Advantage Solutions E-News A monthly newsletter from Coach Joeann Fossland

October 2003 ISSUE Joeann's Musings & A Little Administrivia Sponsor Message Advantage Thinking:  Will 2004 Be Your Best Year Ever? On The Side: 1. Fossland's Free Forums 2. The Real Estate Game 3.Some Great Resources 4.Living On Purpose Business Planning Retreats 5. Borrowed Wisdom 6. Contact and Subscribe/Unsubscribe information   Fossland's Free Forums: The upcoming events Winning The Real Estate Game With Patti Kaprelian  Thursday  October 23     9:30 AM Pacific Time Patti Kaprelian is a Coach EXTRAORDINAIRE. She is one of The Real Estate Game(tm) Certified leaders and has experience as a former top producer. You'll hear ideas that will help you be more successful in the coming year. The Best of NAR  with Joeann Fossland   Tuesday Nov 18    9 AM Pacific Time I'll be taking notes, visiting the trade show and listening in on the buzz in San Francisco at the National REALTORS Convention. In this teleconference, you'll hear what's new and what are the hot topics that you'll want to be aware of to stay on top of the trends. Register by replying to this email with Topic, your name, city, company,and phone  Please note: times above are Pacific Daylight (California) Time, please adjust for your time zone or at http://www.joeann.com/classesregistration.htm      Want to Work less...AND make more! PLAY THE REAL ESTATE GAMEÔ THE REAL ESTATE GAMEÔ   A daily, 15 minute teleconference call connects you to group coaching to give you focus for 4 straight weeks!   The Next Game Begins:   October 6   6:45 AM Pacific 9:45 AM EDT   For complete information: www.TheRealEstateGame.com     *Complete Money Back Guarantee of Satisfaction Some Great Resources   Joeann's Resources: I am always adding new vendors and products that you can get with a special discount from me. Visit http://www.joeann.com/personalempowerment.htm often to check it out. These resources that will make you money, save you time and give you the edge!   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  MARKET AND PROSPECT LIKE CRAZY! LIST AND SELL REAL ESTATE LIKE CRAZY! GET BALANCED OR GET CRAZY! My friend and colleague, Bernice Ross, who facilitated a great teleconference last month,  has three new series of tapes to give you the 21st Century Tools to succeed. By clicking above (or pasting this address into your browser: http://www.profcs.com/app/aftrack.asp?afid=95695   ) You can visit her site to see those and a whole lot of other resources... Want to know how suited you are for real estate? Take the Simulator test: http://www.realestatecoach.com/featured/simulator.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Want to be more successful, lose weight, stop smoking? Changing your thinking will change your results. Here are some products and cool programs.  Take a look and see if anything would be on target for your needs! THINK RIGHT is about changing your patterns that are taking you in the wrong  direction!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Working Solo? Terri Lonier, the Queen of Working Solo, has put together a weekly teleconference to help you be more productive, get more from your marketing and learn how to work better out of a home office. Click here to read about it! or go to http://www.mcssl.com/app/aftrack.asp?afid=102169 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Free Technology Courses Online If you'd like to learn all about wireless or how to use Outlook more effectively, the Hewlett Packard Learning Center has courses to help you. You can paste this link http://www.hplearningcenter.com to see the courses available and to sign up. They are self paced and a wealth of information.       2003 Living On Purpose Business Planning Retreats Marilyn Urso doubled her business in the two years after attending a Living On Purpose Retreat! Limited :  25 spots available in each retreat. Save $50 by registering Now. Early Bird Register $545    EAST COAST: October 10-12 Long Island   THE WEST: October 31 Nov 1 & 2   Tucson   WEST COAST: November 10-12  San Francisco   http://www.joeann.com/gameretreats.htm   BORROWED WISDOM FACT: Save 15 minutes a day and you'll gain 2 weeks this year!   "Half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough." – Josh Billings "The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have." John D. Rockefeller III, Philanthropist "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."  Helen Keller Contact Joeann Fossland,  ePro,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 Website: http://www.joeann.com THE SMALL PRINT   PRIVACY POLICY Advantage Solutions E-News is a free, opt-in monthly email newsletter published by Joeann Fossland, Master Certified Coach   I will never, EVER, sell or rent your name or email address to anyone! SUBSCRIBE OR REMOVE: Simply email your contact information to subscribe@joeann.com or remove@joeann.com Please send your comments, ideas and suggestions to me at Joeann@joeann.com Copyright Joeann Fossland, 2003. All rights reserved. 