Effectiveness. It’s a crucial skill in the ever changing landscape of our industry and the increased time and energy required to succeed as an originator.
Continue readingYou only get one chance
Once chance. That’s all you get when it comes to making first impressions with your potential borrowers, outside professionals and others. Having spent numerous years in the field sitting at hundreds of kitchen tables as an originator and financial professional here are a few things I’ve learned or failed at in the past.
Continue readingShifting Your Mental Gears
We can find ourselves stuck in a gear mentally. It could be fear, doubt, unbelief, negativity or anger. So just how can we shift gears mentally to stop feeling bad? Here are a few things I’ve learned in recent years…
Continue readingComplacency: The Art of Self-Sabotage
Like a fog rolling in silently complacency can quietly invade our life. Before we know it we can find ourselves hindred by a false sense of contentment and satisfaction.
Continue readingHyper-Focus: Why It Works
The ability to focus intensely for short periods of time is key to maximizing your productivity and efficiency. Here are just a few take aways from hyper-focus which is often negatively associated with…
Continue readingGet Inspired
Inspiration. It’s the fuel we need to drive through life’s windy, up and down path
Continue readingAre You a Success?
It’s not uncommon for each of us to feel like a failure from time to time. Even more so when we are faced with professional challenges outside our control we can easily begin to misjudge ourselves feeling worn down.
Continue readingImpressing Those that Matter Most
Acquiring new reverse mortgage prospects is more difficult today than ever before therefore we should stop to evaluate our customer service. Stop for just a moment and consider how closing one more loan per month would change your business and income. Interested?
Continue readingThe Likability Factor
Have you ever stopped to observe popular people and just how they interact with others? While the adage holds true that you can’t please everyone all the time we can improve our ability to make ourselves likable by prospects, colleagues and outside professionals. Here are just a few things to consider this Friday that you can begin working on next week.
Continue readingDigital Edge
Most of us are aware that a growing number of seniors and retirees are online. From social media, web browsing and email our target market is online more today then ever before. The question is how do we leverage such a medium to keep our prospective borrowers engaged?
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