Tuesday Tactics produced by Oakley Signs & Graphics to help Real Estate Agents

Complaints always seem to surface, but more often than not there’s a silent majority of appreciation out there. Perhaps silence should be perceived as approval, but it’s seldom the case.

Intuition: You might swear by it, but it could be guiding you down the wrong path. One of the problems with your “gut reaction” is that you have a very hard time seeing your own bias.

Is it really true that nice guys finish last? I don’t think so, and there’s good reason to reconsider the “language of battle” when it comes to competing in real estate.

There’s great temptation to give up when you are afraid or the way seems virtually impossible. When I reflect on my successes and failures, the common element is whether or not I stuck it out past the point I thought there was no reason to carry on.

Some lessons learned from cycling in centuries over the years, including what it has to do with goal setting, enjoying the process, and being honest with ourselves.

The art of realistic optimism lies in maintaining faith in your ability to work through a problem.

Embrace a growth mindset: Instead of evaluating ourselves as being “good” or “bad” at something, we should track how we’re improving at a given skill.

A useful online tool to evaluate your emotional state.

Pursuing your curiosity is a magnificent way to foster learning and self-improvement. Enlightenment follows curiosity, assuming you are persistent in your exploration.

On one hand, the drive for perfection sounds like a noble pursuit, that we are engaged in the search for excellence at every turn. But it could be that our urge for perfection is actually a convenient self-sabotaging strategy.