Joeann's
Tuesday Tips - January 6, 2009
IN
THIS ISSUE:
Simplify:
One Word
Clarity and
Intention
Tech Tip
Borrowed Wisdom
Last Call for
the Discount! SRS Designation
Class
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I
am either on the plane or on
the beach in Cabo San Lucas
as you read this. I’m
still celebrating the holidays!
Gosh it’s been 3 weeks
of relax and have fun! I gave
the whole family a DreamTrip
to Los Cabos in Mexico and
we are just enjoying each other
and the unlimited food and drink!
That should send me back to
the Y for exercise next week,
but this week, indulge it is!
I don’t know about you,
but I love the fresh slate a
new year brings.
Two
books I have found intriguing
in the past few months are The
Four Hour Workweek
and Eat,
Pray & Love. While
they are very different, both
authors share how they are designing
the life that they want, rather
than taking the old notions
of how it should be. How inspiring
to read how to live an inspired
life, rather than an ordinary
one. I’m throwing my hat
in the ring for enjoying an
inspired life in 2009. How about
you?
Simplify:
One Word
Is your life over-complicated?
If you have you struggled with
your business planning and made
it so complicated it doesn’t
get completed or, if it does,
it gets put away after completion
and doesn’t ever become
a useful tool…. Here is
an easy way to stay focused
in 2009: choose just ONE!
What
I mean is to choose a single
word for 2009 that will be your
guiding star. My word is Relax
. So much of my work on my own
life and with clients these
days is guided by The Law
of Attraction. For most
of my life, I have planned,
strived and fretted about attaining
my goals. All of this has often
made it harder, not easier to
get where I want to go. This
year, I will RELAX. This will
allow me to be more flexible.
To take advantage of the downstream
current, instead of paddling
upstream frantically!
I asked the question recently
of my Facebook friends and some
of their words for the year
are:
There is no right answer here.
What is it that you want for
your year? Use it as your guiding
star to measure whether you
are aligned with what is really
important to you.
Or, if you really do love the
detail of planning and haven’t
done it yet, you can invest
$12 for the best little plan
around. The
Awesome Year Plan has 35
pages to really get you thinking!
Clarity
and Intention
I
got sent a wonderful link by
my good friend, Marcia
Reynolds to Five
Big Questions by Michael
Bungay Stanier, Senior Partner,
Box of Crayons. These are a
wonderful way to get the year
started off with some clarity
and intention!
Tech
Tip
I
recently installed Xobni for
Outlook thanks to my friend
and fellow GRI Instructor, Rob
Gibbs. It’s way cool!!!
Xobni makes it easy to find
email, contacts, and attachments
in Outlook. Xobni, the reverse
spelling of inbox, uses powerful
email analytics to reveal previously
unknown facts like each person’s
shared contacts and their response
time and volume of mail to you.
Learn
more at www.xobni.com/learnmore/share
or download Xobni now to see
where I rank in your inbox.
You
can download Xobni here.
Borrowed
Wisdom
"When you are inspired
by some great purpose,
some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their
bonds.
Your mind transcends limitations,
your consciousness expands in
every direction,
and you find yourself in a new,
great and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and
talents become alive,
and you discover yourself to
be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed yourself
to be."
---
attributed to the ancient seer,
Maharishi Patanjali
Last
Call for the Discount! SRS Designation
Class
This 2-day designation course
is being given in Tucson on
January 21-22. When offered
last fall in Phoenix, it sold
out. Reserve
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bird rate expires on Jan 10.
Save yourself $20 and enroll
today!
The
SRS - Seller Representative
Specialist Designation awarded
by the SRS
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rave reviews.
Is it time to get really good
at your seller skills? Have
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Are you ready to quit spending
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the "old" way.
Topics
include:
-
manual and e-methods of
procuring listings
-
securing
the listing
-
staging
the property and marketing
venues
-
representing
the seller client when converting
consumer inquiries
-
co-broking
with cooperating agents
-
protecting
the interests of the client
when fielding multiple offers
-
negotiating
the offer and inspection
phase issues in addition
to following
the pending transaction
to closing
Note: The course
is being sponsored by Realty
Executives Southern Arizona
as part of their commitment
to quality education, but is
open to all agents.
Have
a Wonderful Week!!! It IS
up to You!!!!!!!!!