How many of you know how to can?
I didn't until recently. While visiting some friends, I was invited and guided through the HOW TO. It wasn't as daunting as I had imagined.
I was enthused and wanted to put this new skill into action...with help from family recruits, willingly I might add. Well, we were canning peaches, who wouldn't want to participate. After the cleaning, boiling, hot-flash-peeling, more water boiling and finally the finished products, my brother asked me, "When can we eat it?" I hadn't a clue but asked the expert, who said they needed time to marinate, to give them time to get better flavoring.
It isn't much different in a business relationship; it takes time to build trust. How do we, as consumers, decide whom we choose to be committed to; how much time to give our attention to; whom we should give our loyalty to, our trust to, our business to and whom to refrain from, in a matter of minutes of hearing, seeing or meeting these sales persons, companies or their products?
We live in society where everything is saturated with the "fast food" motto or the "I want it now" quota. We can sometimes compromise the short term gratification for the now rather than for the higher quality outcome waiting for us later. This obsession for all things now have caused some of us to forfeit what we crave and need most, time tested values and quality relationships, outcomes of which can satisfy our long term needs and wants.
Majority of all real estate sales comes through referrals, existing relationships, via family members, friends and already trusted associates and sometimes through individuals who have had at one time or another positive experiences. These relationships bridge the chasm of uncertainty from doubt to trust, from strangers to trusted professionals, relying wholly on the person who referred them.
What do you do if you are starting from scratch? Who do you trust?
Get to know your neighbors: your local bankers, grocers, car dealers, retailers, civic leaders, real estate professionals, restaurant owners, etc. Give yourself time to get to know them, establish a report so when you need them or their services and expertise there isn't the feeling of awkwardness, fear, or doubt. With them, sticky situations can be unstuck and closed doors can be made to open and sometimes they can help buffer the tide of unexpected shortfalls. They will often go the extra mile where others may fall short.
Marinate these networking relationships now that in time these relationships will become your fortress for the enjoyment of life and your buttresses to stem the tide of unexpected shortfalls with kindness and mercy.
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I didn't until recently. While visiting some friends, I was invited and guided through the HOW TO. It wasn't as daunting as I had imagined.
I was enthused and wanted to put this new skill into action...with help from family recruits, willingly I might add. Well, we were canning peaches, who wouldn't want to participate. After the cleaning, boiling, hot-flash-peeling, more water boiling and finally the finished products, my brother asked me, "When can we eat it?" I hadn't a clue but asked the expert, who said they needed time to marinate, to give them time to get better flavoring.
It isn't much different in a business relationship; it takes time to build trust. How do we, as consumers, decide whom we choose to be committed to; how much time to give our attention to; whom we should give our loyalty to, our trust to, our business to and whom to refrain from, in a matter of minutes of hearing, seeing or meeting these sales persons, companies or their products?
We live in society where everything is saturated with the "fast food" motto or the "I want it now" quota. We can sometimes compromise the short term gratification for the now rather than for the higher quality outcome waiting for us later. This obsession for all things now have caused some of us to forfeit what we crave and need most, time tested values and quality relationships, outcomes of which can satisfy our long term needs and wants.
Majority of all real estate sales comes through referrals, existing relationships, via family members, friends and already trusted associates and sometimes through individuals who have had at one time or another positive experiences. These relationships bridge the chasm of uncertainty from doubt to trust, from strangers to trusted professionals, relying wholly on the person who referred them.
What do you do if you are starting from scratch? Who do you trust?
Get to know your neighbors: your local bankers, grocers, car dealers, retailers, civic leaders, real estate professionals, restaurant owners, etc. Give yourself time to get to know them, establish a report so when you need them or their services and expertise there isn't the feeling of awkwardness, fear, or doubt. With them, sticky situations can be unstuck and closed doors can be made to open and sometimes they can help buffer the tide of unexpected shortfalls. They will often go the extra mile where others may fall short.
Marinate these networking relationships now that in time these relationships will become your fortress for the enjoyment of life and your buttresses to stem the tide of unexpected shortfalls with kindness and mercy.
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“When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. ” Abraham Lincoln.
