Realtors Are Real Entrepreneurs!

I have had this post in the draft section of the blog for quite sometime. You see I love entrepreneurship. That's why I became a Realtor. I honestly believe that is why we all became Realtors. Then as soon as the state of South Carolina would let me, I became a broker and opened my own brokerage. This was during the good ole days of the thriving market and money was flowing like water and we were all happy.

Why did you become a real estate agent? I bet yours is a similar story. Real estate offers a way to enter into a lifestyle that is just amazing. Living the way you want to, not having a boss to answer to, and creating a brokerage makes you the only one who profits from your work, it's amazing. I just wanted to bring up the value of freedom to not be controlled by others and what that means to us.

When you boil it all down and take a real deep look at why we got into real estate or why any entrepreneur works for himself, I guarantee, you will come back to this issue of FREEDOM.

Think about money, you may or may not be in a place where all you think about is what else you can buy with your next closing or you might be struggling and thinking about who you can pay to get out of debt. For a lot of people though, what money is for them is a source of Freedom. For me, living a life that is under my own control is the most important thing I could ever do and now I am focused on helping other real estate professionals achieve the same goal.

They say that happens though, I have a Master's in Psychology and at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs comes the need for self actualization which is contributing to others. I guess all real estate professionals and entrepreneurs are doing this, right? I mean we contribute to others by helping them find a house (which fulfills their needs) and in return we fill our own need to help. What do you think about that? Please ask yourself what the value of Freedom is to you and really think about why you got into real estate.

I think that as we age or have been in something for years, we forget the reason why we got into it in the first place. We all know that there are jobs where you just do what you're told and you can earn a healthy living, but we all chose to willingly scoff at the traditional methods and go the commission only, in control of our destiny, I can do this method. Please make sure you comment on why you got into real estate. It's very important to realize where you have been to make sure you are going where you want to go. If I wanted to get to Texas, I could just drive West, right? Well, not if I lived in California. You have to know where you are to get to where you want to go.

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