Barry Owen's Blog
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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We're all in a great big world that some people say gets smaller every day thanks to the internet. After all, we can literally communicate with people on the other side of the planet "real time" simply by booting up the lap-top. This is cool stuff. This is POWERFUL stuff. What are YOU doing with ...
06/15/2009
This Buyer saw a FSBO sign and called the owner . . . Resulting in a showing . . . and a contract. 2 weeks later, all parties freak out. Everyone knows that there are things that need to happen, but no one really knows what to do. This is when the REALTOR gets a call from one of the parties. "I'm...
06/15/2009
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You can't see the forest if your focus in only on the trees. The Blind Men & The Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe is a rendition of an age-old parable (That I believe was originated in the Buddhist canon). It's worth a read. 6 Blind men each encounter a different part of an elephant and define that ...
06/12/2009
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Each month, our office has what we call "1st Friday Lunch". This is an agenda-free gathering of whoever wants to come at a local restaurant. Generally, there are 10-15 associates who come. Most of the folks who come are the Top Producers in the office - The busiest agents. Why/how can the busiest...
06/10/2009
The businesses that will emerge from the carnage of this ugly environment will be the "ducks" - The ones who can keep the appearance of being calm and unruffled on the surface all the while paddling vigorously underneath. Don't let your clients see you sweat! Regardless of what's happening behind...
06/09/2009
The Law of Two Feet is the ONLY law in Open Space Technology. What is Open Space Technology? Open Space is a way of being. Add "Technology" on the end and it becomes a wonderfully simply way to lead meetings of 5 to Thousands of people around issues and opportunities affecting all of the particip...
06/08/2009
I just finished reading a LOOOOONG article in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic. It was entitled "Global Food", and it went to great depths to analyze the state of affairs of the Global food inventory as it relates to its ability to keep up with an ever-expanding Global Human population....
06/08/2009
So does my title question appear to be "off-topic"? Most of the "audience" here on Active Rain are Independent contractors who don't necessarily "work for the man". You work for yourself and have no intentions of firing yourself any time soon, so why go to the trouble to up-date your resume? Mayb...
06/04/2009
I hope your business is moving along well this Spring. With the seemingly ever-increasing flow of new “Issues and Opportunities” facing all of us each hour and each day on the national and local scale, we are finding great benefit in our daily mastermind sessions in our training room at Keller Wi...
06/04/2009
Opportunity is sometimes difficult to recognize. If you're not VERY careful, you might just step in a big pile of it unknowingly. Opportunity often lurks in the shadows and rarely shows up when expected. Opportunity hides in the brush and slithers up and BITES YA! There's not really much of anyth...
06/03/2009
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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