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Multifamily #Trust 30: Using Multifamily
We are on day two of the #trust30 challenge and today’s prompt is;
If we live truly, we shall see truly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not everyone wants to travel the world, but most people can identify at least one place in the world they’d like to visit before they die. Where is that place for you, and what will you do to make sure you get there?
(Author: Chris Guillebeau)
Using Multifamily
I truly believe that organizations are created to serve the people that serve it. And, if done right those that are served then, in turn, serve those that participate with the organization in the way of human and fiscal transactions. Simply said, serve people and they will by default they will serve others. I use multifamily as a platform for education and the creation of wherewithal.
Education and Means
I also view my career 100% as an education that will end in my own endeavors. Today, it also provides means for the health and welfare of my family. I won’t work for someone for the rest of my life. I will serve in exchange for the education and a fair living, until that moment comes where it makes sense to move on. And, to speak to today’s prompt, using some of those means to get out into the world adds to character development.
International travel is something that I have always been intrigued by and not unlike using the the Multifamily business for an education, I see it as a way to add to and build character. And, the multifamily business is one way to fund it all.
To me, Ralph’s quote is more about who you become as a result of living out loud with no reservations as long as it is in the context of sticking true to internal values. Where would I go? Somewhere remote and unwired in any way.
Where would you go?
So with that, I sign off this Saturday morning to head for a run.
Your looking forward contributor,
M
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Multifamily #Trust30: Self Control
Day One of the #Trust30 challenge:
Nothing like a punch to the gut to get things started. The following quote and subsequent action step showed up in my inbox as promised:
That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? . . . Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Identify one of your biggest challenges at the moment (ie I don’t feel passionate about my work) and turn it into a question (ie How can I do work I’m passionate about?) Write it on a post-it and put it up on your bathroom mirror or the back of your front door. After 48-hours, journal what answers came up for you and be sure to evaluate them.
Self control instantly came to mind but I did not have a post-it. I chuckled and thought I could write about finding a post-it as my biggest challenge of the moment. But, that would obviously be missing the point of the exercise. So, I grabbed the nearest piece of paper and wrote the word out. Looks like Sunday mornings writing time will be dedicated to the subject of self control.
In brief opinion, self control is getting more and more difficult in the wired world. Now, I could displace it on my self diagnosis of ADHD or an Addictive Personality or I could blame it on Facebook, Twitter or any other host of social media platforms but at the end of the day, it’s on me. It’s that space between stimulus and response called choice. I get to choose what I spend my time on despite the stimulus. And, it really is predicated on my ability to control thyself.
Majoring in the Majors
As it relates to the multifamily space, my biggest challenge at the moment in my business – How can I be compassionate and passionate about rising delinquencies at our more challenged assets? The mechanisms are in place and the processes are solid. On the backside, unemployment figures are not getting any better, people are one ‘life event’ away from complete financial wipe out and poor financial discipline is exaggerate by misaligned needs vs wants logic.
There it is – would love to hear what your biggest multifamily business challenge is at the moment. Please rock the comment box below – if you feel compelled.
Either way, have a compelling weekend. It’s going to be a crazy hot 98 in #STL tomorrow.
Your thinking hard about self control
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Multifamily Leadership: Set Clear Goals and Priorities
Up to this point in our Seven Behaviors Leadership Series we have talked about Knowing Your People and Knowing Your Business and Insisting on Realism . What do you think so far?
In Part 3 of the series we are going to brief on the subject of clear goals and priorities…
You cannot Hit a Target that You do not Have
This was an interesting exercise for me; thinking through what I would share today. So many angles you can take with the subject of goal setting from the process of identifying, reward systems, etc. In the spirit of brevity and clarity, I settled on were the follow three things:
1. Get
2. Read
3. Act
At some point, every self improvement guru, management consultant and business coach in the world starts and or introduces the subject of goal setting. Wether they call it strategic objectives or just objectives or more simply – goals. They talk about them. And, they do so because they are critical to both your personal success as well as your business success.
If you think about it from a multifamily leadership perspective, budget numbers are goals. We set them at the end of every year for the year to follow and then we work like wild maniacs to ‘beat the numbers.’
The simple point is that how ever you go about getting them – go do it and do it today. Pick your guru and system and get them on paper or in an electronic format.
PHD&D
Business Coach Chet Homes author of the famed book: The Ultimate Sales Machine trumps the statement Pig Headed Determination and Discipline with every point he makes in his book and otherwise. I reference it as a premise for point number two. You have to get pig headed about reading your goals every single day without fail.
The great Napoleon Hill writes about Think and Grow Rich. He makes the point of reading them before you go to bed at night and again when you wake in the morning. His posit; while in slumber your mind works out ‘the how’ as it relates to getting your goals accomplished. My posit; ‘read them’ and the rest will take care of itself.
What the Mind of Man Conceives and Believes and ACTs on he Achieves
Napoleon Hill penned the above absent the italicized piece – I added that for good measure. My epiphany with ‘action’ came in the early years of my management career. One of my absolute favorite mentors in the business – Jackie W. – wrote me a letter than contained the following statement. All the best intentions in the world are worth nothing unless followed through with. It hit me like a Mack truck in high gear headed down the open freeway. More than an Ouch!
Meaningful Specific or Wondering Generality
Let’s close with a good question; it comes from Zig Ziglar; “Are you a meaningful specific or a wondering generality?” Goals insure that you run with the former part of the question.
Your PHD&D contributor,
M
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Multifamily #Trust30: Writing Challenge with a Multifamily Bent
For those of you that take the time read our content here at mbrewer group; we want to thank you out loud! You really make it worth the time and effort. The dialog over the past seven years [through our various blog names] has been rich! We are morphing the site to include some new guest authors who I will highlight in the coming weeks. The content will remain somewhat random with a loose focus on every facet of multifamily as that is what we do. As we move in this new direction; I ran across what I thought would be a cool exercise. And, a big personal challenge. Write for 30 days straight using Ralph Waldo Emerson prompts as inspration.
The idea came from the following link:
My hope is that it does not come across as noise and my aim is to be brief in nature with each offering. Great thing about our blog is that it’s opt-in and/or opt-out. We totally understand. My additional hope is that we add some value and provoke some good discussion or good cause for sharing. Or even more compelling; your opting to take on the #Trust30 challenge.
In any event; have a compelling June. Make it a relentlessly awesome one.
Your taking the #trust30 challenge contributor,
M
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Multifamily Leadership: Get Real
Part three of a seven part leadership series.
I will never forget the day I walked into the corner office and disclosed to our owner that I approved spending a large sum of money on attorney fees for a commercial eviction case. Was I nervous? No
Insist on Realism
Worse than nervous is how I really felt. I was disappointed in myself but very comfortable communicating the situation. Why? Realism. The individual I work with and for had the following words for me, “Mike, consider this an expensive education. Now, we don’t want to have to many of these but it’s not the end of the world.” I can’t say I would have been as staid in my response had I been in his shoes. It did, however reinforce the value in being real.
I think it fair to say that a good number of people, in or out of the multifamily space, work hard to shade or avoid reality all together. Why? Short answer – Fear. Fear of confrontation. Fear of looking stupid in the eyes of others – especially those in superior roles. Fear of being labeled.
How to Make Realism Real
It starts with Brand YOU! You have to be realistic with yourself!
No matter your role in the organization, you have to insist that realism is central to every conversation.
If you are the leader, get out and ask people at all levels what your property management organization is doing right and what it is doing wrong.
Listen.
Take notes.
And, take that feedback and make meaningful changes.
Your working to stay real contributor,
M
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