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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Pareto Realty - TN #251071
Tips and commentary For Home Buyers & Sellers and REALTORS with primary focus on LIVE - Work - Play - Life Rhythm - Life Performance Oriented thinking for regular folks

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2009 

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I continue to Read John Maxwell's book "Talent is NEVER enough!" and he "talked" to me today about COURAGE. John's way of writing is very anecdotal - Lots of real world stories of famous people modeling "best practices" for the rest of us. and so I gotta pass on a few thoughts of my own. For year...
03/19/2009
On a private discussion board, a REALTOR tossed out the question: "things are 30% down in my market, how are things going in yours?" Of course, I couldn't restrain myself . . . Anxious anticipation here in Nashville.I'm doing my best to keep folks motivated and out there selling houses - check ou...
03/16/2009
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Remember when you were young and in school, the excitement that surrounded the coming of Spring Break? We're in the midst of that now with our 3 young ones. It all really started with Ash Sunday - the beginning of Lent. This is the first year that all of our children are knowingly participating h...
03/16/2009
It's a "Seattle Saturday" here in Nashville - Cold. clammy, drizzly . . . And when it's like this outside . . . Cleaning happens inside our house, so we've been in the attic all day - YUCK! During the breaks, I have been blogging on another site (Seth Godin's Triiibes) which has led to a fascinat...
03/14/2009
  The optimist (standing on my right shoulder screaming in my ear) says that things are improving and that we are through the worst of things. The realist is standing on my left shoulder chanting a steady message that we are likely to have much more of the same for a while longer . . . and that t...
03/13/2009
It's a secret . . . even though real estate coaches and trainers have been talking about it forEVER! Effective Lead Generation is NOT "rocket Science". Aw Heck! A person doesn't even have to be very smart to be good at it (Trust me on this). Now! I know it is intimidating to think of using "SCRIP...
03/12/2009
Can't see the forest for the trees. There's more month than money. So much to do - so little time. EVERYONE wants my time these days, and I don't have time for ANYONE. Whenever I start an important project, someone interrupts me so I rarely finish. I'm SO easily distracted even when I'm trying to...
03/10/2009
Yep! YESTERDAY afternoon, I was cruising along feeling great and having a VERY productive day. The sun was shining, birds singing, kids playing in the yard . . . Absolutely Utopian! Until . . . I felt that twinge of an itch in my throat. Uh-Oh! ALLERGIES! I looked around me . . . every form of pl...
03/10/2009
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How many times have you heard THAT in the past week? Doesn't EVERYONE want a STEAL these days? Of course, we all do. Who would ask for a bad deal with a bad mortgage (on purpose)? In fact, don't you think that perhaps even in the fast times, the Buyers and sellers wanted good deals? Has any of th...
03/09/2009
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Deb called me and asked me why she is seeing so many hawks these days. The  first place I turn when I hear of "animal encounters" is American Indian wisdom . . . and when I searched for information @ hawks, I found many references to hawks and DOVES . . . so I kept digging and stumbled upon the "...
03/08/2009
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Stream of consciousness commentary on the real estate industry from the perspective of a Principal Real Estate Broker and Founder of Pareto REalty, LLC in Middlle Tennessee - Also a Career Development Coach with vast Organizational Development/Transformation training and experience - in the industry since 1993