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8.27.2012 Monday News you can USE (use these articles to contact DB)

Success isn't outscoring someone, it's the peace of mind that comes from self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best. Success is a journey, not a destination--half the fun is getting there.                     -GITA BELLIN, A Sharing of Completion and Celebration

Some good numbers and interesting viewpoints- VIDEO - let it load:  Foreclosures are Awesome

Home depot believes we’ve recovered. Home Building Up

How bad do you want it? Great Motivational Speech (thanks Eric Thomas)

Will Short Sales wipe-out price gains? Is NOW is the time to sell for best price?

Working with FSBO's - Homesellers using a realtor TWICE as likely to sell!

Affordable places to live!  If you're in one of them - then tell your buyers!

Canadian Home Prices - stable!!!

Your Peace of Mind, having Fun along the way Coaches!
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Falling into the trap of overthinking?

From Gretchen Rubin's blog today (the Happiness Project):  I was looking up something in Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book, The How of Happiness, and I came across an interesting passage. (I’d marked it, so clearly I’d read it before, but I didn’t remember it well.)

Many of us believe that when we feel down, we should try to focus inwardly and evaluate our feelings and our situation in order to attain self-insight and find solutions that might ultimately resolve our problems and relieve unhappiness. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, I, and others have compiled a great deal of evidence challenging this assumption. Numerous studies over the past two decades have shown that to the contrary, overthinking ushers in a host of adverse consequences: It sustains or worsens sadness, fosters negatively biased thinking, impairs a person’s ability to solve problems, saps motivation, and interferes with concentration and initiative. Moreover, although people have a strong sense that they are gaining insight into themselves and their problems during their ruminations, this is rarely the case. What they do gain is a distorted, pessimistic perspective on their lives.

One of the tensions within happiness — at least for me — is the tension between constructive attempts at greater self-knowledge and pointless rumination. Once I started paying more attention to my habits of thinking, I began to do a better job of refraining from overthinking. When I find myself thinking in circles, I find an area of refuge, say, or I re-read one of my favorite works of children’s literature — my favorite emotional comfort food. Or, if it’s nightime, I go to bed early. Things really do look better after a good night’s sleep, and often something that had me agitated the night before seems much less worrisome the next morning.

Wisdome of Flannery O'Connor... from 1962

From Gretchen today:  “If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you’ll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.”

–Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being, letter to “A,” February 10, 1962

Here, O’Connor was specifically talking about the habit of writing; she wrote every morning for three hours, in the same place at the same time. How about you? Do you find accomplishing certain things to be easier if you regularly do them the same way? Or do you find routine stifling?

I love routine.

8.20.2012 Monday NEWS you can USE (are you using it?)

A Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi

Wondering how to use an iPad in your business?  Here are some ideas

Got Super Rich clients?  Check this out!

Got first time buyers? You might want to send this to them (easy ways to repair the home.) The video is harmless!

FSBO gets lots of attention but no sale! Read all about it... (and USE this to help others figure out why THEY aren't selling)

Downpayment hard to save for first time Canadian buyers!

From the coaches not afraid to work hard with you!

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8.13.2012 Monday News you can USE

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.
Sebastian Vettel (Formula One Race Car Driver Champion)

Fannie and Freddie won't forgive Principal - if you have sellers waiting for this - let them know it may be unlikely.

Got any buyers? Low interest rates and costs to buy are lower too! Great one to send to buyers waiting...

Hard to argue against buying a house now as an investment!

House Flipping - Reality TV is the best bet?

Help your past clients (a good reason to CALL THEM TODAY) - ask them if they should refinance!

Canadian Market at a tipping point?

From The Coaches who don't just say "you're great";  we teach you to believe in yourself!
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