{"id":12991,"date":"2010-08-13T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T01:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12991"},"modified":"2010-08-13T18:24:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T01:24:20","slug":"blood-sweat-and-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12991\/blood-sweat-and-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood, sweat, and fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, maps were marked HIC SVNT LEONES<\/a><\/em> to denote unknown territory. Hic Svnt Leones means “Here are lions”. Scary. Uncharted territory is scary.<\/p>\n

I’ve been paying very close attention to how I accomplish things: What I do and what I don’t do. Why some things are easy and I embrace them and why are somethings harder and I avoid them. I’m trying to improve my business and my productivity so it’s kind of nice<\/span> useful<\/span> critical to understand what makes me tick. Or tock. I need to figure out the internal roadblocks that keep me from achieving my goals. I want to recognize them immediately so I can overcome them as quickly as possible rather than letting them pile up to barricade levels.<\/p>\n

There is stuff, for lack of better word, that I dislike doing, but when it’s up to me to do everything, and in real estate it often is up to me to do everything, I have to learn to just get on with it. I know this but still, there are things that I don’t like doing so I begin to waste my own precious time, using procrastination as motivation. An epiphany: It recently occurred to me that I would be furious with anyone else who wasted my time the way I so carelessly waste my own time.<\/p>\n

Some of the habits I have fallen into are now clear even to me as red flags that I’m avoiding something. Twitter of course, is one example. What? Is it that obvious? Okay, so I use social networking to avoid doing some things that I find difficult. I recognize it now so I can overcome it, and that’s the thing. I once thought this was pain avoidance, but now I see it as fear. Of the unknown. As in Hic Svnt Leones. What is going to happen if I do this thing? What unseen beasties lie in wait to pounce on my soft under belly? I have a very fertile imagination and sometimes it grows weeds in the garden of the mind, but the only way to pull the weeds Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is stuff, for lack of better word, that I dislike doing, but when it’s up to me to do everything, and in real estate it often is up to me to do everything, I have to learn to just get on with it. I know this but still, there are things that I don’t like doing so I begin to waste my own precious time, using procrastination as motivation. An epiphany: It recently occurred to me that I would be furious with anyone else who wasted my time the way I so carelessly waste my own time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,62,212,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-abusing-twitter","7":"category-dirty-laundry","8":"category-flourishing","9":"category-realty-reality","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":586,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/586\/the-halloween-carnival-of-scary-real-estate-stories-is-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":12991,"position":0},"title":"The Halloween Carnival of Scary Real Estate Stories is up . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"at The Real Estate TomatoPumpkin. 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