{"id":13866,"date":"2010-12-30T14:06:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13866"},"modified":"2010-12-30T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T21:06:52","slug":"is-this-the-year-you-grow-a-pair-and-finally-walk-your-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13866\/is-this-the-year-you-grow-a-pair-and-finally-walk-your-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Is THIS The Year You Grow A Pair And Finally Walk Your Talk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If that title harshed your mellow in any way, you’re the target audience. Does it sound unfair? Make you feel like you’re being picked on? Poor baby.<\/em> Compared to much of what’s published on these pages, I’m a relative Mr. Rogers. But the dark cloud messin’ up the mostly silver lining that was my 2010, was the talk\/walk ratio with which I constantly was forced to deal. Isn’t shame possible any longer? Does nobody know how to blush? Has there been some sorta immunity from embarrassment pill on which I missed out? <\/p>\n

I speak from painful experience.<\/strong> Many of the early years in the business my talk\/walk ratio was maybe 8:2 or so. Talkin’ big time while walkin’ in clown shoes is something with which I’m no stranger. I know, cuz I’ve watched me do it. <\/p>\n

Hey! I has an idear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do most of your talkin’ to yourself. Do most of your walkin’ makin’ things happen — quietly. Most of my mentors were lifetime members of Brutal Mentors \u042f Us<\/em>. There were countless times I was ‘gang mentored’ in the truest modern sense of the phrase. They weren’t interested in why things couldn’t or didn’t get done. If you can’t walk your talk, maybe Von’s is hiring they’d say. Actually, they said a lotta stuff a whole lot different than that, but those gems won’t be repeated here. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Ever get tired of hearing your own empty words?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We all have more or less talent than the next agent. Same with experience and knowledge. Experience doesn’t happen a day at a time. It happens a transaction at a time. Every time you sit down and prospect. Each time you follow up. Every belly-to-belly with a potential client. Etc., etc. Knowledge increases cuz we seek it out, not cuz it gives a damn about us. <\/p>\n

Whether or not you have more or less talent than the guy a desk over is literally not worth talkin’ about. Who’s working harder? Who’s learnin’ how to work smarter? Who’s grindin’ it out day after day after day? If the title pissed you off, you haven’t done that yet Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If that title harshed your mellow in any way, you’re the target audience. Does it sound unfair? Make you feel like you’re being picked on? Poor baby. Compared to much of what’s published on these pages, I’m a relative Mr. Rogers. 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