Cavemen Adapt and So Can You

So my friend Mark, who we affectionately call ‘Caveman’, is (like a caveman) adapting and evolving all the time. He is a semi-famous voice-over artist who constantly thinks out of the box. He’s always looking for different streams of income to steady the feast-or-famine income fluctuations that occur when you are a freelance artist.

His latest incarnation is a cooking blog and website called “Caution: Caveman Cooking”. Nice name, great recipes, cool pictures. Go visit it and see if you agree. I especially enjoy the Panang Chicken.

“So Dave”, you ask, “we get the shameless plug thing, but how does this relate to real estate?” Well, as my 8-year old says when he solves a math problem, “Easy-Peazy”. The point is that Mark is always moving forward. He doesn’t sit on his keester and wait for life to come to him. He realizes there are more avenues open to him than just voiceovers and he jumps into new ideas all the time. He takes action and welcomes change.

In my business, I also open myself up to new strategies all the time. Truth be told, I could stretch my horizons a little more than I do. A good business grows continuously. It becomes more valuable because it is constantly blossoming. It changes by moving forward.

Change and growth can happen in the administration of the business. Maybe a simple idea, like implementing a new marketing campaign, will promote growth. Or you buy a new software program for lead tracking, thus enabling you to leverage your time. Larger ideas, like making the big jump from residential real estate to commercial real estate can take more thought and planning, but still the train keeps moving forward down the tracks, and that’s what counts.

Education plays an important role when embracing change in your business. You might attend a new workshop on seller-financing or learn how to stage a house. Whatever it is, you will see that as you reach out to learn a new skill, you will align yourself with individuals and groups that will help you get where you want to go.

Just be open to new methods and new strategies. Meditate about them. Go ahead. It’s fun! Listen, we all know that people in general are too close-minded and set in their ways (yes this means YOU, human!). All I ask is that you try a few new things once in a while. This counts for your personal life too, by the way. But that’s a whole ‘nother column.

Now go cook some of Caveman’s Juicy Beer Can Chicken and I’ll see you next time.