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I’ve had it…..no probably not, but I have this week.  I have to remember that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.  I have a LONG time friend of thirty years……he is a good man.  My past teacher in high school….one of my coaches……left coaching….went into the mortgage business….owned his own mortgage company.  Over the past few years, his business has gotten worse.  We meet with each other all the time….pray together.  Over the past year, his business has suffered.  the things he has been able to do for his family that are MAJOR commitments are no longer able to be done.  Over the past months, I have asked him to go with me to functions that he can meet LOTS of real estate agents.  I invite him…he says he will go….I go, and he is not there…..things "come up".  His wife tells him to get with me to help him, but inevitably, "things get in the way".  He has asked me to take him to home builders meetings, but he does not show, although HIS company sponsors it…..last minute client care…..closings….things that cannot wait.  He asks me to meet him to help him with marketing, but looses his keys the morning of and cannot meet.  He comes into the office and wants to "meet in a few hours"…..he never comes to me during the day for advice.  We prayed together early this week for his business to turn.  I told him he was going with me to our home builders meeting….75 agents at the meeting and he can make contacts.  He asks to sit with me, and I told him I would save a seat……I thought things were turning for him.  Come Friday, I went to the meeting and ended up sitting by myself.  As I leave the meeting, he comes walking in the door….something came up.  I see him at the office, and he tells me a long time fiend who has cancer asked him to go to a biopsy with him the night before the meeting.  Says he should have called me.  I hate to sound hard on that one, but I am through…..It is not that I won’t be his friend as I love the man, but as the old saying goes…..until the student is ready…then and ONLY then, the teacher will appear.  The strange thing is that at one time, he was MY teacher…..my math teacher in 9th grade.  I am now in my 40’s.  I was never better than a C student in his class, and that was pushing it.  Now he is flunking MY class.  Mind you, my class is not that hard….just follow instructions and be coach able.  Where his life will go, I don’t know.  I hope for the best, but I don’t know.  I hope he and his family is OK.

NOW…here is the story behind this story:

DON’T LET CIRCUMSTANCES INTERFERE WITH SUCCESS!

There is always some reason why we cannot succeed today……always a circumstance.

I wanted to make those calls to my clients but my mother called, and it was important that I speak with her……I would have been there, but there was a last minute problem with a closing and I Had to miss a meeting……I lost my keys…..I am not worthy of that particular position or job……

Gang, there will always be things that come up.  The problem is that because you choose NOT to be at places, you miss out on business, and it is not only you that suffers, but it is your family that you cheat……Things will always come up.  Get over them. 

Other reasons not to succeed:

  1. I don’t want to find work until I loose 20 lbs.
  2. Things cannot happen til I get my hair colored
  3. I cannot do anything til I buy some new clothes
  4. I am not college degreed
  5. I’m not smart
  6. I don’t come from a privledged background
  7. I cannot work because I have to watch my parents….kids…..grandparents….the neighbors……
  8. I’m broke
  9. you name it………

GET OVER IT!

Don’t let circumstances get in your way!

 

Brandon Patrick

Dean of Students

Real Estate Toolbox University