Not For Everyone.

On Character A confession about feeling everything, saying little, and finally retiring from the exh...

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Survival of the Fittest is a Bad Metaphor -

Principle & Process — Part Five of Six. - for a Trust Business. Agents love this phrase. Surviva...

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The Scripts You'll Never Use.

Being Versus Doing You bought the objection-handling script. You bought the follow-up sequence. You ...

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The One Domino.

The Brand Within — Part 3 of 3 There is exactly one thing that fixes the Veracity Index problem, and...

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The Parts You've Gone Numb To.

The Mask Trap — Part 2 of 5 You can't put down a mask you've forgotten you're wearing. Here's the tr...

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It's An Inside Job.

On Becoming We keep looking outward for the thing that will finally change us. A certification. A sc...

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Mind The Gap.

Part Five: The Coach's Business Model Needs the Gap Open. Tom Ferry, Tom Panos, Ricky Carruth. Diffe...

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The Machine Doesn't Do Generous.

Structure  ·  Power  ·  Choice Corporate real estate is not broken. It is working exactly as designe...

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Character Ahead of Competence. Always.

The Wake-Up Call · Part 3 of 5 Two articles of bad news. You've earned the answer. Here it is, and I...

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The Book Brené Brown Calls Amazing...

The Thin Book of Trust. ...Has a Hole in the Middle Brené Brown has said she has used Charles Feltma...

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The Five BS Rules of Real Estate.

Coaching, conformity, and the quiet agreement to disappear Somebody smart once wrote down the rules ...

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Sold On Your Own Desperation

The Dependency Economy A young salesperson posted a question online recently. Six months into a new ...

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The Soft Shell Window

A lobster grows by outgrowing its own shell. The shell that kept it safe becomes a cage. So it does ...

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The Cage of The Three C's

C O M P E T I T I O N . C O M P A R I S O N . C O N F O R M I T Y . Nobody puts "trapped" on their v...

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Be a Ford, Then a Sloan.

In June 1896, a Detroit engineer working nights in a rented shed finished the machine he'd spent mon...

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Mind The Gap.

Part Three: The Agent Can't See it, But the Client Feels it. The agent walks out of the listing pres...

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Trust Is The Answer To Every Problem You Have.

You just don't want to hear that. Because the answer to trust isn't a script, a system, familiarity,...

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If You Want It, Come And Get It.

If You Want It, Come and Get It · Part 5 of 5 Underneath every cold call, every wide net, every fee ...

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The Cult of Doing.

Being Versus Doing · Part One of Two Walk into any real estate training room and count the words. Sc...

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Sell Without Selling.

Every agent has met the type. Immaculate script. Answer for every objection before it's raised. Clos...

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The Obstructed and Unobstructed View

- of Real Estate I use the word intently, not accidentally, which is a very fancy way of saying I sa...

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You Can't Argue With Success.

Only It's Definition. Robert Theobald opened a book with a sentence nobody questions. You can't argu...

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State. Story. Strategy

The Brand Within — Framework The Order That Character Demands. Most #estateagents build their busine...

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Nobody Refers A Spreadsheet

Why "Value" Is the Dead End — Part Four of Five Ask a past client why they'd send a friend your way....

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What's Preventing You?

— Part One of Two The Brand Within Internal Beliefs: You Were Never the Problem I want to tell you s...

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The Art of Public Begging

On Prospecting Cold calling doesn't need a better script. It needs an honest name. Strip away the fr...

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What's Preventing You?

Part Two of Two The Brand Within External Beliefs: The Crowd Was Never Coming With You Last time, we...

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The Lighthouse Is Not Lazy

If You Want It, Come and Get It · Part 2 of 5 The hustle industry has one defence against attraction...

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A Game With No Referee.

Potential · Part 2 of 5 Where Breaking The Rules Goes Unpunished. Last time I showed you competence'...

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The Asset With No Ceiling.

Potential · Part 3 of 5 Competence is capped by time, teachers, and the photocopier. Competition is ...

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