Published Monthly by Joeann Fossland, GRI, LTG
Coaching High Achievers For Success In The Game of Life
(520)744-8731
email: Joeann@joeann.com
(800)597-4196 Fax
ADvantage Solutions, LLC PO Box 133 Cortaro, AZ
85652
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Advantage Solutions E-News
A monthly
newsletter from Coach Joeann Fossland |
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TODAY'S ISSUE |
- Australia..in 4
weeks (or less)
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Vacations CAUSE
Productivity
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Quieting The
Static
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The NEW Business
Skill
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Borrowed Wisdom
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Resources
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PREVIEW.... |
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Living on Purpose Business Planning
Retreat
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An opportunity for 20 top agents to
work with Coach John Smith
and me during a 3 day weekend,
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You will:
~~~Develop a written 2003 Business and
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~~~Determine clarity of a personal
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~~~Focus on
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October
4-6 Scottsdale, AZ
Only $595
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The Real Estate Game |
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A 15
minute group coaching call every M-F
for 4 weeks.
Here's
what a recent participant had to say:
"Coach, you just helped me create my
best real estate sales month of
all-time! As I was playing "The Real
Estate Game" through the spring
market, March 2002 was the month I
recorded my first "triple double"!
That is, I took 14 listings, had 12
Listings Sold, and 13 Buyer Sales!!
In just one month, I put together 25
transactions! The previous year, I
put together 109. The first 15
minutes of the day is more important
than you think! Thanks again! "
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Ted Burton Jacobsen, Coralville, Iowa
August 5 7:45 AM PDT
A few spaces left!
August 19 6:45 AM PDT
Limited to 20
PDT=California Time :>)
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FREE TELECONFERENCES |
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To participate:
Send an email to:
Joeann's Book Club
August 22 8 AM PDT
New! Each month we will read a book
and discuss it!
The August Book is:
Free Seminars
with some of the top Real Estate
Trainers
Register
at
www.myseminars.com
Choose
event schedule and then sign up!!!!.
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Snap
Into Action: Increase Your Production
The 1st
Friday each month at 8 AM PDT 11 AM
EDT
The Real
Estate Coach Group, of which I am a
participant in, offers a free
teleconference,demonstrating the
coaching process with a different
agent and their challenges. You are
invited!
Paste
www.RealEstateCoach.com in your
browser, and sign up for the call!!!
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CONTACT |
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Joeann Fossland,
GRI,LTG,RECS Master Certified Coach
Advantage
Solutions Group
P O Box 133
Cortaro, AZ 85652
Phone: 520.744.8731
Fax: 800.597.4196
Email:
joeann@joeann.com
URL:
http://www.joeann.com
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Australia...in 4 weeks (or less) |
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So, I took the advice of my good friend,
Leonardo Da Vinci who recommended:"Every
now and then go away, have a little
relaxation, for when you come back to your
work your judgment will be surer. So some
distance away because then the work appears
smaller and more of it can be taken in at a
glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is
more readily seen."
My
hubby, Bub, and I had a fantastic, whirlwind
of a trip to the land of OZ! Where they say
"No Worry" to most everything! I was enchanted
to see kangaroos, camels, emus, eagles and
lorikeets moseying around in the outback and
not so outback!
We
started in Sydney and then took the train all
the way across the country to Perth, flew to
Alice Springs and drove to Ayres Rock and then
flew to Brisbane and visited the Gold and
Sunshine Coasts before taking another train to
Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef and Mossman
at the edge of the oldest rainforest on this
planet!
Photos
and commentary will be posted for those
interested at
www.joeann.com/oz02.htm . I spoke at an
International Coaches Federation Australasian
Conference and at a ICF chapter conference on
the beautiful Sunshine Coast and honed my
coaching skills while meeting many wonderful
and fascinating people. It was a wonderful
opportunity to get a renewed perspective and
reassess many things.
Real
estate, I learned, is done quite differently,
with no MLS or lockboxes, a much lower average
commission and many homes sold by auction. It
appeared to me that they work a lot harder for
their sales....We will be kicking off some
Aussie Real Estate Games in the next few
months and I am excited to have some good
friends there who can educate me as this
global economy makes it important for each of
us to know what is happening beyond the
boundaries of our comfort zones. It got me
thinking outside the box!
