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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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2012 

  I saw the funniest little car today. It was an Hybrid (or maybe electric) hatchback – Reminded me of a Pacer. This car was COOL looking . . . lots of curves and STYLE. Something struck me . . . Why would anyone want a hatchback? So they could put things IN it, right? This car’s hatchback was WI...
10/31/2012
  go ALL day without checking email pass by something interesting without taking a picture of it for Facebook go somewhere interesting/exotic without checking in on foursquare dine in a fine restaurant without photographing and sharing your food resist checking your phone EVERY time it makes a no...
10/30/2012
  Many people sell themselves short . . . You might (or not) be one of those people with a big dream who has (or has NOT) allowed the world to conspire against you to keep you from pursuing your “Real” passion. There are lots of “reasons” to choose a path other than the one to your Dream: Living ...
10/29/2012
  Most folks don’t enjoy conflict. Those who appear to thrive on it, (I think) are magicians practicing “slight of emotion” tricks on themselves and others . . . while those who ostensibly don’t like conflict practice evasion tactics . . . even to the extent that they may be willing to walk away ...
10/28/2012
  From Wiki: “The margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey‘s results. The larger the margin of error, the less faith one should have that the poll’s reported results are close to the “true” figures; that is, the figures for the whole population. Ma...
10/26/2012
  Protocol Etiquette Respect Efficiency Effectiveness Bearing Professionalism Integrity I suspect that most folks who aspire to achieve high performance/success subscribe to to most (if not all) of the above . . . Why is it, then, that we so often see and experience wild departures from these com...
10/26/2012
  It’s not really quite as simple as it sounds, but . . . A nice lady called me yesterday and told me that she was interested in selling her house and buying another, but she was having a problem with the agent with whom she was working . . . and she needed to ask me if I could help her. Once we ...
10/25/2012
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  Turn on a dime! 180 degree pivot In the military, we could (with this 2 word command) orchestrate a complete simultaneous change of direction of 1 soldier – or a couple hundred – or a couple thousand INSTANTANEOUSLY. We call politicians “Flip-Floppers” when they say one thing yesterday or last ...
10/24/2012
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  I’ve been thinking a lot about what this world needs more of, and the words “Stoic Leadership” popped into my mind . . . so I googled to see what I could find about it. This brought me to a blog post that I have quoted some (not all) of the content below – Click on the title for the full text. ...
10/24/2012
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  Seldom does anything of real significance happen according to the plan. Plans are created in a cocoon – a vacuum . . . a sealed environment in which ideas can flow rich with possibilities and statistical probabilities. Plans often have alternatives – contingencies and “what ifs” . . . in an ear...
10/23/2012
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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