Despite wanting extraordinary results, it turns out that as adults, we’re often afraid that leading a big life and experiencing new things will bring unwelcome complications or hurdles. So instead of embracing the opportunity for success, we avoid or sabotage it altogether.
The goal of the KellerINK Story Center was to create a space to speak with people brought together by Mega Agent Camp. In short, we hoped to talk to as many people as we could. We wanted to learn in real-time from the people who are the pulse of our industry.
Gary Keller, along with Jay Papasan, kicked off this year’s Mega Agent Camp with a CEO Summit that was full of inspirational keynote speakers and central players in the real estate game.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going is a popular phrase. But for the most successful people on the planet, the saying takes on a twist: “When the going gets tough, don’t go it alone.”
In our last blog post, we talked about resilience—what it is and how it works. While many people are apt to believe that resilience is a trait—something unquantifiable and inherent—the truth is psychological resilience is a skill you can acquire, hone, and keep.
Life isn’t always like a box of chocolates. It’s more like turning the millstone. We’re constantly grinding, battling uphill, getting bitter and burned out all to have a chance at fulfilling our purpose. No matter what you do, your path ahead is going to involve some type of grind, and if you want to succeed at the highest level, you’ll need to become resilient.
For Gary, and for anyone who hopes to break through their achievement ceilings, reading is a way to find the models that propel you. Books can be tools that help you get into the right mindset, discover new methods, and ultimately build models for life, business, and everything in between.
Sure, summer doesn’t technically start until June 21, but after Memorial Day, it’s read-a-good-book-outside-season. So, we’re bringing you ten recommendations that tackle everything from living longer to running a lean startup to a tackling the hardships that come with having a speech impediment.
In order to see our habits through, we need to view them less as goals to be accomplished in one grand, fell swoop, and more as what they are: essential building blocks that combine to make us who we are.
Transforming our mindset around meetings can be as simple as putting on a different hat. Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats makes just this argument. The Six Thinking Hats are directions that we can channel our thinking into when approaching a situation.