Monday, January 13, 2014

Affiliates

Hello all,

"Affiliates"

For those of you who missed the sales meeting we warmly welcome George Mason Mortgage to our RE/MAX Town Center family. You will be seeing them in the offices soon so please make them feel at home. I wanted to ask of you to keep in mind all of the wonderful things the affiliates bring to the table. They are our resource for all knowledge we need to have as agents in Title, Mortgage, Insurance and Home Warranty. How wonderful is it to be able to pick up the phone and have any questions we have answered by trusted partners? We have our own legal department, sponsors of our events, training, happy hours... For those of you that send them business regularly I thank you. I understand some of you have had relationships with other vendors for a long time and I would not ask you to break them. However if you could throw are partners a bone or two every so often that would be wonderful. I will ask that if you get a lead from the office through a referral or floor duty you at least give our partners an opportunity to win the deal. Company generated business should allow the partners that opportunity.  

Enjoy the coffee,
Joe


Monday Morning Coffee
INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:
 
"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise." 
 
~ Samuel Lover 
 
GIVE YOURSELF A HAND! 
 
Success and failure - people love taking credit for their achievements, but often blame outside factors when they fail or fall short. We have the power to accomplish our objectives, but when we fail to use that power to our advantage, we tend to fall back on excuses. The trick is to stop making excuses and accept full responsibility for all of our actions and reactions. 
 
Instead of wondering why something happened to you, start wondering how you could have reacted differently. Your response to any given incident defines your power (or lack thereof) to produce the results you seek. Consider the following formula presented in Jack Canfield's book, "The Success Principles": 
 
E + R = O, where E is the Event, R is your Response to the Event, and O is the Outcome. 
 
Thus, every single Outcome you experience is the direct result of how you Respond to a given Event. The Event is an unchangeable constant, but your Response is the variable that changes the Outcome. 
 
Our choice of two options determines our level of happiness and success. Either A. Blame the Event for lack of the desired Outcome, or B. Change our Response until we achieve the desired Outcome. In today's inspiring quote, option A is for the "weak" and option B is for the "wise." 
 
An old Swedish proverb says, "The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm." Don't look to outside people or circumstances when planning to achieve your goals. When you realize - and start acting like - you are 100% responsible, it's amazing how much power you feel. Many of the greatest achievers in history faced seemingly insurmountable outside forces, but obviously it was not those forces that were the deciding factor - it was how they faced those challenges. You too can stop making excuses and take control of your reactions and results - and you can start right now. 

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