Great news for any of you struggling with “social media”!
Derek Thompson posted on his Substack some interesting thoughts on the convergence of media. His post is entitled, “Everything is television.” Here’s what caught my attention:
“...only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services—7% on In...
Over the last few weeks, I have had a little extra fun in my workshops. The first question I ask the group is, “Next year, are most agents going to have a better year, a worse year, or pretty much the same?”
The group always answers, “The same.”
Then I ask, “What about you?”
The group emphaticall...
Next year starts now. You know this already. (Not right now, it’s totally fine to have this weekend off...but when Monday comes, you are back on duty!)
Anyway, what you are doing now dictates your results in the first quarter of 2026. Did you just get a little pit in your stomach? Maybe like, “WAIT...
I was on the phone with a realtor in South Florida who leads a team of agents. He went blind late in life, and he often says, “I had to lose my vision in order to see.” By the way, he became a realtor after losing his sight.
We were having an incredibly impactful conversation, and then he said some...
There are a million plus real estate agents in the U.S. Well, there are way more than that. The question is, “How many are doing any significant and/or serious business?” I’m going to guess around 200,00 - 300,000 are actually doing business on purpose. What are the other 700,000+ doing? That’s a di...
Two things have become clear to me during this time:
- Trust and trustworthiness are not the same thing, yet I was often using them interchangeably.
- Trust - and trustworthiness - is dynamic, not static.
Trust is about someone giving their trust to another. Trustworthiness is about being someon...
Good stewardship is serving others while honoring the trust they placed in you. It is responsibly managing anything extended to your care, ensuring that your actions reflect protection and a commitment to using resources for the greater good.
Good stewards do the right thing, even when doing the ri...
“Levity is a mind-set,” said Naomi Bagdonas, author and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, specializing in leading with humor and humanity. “It’s looking for reasons to be delighted rather than disappointed in the world around you.”
As a real estate professional:
- When you have...
Let me simply start with: integrity is a massive and critical virtue, and most importantly, I am not the expert on this matter: many more scholars, thinkers, and leaders have developed large bodies of work on this topic. Yet, operating with integrity and restoring it where it’s lacking is, in my exp...
On July 1st, 1776, our founding fathers were struggling mightily to come to a consensus about declaring independence. It was not a foregone conclusion.
At ten o’clock, John Hancock sounded the gavel. Congress was to begin the day’s discussion on independence. John Dickinson, the prominent and once ...
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” — Marcus Aurelius
A good advisor can clear the mirror for you, so to speak. You are that person for your clients.
Operating with perspective is twofold. First, you must be unattached to your vie...
Do you have a relationship-focused business? Or a transaction-focused business? I don’t believe they are the same thing.
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For bigger groups and organizations, they tend to be focused on transactions. Individuals seem to be more likely to focus on relationships. But that’s not a hard and fast r...