From a
technology standpoint, the world has certainly
become a smaller place! I took my TREO 180 and
my Dell laptop. Before leaving, I confirmed I
could make and receive calls in Australia.
When we landed in Sydney, my phone found the
network immediately and it was rare during the
entire 4 weeks that I wasn't in range. This
meant someone could call my local Tucson
number and it rang right there in Australia.
There was no programming or special numbers or
anything. It was also easy to dial home and
check for messages each day (although I did
have to pay 99 cents a minute). I use
Earthlink for my ISP and had downloaded the
local numbers for the cities we were visiting.
I did have to reprogram the number for Outlook
to dial in each city, but had no problems
connecting, even in the outback. While I had
told everyone I wasn't working on this
vacation, it did allow me to stay connected
when I felt like it. I can see how it would be
easy if you wanted to (though I can't imagine
why) stay connected and do business "as usual"
to do so-though you might have people calling
you at 3 AM :>)
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Vacations CAUSE
Productivity! |
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Vacations make you
prioritize & focus
Since
we planned to be gone for 4 weeks, it was
important for me to cover all the bases. The
great news is that I must not be all that
important, because things hummed right along
without me. I left a message on my phone
machine that I would be out the entire month
of July and received few phone messages.
Now, the good news is that most people take
more time to plan their vacations than their
businesses! Well, maybe it isn't good news if
the business is important...
But
the inclusion of personal and family and
enjoyment time are integral to you being able
to work at peak productivity. You know the old
saying that the most productive day of the
year is the day before vacation.It is so
because you bring a focus and prioritization
to that day that allows you to accomplish
about triple what you normally do.
COACHES TIP>Why
not pretend for 1 day a week this month that
you'll be gone the rest of the week and work
to get everything done so that it can happen.
You might even want to schedule some time off
to make it real!
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Quieting The Static |
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Vacations are one
way to re-connect with yourself
If your average day is anything like mine,
you probably have lots of people and
situations wanting your attention and time.
Sometimes, it feels like I am the ball in the
pinball machine, being thrown from one side of
the box to the other and then
whoosh...something comes along and sends me in
an entirely different direction.
That
perspective that Da Vinci speaks of is hard to
have when you are in the middle of reacting
to the urgent (or what
someone
else feels
is urgent for you to attend to!)
Our
time away reminded me how important it is to
have those moments of calm within EVERY day to
keep myself sane and be able to hear myself
and attend to my needs while attending to the
chaos.
COACHES TIP>Besides
a vacation, a conscious blocking of time to do
planning and re-assessment for personal and
business can put new life into the ho-hum day
to day. Consider something like the
Living On Purpose Business Planning Retreat or
put on your calendar RIGHT NOW when you are
going to plan 2003!
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The NEW Business
Skill |
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Harvard Business
Review says meditation and intuition are the
two most important skills for leaders in the
21st Century!
I must
confess....I am guilty of having an ongoing
and nagging conversation within my head
between the one who says "Meditation is what
you need to be doing regularly." and the one
who says, "I don't have time." I wish I could
tell you I am self-disciplined and practice
meditation daily, but I struggle to get myself
to sit still.
During
our vacation, however, I did meditate daily
and I am bringing that back to my "real" life
this month.
I KNOW
I make better decisions and work much more
effectively with less suffering when I take 15
minutes to stop the external chatter.
by
David Harp and Nina Feldman
It's a
quick and easy read with simple ways to use
mediation to further your effectiveness.
Try it
for a month and let me know the results.
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Borrowed
Wisdom |
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"Imagine
life as a game in which you are juggling
some five balls in
the air.
You name them - work, family, health,
friends and
spirit, and
you're keeping all of these in the air.
You will soon
understand
that work is a rubber ball. If you drop
it, it will bounce
back. But
the other four balls - family, health,
friends and spirit
are made of
glass. If you drop one of these, they
will be irrevocably
scuffed,
marked, nicked, damaged, or even
shattered. They will never
be the
same. You must understand that and
strive for balance in your
life."
- Brian Dyson - CEO Coca Cola
Enterprises
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Resources |
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A couple of things to make you
more productive!
1.
Using keystrokes can often
perform a function quickly.
Here is a great article from
PCWorld on some you may not
know!
2. If you like the idea of
doing a newsletter or having
templates for your email, High
Impact Mail has a free trial
version. That's what I have
created this newsletter from.
There is a link at the bottom
that will take you to their
site!
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