{"id":13109,"date":"2010-08-30T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13109"},"modified":"2010-08-30T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T19:03:34","slug":"tag-teaming-off-of-jeff-brown-daily-action-builds-habits-so-dont-break-the-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13109\/tag-teaming-off-of-jeff-brown-daily-action-builds-habits-so-dont-break-the-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Tag-teaming off of Jeff Brown: Daily action builds habits, so don’t break the chain."},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a short sale get to approval this morning, which puts us one tiny deal away from a million-dollar September. We haven’t seen many million-dollar months since 2005, and it’s a harder target to hit than it was in those days. I’m loving where our business is going, and I feel like we might be just that<\/em> close to the glide path. It’s been a hard road since the market turned, but it has been the dedicated — driven — dogged — pursuit of sales fundamentals that has put us back on the road to financial recovery.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I’m loving the hardy souls who have taken up Jeff Brown’s prospecting challenge<\/a>. Quoted below is a snip from a Lifehacker post<\/a> we have talked about privately for a couple of years. The topic? If you want to master something, do it every day and don’t break the chain:<\/p>\n

Years ago when Seinfeld was a new television show, Jerry Seinfeld was still a touring comic. At the time, I was hanging around clubs doing open mic nights and trying to learn the ropes. One night I was in the club where Seinfeld was working, and before he went on stage, I saw my chance. I had to ask Seinfeld if he had any tips for a young comic. What he told me was something that would benefit me a lifetime…<\/p>\n

He said the way to be a better comic was to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes was to write every day. But his advice was better than that. He had a gem of a leverage technique he used on himself and you can use it to motivate yourself—even when you don’t feel like it.<\/p>\n

He revealed a unique calendar system he uses to pressure himself to write. Here’s how it works.<\/p>\n

He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker.<\/p>\n

He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a short sale get to approval this morning, which puts us one tiny deal away from a million-dollar September. We haven’t seen many million-dollar months since 2005, and it’s a harder target to hit than it was in those days. 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