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The Final Weeks Before Graduating, Long Beach

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Even if I didn’t go into coaching, the things it has brought to my life are so valuable.

Since I have done my main training in Denver, coaching has helped me gather many things I had learned in the past into a coherent system. And it pays. I noticed I was different with my friends. I handle my clients differently and it pays off.

You know many things, as a conscious human being. You understand many things on an intellectual level but it is what you translate into a workable you that really matters. The transition from knowledge to wisdom is crucial if you are to evolve at all. Anything else is like hording precious materials without using them, selling them or admiring them, it is worthless. When you finally learn to put together the many tidbits you have gathered throughout life, all those experiences that give you direct knowledge, the important step is to translate it into wisdom that works for you. My Coaching training has done just that.

You know people are different, yet you still get mad when people are different. You know people act in their best interest, yet you still get shocked when they do. You know all these things but it means really little if they are not incorporated into a working you. Coaching did just that for me. I look at my clients in real estate and understand where they are coming from. I ask them questions to clarify things I am not sure I understand. This way, things are simpler and they often answer their own questions. That’s coaching.

Case in point, this client is emotionally attached to this house but won’t buy it. He wants to lease option it but the seller is stubborn. My client thinks the other agent is not giving his proposal to the seller. I asked him why she wouldn’t? What would be the reason when buyers are scarce and you need to offer each and every proposals so that buyers get a good idea of what is out there? He answered his own question.

Coaching will let you do what you deeply desire and help you pave the way to your own success. That’s all.

Bernanke Talks, Investors Tremble! Long Beach

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So much emphasize and power has been put on the Feds and I fear much too much is building up this company to have far more reaching consequences then originally expected.

When the Chairman of the Federal reserve talks, investors tremble! Investors and psychologists scramble to pick his words and figure a most likely path of action. Those who wanted cut rates thought it would help the market, it obviously hasn’t since the Chairman said it’s slowing down. So why the rebate on one hand and the gloom prediction? Those who can read between the lines can draw their own conclusions.

Our fearless bloggers at Calculated Risk reports on Bernanke’s last talk. In a nutshell, things aren’t looking good folks. Really, could have fooled some of us :) Seriously now, how about specifics.

Remember a year ago when the Feds and most investors laughed at the real estate industry dragging the economy down, something we have been saying for a while: “… The U.S. economy not only faces the risk of a sharp slowdown from the housing market’s contraction but also of an inflationary surge from sharply higher crude-oil prices and the weaker dollar…” apparently Bernanke has come to the same conclusion now but a sharp slowdown? You mean even more than now? Yikes!

There was talk about a sluggish economy for the first half of 2008. Knowing how optimistic they usually are, add another quarter and we might be closer to reality. With slow growth comes inflation, though Bernanke used the word benign. I love it when they use words like that. Benign for whom? Please define that term in this context for me? Where Bernanke surprised me was that he did foresee inflation in the long run. There you go, he said it directly.

So what does this mean? It means leans times ahead. We all knew this. Now is the time to lift up our sleeves and start thinking right, slow down our orgy of consuming so much, so quickly. Let’s buy more fuel efficiency cars and the heck with those hybrids SUVs, give me cars, not trucks. Let’s keep the lights off when they’re not needed, use a bike to go to work once in a while, heck, how about a scooter. Little things like that can make a big change while our brains out there figure out how to get this economy in shape again.