and maintained their enthusiasm for life.
  • When they go to bed at night they are still planning their tomorrows, they still can’t wait to get to work in the morning, they still plan new and better ways to achieve what it is that they have chosen, and re-chosen to do with their lives.
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What Did They Discover?
  • Most of us would like to live like that.  Most of us
    would like to maintain a passion throughout our lives, most of us would like to look forward to tomorrow with hope, wonderful plans, excitement for our actions, and passion for what we are going to be doing.
  • Some people have discovered ways to stay enthusiastic about life, about their activities, about the people they walk the earth with, about their families, their friends, their ideas, and their futures.  They stay enthusiastic at every age.  You’ve met them.  What was it that they do? or did?
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What Did They Do?
  • Experts, successful happy people have found that they can find greater success if they do a few simple things.
  • Successful people have found that if they plan their lives they tend to be more successful. They are more successful in many areas of life.
  • They are more successful in their own minds, and they are more successful in the minds of other people too.
  • People around them are happier and more successful, they look forward to all the different periods of their lives, they live all the periods of their lives well.  They like who they are and they like where they are.
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Six Important Areas of Life
  • When we start looking at life we find there are areas of life that we can concentrate on, making definite, but changeable decisions that will lead us to more successful, productive, happier, contributive lives.
  • When we begin this journey it takes on many intrepid rides.  Most are sure, all are contributive, the main thing is that everything gets better, everything stays better, and we find and achieve that life we were looking for all along.
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The Six Areas
  • Health
  • Spiritual
  • Financial
  • Family
  • Recreational
  • Educational
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Attend to These Six
  • When you attend to these six areas of life rationally, respectfully, intelligently, enthusiastically, and religiously, (Spiritually) you will meet with a success that you will never otherwise know.
  • These six areas of life are like children.  They need constant attention, constant corrections, but more than any other thing, you must learn to enjoy them.
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Health
  • Without good health it is not likely that you will accomplish a great deal in life.  Still, being realistic you have face the fact that some people do.  If your dedication is intense enough you can accomplish a great deal in poor health.
  • Darwin wrote most of his theory’s while quite ill, resting three or four hours just to write for one hour.
  • While it’s possible to accomplish great things while you are in poor health, it is highly unlikely.
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Health 2
  • You need to explore health a little.  You have to find out enough about health to figure out the best physical pattern for you to use with your body.
  • For example, how much rest do you need, how long can you work mentally, and be effective?  How long can you work physically and be effective?
  • What can you do to improve the longevity of your mental and physical efforts?
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Health 3
  • Do you feel better, do you perform better, can you accomplish more if you work out physically on a daily basis?
  • Most people do feel better and accomplish more when they regularly participate in some kind of physical exercise.
  • The ideal exercise for you will have to be discovered by you.  Trying any kind of physical exercise will improve your mental faculties and your physical acuity.
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Health 4
  • Health involves more than physical exercise.
  • Diet is an important part of health, what you eat, what you don’t eat.  What chemicals you may, or may not put into your body.
  • Food supplements can be important, necessary, critical for some of us.  For others food supplements seem to be unnecessary.
  • If you are weak in any area of knowledge concerning these things, find and hire an expert.
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Health 5
  • When we explore health we want to cause our bodies to be in the most productive form that they can be in.
  • What is your ideal weight?  How do you achieve that weight?  What foods does your body perform best on?  How much sleep do you need?  Would you be more productive if you took naps?  Do you need to physically exercise periodically during the day, meditate, divert your attentions to amusing things?
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Spiritual
  • All humans have a spiritual side to them.
  • Spiritual expectations and necessities are not the same for all people.
  • One person may need to go to church everyday.
  • Another person may never go to church, may never need to go to church, may not benefit by going to a church in any way.
  • Some people have to get out into wilderness to reach their spiritual side.
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Spiritual - 2
  • Some people need to read good books, or poetry, or philosophy to achieve their spiritual awareness.
  • Some people need to quietly create things for their spiritual fulfillment, paintings, communities, homes, other people.
  • Some people have to find a belief in something.  That something can be tangible or intangible.  I think the only important thing about the belief is that it is not harmful for that person or others.
