A lot of new real estate agents are told that they need a mentor. Why? Because that is what the agent before them did. Real estate is a very "hand-me-down" industry. The thought is that an experienced agent will give you the tools and expertise to achieve the success you desire. 

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Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, Lead Coach for Real Impact Coaching and today's impact comes from Fran Lebowitz, who said, "Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home."

Unless we're a hermit, we're going to be around people and people don't always play...

Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, Lead Coach for Real Impact Coaching and today's impact comes from Jackie Joyner-Kersee who said "Age is no barrier, it's a limitation you put on your mind."

A lot of times we can think I'm too young or I'm too old (or whatever that might...

Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, Lead Coach for Real Impact Coaching and today's impact thought comes from Dorothy Day. She said "A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that."

You know, it's...

Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, Lead Coach for Real Impact Coaching and today's impact moment from Reverend Phillip Brooks. He said, "Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men."

I have also heard Jim Rohn say, "Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better" and...

Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, Lead Coach for Real Impact Coaching and today's impact comes from Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who said, "If we assume we've arrived, we stopped searching. We stopped developing."

There are so many people that will finish high school or college...

Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, Lead Coach for Real Impact Coaching and today's impact thought comes from Walter Lippmann who said "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."

So true. If you find yourself in a place of groupthink, of unchallenged norms, the conformity that...

Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, Lead Coach for Real Impact Coaching. Today's impact thought comes from Marie Curie. And she said "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves, we must believe that we are...

Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, Lead Coach for Real Impact Coaching, and today's real impact thought comes from Nelson Mandela. And he says, "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged, to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." isn't that true?

Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, Lead Coach for Real Impact Coaching and today's impact thought comes from Svetlana Alexievich and it's "What can art accomplish? The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being."

You know, the fact of the matter is, is in our...

Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, Lead Coach for Real Impact Coaching. Another impact thought is by John D. Rockefeller who said, "I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm than a man who knows everything."

So true, so true. You know, the person who's enthusiastic, who's filled...

Welcome to Real Impact Minute. I'm Mark Simpson, the lead coach with Real Impact Coaching and today's impact thought comes from Golda Meir who said, "Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

What I love about that quote is it coincides...