{"id":8335,"date":"2009-05-10T00:16:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T07:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8335"},"modified":"2009-05-10T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T07:20:00","slug":"maybe-the-book-we-need-is-not-the-bloodhoundblog-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8335\/maybe-the-book-we-need-is-not-the-bloodhoundblog-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the book we need is not the BloodhoundBlog book…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…but the BattleBack book…<\/p>\n

I’m delighted by the discussions I incited today, both public and private. I can’t remember a time in my life when I’ve worked alongside so many people who inspire my undiluted admiration.<\/p>\n

(Someday I should write a post about admiration. I see it as being the most important mental state in the future production of human values.)<\/p>\n

But I didn’t intend to incite any conversations, and I internally debated turning off the comments in my foreclosure post. Certainly, I did not want to do anything to induce concern or pity or, god help me, charity. The first quarter paid for itself, and the second quarter is rockin’. I’m doing two and three appointments a day, plus lots of work in the office and on the phone. Refilling a pipeline takes time, and every transaction is a delicate dance right now. But lately I’ve been thinking about my first days in real estate, when I had my day divided in 90-minute segments to maximize my belly-to-belly time during the business day.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing: Despite the financial hole we’ve dug ourselves into, I’ve been feeling massively competent as a Realtor for the first time in my career. That might sound funny, since I’m such an arrogant prick all the time. But in our own battling back to a real estate market with a reliable supply of achievable transactions, I quietly feel myself the master — or the someday master — of all these tools I’ve been juggling these past few years.<\/p>\n

I make the analogy of learning to drive, or learning to drive stick-shift, but lately I feel myself in that state of splendor, that flow,<\/em> that I’ve always known in my work — for my whole life. I don’t mean that I felt less than adept before, because I’ve always been a very thoughtful Realtor — a Realtor very full of thought. But now it all seems kinesthetic, perfectly integrated into my bones.<\/em> Not doing<\/em> real estate. Being<\/em> real estate.<\/p>\n

It’s just there<\/em> for me now, and I’m free enough in my mind that I can watch myself work, live inside the process Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…but the BattleBack book… I’m delighted by the discussions I incited today, both public and private. I can’t remember a time in my life when I’ve worked alongside so many people who inspire my undiluted admiration. (Someday I should write a post about admiration. I see it as being the most important mental state in […]<\/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":[24,212,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15892,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15892\/from-man-alive-the-integrity-of-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":8335,"position":0},"title":"From Man Alive! – “The integrity of art.”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"From: Man Alive! 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