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Life Changing Formula

Jim Slinkard — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:07:20 +0000

It seems that everywhere you turn these days, you hear people talking about the economy. What’s interesting is that some people are scared to death about it, while others couldn’t be happier. While I don’t claim to be an economist, I do know one important fact. The economy is the same for everyone, it’s how you respond to it that determines how you feel about it.

E + R = O
(Events + Responses = Outcome)

The basic idea is that every outcome you experience in life (whether it’s success or failure, wealth or poverty, wellness or illness, intimacy or estrangement, joy or frustration) is the result of how you have responded to an earlier event (or events) in your life.

If you don’t like the outcomes you are currently experiencing, there are two basic choices you can make:

1) You can blame the event (E) for your lack of results (O).

In other words, you can blame the economy, the weather, the lack of money, lack of education, racism, gender bias, the current administration in Washington, your wife or husband, your boss’s attitude, the lack of support, and so on.

If you’re a golfer, you’ve probably even blamed your clubs!

No doubt all these factors exist, but if they were the deciding factor, nobody would ever succeed. For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

It’s not the external conditions and circumstances that stop you — it’s you!

We think limiting thoughts and engage in self-defeating behaviors. We defend our self-destructive habits (such as drinking and smoking) with indefensible logic.

We ignore useful feedback, fail to continuously educate ourselves and learn new skills, waste time on the trivial aspects of our lives, engage in idle gossip, eat unhealthy food, fail to exercise, spend more than we make, fail to tell the truth, don’t ask for what we want, and then wonder why our lives aren’t working.

2) You can instead simply change your responses (R) to the events (E) until you get the outcomes (O) you want.

You can change your thinking, change your communication, change the pictures and you hold in your head (your images of the world) and you can change your behavior (the things you do.) That’s all you really have any control over anyway.

Unfortunately, most of us are so run by our habits that we never change our behavior. We get stick in out conditioned responses - to our spouses and children, to our colleagues at work, to our customers and our clients, to our students, and to the world at large.

You have to gain control of your thoughts, your images, your dreams and daydreams, and your behavior.

Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.

If you don’t like your outcomes, change your responses.

If we all experience the same EVENT, the OUTCOME you get will be totally dependent upon your RESPONSE to the situation.

If you want to take control of how you respond to life, you’ll start noticing that your outcomes will be more along the lines of what you have always hoped. Remember, you control your destiny so make it a fantastic one!

Please contact me for more information about careers in Denver real estate.

Metro Denver Colorado Home Prices Stable

Jim Slinkard — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:43:55 +0000

PMI Mortgage Insurance Company released its Summer 2008 Market Risk Index (SM), which ranks the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) according to the likelihood that home prices will be lower in two years. In general, risk continued to intensify in many of the MSAs where home price growth had significantly exceeded historical norms during the housing boom, but continued to decline in many other areas across the country.

The highest risk of future declines remains in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (95.5), followed by Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL (92.2) and West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, FL (91.9). The areas with the lowest risk of price declines are in Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX, Pittsburgh, PA and Denver-Aurora, CO, each at less than one percent chance.

The risk of lower prices in two years declined in 35 of the nation’s 50 largest MSAs, and among all 381 MSAs, 326 experienced a decline in risk. Among the top 50 MSAs, 16 ranked in the two highest risk categories, and among those, 15 were in California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona. Risk of lower prices in two years is greater than 50 percent in all of these MSAs.

A complete copy of the Summer 2008 PMI ERET report and an appendix that provides data for all 381 MSAs is available at: http://www.pmi-us.com/eret.

Jim Slinkard

Broker/Owner

Keller Williams Realty DTC

303-771-7500

THE DENVER COLORADO REAL ESTATE MARKET & TODAY’S PROSPEROUS REAL ESTATE AGENT

Jim Slinkard — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:35:42 +0000

The Denver real estate market of late has been difficult for most agents & their clients and for others it has been phenomenal. The reason is the market shifts gradually on a regular basis. Most agents don’t maintain high levels of ongoing training, education & coaching. For them, it’s business “as usual”, which doesn’t work in most markets. For the prosperous agent, change is welcome, because it brings opportunity to rise above the “victim” agents.

Case in point – our DTC office is the only single office of any of the top 12 in the Metro Denver seven county METROLIST area that has trended upward in closed unit sales the past 3+ years. The reason is that we have been able to serve today’s more sophisticated & knowledgeable homes buyers & seller with agents who are constantly trained, educated & coached at very high levels to provide the very best counseling, advice & service to their clients.

Five years ago we made a commitment to find an individual who would put together & deliver the most comprehensive & sophisticated training/education programs for our new, intermediate & advanced agents. His name is Mr. Larry Girard. Larry has over 20 years experience in real estate training & was responsible for training for three major Colorado real estate companies at their regional levels.

The immediate future for the Denver Metro real estate market is very bright. From previous years, METROLIST inventory is down, foreclosures are down, distressed home sale closings are down & homes sales contracts are on the rise. We are getting back to a more normal market. There is a lot of pent up demand from buyers & sellers alike. The market will shift quickly to an even market. The opportunity is great for buyers, sellers & real estate agents right now. Our agents will definitely have an advantage in this next market shift, because we’re always preparing for those changes. We don’t wait for them to happen & then try playing “catch up”.

Remember, Denver doesn’t trend nationally with most other cities. The forecast for our area is to be one of the top five growth areas for years to come. New home prices couldn’t be any lower & builder inventory is low. Now is the time to invest in new homes. Future new homes will cost much more & will offer less to buyers, because the cost of raw materials is way up.

Now is the time for the most professional, trained, educated & coached real estate agents (new or experienced) to counsel, advise & service home buyers & sellers to achieve their life’s goals & dreams. We’d be honored to meet with new & experienced agents to show how we can help you build careers worth having, businesses worth owning & lives worth living.

Jim Slinkard

Team Leader/Owner

Keller Williams Realty DTC

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