Ralph Waldo Emerson
Multifamily #Trust30: Let the Work Speak
Day 12 in the #Trust30 challenge
I am heading off prompt today as this quote speaks to me in a different respect. It seems to me that RWE is writing about action. Action in the way of speaking louder than words.
Multifamily work
I had someone hand me a book once. It was titled: Brag. It had a subtitle that I can’t recall off the top of my head. The author wrote about ideas like keeping a Brag-o-Log and tooting your own horn. The essence really being that YOU are in charge of advertising your accomplishments as no one else will do it for you.
I beg to differ. The other person that will do it for you is Action and his near and dear friend Results. The combo make for a very cool combination in the eyes of those you serve. Now I would not go so far as to say that I’ve never gone out of my way to draw attention to my accomplishments. It’s happened three times. [Read: tongue in cheek] But as a general course of business; I believe more in the silent approach to getting things done.
Silent in voice but loud in Action and Results.
What about you? Silent or Brag-a-Log?
I don’t think one is any more or less right, it’s just different.
Your let the work speak for itself contributor,
M
Multifamily #Trust30: The Road ‘almost’ not Taken
Day 11 of the #Trust30 Challenge –
Consistent daily action is only a virtue when bundled with a willingness to remain open to the unknown. In this exercise, look at your current quest and ask, “What alternative opportunities, interpretations and paths am I not seeing?” They’re always there, but you’ve got to choose to see them.
I read this mornings prompt and instantly thought of Robert Frost’s classic: The Road Not Taken .
And, M. Scott Peck’s: The Road Less Traveled, another classic in it’s own right. I still remember the first sentence of the first chapter – Life is difficult.
Sure enough is…
Multifamily The Road Almost Not Taken
My start in the Multifamily business was a humble one. I was fresh out of college and had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up. So, I spent the next couple years dabbling in this and playing in that before I landed a job managing a 18-unit community on the wrong side of the tracks in the small town that I grew up in.
It was the type of PM job whereby the manager does it all. I was expected to mow the lawn, paint and maintenance the unit turns, complete all requests for service, clean and make ready the swamp coolers in the summer and just the opposite in prep for winter. I lived for free in exchange for taking care of the place. At that time in my life, it was awesome.
Fast forward two years, I decided to leave it all to go back and finish my college degree. The thought was that I would just get a service job to finish up the thirty or so hours I needed to graduate. Collections, I thought! I used to do that in high school for a furniture company. So, I interviewed and got the job. At the same time I had interviewed for and been extended an offer as a leasing consultant for a very large multifamily community in Lubbock Texas, The Beautiful Willow Bend – if my memory serves me correct.
Weighing my options and after some colorful debate with my girlfriend, at the time, I choose leasing. And, the rest is history.
To the point of The Prompt
Many of the alternatives that I get blessed with from time to time, look and feel dynamic and many of them might be. And, while my mind remains open – something I have learned to embrace over a long bit of time, my heart and mind are still on fire for this great business. My imagination is that I will one day be faced with the divergence of two paths in the road and I will choose the path less taken – just, not for now.
Your happy with the chosen path contributor,
M
Photo props to: Virtual Tourist
Multifamily #Trust30: Surprise
Day 10 of the #Trust30 challenge
How will you surprise yourself this week?
(Author: Ashley Ambirge)
How will I surprise myself this week? I have a sleeping problem. Not that I get too much but rather that I get to little. The daily routine, in short looks something like this:
5:30 to 6:00 rise (varies but no later than six)
6:00 to 8:00 read/write/run/get ready
8:00 – 5:00 Meetings/site-visits/working on the multifamily operations business
5:00-9:00 Family time
9:00 to 2:00 or 3:00 – Multifamily & Social Media Work
How will I surprise myself this week? Make it to bed by 1:00 – I think it’s a realistic start.
How about you? What will you do?
Multifamily #Trust30 – Divinity
Day 8 of the #Trust30 challenge hits us with The Divine Idea
Imitation is Suicide. Insist on yourself; never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write down in which areas of your life you have to overcome these suicidal tendencies of imitation…
(Author: Fabian Kruse)
Let me start by saying this is a tough one for me as I believe in and have utilized the highest form of flattery in the past; that is, borrowing multifamily business and marketing concepts and adding a twist or two to make it my own. I am certain that I have employed a few former employer concepts at my current place of business.
Multifamily Blog
To speak to the point of today’s prompt. What are those area of my life? I would say the multifamily space leads the way. I have the tagline on my blog; Out to put a dent in the multifamily universe and I believe that will come in the way of insisting on myself as suggested above. I like to think we did as much back in 2006 or 2007 when we created the Portland Rocks Newsletter Blog while working for EQR. After a few platform changes and copy amendments we settled in and went for it. The team went on to win an inagural award for, in part, being the most innovative group in the bunch. Blogging today, while not mainstream, is certainly more prevelant that it ever has been. And, it will only continue to get more exciting. We like to think we were part of the catalyst that got the party started.
Today, we are constantly working on identifying new and exciting ways to enhance our organization through the use of exciting new technologies. And, look forward to continue to flatter and uniquely innovate in the space.
What about you?
Your, not sure if Imitation is suicide, contributor,
M
Multifamily #Trust30: Right Now
Day 7 of the #Trust30 challenge – and, today is a challenge! Whoa!
What is burning deep inside of you? If you could spread your personal message RIGHT NOW to 1 million people, what would you say? (Author: Eric Handler)
It’s All About Choice
The message is something to this effect – the difference between that which you are and that which you want to be is the sliver of a space between stimulus and response – you are what you ‘choose’ to be and you can be what you want to be by choosing differently.
How would you answer the question above?
Your lovin’ the #trust30 challenge contributor,
M