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Spiritual - 3
  • The important thing about a belief is that you have one.  You have to have a belief in something, or someone, or someplace. We know that people perform best when they have a belief, a heart warming, deep seated belief in something they are doing, going to do, or trust they are pre-destined to do.
  • Belief is a powerful facet in the life of a human, a deep seated spiritual belief is an even more powerful success factor in the life of a human.
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Spiritual - 4
  • It would seem simple enough for each of us to realize that a strong, determined belief is necessary if we are to achieve  the maximum performance in our lives.
  • Finding that driving spiritual belief may be more difficult for some than others.
  • Remember, as you grow, you can change your spiritual direction and goals.
  • Find a Spiritual area for yourself, no matter what it is, if it fills your spiritual needs it will work well.
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Financial
  • Financial achievement is elementary.  If you don’t have money you will have more problems than if you do have money.
  • How you feel about your financial achievements is critical to your happiness and future achievement.  If financial success is necessary at all costs, you have found your god in life.
  • If on the other hand your financial goals are part of the means to achieve  your other five goals or areas in life then your financial goals are realistically part of your total life, your happiness, and your overall success.
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Financial
  • Most of us should conclude that our financial goals are only part of a great picture that we are painting in this life.
  • Know that your financial goals are necessary, important, and almost impossible to live without finding a successful balance with the other five areas of life.
  • Your financial goals should be supportive of your overall goals.  Financial goals only are self defeating.
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Family
  • Most people need a family.  Most people function best when they have a supportive family that they can relate to, want to be a part of, and participate regularly in.
  • Many of us get lost in that we feel there are certain things that we owe our family, if that happens to be support, we interpret that as monetary support, but we may be short on psychological support, or showing love, or praising, or elevating.
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Family
  • Do you have a husband or a wife who at one time in your life you had to be with every second that you possibly could In the early part of your relationship you couldn’t wait to see them, five hours with  them went in seconds.  You couldn’t stand a day without them, but now you take them so for granted you don’t even talk to them much anymore, your relationship is so full of uncomfortable memories that a conversation would only bring up things you would rather not talk about or think of ?
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Family
  • A child comes home from school with four “A” ’s and a “B” – our reaction is “why did you get a “B”, when we know if we would concentrate on praising the “A” ’s, the child would work more diligently on the area of the “B”.
  • Being realistic, sometime enjoying the child is the best A we will ever get.  Einstein wasn’t an A student, Edison was thought to be a dunce.
  • Perhaps there are talents and gifts that we are not aware of.
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Family
  • Time, quality time, quality interpreted by the receiver, not the giver, is usually the best gift we can give the family.
  • It is easy to get into a mental stance of believing since we have provided the best cars, houses, schools, and plenty of money the family should be more than satisfied with our efforts.
  • People need many things, our family needs many things, things that only we can offer.  Are we giving, offering what that member of our family needs, or are we offering what we want to give.
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Family
  • People, particularly children like predictable, pre-determined activities, stability, things that they can count on at regular intervals.
  • You can be at dinner every night and still work nights.
  • You can go to church, or for a hike, or to the park, every Sunday at a certain time and your family will benefit more than if you supply them with a more than generous living.
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Family
  • What would you do if one day you came home and that person was gone?  Would you be happy that day, would you be happy in a week, a month?
  • That day will come when that person will somehow be gone, be out of your life.  What will you do then?
  • Is there a way you can revive the feelings you once had?  If you loved that person at one time could you love them with the same intensity again?
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Family
  • What does your family contribute to you?  What do you contribute to your family?
  • If you were contributing more to your family, what I mean by more, is if you were contributing more to your family in such a way that your family was contributing more to the areas of your life, would everyone benefit?  Would you lose more or would you gain more?
  • What is the function of your family in relationship to your life, what is your function in relation to your families life?
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Family
  • Is your family the driving force of your ambitions? The psychological anchor of your existence?  Is your family the dragging weight that keeps you from accomplishing what you feel you must accomplish in life?
  • Are you there for a reason, or are you there because you haven’t found someplace else to be?
  • Is that where you should really be but you have forgotten how to positively contribute to your family.


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Family
  • When you come home are you a welcome addition that brings happiness to everyone, that makes the other members of the family realize their great worth to the family and to the world? Or;
  • When you come home does everyone run to a safe area of the home in hopes of avoiding your wrath, your terrible affect on everyone in the family.
