Coaching Businesses and Life, a view from Long Beach

Taking Environmental Action

A new group called 350 has launched a campaign to make today, the 24th of October this year.

The idea is to raise awareness, a much needed thing to happen worldwide and something coaching works with very closely.  What the 350 group looks for are for individuals to take action in their communities and call, write, etc. on world leaders to sign a climate agreement.

To find out what is happening worldwide, click here to go to their site.  Already New Zealand has gathered an impressive following.

Robert Weil Associates, One Year After

It's hard to imagine I was once working in real estate.  The thought alone is alien to who I am.  Having experienced this industry as I have, the thought of having worked in it seems odd.  But it dawned on me as to why.

The famed, Long Beach Robert Weil Associates team was unlike anything real estate has seen.  It was a team of people who weren't greedy, eager to close a sale and especially, did what they did because they loved it, not because they had to.  That is so crucial to being successful in anything you do.  Loving what you.  Hence the importance of having a good coach to get you there as quickly, and effortlessly as possible.

We met last night, the whole team a year after the door were closed on this institution in Long Beach.  Admired by many, often copied but never replicated.  That is because the team made the office, not the other way around.  The Christmas party was great.  It was fantastic seeing everyone again.  Yes, everyone showed up.  How many offices can say this?  And let alone, how many in the real estate industry can say they met a year later after closing the doors to their offices?

I feel sorry for those brokers who are fighting an upstream battle.  There isn't much you can do to create the perfect team, only the atmosphere.  Robert Weil Associates would only attract the best.  The rest would come in and left early.  They just wouldn't fit.

With the latest news of prices in southern California plummeting last month, I was shocked to read the latest "offering" of houses for sale on the local free paper.  It was as if many sellers still don't get it.  Loans are hard to find and homes are still priced high.  As long as that happens, nothing can move as fast as it should.  Lucky are the ones who pull the trigger on the dead beast.  At least, they don't make it drag.  Lucky are those who can hold on.  It will go up again one day, in many years.

It Takes A Healthy Attitude

It really takes a healthy attitude to read the news and not shake youe head in disbelief.

So now, people like us who resisted the call of cheap money and buy homes without owning anything have to bail out those who didn't.  Strange, I never thought this was our way of life.

And now there is talk of our fearless leaders will have to probably bail out Detroit after years of not keeping up with the market, getting people to believe they needed bloated SUVs and spending billions on Capitol Hill with special interest groups, or lobbies.  My, this is not the system I grew up with.

It takes a healthy attitude to know we will pay for those who were unconscious and those who made a bundle.  Oh and yes, coaching really helps!