Wishing you a Happy Festive Season (and a few personal reflections on the year)

Good afternoon! How many more days to go? My kids know, that’s for sure. 

I want to take this opportunity to wish you a safe and happy festive season.

I can’t help but feel reflective at this time of year, as the pace slows and ‘which day is it again’ becomes a more common refrain yet at the same time there is overwhelming urgency to get things done. 

I managed to mix up my timings and dates last week even, and to clarify, yes, I will be sending something out on the 28th of December – then that will be it for a few weeks. 

Habits are funny things, and even though I thought yesterday was Tuesday, once I put the rubbish out, as I do on a Thursday morning, there was a nagging in my mind; ‘You have not written anything this week’ (read Atomic Habits by James Clear if you want to learn about connecting behaviors to form habits).

I was reflecting on things I have started but not finished this year. Oftentimes in life we have a go at something and despite our desire it just isn’t us. Maybe it runs its course, we might get hurt, something gets in the way. This year I have managed to keep up several ‘self help’ practices that I said I would, including writing, running, stretching. But many of my ideas have struggled to stay. Daily gratitude – the habit never really formed. I started up journaling and meditation again – didn’t fire. I was to write two songs a month and publish some music – didn’t happen either because in August I hit a creative wall and didn’t push through it. 

These moments of walking away are good for only one reason that I can find – they tell the self-reflective part of myself that I am not so bloody minded that I would not stubbornly go on and ‘flog a dead horse’ – and that I can let go. 

I have said before that I have at fleeting moments wondered if I am on the right path with Independent Agent. I have wondered if maybe I should call it a day and dream up the next dream. I would be lying to you if I said that it has been easy. But every time this thought has crossed my mind I take a look at where we have come from in a short time, and what we are now achieving each week and each month and I am reminded I am in the right place. I get to support the visions and businesses of the amazing people I get to work with – take a look at our team. When it comes down to it, this is why I love what I do.

My colleague Debbie Aldred put it perfectly last week, right before she literally sailed off into the sunset for a few weeks: 

“For those of you doing it tough, remember, we are always just one sale away from loving real estate…”

This applies to sales people and so it seems business owners too! The feeling of success, service and reward from sales keep us coming back for more. 

Keep an eye out for my FINAL message of the year next week on the 28th. The topic is “What is Holding you Back”? 
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Stay well out there.