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HELP! I'VE FALLEN! How do I Get Up?

Our Team, Sue and I hope you have a Blessed Easter!

Before we head out the door to see the family today, we wanted to pose this question to you and your families. Very appropriate to consider today!

When something's got you down in this Real Estate Market - how do you Get Back Up? Would love to compile a big list, and spread it far and wide in the AR Community.

Here are my Top 5 "Blues Busters" for an often-challenging, frustrating real estate market -

1. EXERCISE! If you work out on a regular and consistent basis - even if just a short time every day, you'll feel better, be physically stronger, and less will get you down. It's true - Exercise does relieve stress, as well!

2. AFFIRMATIONS! Every day, Sue and I read one page together from Chellie Campbell's Classic Guide to Financial Stress Management, "The Wealthy Spirit!" We then each recite, aloud, about two dozen affirmations (one sentence each) that we live by each day. Funny, in these times of financial stress, it's amazing how the right attitude can change your outlook.

3. A GRATITUDE JOURNAL! Human nature makes looking at the NEGATIVES IN LIFE far more natural than focusing on the positives. Turn that around - you have lot of POSITIVES to be thankful for, in life, and in business. WRITE THEM DOWN, and REVIEW THEM!  No journal book?  A legal pad will do!

4. WRITTEN GOALS, and a WRITTEN STRATEGY TO ACHIEVE THEM! Review these each day. You will be amazed how many you have achieved already - that makes achieving the rest possible. Course correct as necessary - but do not put them aside.

5. ROCK & ROLL/CLASSIC TV! According to Dick Clark, music is the soundtrack of our lives, you know! When in the car, my love for oldies - from the 50's through the 70's - reminds me of those good times, and reduces focus on things that stress.  Classic TV, especially the old sit coms, is mindless, funny stuff, that often takes the edge off the day (in moderation, of course).

Again - yours? Please share!

Enjoy the holiday with your families!

DEAN & DEAN'S TEAM CHICAGO

Comments

Great post Dean, exercise does it for me, while listening to some good music. I just try to keep positive thoughts in my head. As a man thinketh, so he is!
Posted by Eugene Jones (Weichert Realtors) almost 4 years ago
Well said Dean! All of these are great tips to stay motivated in this market. Sometimes I try fishing for a few hours. Fishing always helps me focus on catching the next deal!
Posted by Nathan Diones (CAPRE California Professional Real Estate ) almost 4 years ago
Heh... Great post!  I think exercise is the best one for me too... it always brings my mood up - and having a good attitude is IMPORTANT!
Posted by Jonelle Simons (Windermere Real Estate) almost 4 years ago
Great list, one thing I do when something that feels dreadful and overwhelming happens is I look back over my life at other moments in time that I hit a hard spot.  I remember how monumental it all felt at the time and how nothing lasts forever.  Those moments either led to something positive in the end, whether simply as a learning experience or as a turning point, or with time just faded away like a winter turning to spring.  Reminding myself from a look back that I can and will get through whatever life deals out makes the bad times manageable. 
Posted by Beth Anderson ~ Tecumseh / Lenawee County ~Realtor (Goedert Real Estate) almost 4 years ago
Mine, read a blog like Dean's and many others who have inspirational tales to tell. OTHER people greatly inspire and uplift me. Happy Easter Dean.
Posted by Gary Woltal - Assoc. Broker REALTORĀ® SFR Dallas Ft. Worth (Keller Williams Realty) almost 4 years ago

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