You Get What You Need

Today did not start off well. Had an early morning meeting on the other side of the world (or over the border in South Carolina which if you have my sense of direction may as well have been). Left a little later than I should ...(no surprise there)...Suburban started making a horrific noise (mental note...was supposed to drop it off at the shop after I was hit last week....who has time to do all this crap....)since I was driving out of state I thought I should probably turn around and take the bug. Which I did....making me even later. Finally, found this beautiful neighborhood we are selling in South Carolina....then located the amenity center where obviously the meeting started about 10 minutes prior....so I walk in...thanks to the hardwood floors...not stealthily...all eyes turn as if these people have never been late before...OI VEY....
I sell new homes..not been a banner year for the new home sales industry to say the least. I have been very lucky am with a large builder, have been in an awesome community and have been consistantly a top producer. However, the past couple of months have been a struggle for me. I have been opening a new community. It is a beautiful mature community, going to be very successful, but still moved out of my comfort zone, a lot of my customers were referrals in my last community so that is going to have to start from scratch, just new challenges. I knew I would have to work a little harder to get started and felt I had been working my butt off ...doing all the things I knew how to to make the community successful, staying late working days off etc. with little pay off... yet. I was starting to think maybe I lost my juju...maybe I didn't know how to do it anymore...maybe I would become a professional blogger, or buy lots and lots of lottery tickets, go back to insurance..ahhh no not that...back to lottery tickets.....ANYWAY...I was thinking that I was doing all this work, with little payoff, nobody was noticing. So there I was sitting at the back of my quarterly meeting today kinda zoning in and out...when out of nowhere my VP of Sales and Marketing announce my name for the Sales Associate of the Year Award....all of a sudden I was energized...no need to start buying lottery tickets...I sell new homes....and I'm GOOD at it....nothing could have been better timed....I will go back to the sales center tomorrow with a new attitute....ready to take on whatever comes my way........like Mick Jagger says...."you don't always get what you want....but if you try sometimes...you just might find...you get what you need!!!".....