Adjust the frame in your mind, and your life looks different.
The way you look at things makes a big difference in how your life looks.
When one of my daughters was little, there were nights after a long day where it was my turn to feed her and I really didn’t want to do it. I wasn’t angry. I was just tired and being pulled away from something I wanted to keep doing.
One night it hit me that this wasn’t going to last very long. There would come a time when she wouldn’t need me to feed her at all. And more than that, I’d probably wish I could.
And that’s exactly what happened.
But before it happened, once I had that thought my attitude towards the whole thing changed.
Afterwards I never got irritated about stopping what I was doing to feed the baby.
If anything, I went too far the other direction. I didn’t want anyone else to do it because I didn’t want to miss one. That caused its own problems.
Turns out other people like feeding babies too.
Nothing about the situation changed. The only thing that changed was how I framed it.
That happens all the time in life. The way you think about something can completely change your attitude toward it, even when the facts stay the same.
It happens in real estate constantly.
A deal falls apart. A buyer changes their mind. Someone won’t agree to terms you need them to agree to. It doesn’t work. That can be frustrating, especially when you’ve invested time and effort into it.
What I’ve found, though, is that when you stay on your principles, something better usually comes along fairly quickly. The same thing happens with clients.
When the bad ones move on, good ones tend to replace them.
It’s not magic. It’s not a guarantee. Sometimes things just are what they are.
But you still get a choice. You can get upset and stew over it, or you can choose to look at it as something that’s likely working out for the best, even if you don’t see how yet.
That mindset alone improves your attitude and your demeanor, and that tends to improve everything else that follows.
PS- You’re probably not ready to buy or sell land today. You might even be thinking the plan is to never sell. But things change.
Would it be a bad idea to prepare for it like it’s something that could happen, even if it probably won’t?
Kind of like having a gun for self defense. Everyone plans and hopes to never use it for that. But it’s better to have it and not need it than vice versa.
I offer a free, no obligation analysis on any non-residential property. It includes actual comps (with real prices) near your tract, along with other things like planned development, utility info, market trends etc.
I also listen to people, and offer straight talk and integrity. And I’m the sort of guy who tries to look at things in a positive light.
Could it ever be a bad idea to just check it out?
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