{"id":13757,"date":"2010-12-03T16:59:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T23:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13757"},"modified":"2010-12-10T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T23:27:36","slug":"achieving-your-goals-things-can-get-a-great-deal-better-over-time-if-you-work-at-them-just-a-little-bit-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"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\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving your goals: Things can get a great deal better, over time, if you work at them just a little bit every day."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s my November:<\/p>\n

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Not bad, and the guitar is sounding pretty decent by now. I’m more action than traction selling real estate, but that’s been the story of my life for the past five years.<\/p>\n

Here’s the secret decoder ring, what all those sloppy symbols mean:<\/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

Better news first: The server is rockin’ and I’m getting a lot done a little at a time.<\/p>\n

Walking and working out are doing great things for both my physique and my psyche. I bumped my repetitions on free weights from 30 to 40 to 50 reps. I’m headed for 60 reps in December. I lost six actual pounds of weight, but, more importantly, I dropped an inch at the waist and at my belly. The accretion of new muscle mass will burn away fat at a steady pace, so I feel like I’m getting where I want to go.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the guitar is sounding fine to me. Music of any kind is a kinesthetic art: You need to know what to do, as a matter of praxis and theory, but your muscles need to know it, too. To play the guitar, you have to have a perfect muscle memory of dozens of common hand shapes, and you have to be able to hit those shapes perfectly, with a lot of torque, precisely on time. It ain’t easy, which is why it’s so easy to make painful noises on the guitar.<\/p>\n

But playing the electric guitar is its own reward. An acoustic guitar has its own sound and it’s own style of playing. But the essential component, when you’re playing an electric guitar, is not the guitar but the amplifier. I can pull a lot of sound out of a solid-body electric without plugging it in. But Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s my November: Not bad, and the guitar is sounding pretty decent by now. I’m more action than traction selling real estate, but that’s been the story of my life for the past five years. Here’s the secret decoder ring, what all those sloppy symbols mean: S – Write software or work on web-based 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_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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13452,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13452\/the-hunt-for-gregs-october-what-i-found-by-quarrying-my-goals\/","url_meta":{"origin":13757,"position":0},"title":"The Hunt for Greg’s October: What I found by quarrying my goals.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"To be honest, I would like to hear from other folks on what they're doing about their goals. 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