Stop Stressing – Don’t Look Back By Larry Tobin The past can be a problematic albatross to carry around. We’ll forget where we left our keys 20 minutes ago, but ask us to remember an embarrassing moment from our childhood and it will come to mind like a flash. For some reason, we seem incredibly [...]

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it!

The concept that success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and that I alone determine whether I do so, became central to my life and affected me in a most profound manner. – Coach John Wooden (by SuperCoach Michael Neill): There is a story about a young aide who began [...]

Hey Team! We had a great Team Meeting yesterday, with a lively discussion about how to handle today’s buyer, you know, the one who appears to be “sitting on the fence”. We role played some great dialogue, and our in-house lender, Steve Hankla, shared market information and how he handles that waffling buyer prospect. It [...]

(from Michael Neill, author of Supercoach and other books): “There is no try – there is only do or not do” – Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back The other day, I was explaining to my wife why I hadn’t emptied the dishwasher when I heard myself saying “well, I tried to do it, but [...]

…How do you achieve excellence? By doing the right thing. Excellence is the result of caring about what you do, and of putting your very best effort into what you care about. Excellence is an outward expression of inner integrity, and few things are more valuable than that. Excellence is a choice you always have [...]

Hey Team! Happy 7-11 Day! Did you know that all the 7-11 stores are giving away free slurpees today?? Yum! Stop by and get your share of the sugar today!! And while you’re coming down from your sugar high, you can mark your calendar for the following business development events: Tuesday, July 12 – 9:00 [...]

1. Champions Expect to Win – When they walk on the court, on the field, into a meeting or in a classroom they expect to win. In fact they are surprised when they don’t win. They expect success and their positive beliefs often lead to positive actions and outcomes. They win in their mind first [...]

It may be a down market, but the majority of Americans still see value in home-ownership. According to a recent survey, conducted on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), “An overwhelming 75 percent of the people who were polled said that owning a home is worth the risk of the fluctuations in [...]

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. ~Oprah Winfrey