Past experiences-what we did, didn’t do, should have done, did poorly or wrongly-are always with us in some way. We need to get clear of the anchor of the past, doing what we can and letting go of the rest. You are not your past, yet you may still be living as if you are.

When clearing unresolved matters with the past, a person will exhibit some of the following traits -

• They will feel free of what he or she has done, yet take full responsibility for it all.

• They can be with themselves, as they are today, with no compensating.
• They are able to set goals and reach them easily without any of the baggage that wants to burden them and drag them back into the past.

When one isn’t clear, you invariably see the following –

• They continue to repeat the past in some new way. Interestingly, they will get better at the cycle and they will start to repeat the pattern with increasing efficiency and in shorter time frames.

• They will react to life’s unresolved matters and constantly fall into a “victim” mindset.

I had an acquaintance that developed a very aggressive brain tumor and was dead 3 weeks from diagnosis.  Two days before he died I got to talk to him about life and how he felt about facing a terminal illness at 31 years old.  He said that he had made peace with it, no one was guaranteed a tomorrow and he had no regrets. He had made peace with his past and was living fully in the present and at that moment he was the most peaceful person I have ever had the privilege of knowing.

May your day be filled with “No Regrets”

Carpe diem,

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In my experience there are way too many agents who treat the real estate business as a non-profit charity without the affiliated tax advantages.  Here are a few thoughts on profit, distilled and processed through from Peter Drucker in his classic book on management.

1. PROFIT is a result of the performance of the business in marketing, innovation and productivity. It is the test, the only effective test of performance.
2. PROFIT is the premium for the risk of uncertainty. Economic activity because it is an activity focuses on the future and the one thing that is certain about the future is that it is uncertain.
3. PROFIT alone supplies the capital for tomorrows jobs, both more and better jobs.
4. PROFIT is a definition of economic progress that an investment needed to contribute to the overall health of the economy.
5. PROFIT pays for the economic satisfaction of services of a society, from healthcare to defense, from education to opera. They all have to be paid out of the surplus of economic production, out of the difference between the value produced and its cost.
6. PROFIT is the first, but not only responsibility of a business. There are social responsibilities, but if there is no profit, even the social responsibilities will suffer.
7. PROFIT is required to cover its own future risks, to be able to stay in business and to maintain the wealth-producing capacity of its resources.
8. PROFIT is a requirement of a business rather than a goal. Without profit there is no business.
9. PROFIT is the result of doing things right rather than the purpose of the business.
10. PROFIT is what you have in surplus when business obligations, risks and survival are paid for.

Carpe diem,