{"id":7116,"date":"2009-02-24T19:50:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T02:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2009-02-24T19:50:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T02:50:37","slug":"quietly-going-about-our-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7116\/quietly-going-about-our-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Quietly going about our business"},"content":{"rendered":"

We go about our business, most of us, very quietly, with an attempt at dignity. One foot in front of the other, moving forward, striving, reaching, yearning to be the best we can be. We want to provide for our families, do right and do well for our clients. We want to put our heads down on our pillows at night, satisfied with the day’s work, and wake up the following morning excited to do it all again.<\/p>\n

We don’t, most of us, want to be rock stars in the blogiverse. We want, most of us, to be appreciated for what we can offer, allowed to give freely without grief, and left to go quietly about our business.<\/p>\n

I don’t agree with everything written on real estate blogs, and I don’t much like some of it, but the people who read these national blogs, the people I meet at Unchained<\/a>, and the real estate professionals who email me to share their own triumphs- these people are inspiring. They are just like me, quietly going about our business, picking up information like sponges, moving forward, learning, striving, laughing, loving- just people, just real estate agents (without big hair).<\/p>\n

I’m disturbed by the idea of a NAR Social Media Director, when I think about it. But the thing is, I don’t think about it. I don’t care. I don’t wish the new SMD any ill will, I don’t wish them anything at all because it really doesn’t matter to me. By the way, I’m going to call this position The SMeD, just because it makes me giggle.<\/p>\n

So The SMeD will have a job to do, but none of it matters to me because I have my job to do, and as Greg points out<\/a>, “All we<\/em> have to do is keep doing what we\u2019ve been doing \u2014 and keep getting better<\/em> at it \u2014 and the Boojum under the bed will be gone forever.”<\/p>\n

I’ve always believed this, and it’s always proved true. Anything that we have given power to, in our own minds, can easily be dethroned, defrocked, destroyed, by doing exactly what we do so Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We go about our business, most of us, very quietly, with an attempt at dignity. One foot in front of the other, moving forward, striving, reaching, yearning to be the best we can be. We want to provide for our families, do right and do well for our clients. 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