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Joeann's Musings & A Little Administrivia Spam, spam and more spam.... Have you, like me, experienced frustration with the volume of unsolicited mail? I have been using a program called Mailwasher that lets me delete, bounce and filter mail before it comes into my computer. It is free and available at www.mailwasher.net    Unfortunately,the other side of this is that many ISP's are trying to help you by deciding for you what mail is legitimate and what is spam. This results in your mail being censored and you not getting some mail that you might want. It is called a false positive. My newsletter is often filtered since it is sent to 9000+ ACTION TO TAKE:  Please enter my address joeann@joeann.com into your address book and it will help make sure you get each issue. Do this with the return address of others whose mail is important to you. Also, my newsletter is always posted at www.joeann.com/newsletter.htm as well as the archive of the back issues, if you do miss an issue or just want to check out the latest free teleconferences. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HELP ME HELP OTHERS: Beginning this month, I will be donating 5 cents for each new subscriber to The Hearth Foundation-A Tucson based foundation that provides housing for homeless women and children. I always appreciate it when you forward my newsletter to others and now we will all be making a difference, as well.  I welcome all the new subscribers this month and hope that as a new or old subscriber, you will continue to read and, perhaps, participate in a free teleconference or one of my other offerings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Also, my newsletter is featuring a sponsor who is offering a service that I believe fits in with your needs, if you are targeting the FSBO niche. Please check out the For Sale By Owner Real Estate Network at http://www.FSBORE.com   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MONTHLY MUSINGS: My granddaughter, Lily, turns 2 this month. My goodness, where does the time go? As most of you know, my husband and I have been raising her full time.   Lily's arrival and our need to parent full time is an example of the universe answering a request I'd been putting out for several years. You've heard that you need to be careful of what you ask for or, at least, specific when you fashion your dreams and requests to the universe.   For several year's running, when I planned the following year, my plan was that my workweek be 30 hours. My Type A personality had not sufficiently been able to relax enough (Shakti Gawain in her wonderful book, Creating True Prosperity, says the opposite of working hard is relaxation, instead of what I had always though, laziness! ) to stop putting in 40-50 hours a week.   But Lily has changed all that. Being a full time mom, as many of you know firsthand, requires your attention, not necessarily in ways that can all be preplanned. Babies get sick, or don't take naps when you had planned... My days have a lot more space in them where I can go with the flow, instead of tightly scheduled. I am choosing fewer "battles" to fight and asking myself when up against a roadblock,"Is this worth stealing my peace or expending time and energy on?" or should I let it roll off my shoulders and find another road? The beauty of it all is that I am having LOTS of fun and, monetarily, I am on track to have my best year ever. Go figure!!!!! So, be careful of what you ask for...it may not show up in the way you think. Is there someplace you haven't attained your ideal?  Is there an action you could take today to bring you closer to that ideal? Or something you can give up that will lift a weight off your shoulders? This month, if life gives you a roadblock, look for a new road :>)   SPONSOR MESSAGE FSBO Prospecting in the 21st Century For Sale By Owner Real Estate Network, the for sale by owner web site for REALTORS ! The For Sale By Owner Real Estate Network  was built from the ground up for REALTORS to work FSBOs - . Exclusive city areas available now in all 50 states covering 29,000 plus cities and towns. Visit http://www.FSBORE.com Note from Joeann: For more on Prospecting FSBOs in the 21st Century, here's a link to one of my articles. Click the title or paste this address into your browser: http://realtytimes.com/rtnews/rtapages/20011026_fsbo21.htm   ADVANTAGE THINKING:Will 2004 Be Your Best Year Ever? Position Yourself for the rest of the year and beyond.....   I know we visited this topic in my last newsletter, but I believe attending to this is the best thing you could do for your future prosperity. Since my last newsletter,  I hosted a free teleconference and wrote an article on What you Should Do Now!   THE TELECONFERENCE  is available for the next 2 weeks, after 6 PM EDT weekdays or any time on the weekend. To listen to the teleconference:   Dial 1-620-584-8231 Then enter pin   8119#  (you will hear "dead air") Press *3 The conference # is 3   THE ARTICLE: The Top 10 Things To Do Now To Guarantee 2004 will be the Best Year Ever!!! The last quarter of the year is when smart agents begin to plan the coming year. By doing this planning, they start the new year with their strategies and plans in place ready to be implemented. If you want to hit the ground running in January and position yourself for the best year you’ve ever had, here are the things you should do now. 1. Call as many people as possible in your sphere of influence and farm areas that you have an active relationship with.  Ask their permission to be in contact with them and ask what kind of contact they prefer. Use this as an opportunity to get more email addresses and make a nice warm call. Stirring up the cosmic dust in this way usually will result in some business, too. 2. Plan when you will do your business planning for 2004. Set aside a full day. Put it in your calendar now. You may want to schedule a weekend away to do this or go to a formal Business Planning Retreat.