With a New Attitude!!!

By Charles McMillan, GRI,CIPS,TRC 1

Where do you want to be in 2014?

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Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University 2014 Economic Outlook 4

REALTOR®.com

Upcoming Trends: What Consumers are looking For and Engaged In 5

National Association of REALTORS® Marketing and Technology Strategies for 2014 6

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ATTITUDE

Do you have an attitude of… …’Teflon ’like resistance to criticism?

…committed service to others?

…the ancient gatekeepers?

Do you have a ‘Teflon ’like resistance to criticism?

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A Teflon™ like resistance to criticism requires two dominant character traits

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1)Uncanny knack to put aside, even forget, past setbacks, hurts, failures 2) Have strong internal fortifications 14

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It is inevitable!

You will WIN if you don’t surrender to it!

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“Our greatest weakness is in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas Edison

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“I have not failed! I have just found ten thousand ways that won’t work” Thomas

Edison

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“ If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, the shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how…and I mean to keep doing so until the end.” 22

“If the end brings me out alright, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything.

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference” 23

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, … 25

“ … but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” 26

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A Short Story

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A Mother’s Advice

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“ No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

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Will you have the attitude of service to others?

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What? True success is about service too?!

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“First Among Equals” 36

 Committed  Respectful  Encouraging  Reassuring  PLEASANT

Service is the rent that we pay for our room here on earth.”

Muhammad Ali

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“Who do you suggest I serve?”

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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stephenson

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“ I am just a tiny pencil in the hands of an Almighty God sending love letters to the world.”

Mother Teresa

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Feeling and heeding the obligation to guide those whose care and interests have been entrusted to us, understanding that their well being rests upon our fidelity and wise choices

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trying to find our own way; seeking and searching for just such answers and clues as may faintly be detected to keep us from peril.

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Do you have the attitude of the Gatekeepers of the Ancient City?

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Fiercely guard the source of their inner harmony A person’s general perception of others provide insight into their own character You must be the change you wish to see in the world 59

“Champions do not become champions when they win the event; but in the hours, weeks, months, and years they spend preparing for it.

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“The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.”

T. Alan Armstrong

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If you have an attitude of… …’Teflon ’resistance to criticism; …committed, unwavering service to others; …the caution of the ancient gatekeepers,

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THANK YOU

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