Don't Be a Secret Agent!

The more involved you become in community activities, the more connections you will create

with potential clients. Here are some tips for strengthening your business as you help others.

• Invite an A+ client to lunch. This will be a great opportunity for you to make personal contact with your best clients.

• Organize a client party to acknowledge your advocates and introduce them to one another for a fun event that will lead to more referrals.

• Host a house-warming party for one of your clients.

• Offer to write a real estate advice column in a local community newspaper.

• Plan a community picnic at a local park.

• Become a volunteer. To find opportunities, visit:

United States: www.serve.gov

Canada: www.volunteer.ca

• Sponsor a local sports team or become a coach.

• Host a booth at a neighborhood street fair.

• Partner with a local insurance agent to help homeowners valuate their property insurance needs.

• Take part in neighborhood cleanup drives.

• Organize or sponsor a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) class for local residents.

• Contact local social service clubs to find out if they would benefit from a real-estate-related presentation.

• Host a community garage sale. Market the event by setting out signs and placing ads in newspapers.  Use this opportunity to socialize with participants.

Become a Peak Producer

If you want to be the best you can be, and who doesn't?...why not start with our Peak Producer class that starts April 23?  It is an amazing new program offered by Buffini and Company that we have the pleasure of offering here at BCS Real Estate School.  It is a 12 week program that will absolutely change your business and your attitude about your business.


If you are interested in more information on this great program, please email me at: LoriTheTrainer@gmail.com and I will send you a video and flyer with more information, or call me at:  918-344-5656.


Helping You, Help Others,
Lori The Trainer

Some Great Maya Angelou Quotes

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
 
― Maya Angelou


“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
 
― Maya Angelou


“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
 
― Maya Angelou


“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”
 
― Maya Angelou


“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”
 
― Maya Angelou


“Nothing will work unless you do.”
 
― Maya Angelou

Carrots, Eggs, and Coffee

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, 'Tell me what you see.'

'Carrots, eggs, and coffee,' she replied.

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.

Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked,'What does it mean, mother?'

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

'Which are you?' she asked her daughter. 'When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?

Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. 


Helping You, Help Others
Lori The Trainer

The Two Wolves

I was just thinking about this story the other day and wanted to share it with you.


A native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one."

The grandson asked him, which wolf will win the fight in your heart?

The grandfather answered: "The one I feed."


It is so true.  We have to be careful to "feed" the right part of our hearts.  If we allow negative people and thoughts to be a part of our day, we are feeding the "vengeful, angry wolf" inside each of us.  


We control what we allow in our hearts and minds, and I know there are many days that I allow negative thoughts to rule my day.  We all do that from time to time.  I am going to strive to focus on allowing people and thoughts into my life that will build me up, encourage me, and help me be the best I can be.  So, fair notice to the negative thoughts in the world...I don't have time for you!

Helping You, Help Others,
Lori The Trainer

Coming Soon...BCS Real Estate School...Stay tuned for information and class calendar for Bryan/College Station's Real Estate School.  We will be offering CORE, Legal, Ethics and MCE!