By: Joeann Fossland
May, Mothers and Many Feelings of Gratitude
What a beautiful time of the year! I love the Spring for the feeling of energy that it brings! I hope if you have a mother or are a mother, that you were able to connect with mother-love this past weekend, even if it was just in memories. My sweet kids made a wonderful brunch with strawberries, shrimp and mimosas! Frolicking with the little ones is my idea of bliss.
It got me thinking how very blessed I am. I have made it a habit, first thing in the morning when I wake and last thing at night before I go to sleep, to give thanks for all I have. I know The Law of Attraction has had a lot of skeptics that say it doesn’t work, but I have found The Law of Gratitude must be part of the process. Remember, You get more of what you concentrate on! What are you thoughts each day? Is it awe and thankfulness for what you do have or a striving or concern over something you don’t have yet!? Monitor your thoughts and find dozens of reasons what you have is perfect and wonderful, and you’ll find each day is happier. And when you are happier, you attract happier stuff!!! I am waiting, BTW, somewhat patiently for my Hawaii house, my Mercedes 500 and my $10,000,000. What is coming towards you???
Happy May! Happy Mother’s Day and Happy Thoughts!
WCR & NAR DC Meetings
I am looking forward to connecting and catching up with my WCR friends from all across the country. This meeting is particularly exciting for me, because my name is in front of the Nominating Committee as the 2010 Nation Financial Secretary. WCR has given much to me and I would love to give back! I will let you know how that comes out!
I am the vice-chair this year of the WCR Business Development Steering Committee. Our meeting on Friday morning is going to be a great session with Tech Diva, Amy Chorew, and fellow members, Frances Flynn Thorsen, Liz Callihan, Sylvia Seabolt, Barb Cooper and me! We’ll be doing a hands-on for tech and social media questions! Come join us if you are there.
Tech tip: DC Tweet Up
How cool is this? And, perhaps you’ve never heard the term…a Tweet-up is an in-person meet up of the peeps (Twitter talk for people) you know from www.Twitter.com. We are meeting at Olives at 8:30 PM on Wednesday night. It is right across the street from the WCR hotel, The Capital Hilton (16th & K). Come gather with us! And if you haven’t gotten on Twitter yet…come anyway and bring your computer and we’ll show you how! Follow me on twitter….. @joeann or www.twitter.com/joeann
Borrowed Wisdom
Tina Brown shared these wise words! “Don’t worry. Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.”
Travel Tip
Luggage…my how the rules have changed! Know how each airline is nibbling away at free baggage services and replacing them with fees. Here is a current airline baggage chart.
Speaking of traveling……My husband, Bub and I are getting excited about our a 5 week road trip from Tucson to Portland, across Utah,Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska & Colorado in June. My 7 year old granddaughter, Lily, is going with us. I am doing e-PRO Workshops along the way. If you want to come to one, or schedule one for your office or Association, if you are along the way, I’d like to schedule a few more. View the ones already scheduled at www.epronar.com and click on the left “workshops”.
If you have travel in your plans or are interested in some really affordable prices for travel and vacations, take a look at my travel website. While you are on my website, also sign up as a preferred client. It is completely free and guarantees you the best prices available for all your travel and even provides 30 minutes of concierge service for each trip!
Frances Flynn Thorsen and I are doing weekly webinars, if you’d like to learn more about this for yourself, or to be able to offer this as value added benefit for your clients. Join us if these dates are good:
Fri, May 22, 2009 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PDT
Wed, May 27, 2009 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
If these days are not good, contact me directly and I’ll be happy to tell you more.
Don’t Miss These!
1. As some of you know, I grew up in Baltimore, so I always enjoy visiting (we don’t get good crabs in the desert!) The best part is that we have created a FREEEEEEEEE session for you to learn and get your questions asked. There are a few spots left for this session next Monday. Register quickly to make sure you can get in! And, we are looking forward to having dinner with you, but you gotta come to find out where we are going! I am ready for some crabs!
IF YOU ARE NEAR BALTIMORE: Three Social Media Divas Share Secrets! I am so excited that my good friends, Margaret Rome (author of Real Estate the Rome Way, one of Trulia’s Top 10 Real Estate Books for 2008) and Frances Flynn Thorsen will be joining me at the Baltimore Association of REALTORS on May 18 at 1 PM for a fabulously fun and valuable session designed to give you all the information you need to create business, a buzz online and all about e-PRO. Freebies and gifts will be distributed.
2. Play Coach Patti’s The Real Estate GAME® www.TheRealEstateGame.com
Beginning May 18.
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar
While playing The Real Estate Game® You will receive:
- Coaching Monday thru Friday for 30 min a day for 4 weeks.
- You won’t have to go anywhere or even get dressed. All you need is a phone, a phone line and a quiet place to call from.
- You will be joined by phone with small group of motivated agents in a lively group-coaching venue.
- You will receive support, success strategies, attitude adjusting and motivation for peak performance and life balance.
All this for less than $5 a day. $149 for 20 sessions in 4 weeks Sign up NOW www.TheRealEstateGame.com
3. ONLINE: I am excited to now offer Online Real Estate CE Courses. To celebrate, I have a present so you can try it out and save…….. you can save 10% on any class! Use discount code “newslettercode”. If you need renewal hours and are in CA, AZ, and NV, you need go no further than this. If you are not in those states and would like for me to offer classes in your state, let me know and we’ll see if we can add it.
4. Self Growth Expert Series – I am participating in an upcoming 10-part expert teleseminar series that that you might finding interesting. You’ll get the best information available on motivation, empowerment, goal setting, time management, health tips, the law of attraction and a LOT more from 10 different speakers, including me.
Each call will have a live Q&A session as well to get all your questions answered and get you help and advice on the spot! Not only will you get a ton of free information from some of the best self growth experts available, its sure to be a lot of fun!
The next call in the series is Wednesday, May 13th at 8 PM EDT, with Johnna Johnson who will share Action Steps to Goal Accomplishment. To register for the call, visit www.expertadvicecentral.com/justjump.html.
And stay tuned for additional information coming about more calls from this series… including mine on Time Management on May 27.
5. On monday evening I sat down with Justin Zimmerman, Realtor and online marketing consultant and talked for almost 60 minutes about ways to “Think and Grow Younger” while dispelling common myths and anxieties behind the Social Media Craze. Courtsey of Justin and GoodMorningRealEstate he recorded the call and it is now available on his blog.
Make this week EXTRA Ordinary! It IS up to YOU!!!!
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