Your Driven Life

Let's chat database! How do you win in the game of being remembered when it comes to your clients wanting to do business with you again. Why do we hear this time and time again that a high percentage of your clients would work with you again, but a teeny tiny percentage actually remember your name. That's because at the end of the day this is a relationship business my friends! Listen close for the list of must reads Emmanual shares with us at the end .

Like margins on a sheet of paper that guide a writer, we need margins in our life to allow room for taking a break. Taking a brake can be hard. For me it caused a mental civil war to finally decide to do it and be ok with it. Join me in discussing the importance of allowing your life to have margin and the fulfillment that can bring you in business as well. www.yourdrivenlife.com

Do you ever feel stuck? you know like when you see that spinning wheel on your computer as it is slowly trying to load the next page and it is taking forever? Well it might be because you and your business are running on old systems. Running things exactly the way you did 10 years ago and not allowed growth for changing times. Now is the time to Refocus, Realign and Reboot your business. Join me in a discussion on reassessing your operating systems and addressing the importance of doing and "update" to your business platforms.

You don't want to miss this episode with Katie Lance the author of Social Smart joining me in discussing the steps to take no matter what level you are at in using social media for your best ROI in marketing. Listen in as Katie gives us her best advice and simple steps for each level of marketing from getting started to seasoned veteran in our current market.

In a seed, a tiny little seed, lay everything that a seed needs to start its growth. Listen in for 5 steps you can use to sow the seeds of a successful business the way a farmer would for a successful crop. This 5 step process can be implemented into your business as a path for growth and developing your goals instead of just dreaming about them.

I have begun to lose track of the weeks that I have been home due to this pandemic and this last week I discovered that I had been down this road before. the thoughts and feelings that I am experiencing are ones that I have witnessed before. Join me as I tell the story of how I learned to change my mindset and deal with uncertainty. I hope that it empowers you to find the silver lining and know that you are going to look back on this time and tell your own stories of hardship, growth, and strength.

As we are stuck in our homes and feeling anxious- I find that a clean and organized space can really help with my mental state. But you know, sometimes I just don't know where to start. Listen in as Elaine owner of Simplicity PDX shares with us how she can help each of us find peace in a time of chaos with tools that she learned growing up in the Swiss Alps.

Fear is a natural response, and Shoot, there is a lot going on right now. AN incredible amount of changes are happening daily and the fear and worry of the unknown is what we are all facing. With so much coming at us, our worry automatically kicks in sometimes without us knowing it. Despite all of this, keeping a positive mindset can go a long way in managing through the difficult times. Listen in to find 7 steps in dealing with these uncertain times with our guest speaker, Jaymie Behlow!

So much changing, uncertainty causing fear in many, obstacles in how to maintain your business, stress, anxiety, fear. All emotions we are battling with as we try to break down the information and stats we are getting. Like many of you, I have these same thoughts, But, What I have found is that when I welcome obstacles, when I bring in the ideal that life is full of obstacles on purpose, to turn us toward strategy, and that every obstacle has the seed in it to bring growth.....Then everything has a completely different perspective. Instead of running away from it, we can move toward it. We can lean into that fear, those obstacles, those uncertainties.

Success is when preparation meets opportunity. Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstrations of their championship character. - Alan ArmstrongYou must spend countless hours of preparation, time spent working harder than others. without the preparation there would be no opportunity to be had.

The most influential entrepreneurs weren't made overnight. They were made through a series of choices and challenges. in one way or another each one of them made the choice to change. Are you afraid of change?Have you ever asked yourself why?is it the fear of the unknown? The fear of failure? or the fear of success?Let's dive in to why people resist change and how this can hinder their growth for success.

When you love what you do your work becomes part of your life because it gives you joy or challenges you to grow to become better at what you do. This will feed into everything that you do. Are there moments that are hard and stressful? YES! in fact the last 6 months for me, have been the most challenging of my career year to date, but I have learned to take growth with those challenges, share those challenges with my family and teach my children by example that you can have moments in your career that are hard, but it shouldn't mean that you have loss of happiness or balance. Work balance and life balance are not two separate weights on the scale, they should be viewed as one whole. They feed into each other. join me in discussing what that looks like in real life and not in what superficial society says it should look like.

The first thing that you need to understand about starting a real estate business or maybe you are needing to redefine your real estate career, is that YES! this is a business, you need to start thinking like a business owner and that means planning! I have 4 steps for you to lay the foundation work needed to be successful in this career, if you are an experienced agent, maybe we are patching the foundation you already have. Either way, this content will give you the ground work to be on the right path for success.

What stands between us and achieving our most ambitious dreams, has far less to do with us possessing some magical skill or talent, and far more to do with how we approach problems and how we make decisions to solve them. My daughter taught me a lesson to do in being adaptable and being able to recalculate my day if needed, not allowing it to completely derail my day, but just define it with different detours as needed.

you have to work harder than anyone, because the easy road is not going to get you to the level of success that you are so often comparing yourself to and dreaming of being at. Assessing- is this the best that you can do? Have self competition, you always want to outwork your potential. Often times you don't even realize your potential because you haven't laid any tasks infant of yourself to challenge yourself to complete them. If you don't have the time to put in the work, you don't get to enjoy the benefit.

What we decide to think, our MINDSET, whatever go's through our head is completely within our control. It's a tough challenge to stop thinking about what other people tell you to think. Your coach, your boss, your family, colleagues....... They are all experts on what your supposed to be doing, and they rarely hesitate to tell you. You are successful because you don't take no for an answer, you didn't allow someone to determine what your dreams are or should be!

The Importance of daily focus cannot be understated. daily focus is why some people are able to build success and grow a business while others think about it......but never achieve it. Prioritize your productive focus! it's not about time management, it's about self management. Success in anything is by learning self control. Join me in a discussion of the importance of daily focus and how it can launch your career to a new level.

To have success you must have a great DRIVE to accomplish your goal, and whether you succeed or fail at it that go around it is important to know that you worked your hardest to accomplish what you desired to do so. Do you have the drive for success or are you just going to ride in the passenger seat?

As a realtor we have so many different factors coming into play in our industry right now. But with all of that commotion it doesn't really matter if you don't have the right mindset and drive to achieve your goals for success. You truly have to be the " make it happen" kind of person to not be left being in the industry. Follow my 5 steps to guide in you maintaining your mindset so that your desired level of success is achievable.

Sharing with you what my purpose of this podcast is as we grow and develop in defining what your definition of success is.