Are You Ready to Raise the Bar in Your Real Estate Business?

 Have you ever had one of those days that you just felt like quitting? And when it came time, did you quit or push a little bit further? How did you feel after your decision? Each day we get the opportunity to raise or lower our personal bar in life. The choice we make has a huge impact on our confidence, growth, goal accomplishment, and quality of life.

Demanding a little more from yourself or pushing a little further each time you do something are both examples of raising the bar. It is our own responsibility and choice to raise the bar - no can raise it for us. The good news is that we benefit when making this choice and we know that these benefits come directly from our own actions.

Let’s consider an example. Suppose it is important for you to save money. If you’ve not started a savings account yet, one way of raising the bar is to actually go set up the account and commit to saving a small amount each month. Later, you could raise the bar by taking all the money you would have spent on impulse buying and putting that into your savings account. When starting any new habit, start small to make sure you experience success. Then, raise the bar over time.

Unfortunately, we are often our own worst critic. We set goals and when we fail to reach them, our critic has lots of ammunition to help us lower the bar. It takes patience and perseverance to overcome years of habit based on self-criticism around the action or inaction we have taken. One way to overcome a habit based on self-criticism to substitute it for the raising the bar strategy. Step by step, you learn to transform this self-criticism into self-confidence and consistent goal accomplishment.

Raising the bar is neither hard nor complex and everyone can do it. The hard part is that no one can make you do this – it must be your own choice. Once chosen, your challenge then becomes to consistently do what you committed to do.

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