Why You’re Bad at Solving Problems
I’m sure that if I asked you to make a list of all the problems you’re facing as a real estate assistant, you could list at least 10 and maybe even as many as 50. But, the problem isn’t the…
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On Clarity and Accountability in the Assistant Role
“Someone needs to take the trash out.” I made the mistake of making this statement quite a few times in my marriage. That is until one day my husband said, “If you want me to take the trash out, ask…
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Transform Your Career: Adopt the Habits of Successful Assistants
Over the years, I’ve read hundreds of books. There are just so many to read that I don’t make it a practice to reread very many books. Instead, I’ll be thinking about a topic and a book title will jump…
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Keep Your Agents with Four Simple Questions
If you’ve been paying attention to what going on around you in the real estate industry, many teams (regardless of size) are seeing a decrease in home sales from past months. Some teams are panicking and others just know that…
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From Ballet to Business: My Journey to Confidence
All throughout elementary school, junior high, and most of high school, I took ballet lessons. I performed in recitals and even joined a ballet company and performed ballets for elementary schools in the Kansas City area. What I loved about…
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The Ultimate Guide to Capturing and Organizing Your Notes
What’s your system for taking good notes? Most of us learned to take notes in school. My first experience with formal notetaking was in 7th grade history. The teacher wrote notes on the chalkboard for us to copy into a…
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Stop Drowning in Your Workload: Unlock the Time-Management Secret of Top Assistants
One thing you may struggle with as an assistant is how to manage your workload. All too often I hear tales of woe where an assistant already has a full day or week and then more work comes in which…
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Leading Up: How to Help Your Rainmaker Make Better Decisions
As a real estate assistant, your job is to support your rainmaker and their vision for the team. But what if I told you that you could do more than just support your rainmaker? What if you could lead them…
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What Are You Working On?
My nutritionist posts a video every weekday morning in Marco Polo and one particular morning she asked the question, “What are you working on?” Clearly this can be taken a bunch of different ways depending on the context. In the…
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On Being Perfectly Imperfect
Show me where it’s written in your job description that you are expected to be perfect in everything you do. “Perfect in every way” only applies to Mary Poppins. The rest of us just have to live with the fact…
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