Uncertainty

Hello all,

"Uncertainty" 

We all know to leave politics out of our business unless the politics will have an effect on our business. In that case we need to be ready to discuss the ramifications of how the political climate will affect Real Estate. In my opinion we dodged a very large bullet for the the late fall and early winter Real Estate market. When people are dealing with uncertainty about the future they put things like Real Estate on the back burner. September last year we were dealing with great uncertainty with the election two months away and things came to a grinding halt.  With the Government shutdown and the fear of default the uncertainty was starting to creep back in. If this would have gone on for an extended period of time I think it might have been pretty bad for us. However with the deal being reached pushing everything back 3 months we should have a good end to the year and people will not be worrying about this again until the beginning of next year. The uncertainty is gone for the time being. Which brings me to my point, if this does come up again (I do not believe it will) it will be in the middle of January and the beginning of February which is the start of the spring market. The effect will be far less than it would have been now, bullet dodged. Even through all of the bad years we have been through the one thing in Real Estate that has always been "certain" is the spring market. 

Enjoy the coffee,

Joe

INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy." 

 

~ Brian Tracy

 

 PUT IT IN WRITING! 

 

“How do you get there from here?” A common enough question when you don’t know where you’re going. If you were planning a long trip, you would certainly check MapQuest or a road atlas to verify and write down the directions. 

 

But what about your life, your dreams, your expectations? “How do you get there from here?” Have you bothered to write down the directions? Do you even have a starting point and a destination planned? Here it is – the most important journey you face, and you probably haven’t even written down your thoughts or plans on how to travel. 

 

Writing down your goals and ideas helps to make them more concrete, more real. It helps you realize and take the necessary steps toward achievement. By defining what you want, and your ideas for getting it, you increase the chances that you’ll actually pursue and accomplish your goal. 

 

Don’t know what you want to do? How about thinking of what you “need” to do? Most people have even less of an idea of what they need than what they want. But often, our career choices have more to do with necessity than desire. Yet we all hear that we’re happiest when we’re doing what we love. 

 

A study on “journaling” showed that people who keep some kind of written record of their aspirations are 32% more likely to feel they are making progress in their lives. If a daily entry is too much commitment, at least sit down once a week and write something, anything, whatever comes to you. Thoughts about work, family, food, politics, whatever. 

 

You’ll begin to see patterns and discover things you might have forgotten (or not even known) about yourself. The notion of what you “need” to do will begin to show itself, and then you can begin drawing that road map. Happy motoring!