A rollercoaster of a ride today
I started my day by attending a Century 21 sponsored seminar by motivational speaker, Mike Lipkin. His message was not neccessarily designed for REALTORs, but inspirational, nonetheless. One of his messages was keeping your eye on the prize. And, his style and delivery was, somewhat, unique in that Mike's perspective is a world perspective. You see, he is a South African living in Canada. While not emersing himself into our presidential politics, he informed the audience of perceptions outside our borders of the race for the White House.
Mike spoke of preparedness, being present, being generous, thinking big, listenening magnetically and energizing yourself; among other topics. Now, all of this is not new to me, but it has helped me to refocus and recharge. We all get distracted at times, right?
With the stock market tanking another day, I realized this evening how strongly I absorbed his message. Yesterday morning I called my 401K administrator and made an appointment to make changes to my plan today. I went into the meeting intent upon cutting my loses. I wanted to protect my assests, as best I could. However, I did retain an open mind to what the expert had to say. She was honest enough to say nobody knows how far this market will swing. She did make it clear that she would do whatever I instructed her to do and I didn't need to make a decision today.
At at the end of the day, with mind over emotion, I remained in the game. I had taken Mike's message to heart. Unknowingly, at the time,I recognized the prize, for me and my family, is a more secure retirement that unfortunately will come now later rather than sooner.
As I write this, looking back over the last twenty-four hours, I went from two emotional highs; learning a nephew became a father for the first time and getting pumped by a motivational speaker to learning the market plunged 500 points, to making modest, not radical, changes to investments. On top of it all, the evening was capped with the presidential debate without a stated plan, by either party, to get us out of this economic mess. Coney Island's Cyclone was never as wild a ride as my emotions have run today. I think I will sleep well tonight knowing tomorrow I'll renwew my commitment to raise the level of my service to my clients and customers. |
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