Tuesday Night Tunes – Family Reunion
I just got back from Phoenix. It’s been busy getting caught up from being gone almost a week but I am almost there. The blog has been lacking and I’ll do something about it now that I’m home. Tonight’s installment was inspired by this Keller Williams event we call Family Reunion.
When I turned on the computer tonight I found an email from Spotify showcasing Paul Thorn and an album called Hammer and Nail. I’m listening to it on Google All Play and I can recommend the whole album. He has some great lyrics and he writes what he knows about. Great sound and fun to listen to.
Anyway, I could not find that on YouTube to share (at least not a high quality one) so here is another cut that he does and it even fits the theme of Family Reunion.
Now our Family Reunion was not like his (if you skipped the song, go play it) because I found some great new friends and connected with some old ones.
Meeting up with 11,000 top agents out of a company of 95,000 is a great experience. We attended over 30 hours of training, sharing, encouragement and inspiration. Gary Keller and Jay Papasan wrote a great book called The One Thing and I attended about 4 hours of classes around that book. Creating habits (to remove the need for disciple), focus in the important stuff and elimination of the distraction of multi-tasking. The book is a bit radical but I believe it is a way to succeed in a world of distraction.
After all those classes it was really hard to keep track of what I had seen and learned. I took lots of notes but after that many hours it all runs together. My solution was to reserve an extra day to decompress but I needed a place to do it.
I found TGI Friday’s at the Chase Field where the Arizona Diamondbacks play baseball. I took this picture with my phone using the global setting so it took about 15 images and stitched them together into this huge picture.
Click on it to check it out.
Anyway, Shanna was my server and she took great care of me. I had lunch and met a bunch more great people from the reunion and as they filtered out it got quiet. I moved to a smaller table but still with a great view of the workers laying sod getting ready for the season and while this picture doesn’t show it, the roof was open most of the day. Such a great place to begin to process all those notes and ideas into a plan. We have to take time to do this after a conference or it just become edutainment instead of something we actually use.
Time flattens our memory of events. I saw a TV show about people who can remember everything they have ever experienced. I mean everything. Things like lunch on Dec 12, 1983. All the details. They describe the feeling as though they are living the event again when they remember it. The smells, sounds, etc of where the were when they remember it. For the rest of us it is flatter. Less colorful. More about some of the details that stood out and less like an experience that we had. These folks said they felt sorry for us ‘normal’ ones because we miss out on the memories.
I can tell you a lot about all the places I have traveled to by the food I ate. Maybe because it engages more of the senses when we eat. I don’t know but I do know if we are ‘normal’ in our memories we have to work to remember things.
I think that is the danger of attending a conference like this. If you don’t process it into a very short list (one thing?) that you are going to do, it just flattens out and we go back to the way it was before the event.
Anyway, this got a lot longer than I expected so I’m cutting it off. Come back and check out the next few articles. I will be covering the market info. Things like how we lost about 30% in the crash but have regained over 2/3s of that. We are in a sellers market and prices have increased to where most of us are not under water. Check back soon.
Thanks for listening,
Jerry Robertson
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