  • Is your family ecstatic when you go to work, or do they stand in the driveway and wave good bye hoping you’ll be home early that night?
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Family
  • Family is an important part of your life.  Are you a part of the right family?  Should you be in another family?
  • Are you ignoring your family in such a way that you are missing one of the most important things that will ever happen to you in your lifetime.
  • Do you appreciate the wonderful gifts that the various members of your family possess?  Do you help develop those wonderful gifts?  Do you tell that member how important they really are?
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Recreational
  • The root of the word recreation should give us a hint of its importance.  The word means to Re-Create, make over, begin again.
  • It means to renew your real purpose in life, to re-evaluate what you have done, what you are doing, and decide to commit to those proposals again.
  • It is meant to clear the mind. To enable the mind to come up with new thoughts and better ways.
  • Recreation is an extremely important part of a successful life.
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Recreational
  • In the bible, even God recreated on the 7th day.  The book says he rested.  Now rest is an elective thing in reality.  You may want to do nothing, but your recreation may involve Golf, or Flying, or Skiing, any of a number of things.  You may like to watch movies all day, or read.  It doesn’t matter what your method of recreating yourself is.  It only matters that you use it in a faithful way.
  • Recreating keeps you from burning out.  From getting so tired of doing the same thing that you don’t do a good job anymore, but getting away from what you do, so that, you will come back to do a better job.
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Recreational
  • Recreation can take man forms;
  • 1. You should have weekly recreation sufficient to
    make a new you for another week.
  • 2. You should have a monthly recreational goal.  Maybe a weekend or two days of doing something that you love, the
    object of this is to give you something to look forward to once each month.
  • 3. You should have quarterly recreation.  You should have
    something that you have set aside to do every three months.  A long weekend with your significant other is good.  This is your quarterly respite.
  • 4. You should have an annual recreational goal. This could be a vacation that you have been wanting to participate in.
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Recreational
  • The plan on the last plate gives you a weekly ending benchmark, a monthly ending benchmark, a quarterly recreational respite, and finally you have something  to look forward to on an annual basis.
  • When you are performing at a maximum potential for you, you will need these breaks to look forward to, particularly when things are especially displeasing.
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Recreational
  • Within your recreational goals you can have monetary goals.  If you are playing golf, you may want to get some new golf clubs.  If you are flying airplanes you may want to buy your own airplane.  The recreational endeavors, the hobbies you enjoy, offer the opportunity for you to buy things for yourself that you have always wanted.
  • This is another method of rewarding yourself for accomplishing desirable goals, and causing you to have a more successful, rewarding life.
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Recreational
  • A caution with recreational goals is that if you are approaching burnout you may overdo your recreation.  What I mean by that is if you take up golf, and you are approaching burnout, you may want to play golf day and night.  This is wrong of course.  This is a sign that you waited too long to practice your recreational goals and skills.
  • If you are overdoing something, take notice and see if you can control it.  If you can’t control it you’ll have to abandon that recreation and choose something more reasonable.
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Recreational
  • Recreation should be structured so that it intertwines with the other five areas of your life.
  • For example, if you play golf, it could include your significant other and your children.  The important thing here is that the other members of your family are enjoying the effort too.  Not just trying to spend time with you.
  • Recreation can be entwined with family, education, health goals, financial goals, and health goals.  The important thing with recreational goals is that you are renewing your spirit.  That you come through your recreation with a new fervor for your other activities, particularly your work.
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Educational
  • Educational goals at this level in your life are efforts that are aimed at your occupational and financial goals, your family goals, your recreational goals, your spiritual goals, and your health goals.
  • Interestingly as you learn more and more in life you find that learning is a kind of circle.  When you become proficient at a task or skill it often sets the ground work for you to become proficient in other areas that are important for you.
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Educational
  • You may take a class is Sociology for recreational purposes and find that you have began to understand the socio-economic forces that gather to increase values in a certain neighborhood. You carry that to your real estate hobby or profession and you find yourself buying real estate that is appreciating very rapidly because you recognized the propensity for that real estate to increase in value because of your educational goals, and your Sociology class.
