{"id":9781,"date":"2011-08-21T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9781"},"modified":"2011-08-21T09:52:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T16:52:27","slug":"splendorquest-my-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9781\/splendorquest-my-world\/","title":{"rendered":"SplendorQuest: <\/em>My<\/U><\/em> world…"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This is me in February of 2004. It’s fun for me to read now, because we were selling a lot then, and — like a lot of folks — the next year, 2005, was my best year so far. I’m not selling success as a matter of dollars and cents. That matters to me, but not as much as Splendor does, not as much as integrity and follow-through and a comprehensive commitment not just to the good but to getting better<\/u> — all the time. I have an essay aborning in me about everything I have learned about sales in the last ten years, but even that’s not as much as I want to do — as much as I want to have done.<\/u> I want better money, yes, for us and for everyone who listens to us. And I want for Realtors to be better. I want for us to have an earned and deserved reputation as honest brokers who put our clients’ interest first. But before all that, I want for people to do<\/u> better, to be<\/u> better, to experience life more as a rapturous treasure and less as an unwanted burden. I want for the world to be better, remarkably better in every conceivable way.<\/p>\n

This essay is me, the real deal, entirely unedited. I know I’m not alone in being like this, but no one dares to talk this way. We are children of Abel in every way that matters<\/a>, and we are too much ashamed of being alive to celebrate the simple fact of our vitality. And yet this is the change that matters. To be free of other people means to be free of them in the silence and solitude of your own mind. If they can’t get at you there, then chains and walls are nothing but expressions of their inevitable failure. But if you forebear to be who you really are at the command of some internal editor, you are imprisoned everywhere — even when you are completely alone.<\/p>\n

If you want to buy or sell some real estate in Metro Phoenix, I’m your guy. Read more<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This is me in February of 2004. It’s fun for me to read now, because we were selling a lot then, and — like a lot of folks — the next year, 2005, was my best year so far. I’m not selling success as a matter of dollars and cents. That matters to me, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[24,212,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2881,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2881\/blogging-other-realtors-listings-selling-houses-by-selling-history-details-ideas-lifestyle-selling-the-story-of-the-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":9781,"position":0},"title":"Blogging other Realtor’s listings: Selling houses by selling history, details, ideas, lifestyle — selling the story of the home","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I was in an historic home on Monday that made me think it had been built by an important home-builder in the very early days of the suburbanization of Phoenix. With the permission of the lister, I went back yesterday and took dozens of photos of the property. I built\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10151,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10151\/selling-is-fun-and-fundamental-too\/","url_meta":{"origin":9781,"position":1},"title":"Selling is fun! And fundamental too!","author":"Damon Chetson","date":"October 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"For the real estate agents among us, well you guys are used to selling things. I think the act of selling is undervalued in our culture.\u00a0 When you sell something, you are convincing another person that, whether it's your service or a house, that you have something of value, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11192,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11192\/i-cant-for-the-life-of-me-figure-out-why-our-house-isnt-selling-maybe-we-need-more-orange\/","url_meta":{"origin":9781,"position":2},"title":"“I can’t for the life of me figure out why our house isn’t selling. Maybe we need more orange…”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Group Therapy"","block_context":{"text":"Group Therapy","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/group-therapy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":110,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/110\/when-is-the-best-time-to-buy-when-everyone-else-is-selling\/","url_meta":{"origin":9781,"position":3},"title":"When is the best time to buy? When everyone else is selling…","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I think this is exceptionally good advice from Craig King at RealBlogging.com:No matter what you're selling, conventional wisdom is that the FUD Factor (fear, uncertainty and doubt) tends to freeze buyers in their tracks. Purchases get delayed. Decisions take longer. Buyers follow the maxim, \"When in doubt, don't.\" At the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":948,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/948\/recent-refinancing-can-make-selling-a-house-costly\/","url_meta":{"origin":9781,"position":4},"title":"Recent refinancing can make selling a house costly","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in this morning's Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0Recent refinancing can make selling a house costly A buyer e-mailed me a question about a house she might be interested in. At first glance, it looked promising: A newer west-side home in good condition. The price wasn't awful, maybe\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1872,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1872\/what-can-sellers-do-differently-to-get-their-houses-sold\/","url_meta":{"origin":9781,"position":5},"title":"What can sellers do differently to get their houses sold?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 31, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in the Arizona Republic (permanent link): \u00a0What can sellers do differently to get their houses sold? There are three houses for sale on my street. All three are comps to each other -- around 2,000 square feet, three bedrooms, two baths. They're priced within a thousand dollars\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14974,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions\/14974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}