{"id":13113,"date":"2010-08-31T18:12:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T01:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13113"},"modified":"2010-08-31T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T01:12:47","slug":"a-kinder-gentler-jeff-brown-challenge-catch-yourself-doing-something-worthwhile-for-every-day-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13113\/a-kinder-gentler-jeff-brown-challenge-catch-yourself-doing-something-worthwhile-for-every-day-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"A kinder, gentler Jeff Brown challenge: Catch yourself doing something worthwhile — for every day in September."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard not to love Jeff Brown’s prospecting challenge<\/a>. But it’s kind of easy to note that most of us have not raised our hands to submit ourselves to its arduous benefits. It goes for me, too: If I have six hours to spare on any given day, I’m going to throw it at marketing — specifically software — not prospecting. Mainly, though, because our marketing is producing healthy results, I don’t have a lot of time to spare in any case.<\/p>\n

Take note: I am not absolving you of anything. If you don’t have enough money work, and if you don’t have any money, prospecting will solve those two problems in very short order.<\/p>\n

But whether or not you are running Jeff’s gauntlet, the kind of goal-achieving behavior we have been talking about is hugely beneficial — to your health, to your wealth and to your happiness.<\/p>\n

So: Let’s set ourselves a challenge. Declare a worthwhile goal — prospecting, exercise, learning a new skill, etc. — and then jump in and actually do<\/em> it for every day in September. You can use the don’t break the chain strategy<\/a> I talked about yesterday. Here<\/a> is a printer-ready September calendar.<\/p>\n

Goal-setting<\/em> is easy. It’s actually accomplishing your goals that is so hard. Between public declarations here, in the comments below, and that growing chain of red X’s, the month of September 2010 could mark a turning point in all of our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s hard not to love Jeff Brown’s prospecting challenge. But it’s kind of easy to note that most of us have not raised our hands to submit ourselves to its arduous benefits. It goes for me, too: If I have six hours to spare on any given day, I’m going to throw it at marketing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[24,212,29,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-marketing","10":"category-real-estate","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13086,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13086\/prospecting-your-way-to-prosperity-with-social-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":13113,"position":0},"title":"Prospecting Your Way To Prosperity With Social Media","author":"Brian Brady","date":"August 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Most real estate agents and mortgage loan originators don't know how to find business.\u00a0 I fear that some of the social media strategies I've shared have morphed into a\u00a0 \"build it and they will come\" approach to business development.\u00a0 Greg Swann did a nice job of identifying this problem when\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "CRM"","block_context":{"text":"CRM","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/crm\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13096,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13096\/the-next-time-you-actually-work-40-hours-in-a-week-will-be-the-first\/","url_meta":{"origin":13113,"position":1},"title":"“The Next Time You Actually Work 40 Hours In a Week Will Be the First”","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"August 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Note: This post isn't aimed at the (IMHO) 10-20% of the real estate agent population who, day in and day out, work hard, effectively, and with massive purpose. 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