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Educational
  • You may find that the same basic skill that involves concentrating on a target and rifle sights when target practicing is similar to the skills involved when you are negotiating a business transaction, or an apartment building.
  • With education and learning, you will hopefully discover that all learning skills are entwined and useful in other areas.
  • Many people never realize this association.  Look for it.  It is there, you will discover it, it will be very helpful to you.
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Setting Goals
  • When you set goals you must be as detailed as you can be.  Not as someone else can be, but as you can be.
  • If you set a financial goal for $400,000 a year, you must decide if you want that to be Gross or Net.  Assuming that it is Net, you will have to decide how many hours you want to work a week, but also how much money you will have to earn each hour.
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Setting Goals
  • For example, there are 52 weeks in a year.  If you want to net $400,000 a year, you will have to net $7,692 a week.  This can be from whatever sources you want it to be.  This can be from commissions only, from appreciation of property and commissions, it can be from other business services that you have other people running, who you pay on a weekly basis.  First find out how much you will have to make weekly, daily, hourly and so on.  Make it seem achievable.
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Setting Goals
  • $400,000 a year means you have to;
  • Earn $7,693 a week
  • Earn $1,099 a day
  • Earn $46 an hour twenty four hours a day
  • Earn 76¢ a minute
  • Earn 1.28 ¢ a second.
  • That seems like a large goal, may initially seem impossible.  The only thing I can promise you about goals is when you have accomplished them you will wish you had set them higher.  They are never grand enough.
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Setting Goals
  • This $400,000 a year would involve the following if you were working on commissions;
  • If you were working on a 3% commission base that you were splitting 80/20 with a broker, you getting 80% and the brokerage getting 20%, and you covering your costs.
  • Let’s say that your costs of doing business was 25% of every dollar that you earned.
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Setting Goals
  • $400,000 would have to be divided by  80% to find what you are going to pay your broker. If you were pay 25% for your business expenses, your $400,000 would represent 55% of what you would have to earn.  If you divide $400,000 by 55% you will come up with  $727,273. you would pay your broker $145,455 and your expenses would be $181,818, leaving you with  $400,000.
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Setting Goals
  • This changes your original picture.  You have to adjust.  Most people just give up in discouragement.  Now you have to earn $727,273 or;
  • $60,606 a month
  • $13,986 a week
  • $1,198 a day
  • $83.25 an hour
  • $1.39 a minute
  • 23¢ a second
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Setting Goals
  • If you are working commissions only how much would you have to sell a year?
  • On a 3% base you would have to sell $24,242,425 a year.  If the average sale of a piece of property is $500,000 in your area of expertise you will have to sell 49 such properties.
  • That is an achievable goal.  There are many people who are doing that.  Usually they are doing that with a Real Estate Team that they have created.
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Setting Goals
  • You decide that to achieve your goal you will need to write it down, post it in your bedroom, in your shower, on your refrigerator, on the dash board of your car.  You need to look at that monetary goal at least 5 times a day.
  • What you have to do now is decide what you are going to do on a daily bases.  What time are you going to get up.  What are you going to do.
  • You will want to list the possibilities for sales and listings.


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Setting Goals
  • You decide that you will get up every morning at 6:00 a.m. – that has to be a good time for you not a good time for someone else.
  • You will work out for one hour, aerobics three days a week and weights three days a week, your recreational day you won’t work out.
  • You will immediately shower, while in the shower you will go over your goals which are laminated and hanging in the shower for your to view as you are waking up.
  • You should then have something light to eat.  Real estate is a getting fat business.
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Setting Goals
  • List some things you can do to sell real estate;
  • Call some expired listings.
  • Find some for sale by owners and call them.
  • Go over your client list call at least 10 of them.
  • Send out some thank you notes, at least 10.
  • Look at the new listings that have come out today, go look at them, try and figure out who you could sell them to.
  • Look at listings for your buyers.
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Setting Goals
  • List some things you can do to sell real estate;
  • Take a client to lunch.
  • Go back to the office, make 10 more calls to your farm area.
  • Go door knocking for one hour.
  • Follow up on any escrows that you have going.
  • Check any old listings that expired, see if the seller may want to sell again.
  • Try and attend an evening meeting like a Rotary, or Kiwanis meeting.
