Online Newsletter for the Week Ending Dec 14

MARKET CENTER CHRISTMAS PARTY IS THIS EVENING

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THE TEAM

AND EVERYONE WHO READS THIS

QUOTE:  A member of Parliament said to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."  “That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

YOUR  STA˜R  POWER, SCRIPTS FOR YOUR SUCCESS FROM HOWARD BRINTON:  www.StarPower.com.  LISTING PRESENTATION – PRICING:  Buyer Determines Value.  You’re (the Sellers) going to set the price of your home, but it’s the buyer that ultimately determines the value.  What I mean by that is that you can put a million dollars on it, but unless somebody’s willing to pay a million dollars and more importantly, an appraiser is willing to appraise it at a million dollars, you haven’t sold it.  What I try to do is give you the facts about what has sold (the Market has accepted) and what’s for sale now (the competition). I will also give you the facts about expired listings (homes the market rejected) so you can make a wise decision.  If a house is priced properly from the beginning, it should sell for full value, and in less time to boot.

WISDOM FROM MICHAEL DUNN, author of What’s The BIG Secret.  http://michaelpdunn.org/Success.html From page 135:  “Remember, growing older is mandatory – growing up is optional.  We make a Living by what we get; we make a Life by what we give.  God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.  If God bring you to it, He will bring you through it.  Lord, I love you and I need You, come into my heart today, for without You I can do nothing.”  Source Unknown

 

THE GENIUS OF JOE TYE; NEVER FEAR; NEVER QUIT; EXPECT A MIRACLE!  Rule #6:  Fear Excludes and Creates Enemies, Courage Includes and Creates Friends. “Fear wants to keep out anyone who’s different, who makes you feel the least bit uncomfortable, anyone who challenges your established opinions and assumptions.  At the same time that your fear is excluding them, their fear is excluding you.  Pretty soon, you’re not just different to them, you’re worse, too.  And it’s not a very big step from being worse to being wrong.  And from being wrong it’s not a very big step to being an enemy.  Fear excludes and creates enemies.  It takes great courage to bring down the walls of exclusion and reach out to people who are different from you.”     http://www.sparkstore.com/success-motivation-book-cd-nfnq.html

AN AMERICAN ICON IN AUDIO AND VIDEO: Two versions of the same song Proud Mary, which do you like best?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XRNQ2C2x0 (11,403,000 views, 21,953 likes; 488 dislikes) and then there is the one most have heard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7052IDTFuFQ (1,393,480 views; 2,286 likes; 50 dislikes – don’t know who those 50 are)

THE WORLD OF STEVEN WRIGHT:  I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

SPEAKING OF AMBUGUITY:  Why is it called “tourist season” if we can’t shoot at them?

UNDENIABLE TRUTHS:  Bad decisions make for good stories and movies.

SOMETHING FOR TODAY’S WORLD:  It’s the people I tell things to that can’t keep a secret; it’s not me.

THIS WEEK’S HUMOR VIDEO:  DUI caught on dashboard camera:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKHrBr8mY78

TO DO AT YEAR’S END, by Marte Cliff.  Marte is right on point with this one.  The question is, how many of the team will do it?  http://ymlp.com/zVgE50

WORKER; IMPOSSIBLE.  By Connie Podesta.  This is an article published in Success Magazine and is right on target!  See which group you can identify with in any of the four groups mentioned.  http://www.success.com/articles/166-co-worker-impossible

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE WEB SITE?  Here’s mine.  www.Pandora.com.  For FREE, you enter the name of an artist or a song.  Pandora tries to find either the artist and/or the song and not only plays it for you, but also finds other similar artists/songs.  You create a FREE “radio” station of that artist or song type.  I don’t know what the limit is to the number of stations you can create, I have a bunch.  I can also link my smart phone to my car radio and play Pandora through the radio meaning no commercials and only the type of music I like for as long I want to listen.  There are some commercials unless you pay a subscription price of just $36.00 a year which I finally did.  I listen on my desktop, my notebook and on my cell phone.  It is fantastic.  What is your favorite site?  Let me know and I’ll include it in a future newsletter.

ANNUAL AWARDS TIME IS FAST APPROACHING.  TODAY’S MESSAGE FROM WES HOPPER STRIKES A CORD WHEN IT COMES TIME TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SUCCESS AND MORE IMPORTANTLY THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS:

GRATITUDE – MAKE A HELPER OUT OF YOUR ENEMY

"Rejoice in the success of others, especially your competitors and those who consider themselves  your enemies. Your competitors and enemies will become your helpers when you exult in their success."

Deepak Chopra

Deepak's got a really good idea here, to give up the idea of dividing the world into winners and losers, good guys and bad guys, based on our own self interest.

The whole idea of competition is based on fear of scarcity. There's not enough to go around. If someone else gets something, they've taken my "stuff."

The truth is - there's always been enough. No one's got your stuff.  And if you and your "competitors" can learn how to work together you'll all have more.

Even if your competitor doesn't learn it, you'll do better if you learn it. Take the time and effort you put into worrying about what they might do, and instead spend it finding ways to deliver more value.

In the 1930's, in the depths of the depression, Thomas Watson's IBM salespeople were instructed that if a competitor had a better solution than they did, the salesman should send the customer to
the competitor.

Sounds crazy? Yeah, but that's how they became the biggest computer company in the world. 

As Deepak says, rejoice in the success of others.

Some of that will rub off on you.

All the best, Wes

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