{"id":13452,"date":"2010-11-01T20:43:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T03:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13452"},"modified":"2010-11-01T20:43:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T03:43:24","slug":"the-hunt-for-gregs-october-what-i-found-by-quarrying-my-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13452\/the-hunt-for-gregs-october-what-i-found-by-quarrying-my-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunt for Greg’s October: What I found by quarrying my goals."},"content":{"rendered":"

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To be honest, I would like to hear from other folks on what they’re doing about their goals. I will tell you from my own experience that perfect performance is elusive, but if you make the effort to track your efforts, it’s a lot easier to stay on track — and to get back on track if you stray. I may write a MySQL app with a PHP front-end, just to make record-keeping that much easier.<\/p>\n

In October, I tracked a lot of stuff, so much that I ended up not tracking some things, so much was there to keep track of. In the photo, my goals are documented at the top:<\/p>\n

S – Write software or work on web-based marketing for the business.<\/p>\n

G – Play the guitar for at least half an hour.<\/p>\n

W – Walk with Cathleen and the dogs for half an hour.<\/p>\n

X – Work out for half and hour.<\/p>\n

A – Attend an appointment with a real estate buyer or seller.<\/p>\n

C – Write a real estate contract.<\/p>\n

O – Open an escrow.<\/p>\n

$ – Close an escrow.<\/p>\n

It’s at the end of that list that I fell apart. I had a ton of appointments, and I wrote a lot of contracts. These are not hugely meaningful: It takes me a lot of contracts, right now, to get to one closed escrow. I actually closed two deals — only two — but one of them was a short sale that I held together against all odds for nine months. That’s not a proud accomplishment, financially, but it speaks volumes about improvements I’ve been trying to make in my sales skills. I opened four escrows, which is the threshold of a pace I’d like to improve upon. Altogether, it was a pretty good month for real estate work.<\/p>\n

Software was no problem at all — most days quite a bit more than 30 minutes. Much of this was the server swaps we went through, but I wrote a ton of new software, some of which I’ve discussed in recent posts. I have quite a few more tricks up my sleeve, plus a lot of my recent work Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be honest, I would like to hear from other folks on what they’re doing about their goals. I will tell you from my own experience that perfect performance is elusive, but if you make the effort to track your efforts, it’s a lot easier to stay on track — and to get back on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,212,29,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13452","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":13757,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13757\/achieving-your-goals-things-can-get-a-great-deal-better-over-time-if-you-work-at-them-just-a-little-bit-every-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":13452,"position":0},"title":"Achieving your goals: Things can get a great deal better, over time, if you work at them just a little bit every day.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's my November: Not bad, and the guitar is sounding pretty decent by now. 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