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Setting Goals
  • It should be about 8:00 a.m. now, you will review your day and again go over your goals; what are you about?  Who are you? Why are you on earth?  What is your mission today?  This hour?  This minute?
  • What is your first task in the morning?  Probably you are going to look up expired listings and use your expired listing dialogue on them, make an appointment to take a look at their property.
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Setting Goals
  • You attack your morning tasks and just after lunch you go over your goals again.  Who are your?  What are you about?  What will you do next?  What is the most important thing for you to do now?
  • It is important that you develop some Affirmations.  Affirmations are sayings that you like, that mean something to you, that affirm what you are doing what you are about.
  • Use what affirmations work for you.  If your religious use some religious affirmations.
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Setting Goals
  • It should be about 8:00 a.m. now, you will review your day and again go over your goals; what are you about?  Who are you? Why are you on earth?  What is your mission today?  This hour?  This minute?
  • What is your first task in the morning?  Probably you are going to look up expired listings and use your expired listing dialogue on them, make an appointment to take a look at their property.
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Reviewing Goals
  • Your Goals must be foremost on your mind.  You must have them visible to you and you must review them daily.  You should review them upon awakening, when your fully awake, again at noon, at six in the afternoon, and again before retiring.
  • 1. Immediately Upon Awakening
  • 2. Again when your fully awake
  • 3. At Noon
  • 4. At 6:00 in the evening
  • 5. Just before retiring
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Affirmations
  • Affirmations are extremely important.  Affirmations are sayings, like mantras that we repeat over and over again to overcome our fatigue and discouragement, to encourage us, to remind us who we are and what we are about.
  • Some affirmations can be;
  • “I can do it.”
  • “This is my destiny.”
  • “This is God’s will for me.”
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Affirmations
  • “This is for me.”
  • “I’m on track.”
  • “Inch by inch my life's a cinch.”
  • “Mile by mile with a smile.”
  • “Nothing can prevent my success.”
  • “Daily I willingly do what it is I am destined to do.”
  • “Each passing second gets me closer to  where I am supposed to be.”
  • “I will not fail to succeed, I cannot fail to succeed.”
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Setting Goals
  • It should be about 8:00 a.m. now, you will review your day and again go over your goals; what are you about?  Who are you? Why are you on earth?  What is your mission today?  This hour?  This minute?
  • What is your first task in the morning?  Probably you are going to look up expired listings and use your expired listing dialogue on them, make an appointment to take a look at their property.
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Performing Your Goals
  • Each day you keep doing the things that successful people do.  Over and over, without fail you repeat your pattern, your schedule, day in day out, then suddenly one day you’ll find a buyer and they’ll buy, you’ll find a seller and they’ll sell.
  • You reaffirm this is what you do, this is what you are about.  You are succeeding.
  • You must not let yourself get discouraged at this point.
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Performing Your Goals
  • You must begin to hang around the most successful people you can find that are doing what it is that you want to do.
  • There is a world of negative people out there that will drag you down with them and you won’t even have to ask.
  • Successful people are doing successful things, watch them, listen to them, follow them, imitate them, keep doing what they do.
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Performing Your Goals
  • Expect to get discouraged, expect to find fear, expect to feel like your lost without direction.  Your affirmations will pull you out of these ruts, hanging around productive people will help you get out of these ruts.
  • Exercise is essential, critical, you will be under enough pressure that if you don’t work out your muscles will bunch up on you, cramp up and you’ll need chiropractors, muscle relaxants, tranquilizers, the works.  The one thing you have to do is stay healthy.
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Your Day is Over
  • By now your day is over.  You will have to go over your goals again at 6:00 p.m. – go over them in detail, get excited about them, visualize your successful self enjoying yourself because of your ability to have planned these goals, pursued them, and they have been actualized.
  • Go over the things you have done well, go over the things that you could have improved on, figure out how to improve on them, go over what you did wrong, figure out how you are going to do them right.
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Your Day is Over
  • Write out your day for tomorrow.  Make a plan on a day timer or a daily schedule with a time line on it.  What time you are getting up, why you will be excited about getting up, why you are excited about what it is that you are doing.
