{"id":786,"date":"2006-12-21T02:24:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T09:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=786"},"modified":"2007-01-24T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T21:15:59","slug":"inside-the-box-yes-no-and-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/786\/inside-the-box-yes-no-and-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Box – YES, NO and MAYBE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal<\/em>. – Henry Ford<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an email, Adam wrote:<\/p>\n

Russell-
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I never got a chance to thank you for the Star Wars “Duel in the Desert.” I attended the event and very much appreciated your insight and humor. I have been doing Real Estate for over 6 years in CA and AZ. Although I have made over 100k one year, I have struggled through many others. I found this interesting in the sense that you mentioned doing this through the first part of your career (the ups and downs). <\/em><\/p>\n

Somebody asked you a question and you mentioned to them about not being “all the way in the box.” You then mentioned something along the line of You finally getting this perspective yourself in your career and getting “all the way in the box.” <\/em><\/p>\n

I want to get all the way in. How is this change made? How do\/did you flip that switch? I’ve been waiting for years yet it hasn’t happened. <\/em> <\/p>\n

If this seems like a strange email, it’s because it is! I just valued your advice so much that you gave a couple of months back and thought you might be able to give me more insight.
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Thanks, <\/em><\/p>\n

Adam<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The question I was responding to was from a lady asking about sending out postcards but she didn’t want to mail “ordinary” postcards to a farm area or a personal mailing list. She wanted something really unique – something outside the box. As I hear this sort of thing all the time (and recognize it as a destructive idea) I told her that her problem was not that she wasn’t outside the box with her thinking and her postcard program but that she wasn’t IN the box yet. Few agents are suffering from not being “outside the box”. They think they are but their real problem is they haven’t gotten “inside the box” yet.<\/p>\n

There are certain fundamentals in any industry, profession or activity. There are correct ways of doing almost anything. The people at the top (of almost any activity) have Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford In an email, Adam wrote: Russell- I never got a chance to thank you for the Star Wars “Duel in the Desert.” I attended the event and very much appreciated your insight and humor. 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