Reflections on Labor Day

Reflection on Labor Day
The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated in 1882 in New York City. The official holiday was the results of President Grover Cleveland's need to be reelected. Cleveland sent 12,000 U. S. Troops and U. S. Marshals to shut down the Pullman Strike in Illinois, which he declared a Federal Crime. Six days after the strike was broken both houses of Congress passed the bill to make this a National Holiday.
Let us take a look at the Holiday people gave their lives for. It has been reduced to celebrating the end of Summer, the beginning of the NFL and college football season and let us not forget all those pairs of white pumps retired for the Fall and Winter.
THE HONEST TRUTH is while it appears that things have changed they really are the same. Will you please take our government? I have a saying "I can put a curly tail on a horse but it does not make it a pig". Only in Hollywood on film or the stages of New York City does that happen. Sitting in the dark we can escape from our dull everyday existence. We get lost and imagine a utopian life style. Like the one George Pullman created for his workers in Pullman Illinois. He built a town. He hired workers. He built homes. He owned the bank. He owned the general store. I guess you say could say he owned the people that lived, worshiped and raised families. I wonder if he actually owned the church that delivered THE WORD and whose word was it?
What questions should we ask to interrogate reality on this Labor Day. Most people get into the Real Estate game looking for the perfect utopian life style. Work a few hours a day, drive a nice car and spend hours at happy hours networking with fellow business associates. We ask for and expect to get everything for nothing. We expect our brokers to hand us business. We will get that perfect phone call for a million dollar sale after only two days in the business. Oh and do not forget, wipe my bottom if I soil myself when something goes wrong.
It is probably a good thing that we do not live or work in a utopian culture when it comes to owning a Real Estate Business. You cannot. Just like we are expecting the government to come and bail us out of the mess we are in now. However, there are no shortcuts when it comes to hard work. Are you ready, willing and able to suit up and show up for the game? I will assert some people put more energy into getting ready for the super bowl party that they do for their career.
What are the basic tools you can use to jump start your career?
Have the mindset that this is a real business with real hours and responsibilities.
Show up daily ready to lead generate.
Reach out a touch at least 5-10 people, a day, that what to buy or sell Real Estate .
Have meaningful conversations and always question reality.
Have clear goal.
Know your scripts.

Know your neighborhoods.

Be coachable to being accountable.

Take time to stop and reflect on your labors from this moment forward. How do you want to shift your thinking? Who do you want to be when your season has ended. Will you leave a legacy of a life lived well.

Thank you for letting me be of service.

Always yours

Joseph
The Real Estate Coach