  • VISUALIZE – now you will want to visualize your life, visualize how you are going to sleep tonight, how you are going to wake up in the morning, happy, ready to work, ready to prospect, ready to find real estate for buyers, get listings from sellers.  Visualize your day from moment to moment.  Go to bed.
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Read Some Good
Inspiring Material – Go to Sleep
  • You have that one thought.
  • What is the thought you are going to awaken with?
  • Fall asleep thinking of that one thought.
  • Put a writing tablet and pen next to your bed.
  • If you have any thoughts in the night write them down for the morning.
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Your Day Begins Again
  • Your day begins again.
  • You should be looking forward to your days now.
  • With each thing that you do, ask ”How is this helping me achieve my goals?”
  • For example;  If you are  exercising – “How does this exercising help me achieve my goals?”
  • If you are driving somewhere; - “Should I be driving myself, or could I have addressed this as well on the phone, or could I have someone else do it for me with equal or greater success?”
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People You Are Working With
  • Ask yourself;
  • “Does this person help me achieve my goals?”
  • “How do they help me achieve my goals?”
  • “Is this person an uplifting person in my life?”
  • “Am I a supportive, uplifting person in their life?”
  • “Am I dragging them down by being with them?”
  • “Are they dragging me down by being with them?”
  • “Why am I with them?”
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Form a Master Mind Group
  • A master mind group is a group of your peers, comprised of those in the group who look like they are going to succeed, or who are already successful.
  • You should meet once each month, (more often, like once each week if possible) the meeting should be about business.
  • The meeting should be a breakfast meeting.  This is the meeting that is the easiest to attend on a constant basis.
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Content of Your Master Mind Meetings
  • The content should be  business.
  • Techniques, preferably new to everyone except the presenter.
  • Two rules are all I have used over the years.  They are;
    • 1. You have to come with a new idea, or an expanded idea for a more productive life.  It can be in any of the six areas.
    • 2. You have to be in a good mood.  If you are negative that day YOU MUST LEAVE THE MEETING.
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What is The Most Important
Thing You Can Do Today?
  • When your doing your late evening review decide what is the most important thing for you to do tomorrow.
  • If you decide that you have to get a listing, then decide where and whom you will try and get the listing from.
  • Immediately upon awakening and doing your normal things, shower, etc. – you will put into place those things that will get you a listing the quickest.
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What is The Most Important
Thing That You Can Do Right Now
  • If you wake up at 5:00 a.m. – workout, shower, eat a light breakfast, and it is 7:00 a.m. and the people you need to get hold of would resent a 7:00 a.m. call – you could check new listings, send e-mails to old clients, new clients, people you know.
  • You might want to work on letters that you have to go out.
  • When 8:00 a.m. arrives are you still doing the “Most Important Thing?”
  • When 9:00 a.m. arrives are you still doing the Most Important thing?”
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Work Until It is Senseless
  • When you begin working on any part of a project, you should work until you can’t work on it anymore, or something else becomes more important.
  • For example if you are making cold calls.  Keep cold calling until something becomes more eminent, for example you have a 2:00 p.m. appointment.  You prepare for you 2:00 p.m. appointment at 8:00 a.m. – you are satisfied that you can carry the appointment successfully.  You start cold calling, and you stop at 1:00, review what you will be doing at the 2:00 p.m. appointment and you go to the appointment.
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Tracking Your Progress
  • Tracking your progress should be hourly.
  • Don’t let hourly tracking make a nervous wreck out of you – but check on an hourly basis the things that you are doing.
  • If your recreating, are you really recreating or are you worrying about something at the office that you can’t do anything about anyway.
  • If your recreating, recreate.  If your working, work.  If your enjoying your family, enjoy your family.
  • The main thing to learn here is to do what it is that you are doing.
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Your Efforts Should Make You Happy
  • Your efforts in life should make you happy.  You should have a sense of fulfillment each day.
  • If you don’t feel satisfied, happy, about the things your are doing, the things you are accomplishing, perhaps you need to be doing something else, or have someone else do what it is that you are doing.
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Your Imagination
Is Your Only Limitation
  • Your imagination and self confidence is your only limitation.
  • You can be your own worst enemy, or your own best friend.
  • Best friend is probably better.
  • Learn to know and like yourself.  You are the only one who will be with you for life.
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