This short post is really just to tell everyone I am alive and well. I am right now down on the Little Wanganui River catching Whitebait and relaxing. No phone, no email, no people – (hardly). It’s a time to reflect upon life as its been and have a bit of a laugh with the family. Sorry to those of you who have emailed me. I will respond next week when down in Christchurch. While down there I am going to be helping my friend Brendan Burns to get into parliament at the forthcoming elections in November.
Anyway The point of this post is more a symbolic message that I was thinking about when catching these whitebait that are trying so dam hard to get to the top of the river to spawn. If you look at the whitebait they are moving in shoals. You might see 3 or 4 shoals of them at any given time but they are all trying to get to the same place. They are all trying to get to the top of the river. I also looked out and thought look at all the hurdles or traps that these whitebait have to get through before they even get a chance of making it up the river.
I then looked at my own life and thought I am not much different to these whitebait. If I look at my lifeline as the windy river up to the mountains in my case the mountains could mean retirement or heaven (which ever come first). But I look at how my life has gone so far and I think how the whitebait story goes. I have a goal, I have a drive to make me reach my goal, and oh the hurdles and traps on the way are just everywhere. People trying to bring me down, events trying to stop me in my tracks, people trying to scare me onto a different path of life. It’s all there.
But I thought about the whitebait story a little further and into the field of Real Estate. Now everyone in the Real Estate industry has a common goal – whether to sell the house or buy the house you have that common goal. Real Estate agents no matter what the company what to make the sale – so there is a common goal. Just as the whitebait all Real Estate agents are striving for that goal, think of the agent as an individual whitebait. Now when you think about the shoal – that is the company that agent works under. And as I said above you can see numerous amounts of these shoals/companies moving up the river/goals at the same time. All companies do have the same goal. Some of them get trapped some of them go on to make it. Leadership and direction is important at a company level – not an individual level.
Along the way everyone in the sales process – the agent and the client will come accorss hurdles to get through. Some of them big some of them may just be a rapid. And some of them will catch you out and put a stop to the deal. But just as the whitebait they keep trying and keep coming. So if you do get stuck on a hurdle that throws you off don’t be too hard on yourself. The whitebait doesn’t. It just keeps going. It has a clear goal and it wants to make it. If we all had the determination of the whitebait we would all be very successful and happy in life.
I think that if you look at this whitebait story the main lesson I learnt it’s not just about you it’s about your team. No matter how strong you are and good you are if your team or company get caught you’re going to be caught with them. Translating this to Real Estate it is important to work with someone in a good team or company. A strong team or company will get you as a seller or buyer easily through the hurdles of the selling process and have a successful outcome.
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hey deon, yes did miss ya and loved your post – cheers
Hi Deon, much as we all believe our lives are better off with electronic gadgetry isn’t it fantastic to spend time away from it all and have a quiet catch up with family. They are after all what matters the most.
thats so true, family and friends and my life come first. if i didn’t have all those in order there is no way on earth i would be able to properly help other people. \