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Life Lessons ~ Part 1

   

Jumping fish

   At times, we will have periods in which we doubt as to whether the career path we have chosen is an appropriate fit for us. In fact, on the average, you can expect to have between three and five career changes during your lifetime, and up to six job changes within a career.  Whether you are a Home Stager, Realtor, or loan broker these bits of advice from others in this series, may tell you something that you have been needing to hear - right now.

     "Inevitably, if you aim high enough, you will be buffeted by demands of family, friends and employment that will conspire to distract you....You will find your strongest beliefs ridiculed and challenged; principles that you cherish may be derisively dismissed by those claiming to be more practical  or realistic than you.  But no matter how weary you may become in persuading others to see the value in what you value, have courage still - and persevere." 

 ~ Madeline Albright, 64th U.S Secretary of State ~

      

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21 comments • Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes • November 23 2007 11:33AM

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Marvelous timely and insightful words for my morning Kathleen. These feel like a lovely soothing balm.

I have had several career changes and am in the midst of establishing another one - still in the process of following my bliss, while others around me are retiring, having already made their way.

Thanks - great post - I love the image - reminds me of how our Pacific salmon leap upstream.

Posted by Deborah Pearce (Living Spaces Interiors & Home Staging) over 2 years ago
Career change is great so long as it is motivated by a desire to improve and not by a desire to escape. 
Posted by Rosario Lewis, GRI ~ DDR Realty, Orange County, NY (DDR Realty) over 2 years ago
Nice post, and love the pic.  Five career changes sounds like quite a few...I think I'll be in real estate a good long while!
Posted by JenRan Realty, LLC over 2 years ago
Kathleen, You are such a wise woman! Thank you for giving us a wonderful peek into encouragement to keep on trying and trying and trying. What a great choice you made in using perseverance as a starting point.
Posted by Yvonne Root Northern Arizona Home Stager (rooms b.y. root) over 2 years ago

Good stuff, Kath........

I love that picture too!!

That fish is goin places!!

\O/

Posted by Chicago, Illinois homes for sale ---- Alexander Harb (My Real Estate Referral L.L.C.) over 2 years ago
Oh man Kathleen, I'm old enough to have written that book!  And don't ya just love Madeline Albright?
Posted by Terry Haugen STAGE it RIGHT! 321-956-2495 (Stage it Right!) over 2 years ago
Deborah - I am glad that this post was timely for you. This is a tiny salmon wannabee.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Rosario-Yes, the escape clause only lasts so long - change can move one ahead.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Jennifer - You don't have to ever change - just most people move around a bit.  If you love it and it works for you , why change jobs?
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Yvonne - Thank you for that compliment - perseverance has been very important in my life.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Alexander - We are all swimming upstream - just keep on swimming.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Terry - Apparently some of us get older and wiser. I include you in that.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Thank you Kathleen.  Yeah sometimes wiser and sometimes not so wiser.  It all depends on how we apply those life's lessons :-)
Posted by Terry Haugen STAGE it RIGHT! 321-956-2495 (Stage it Right!) over 2 years ago
Kathleen ~ What a great quote! I think I need to put that one up on the bulletin board over my desk.  It can be so hard sometimes, add all the above in, plus a "day job" and sometimes you wonder about what you are trying to accomplish with a business.
Posted by Kathy Passarette, L.I. Staging/Decorating (Creative Home Expressions) over 2 years ago
Kathy - There are more quotes coming - just trying to get a good start on a  crazy time of year for my company.  We do seasonal decorating and are staging (theater style) a children's musical for a church and some commercial decorating.  The quotes are for me to remember as well.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Kathleen, I found the quote to be distressing. Loved ones around us should be supporting us instead of ridiculing and challenging our principles. Could Madeline Albright have made this statement about her own family? Co-workers? Probably. It's unfortunate but true that a woman that holds the position she did would be under attack. Please forgive me for this response but I felt compelled to tell it like it is. IF she felt that way it is very sad. It just means that although she was giving her best, others around her didn't want her to have the best. Maybe it was jealousy or fear or contempt for her success. If I have misunderstood then I apologize but this quote made me want to respond with a huge defense for her! Her quote does show that she kept her chin up and persevered and did the best she could. God bless her and all the people who believe! Deb
Posted by Lake Livingston Real Estate by Deb Brooks over 2 years ago

Hi Kathleen -- Encouraging post to be sure.  Madeline Albright was a feisty lady indeed, and stood tall despite her actual height, for America.  In fact, in an interview with Elisabeth Eaves, she spoke of the American Dream, which aptly applies to our profession: "The American Dream means being part of a society that allows you to be or do whatever you want, and to have a sense that your individual optimism and hard work will be rewarded."  Sign me up!

Posted by Terry Rasner-Yacenda (Broker Owner - Sellstate Dreams Realty) over 2 years ago
Kathleen, wonderful post.  There have been many times over the past year and a half when Margo and I didn't always receive the support we needed - but just like the little fish we have persevered and things seem to be moving along 'swimmingly' (couldn't resist).  We find now that we tend to encourage our friends and relatives more in their new endeavors then we did before.  Thanks for the post.  Betty
Posted by Betty Haney (Haney Consulting) over 2 years ago
Debra - I am sure that she had a lot of opposition along the way - generally goes with that kind of a high profile job, but still is hard to take. 
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago

Terry - Sign me up too - I don't mind the hard work - I work with purpose.

Thanks for that quote - I hope everyone catches it. 

Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Betty - I am sure that you and Margo are great encouragers- we all neeed that no matter what careers we chose, but in those areas where staging is not the norm - we need it even more.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago

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