{"id":2005,"date":"2007-10-05T00:45:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T07:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2007-10-05T01:26:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T08:26:29","slug":"the-common-denominator-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2005\/the-common-denominator-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Common Denominator of Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I received two emails from Dean Selvey<\/a>. One of them was a forward of an email<\/a> from one of my least favorite people, Mike Ferry. Clicking on the link for the free audio allows you hear a 15 minute commercial for the Action Workshop. I can’t say it isn’t well done. I can say that most everything Mike Ferry ever does is to get people there so they can sell them coaching.<\/p>\n

\"key_success\"Do you need a coach? Does coaching “work”? I believe that coaching does work but not for the reasons most real estate “coaches” usually think it does. I don’t have a coach. The closest I ever had to a coach was Paul Pastore<\/a> or Dean Selvey when I was on my way up. Dean sometimes says I am his coach. I don’t believe any coaching organization can really claim “better coaching results” than any other coaching organization. Individual coaches often get better results than other coaches but I really doubt that there is any one organization composed of only good ones – those with a really high “care factor”. But why does it work at all?<\/p>\n

It couldn’t possibly be the stupid “someone to be accountable to” reason that most coaches seem to think is so damned important. If having someone to be accountable to was the correct reason coaching “works” then how do so many people without a coach become successful? And If I am Dean’s coach then how is it he is so incredibly successful (he is the # 1 Re\/Max agent in the world) talking to me for about an hour a month. And in that hour we may chat about what is new with me, cars I might want to buy, how things are going, etc. Do I give him vital data (usually an organizational concept I learned from Hubbard) that he can use? Yes, but our lunches are hardly “class is in session now”. Over the years (Dean and I have been having lunch once a month for 19 years) he has helped me about as much as I have helped him. What is it Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I received two emails from Dean Selvey. One of them was a forward of an email from one of my least favorite people, Mike Ferry. Clicking on the link for the free audio allows you hear a 15 minute commercial for the Action Workshop. I can’t say it isn’t well done. 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