Write Your Story
Jim Miller
President at Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty | Award-Winning Managing Broker | Elevating Advisors to Higher Levels of Production and Life Design | Real Estate Executive | High-Performance Coach | Podcaster
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My professional purpose is to help you, the broker, maximize your production and help you become and remain the best version of yourself. Why? Because happy agents sell more real estate. I do that by helping you solve problems that you face every day. If you can effectively solve your problems, you'll be happier in your business and in life.
Today, the problem I want to help you solve is how you look at your current situation realistically, how you got here, and where you're going.
The inputs we get every day from society, social media and our environment puts so much pressure on us to perform now, show up in the best light now, to "compete with the Jones'" and to focus on what others think more than how we think about ourselves. It can be dangerous and certainly unproductive. These pressures keep us from considering and executing on the long game.
I prefer to look at this "thing we call life" as a book with chapters and pages that we write every day. I was planning on writing on a completely different topic this week but pivoted after I watched the Kentucky Derby, won by a horse, Medina Spirit, that was purchased for a $1,000 as a yearling. It reminded me that it doesn't matter your background, your education level, your past or your current situation, you can win if you've got heart and grit and that's what Medina Spirit showed everyone on Saturday. A truly great comeback story at its best.
So, have you considered your life a story? Are you focused on writing a masterpiece?
If you look at a great story and every blockbuster movie, they follow a framework: