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 your spot today. The early bird rate expires on Jan 10. Save yourself $20 and enroll today!

The SRS - Seller Representative Specialist Designation awarded by the SRS
Council, LLP has been delivered nationwide and has received rave reviews.

Is it time to get really good at your seller skills? Have you lost listings because of the competition or not gotten paid on listings that didn’t sell? Here's your chance to get this designation on this side of the country! Or maybe just come to Tucson and get warm, get smart and network. Are you ready to quit spending time and money on listings that don't sell and doing things 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!!!!!!!!!