My Recent Happenings

In this week’s blog I’m going to talk about what I’ve learned about business through preparing to sell my home, my status of the $100 Challenge, and the fun I’ve had reading E-Myth.

Preparing to sell and now listing my home has been quite the task.  My wife and I put a lot of work in over the past couple weeks to make sure everything was clean and ready to go.  On Tuesday we listed our home.  Despite us putting in the listing that we needed two hours’ notice for a showing, the first call we got from an Agent was at 4:22pm asking if we could do a 5PM show.  It was then I realized that I was going to have to be accommodating, but also put my foot down to set realistic expectations.  We agreed on 6PM.  We’ve had 11 other Agents come through the house with their clients.  Most have been wonderful to work with.  You can tell that they understand the importance of their brand.

Trying to move and continue with school work has proven very difficult and my $100 Challenge has suffered a bit.  I’ve been able to gather my product, but have yet to advertise or sell any of it.

The one thing I have been able to do is read E-Myth.  Actually I’ve been listening to it.  I knew in my situation that sitting down to read would be difficult so instead I bought the CD’s so that I can listen to them in my car.  I have a 45-60 minute drive to and from work so when I get to where I’m going I take a couple minutes to jot down some notes of that section I listened to.  It’s been working well and I’ll get through it in plenty of time to complete my report.  My favorite concept so far has been that if you don’t do it right, you won’t own a business, you’ll own a job.  I know many business owners who has fallen victim to this trap.  I’ve been trying to see it through their eyes.