Every Day a Birthday

by Sean Purcell

Real Estate Renaissance Man

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Wrapping up the end to another interesting week.  Kind of a slow Friday what with Easter, spring break and so on.  I am not sure what your experience has been, but I find that not many agents want to talk training (or mortgages for that matter) while licking salt off of a margarita glass on a sunny Friday afternoon.  As I mentioned though, I do find most weeks interesting and this one did not disappoint.  I celebrated my birthday yesterday.  I am not much on birthday celebrations per se,  I figure you celebrate on the fives and leave the rest alone.  I doubt if anyone out here even knew about it.  But this year I found myself doing a lot more contemplating and a lot less writing as the odometer turned over.  One area of interest was rebirth.  This year my birthday (the first day of spring) falls particularly close to Easter.  Both the first day of spring and Easter are hardcore proponents of rebirth.

Staying fresh is a difficult concept in real estate.  Essentially, a good agent is someone who endlessly repeats the same tasks around an ever changing core – yet does so as if it were the first time each and every time.  In this way good agents are quite similar to good stage actors.  It may be the 100th time they have given their listing presentation, but the best know that their current audience is hearing it for the first time.  Embracing change and supporting a willingness to recreate yourself is a formidable weapon if you earn your living in the arena competitive – which real estate most certainly is.

Over the past few days we have been privy to posts on super real estate companies, being entertaining, virtual remodeling and, believe it or not, talking signs!  Lots of good ideas, but only really useful to those among us that are willing to rearrange ourselves; root around inside and make changes.  Sometimes a new idea will require letting go of a long held belief.  In the 2.0 world these ideas fly by us at breakneck speed and the blessing is this: when you miss one it is OK because another one is coming.  We do not have to assimilate every innovation that lights us up.  But the ability to assimilate anything is made difficult if we are not ready to be new.

 Yesterday was the first day of spring, a day traditionally celebrated as a day of rebirth.  The secret… is to celebrate today in exactly the same way.