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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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2013 

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  I like answering: “YES!” No really . . . Doesn’t it feel good when you can simply say: “Yes!” with no strings attached . . . no “But” following . . . Just a nice, tidy: “Yes!” Try this on your children (or anyone for that matter) and you’ll notice an immediate pause of reflection as the one ask...
02/28/2013
  Sunday 2/24/2013 was the BIG day that our mighty 8th grade SBA Women Bears played in the championship final VS their nemesis arch-rivals Christ the King. This St Bernard Academy team had quite a season . . . and had already taken home the high honor of winning the regular season. Now for the RE...
02/26/2013
  When we put out the call for players for our 5th grade Girls Basketball team this season, we were overwhelmed by the response. Due to a few of the League coaches “Retiring,” there were many “Orphaned” players, and the word got out that we had a great coach. All of our players from last season r...
02/24/2013
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  Mark Twain was one smart guy! Most people spend much of their lives feeling unfulfilled . . . and wondering why. This question of “Why?” opens a Pandora’s Box of epic proportions. Why are you here? Leads to other questions: Who am I? What do I stand for? What really MATTERS to me? If I were to ...
02/22/2013
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I took 4 days off from my daily routine of blogging. Of course, I missed it. and I wondered: Would my readers notice? Will they leave me for other bloggers? Does it matter? Will I lose my groove? What if I come back to the keyboard and can't think of anything to write? Will "Writer's Block" be my...
02/19/2013
  The Hotel was already spectacular. On our drive to Chicago, Deb wanted treat the family to a stay in a special Hotel so she booked a room at: THE SEELBACH HILTON LOUISVILLE Our first impression wasn’t stellar because nearby road construction made getting there difficult . . . and when we did fi...
02/19/2013
  So . . . Who says there’s no room for “LOVE” in Real estate Sales? “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can ...
02/14/2013
  This IS a true statement. What you focus on EXPANDS! It can work with ya or agin ya . . .  Where your focus is can define or destroy your probability of success. Most folks can find myriad “reasons” for their failure and might even be tempted to cast blame on outside forces (Like the economy). ...
02/13/2013
  Yep! This market is begging you to bare it to the public. If before, you were bashful and fearful of how the market would respond to your house, now you can put it on the market and sing from the hilltops. Let the REALTORS be the Pied Pipers bringing ready, willing, and able Home Buyers to your...
02/11/2013
  Which is it? When you are considering a new opportunity, and you feel those butterflies flitting around in your stomach, is the trepidation due to discomfort around the notion of leaving where you are now? . . . or is it a twinge of fear because of the uncertainty that comes with the new way. Y...
02/10/2013
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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