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How To Silence Your Biggest Critic: Susan Boyle

Posted by Shawna Ebersole | Categories: Especially For Realtors, Just For Fun

Apr

17th

This is an email I just received from a fellow Keller Williams agent, Michaelann Byerly in Tampa Bay, Florida and it was just too good not to pass it along. Thanks Michaelann…I really needed this today…

“Did you catch the frumpy 47-year old Susan Boyle on her audition for Britain’s version of American Idol?

If not, it may be the best seven minutes you’ll spend this year. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

She’s middle aged, triple-chinned, eyebrows that look like dead caterpillars, never been kissed by a man… everyone just knew this Gong-Show reject was going to bomb.

I had to give Simon Cowell credit, as he did his best to keep a straight face. When he asked about her goal, she said she wanted to sing like a star.

Simon rolled his eyes at this train wreck. Half the audience groaned. The other half just sighed, shaking their heads. Some outright sneered.

But when she started to sing…it was like Angels from heaven had came to earth.

She lit it up. And the crowd went wild!

If you were touched by her performance, you are not alone. It brings out and OVERCOMES something in you that you try to hide, yet it’s buried inside you somewhere.

Any time you’ve faced defeat…been laughed at and humiliated…had your spirit crushed…faced rejection…experienced shame…you strengthened this part of you that identified with her.

Yet this one person reached inside herself and overcame all that inner negativity in one fell swoop.

The face you don’t want anyone to see…the one you hide even from yourself…is the one that she wears every day. And she turned it into a thing of beauty.

This is about redemption, baby.

And it’s within your reach, too. If you lack confidence that you can’t work in this foreclosure market, that it’s too hard, or you’ll never make it, that’s the inner voice of failure talking.

But know that you can reach inside and bring out the best within you and emerge a success.

If Susan Boyle did it, you can too.

Some of the most unlikely people have attended our trainings and have come out on top. They might not have looked the part of a perfect Realtor, but with drive and determination, they’re making 2009 their best ever. They are determined. They are driven. And they are making it happen.

Some are making more money than they dared to dream possible. Dared to believe they were capable of. Dared to believe they were even worthy of.

Training has changed their life.

Take this step. Reach for the best within you and become the success that our other agents are now.

Yet they walked the path we showed them, and became new people. maybe it was in spite of their former lives.

Maybe it was because of their former lives.

Point is, they ARE special. And they were all along. They were just waiting for a way to prove it to the world.

Silence your biggest critic once and for all.

And I’ll see you at the top!

Chris McLaughlin

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Week In Review: Greenwood IN Real Estate Market

Posted by Shawna Ebersole | Categories: Market Reports

Apr

17th

Well, it’s been a while since we’ve brought you the most recent stats for our local real estate market but from now on, we intend to dedicate Fridays to be our “Week In Review” – where we will specifically take a closer look at our local Greenwood IN Real Estate market.

In this segment we will recap all of the New Listings that just came on the market within the last week; the homes that are Now Pending With Accepted Offers over the last week; homes that Officially Closed in the last week and last but not least, the “rejects”…the homes that were on the market, came to the end of their listing contract and Expired Without Selling. All of the data will run from Friday to Thursday. So this week’s data is from April 10 – 16, 2009.

We have broken the list prices into categories: $50k – $100k, $100k – $150k, etc. We have also separated the results by school system (Greenwood and Center Grove) since people always seem to be curious about the differences between the two.

We hope this will be helpful information for you. It will also be curious to see how the numbers change over the next few weeks as we get ready to enter the “busy season”.

Have any comments or would like to see some additional information we haven’t included? By all means, please let us know…Enjoy!