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If Real Estate Clients Don’t Embrace Technology, It’s OK
Repetition is the key to learning, not only in the real estate business but for almost anything. I think back to my early guitar teacher: You must play this song at least 6 times in a row without a mistake to master it. Yes, grasshopper, but I wanted to play The Monster Mash not Red River Valley. To retain what you learn, you’ve got to use it, and that’s where consistency plays an important role. Doing the same thing over and over, yet improving on it.
I mean, I can fly by the seat of my pants as well as the next Sacramento real estate agent, but it makes more sense to have a rhythm and way of doing business. Not to mention, if one has a method, there is no question as to whether a task was completed or even how it was completed, because it’s always done the same way. It takes all of the guesswork out of it. But that doesn’t mean the method can’t be improved.
We really ought to strive to be continual life-long learners to fully participate in the world, while we’re still here. Not just in our personal life but particularly in our business life. Because things change. It’s not easy always keeping up with change. One day you’re told that, oh, for example, gluten is good, and you should read the fine print on every loaf of bread you buy to make sure it has gluten in it. Next day, gluten kills you and is evil. Or, how about the niacin and cholesterol thing? Do you know how it feels to take 3,000 mg of niacin? Ask the 8-year-old who insisted on taking it. I watched him. First his body turned red from waist up, then his head turned beet red, his ears quickly inflamed and his eyeballs exploded, just like in the cartoons.
I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking whaaa, niacin, you can’t take big ol’ gobs of niacin anymore? Yeah, 3 or 4 years ago, I don’t recall, new research showed that niacin wasn’t helping cholesterol and, in fact, could be bad for you when ingested in large dosages. You can’t take a fact, stick it in your head and rely on it forever. Which I find hugely distressing after going to all of the trouble to acquire it in the first place. If you don’t believe me, take a look at what happened since I was in school and learning about continents. Continental drift was a contested concept. Ditto Super Continent. Today, kids learn about Pangaea and watch videos of India slamming into Asia without batting an eye.
I’m constantly staying on top of things that change in Sacramento real estate and adapting, which means new technology and learning curves. A seller complained the other day I was too high-tech, what with my iPad shooting video of her home instead of taking notes. An iPad is just a convenience to doing more work better and faster. When it’s time for you to hire a Sacramento real estate agent, you should probably consider whether your agent works with the technology of 2013 because that’s how the industry interacts.
However, if you don’t like to use technology, that’s OK, too. I can still press my Bluetooth device to call you on your land line phone. I have a car, a driver’s license and I can drive over to see you.
Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916 233 6759 for your real estate needs. I answer my phone.
A Dinosaur Named Sue at The Field Museum
You might hear people say that certain types of dinosaurs are well suited to play piano, but I learned that is not true. Not true at all. Not even in the tiniest little bit. While it is indeed amusing to think about dinosaurs pecking away at the ivories, the truth is those Tyrannosaurus Rex guys couldn’t really play anything more complicated than Chopsicks. That’s because they have only two fingers on those tiny little hands. A T-Rex can only take selfies of her neck.
It’s kind of depressing to visit The Field Museum in Chicago because you learn these kinds of things. Right up front, when you walk in the door, there is Sue, the real Sue T-Rex, right there in front of your nose. I knew she was somewhere but I had no idea she was living at The Field Museum. I think they found almost all of her bones, too, unlike some of those other dinosaurs, including the guys from Spielberg’s movie — but those are up on the top floor, way in the back. And you have to wade through all of those depressing Mass Extinctions that happened when everybody was wiped off the face of the Earth, not once or twice, like you’d imagine but a whole bunch of times. So many that they pretty much lost count and started including some of the smaller mass extinctions in which only like 50% of the population of alive things died off.
That photo of Sue’s head is not her real head. Oh, her real head is at The Field Museum all right. It’s encased in glass in its own special exhibit. You might think it’s to stop you from poking at her enormous teeth and trying to feel the tips, but she’s in the glass case because her real head is too heavy to sit on top of her enormous body. Yup, that’s right, your head still stays fat and heavy even after millions of years of sitting in the sand and getting rained and snowed on now and then. There were all of those glaciers, too, and chunks of land splitting off, India slamming into Asia, although South Dakota stayed pretty much intact.
I hate to admit this but it was only recently that I learned about the Super Continent. All of my life I had suspected that South America had once been part of Africa, and a few years ago I discovered it was true. That was an amazing discovery for me because this was not something I had learned in school. It’s not that I was sleeping through my classes; I received a lot of A’s and stars and learned how to play nicely with others. But I did not realize that new things were being discovered about the earth each and every single day to the point that the entire way our planet was formed had changed overnight, and every person on earth knew about the Super Continent and Pangaea, except me.
This is what happens when you’re busy selling Sacramento real estate.
