CHAOS VS UNCERTAINTY...
I heard you and I appreciate you more than you know.
“Verdi you ok?”
“What happened to the Musings, I miss ‘em?”
“Dude, where the f*** are my Musings?”
And it went on. Yes, I am still here. I’ve been in a funk the last couple of months as there have been goals that I was going for the first half of this year haven’t come to fruition and I had to do some insight and reflection.
As you know I have never been a ‘numbers’ guy. If I was a numbers guy, then I would be looking at the success of my partners this year and doing backflips, they are all having record years. But, to me, it has never been about the numbers, it is about the process.
My partners and the experiment in turning a Brokerage into a partnership model where the company takes care of X, while let the partner focusing on Y has worked better than I could have even imagined and for that reason the experiment the last 18 months has worked beautifully. The next step would be to scale this model and help more partners be successful in their endeavor into Entrepreneurship!
My funk, the reason that I’ve struggled to find a solution has been in the Media Services aspect of helping other businesses share their story. This has been much harder to crack than I anticipated and looking at the business model, it appears that I have been approaching it from the wrong angle. So, for that purpose, I am shelving the Media Services until I can figure out the correct model to help small businesses share their story and increase their brand awareness.
I’ve been silent because I haven’t had anything of value to say.
Frankly, for the last 2 months I have dreaded getting up each day. It was like I was back in the early days of being a professional where you’d dread getting up in the morning because you’d have to go sludge through another 8 hours of work that day. Then the next day, same thing hating to get out of bed to go to ‘WORK.’ These 6 months, for the first time in 15 years, everyday has seemed like ‘WORK’ and remember the quote that I’ve echoed often?
“If you enjoy what you do, then you will never work a day in your life.”
I haven’t enjoyed what I’ve been doing. So, for the last 3 weeks I’ve analyzed what I do that I enjoy and what I’ve been doing that has dragged me down.
I enjoy and what I’m good at is ‘RELATIONSHIPS’…
Relationships in real estate. Relationships with partners. Relationships through the Podcast. Relationships through ImpactClub®. And then communicating with the audience in these relationships and helping people grow and solve problems in the relationship. I really, really enjoy helping people solve problems.
I enjoy Chaos. I thrive in Chaos! The bigger the problem in real estate the better I am at getting an answer to that problem.
Ok team!
I’m back! I’m good! I missed you… Tomorrow I will finish this thought, but gotta run boyz to swim practice now!