It is past midnight, officially Christmas Eve. The gifts are bought and wrapped, the holiday food is purchased and ready for the traditional meals; ours include Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Years Day. The family is quietly excited, as excited as a family of 15, 18, and 20 year old kids
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12/23/2007
Just two days ago I spoke about my new beginning, and I meant it. I was going to give myself specific times to do things and stick to them. I was going to get my work done and have a normal life. DO NOT DISTURB! Well, the problem is that the rest of the world doesn't operate in the time frame
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12/21/2007
So you think you can multi-task? Think again. Today our office had a 3 hour training session on goal-setting for 2008. May seem a little late in 2007 to be doing this for those of you who completed this task in October, but better late than never. The program is quite simple assuming one know
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12/18/2007
Yes, we're usually late, fashionably late. Not so late that people wonder if we are coming or not, just late enough that they can get that last thing or two underway. I always appreciate when I get a spare five or ten minutes - I gift that to our friends as well. I HATE when people are five or
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12/16/2007
I blogged recently about our daughter Sara's financial problems regarding a study abroad program in France this spring, February to June. We cannot help her pay the additional $10,000 expense at this time; in fact, she is funding her entire school year at the University of Michigan with student
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12/15/2007
Today I received a bottom-lined contract on one of my listings, HURRAH!, and handed it over to my transaction coordinator. It had the essentials, sure, but there were so many errors, including my name, that I handed it over with the notation that it was a pretty sloppy effort. MY TC had to leav
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12/14/2007
I was looking at my stats a minute ago and realized the blog I wrote about finding innocent sellers at home in the Ann Arbor area, naked, was the one that overwhelmingly had the most number of comments. Let's see if "naked" works the same magic here.The topic is not about naked really, it is abo
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12/14/2007
One of the messages I have internalized through the extensive training in my Ann Arbor Keller Williams Realty office is the need to differentiate ME from every other agent out there. I need to have valid reasons for buyers and sellers to work with me, beyond charm and good looks. (The looks fad
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12/12/2007
I recently blogged about favorite Christmas videos and named one of my favorite Christmas songs as, "I'll Be Home For Christmas". I really don't know for sure, but I always believed it was about soldiers away from home during the holidays. It could apply to anyone yearning to be with someone th
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12/10/2007
Big deal, right? Yes, it is a big deal. This is a man raised in a family where the mother always made the meal, did all the housework but none of the yardwork or mechanical maintenance, and never learned to drive a car. In over 30 years of marriage, my meat-addicted husband has never really em
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12/10/2007