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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2013
This week, I began facilitation of “LRW2 – Life Rhythm Workshop 2” This first of a 6 session series is all about guiding the participants towards learning/remembering their Life Purpose and acknowledging their myriad Life Roles while living here amongst the rest of us. We then take the next ste...
01/11/2013
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There are some uncanny similarities between the actions and tactics of people playing the stock market and Some Home Buyers and Sellers. These folks think about buying a house a LONG time before deciding to take action . . . mostly because they come into the process with preconceived ideas as t...
01/11/2013
When I’m working in the office, I always have 2 computers in front of me – My netbook and an old, clunky Desktop. I can get an AMAZING amount of work done with these 2 machines – hopping back and forth like the pilot of a jet fighter. When the system is humming, “the list” dwindles quickly. If ...
01/11/2013
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Every night, our kids come home with lots of homework . . . LOTS more homework than I remember having in 5th and 8th grade. They are very diligent about getting it done (most nights). We parents are often a part of the process, and we sometimes cringe when the math word problems show up. The on...
01/10/2013
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When’s the last time you popped something in your neck that resulted in IMMEDIATE pain and the sinking realization that it was going to result in days of painful recovery? The frightening part about it is that we can seldom identify the cause. It usually doesn’t happen because of some definable...
01/09/2013
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Why did THAT happen? Why does HE keep showing up? seems like suddenly I see him EVERYWHERE! I haven’t heard THAT song in forever . . . then 3 times this week. There’s a reason . . . for everything and everyone who shows up your life. The hitch is that it’s entirely up to YOU to learn the reason...
01/08/2013
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Often, dueling technologies don’t play well together. And when this happens, efforts become redundant and clumsy as each operator has to retool his way to mesh with hers. It becomes a battle of wills which serves no-one well . . . until one of the combatants acquiesces. 2 different digital sign...
01/07/2013
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As I watch the whirlwind of political shenanigans we are all witnessing at all levels . . . and I witness the general public disdain for the way virtually ALL of our elected “Representatives” are behaving . . . I often wonder why more folks can’t just focus more on NOW. In my microcosm of this ...
01/06/2013
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Don’t you LOVE those days when everything seems to go right? You’re SO HOT, You’re ON FIRE! Everyone gets this. Athletes know it all too well when they have one of those golden games in which all of the players on the team seem to be communicating on a superhuman level . . . anticipating every ...
01/05/2013
Ask any REALTOR! 2 of the most oft fretted documents by Home Buyers and Sellers are possibly the 2 least significant documents in the transaction (or should be). Here’s my take on each one. Here in Tennessee, our standard contract requires “Notification” to the Seller by the Buyer of the lender...
01/04/2013
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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