So after reading my post from yesterday I decided it may have been a bit negative and perhaps I should listen to my good friend, "The Real Estate Therapist" Tamara Dorris.... to start Thinking Positive Thoughts again. Especially, after reading her blog post Attitude of Gratitude. In it she talks about what you think and say being sooooo important.
Okay now that I have slapped myself around and I am thinking positive thoughts again I can start writing.
Back in the late 90's ED and I joined Amway also know as Quixtar. Let me tell you that is a group of Positive People. Our group leader at the time suggested we not listen to the news, not think negative thoughts, stay away from bad seeds, build a dream board (stuff you really want) listen to motivational tapes and read positive books. Do you know why? So we were always thinking positive thoughts because they knew every time we even mentioned the word Amway people would freak out, it was crazy. Well today we no longer have a group but we still use many of their fine products and the lessons we learned. It really is a great company.
But you know Amway really helped Ed and I build alligator skin against the negative people we had to deal with daily. People that we were trying to help that could not get past the negative they heard. Well today we are dealing with the same thing. Everywhere you turn the media, the congress and even the president all talk negative. Even I have fallen into it and I of all people should know better as the owner of a real estate company. I need to stay positive to help my sellers and my agents.
Now we all could learn a ton from Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos the owners of Amway. They built a huge company from their garage in the 50's that is still around today. They managed to run a positive company with negative all around them.
So here's my bit of positive for today - Real Estate Sales in Macomb County were up in 2008. Yep, there were 6794 homes sold and 1285 condos sold. You know what? Last time we saw those numbers was 1994 - 6806 homes were sold and 1037 condos were sold. I guess we are heading back up again.
