Mike Brewer

Apartment business as your stage to grow

Mike Brewer · February 16, 2008 · Add Comment

Jim Rohn once quipped, "We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are."

I contend the apartment business is just the place to do it.

We do have to get out of the mentality that we deserve more money and more recognition and get on board with the idea that business is there to serve as a place for your personal and professional development. Both of which no one can really place a price.

If you are in sales you are being taught everyday, through your experiences with customers, how to be a better presenter, influencer, articulator and closer. What kind of price can you place on that? What kind of value add does that give you in your personal and professional life? All that and companies pay you north of $10 to learn it. Not only that most companies pay you commission on top of your hourly wage to learn it. Not only that the better you get at those things the more the company pays you to push your learning.

I often cringe when I hear employees say I deserve more recognition, more money and more and more and more. That is not to suggest that those who really are at the top of their game consistently don’t deserve more. They do. My motivation to give is couched more in the character improvement of person and not the person with the best "give me more" speech.

You get more when you become more.

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