Long Island Real Estate Market

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
ALWAYS THINK POSITIVE
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You cannot always control your circumstances.
But, you can control your own thoughts.
There is nothing either good or bad,
only your thinking makes it so.

Things turn out best for those people
who can make the best out of the way things turn out.
It's not the situation, it's your reaction to the situation.

The reality in your life may result from many outside factors,
none of which you can control.
Your attitude, however,
reflects the ways in which you deal with what is happening to you.

Life at any time can become difficult.
Life at any time can become easy.
It all depends upon how you adjust yourself to life.

What you see in your mind is what you'll get out of life.

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I'm a Behavior Therapist as well as a real estate agent (good combo huh).  This daily motivational points out the basis of what we call, Rational Emotive Therapy or RET (developed by Albert Ellis).  Without going into boring details of the history of this magnificant approach to therapy, I will say that what you think molds your entire reality. 

I can speak from a personal standpoint and say that I struggle with instances where all the things I want to accomplish over the next year appear to be ominous and beyond my capabilities.  However, if I approach these feelings and attack them with rational information, they diminish and fade away, leaving me with a stronger sense of direction and control over what I can accomplish.

The reality of life is impacted by outside factors, of course.  Take for instance a declining real estate market.  It's easy to say that the current market is a big outside factor that is impacting our business.  This is perfectly true.  However, some agents are going forward and continuing to make money while others are slumping "because of the market". 

Will a continual positive attitude get you a listing?  I don't know.  I know that making the calls, knocking on the doors, increasing effective advertising, attending seminars and meetings as well as a number of other actions will increase your chances of getting appointments, which have a higher probability of getting you listings, than if you were to think, "this market stinks and I can't get listings". 

RET is about change just like most approaches to therapy.  Rational thought would have you know that in response to changes around you, adapting to those changes is the best course of action.  Movement is the key and is powered by rational information received by the brain.  Stagnation results from feelings running out of control because the thoughts behind the feelings are not rational.