New Regulations for Tax Preparers
Tax season is here, and even if your records are impeccable, changes to tax law regarding who prepares your taxes could impact your future income tax filings. As a result of new regulations, filing taxes with your usual preparer could place you in a precarious situation with the IRS. After December 31, 2015 important new […]
Read MoreBeat Procrastination
What, primarily, causes procrastination? Productivity requires goals, which require thoughts. We think, we determine the goal, and then – don’t act. Why do we not act? Our emotions get in the way. Fact: Because of the way our brains are structured, emotions always win over thoughts. We know what we have to do, we just […]
Read MoreWorking from Home
One of many great advantages in real estate assistance is the opportunity it affords to work from home. Many real estate assistants enjoy the independence and autonomy of the virtual work environment. More and more employers recognize its advantages to themselves and their employees in increased productivity and decreased expense, and a successful transition is […]
Read MoreRealizing Your True Passion
It’s interesting to meet people who seem to really love their careers, since we would all like to spend our working time at what we enjoy doing. However, most all of us have to making a living. Is there any way to reconcile the two? Is it really possible to realize what your true interests […]
Read MorePractical “Math” for Procrastinators
As I was trying to decide what to write about, I came across a new (to me) website called 43 Folders and found an “equation” that the creator of 43 Folders uses that’s just brilliant! Here’s the equation – (10+2)*5 And here’s how it breaks down: There! You’ve breezed through an hour’s worth of work! […]
Read MoreGoal: Lifetime of Weekends
Work every day, live for the weekend. That’s a goal, one most of us usually meet. You did it day by day, hour by hour, meeting a lot of small goals along the way. You made a map of what had to be done to get there. Suppose you made a map like that for […]
Read MoreTake the High Road
You’re a seriously committed business professional, and you invest much of yourself in your business, as all successful people must. You work hard for your clients and strive to develop a good working relationship with them. Consequently, when you abruptly lose a client, it hurts; the more work you have invested in that client the […]
Read MoreMake it Your Business – Identify Your Passion
People who become successful in business do so by marketing a creation inspired by their passion. Most of the rest of us are employed to assist them. Where does their creativity come from? We usually think, “Wow, they were really sharp to find that niche, wonder how they did it?” The truth is, they didn’t […]
Read MoreDevelop Your Exit Strategy
The start-up of a business is often all-consuming for a period of time – the owner of a new business is focusing on name and brand recognition and building a client base. Day-to-day demands leave very little time or energy for anything else. And that is what is required initially. However, it is risky to […]
Read MoreListing Coordination – Get It Out There
Marketing technology can be your best friend or your worst enemy these days. People are pretty savvy when it comes to the internet. In order to compete, technology had better be your best friend. Not much is more embarrassing than having clients ahead of you in the marketing game. They have entrusted you to have […]
Read MoreSelf Confidence
Let’s face it, life requires a lot from us. Most of what we do daily, we have to do. Some of it is self-reinforcing; that is, we know we do it well, or at least well enough to get by. It is easy to get caught up in the idea that we don’t have much […]
Read MoreTransaction Coordination – Close the Deal
Like every real estate agent, you work hard at listing properties and connecting qualified buyers to sellers. In addition to all of your efforts as a professional real estate agent in listing, marketing and negotiating a successful sale, the one most important element of a transaction is bringing it to a close. That portion of […]
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