We are constantly negotiating with people in our lives.  All day, every day, we are asking things of our friends, family, clients and coworkers.  We’ve been taught to try and get agreement, a “yes”, from all these interactions. We’ve been told to keep pushing and never give up until we have that “ye...

I love having the opportunity to get involved with other appraisers and to assist them in moving their businesses to the next level.  I’ve been doing a lot of one-on-one coaching recently and a common theme in many sessions is a lack of foundation to start from.  Specifically, people don’t have a go...

Many of us throw ourselves into our work because we love it. We love it so much we forget to take regular breaks, but it’s such an important thing to do. I’m a fan of “Work hard, play hard.” Working is great, but we need to play sometimes too. 

Why did you get into real estate appraisal? My father ...

If you’ve not read “The Richest Man In Babylon” by George S. Clason, stop reading this blog right now, get on Amazon, and order a copy of it immediately.  Order the book and leave it next to your bed so you read it last thing at night.  Order the Audible version of it so you can listen to it in your...

I am not a book snob.  I’m not even a real big reader, especially of the Classics, which I find way too deep and hard to understand.  I’m OK with light fiction, but Shakespeare is just too hard to get through.  Now, that said, I deeply love Miguel de Certantes’ classic, “The Man of La Mancha”.  Why?...

I hate going to the gym, but I do go, since it helps me in so many ways.  Usually, I do three sets of whatever exercise at 10 reps each. However, just to make sure I'm covered, sometimes I'll do 11 reps.   I don't want to miscount (yes, I’m a bit OCD). To psych myself out to reach my goals on reps, ...