Before you jet off to Miami Beach in a few weeks for the 16th annual NRMLA convention Nov 10-12, 2014 (or drive to the venue, if you happen to live in the area), it’s wise to prepare.
Continue readingThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective Reverse Mortgage Professionals
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 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 readingA Year for Change (Part 2): Growing In Gratitude
What if gratitude became the focus of your life for a year? This world-bridging wisdom can serve as both template and platform from which to approach your HECM service — and your life.
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 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 readingProblems as Opportunities
Henry Ford said “Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” In other words we can expend more energy talking, complaining and getting worked up about the problem than solving it.
Continue readingThe Tyranny of the Urgent
[vimeo id=”86578072″ width=”625″ height=”352″]
It’s Not a Question of Time but Priorities
You have your day planned: Meetings, phone calls, emails, client appointments…then it hits us. Something urgent requires our immediate attention or does it? The phrase “Tyranny of the Urgent” was coined in 1967 by Charles E. Hummel in his short publication. Hummel opens with the question “Have you ever wished for a thirty-hour day?” Perhaps those of us , or should I say most of us would answer yes! But even if possible would a longer day really solve our problem? Most likely not. The issue is so not one of time but priorities. That is where we choose to invest our time. Such a dilemma leads to stress, self doubt and possibly health problems. Why were we never taught this in school? Hummel was inspired by the words of a cotton mill manager who said…
