All according to plan

I think I am becoming an awesome real estate agent. Sorry for saying awesome. In the last couple of days, week or so, I kinda feel like I know what I am doing. It seems I have the right answers to questions, feel like I know the property and am getting MUCH better at qualifying who is a good customer and who isn't. I say all this because I just did TWO deals in ONE week. I had to leave the second deal in the capable hands of my co-worker and friend, so I could come back to Brooklyn and leave for my long weekend to Florida to see grandma. This is my first vacation away from my newborn career (don't worry people, I'll have my cell phone!) and I think it will be fine. God I feel like a jerk even writing that, but I have some clients right that could be good.

I definitely had a shift in how I think about the clients. I have stopped thinking of every one as a potential close. This may seem backwards, but really the dating/marriage comparison holds true for this too. Just think of it as going out on blind date after blind date, asking each one to marry you. If I really expect everyone to say yes, I am constantly disappointed. If I am always trying to please the date, then I am not being myself, right? But, if I take each date to the same restaurant (each client to the same property) and give them the same schpiel, if I am any good, if I am real (if my property inventory is good and I know it) eventually someone will marry me. Am I losing the thread? Probably.

Anyway, I'll have to explain later, I have to get on a plane and see grandma now. Stay tuned for the $8000 update, lessons in ad world and bonding with the boss.