Just another Manic Monday: Friday’s Food for Thought

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Do you dread Mondays? If so here are a few tips to help break the cycle:

  • Friday review: Time block Monday, organize paperwork, schedule call backs, empty inbox and email
  • Get back to you…. Emails requiring a response received late Friday can be responded to with “ I will take a look at this… Monday”
  • Shift your calendar (Sunday as first day)
  • If you work from home start some Monday tasks Sunday (1 hour) and prep your plan (if you didn’t do it Friday)
  • Daily voicemail

 

5 Steps to Learn from Failure: Friday’s Food for Thought

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If you missed last week’s Food for Thought on a stress-free work life you can view it here.

Five Steps to Learn from Failure:

1.  What can I learn from this?

2.  What could I have done differently?

3.  Do I need to acquire or improve some skills?

4.  Who can I learn from?

5.  What will I do next?

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5 Steps to a Stress-Free Work Life: Friday’s Food for Thought

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Work got you stressed? Try these five steps.

Step 1 – What is taking up a lot of your focus and energy?
Write down a list of everything you are thinking about and stressing about.

Step 2 – What would be a successful outcome to this situation?
To each point on the list, visualize what a perfect solution would be and then write it down.

Step 3 – How important is it that this task is done?
By answering this question, you learn if this task is something you need and should do or if it really isn’t that important and can be eliminated.

Step 4 – What action could you take to move the project towards that goal?
Once you know that the idea is an important one, write down what the next action you can take to move the goal towards its perfect solution.

Step 5 – Decide when you are going to do the action
Write it down in your calendar.

Let Go and Relax

Do you feel how much more relaxed you are now that you don’t have to remember all your ideas? Now that you know that they will be done?

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Remembrance: What makes us strong. Friday’s Food for Thought

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During this week of remembrance here are some things to remember that have made the reverse mortgage industry stronger:

  • We’re not selling loans, but changing lives
  • Our industry has improved consumer education, product choices, and costs
  • 4 million plus Baby Boomers will reach retirement age each year
  • We are getting traction in the mainstream media
  • Investors and the secondary markets support our product
  • We will remain as a long-term solution for years to come.

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Worth fighting for: Friday’s Food for Thought

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We may feel we are on the ropes, but there are some things worth fighting for as reverse mortgage professionals.

Our rights as originators:

  • Fairness in regulation (NMLS renewal)
  • To be included in regulatory discussion
  • To be treated as a professional not a predator by lawmakers

Our responsibilities:

  • To be ethical in all we do
  • To continually improve our knowledge & skill set
  • Participate in industry support, discussions and trade groups
  • To preach the gospel of the reverse mortgage