Musings
Football is Life
As I was taking my morning walk earlier in the week and reflecting on the Auckland Football Club (AFC) win on Saturday, I started thinking about sport and performance. This team has gone from non-existence to league winner in 2 years. Remarkable. As my mind rambled away I came across the phrase ‘Football is Life,’… Read more »
Not Good Enough, An Argument for Higher Standards
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my business and my professional profile, and how it appears to those looking in and looking at. The internet is our main street and the pages about ‘us’ are our shop window. Our first meeting with people is going to be what is being presented digitally. I… Read more »
Remote Work
Remote Working and In-person events. I think I have been inclined to underestimate the importance of face-to-face interactions for staff. We recently had a get together in Auckland, for NZ based staff and salespeople, plus a contingent from eXp international. I was slightly abashed to realise I was walking into a room with a number… Read more »
A Perspective of Grace
Goals We set them, sometimes we hit them, often we forget them, and regularly, despite our best efforts, they don’t eventuate. And like other things that are ‘hard’ like exercising regularly, committing to taking ice baths, and deciding on a savings plan, goals are not only tricky to commit to, I would argue that they… Read more »
You can live, or you can lie.
I was listening to Micheal Kiwanuku the other day and I noticed this line (I always thought it was ‘You can live or you can die’) and it really got me thinking. That feeling of dying inside when you are cornered in a situation is how this spoke to me. I think that honesty with… Read more »
The Highest Paid Telemarketer
I had the pleasure of hosting a ‘back to basics’ accountability session with members of the team who wanted to be held accountable for basic metrics. I was expecting dozens of attendees, some fresh faces maybe, maybe some people who were struggling to get business together. It may not surprise you that it was four… Read more »
The Uncertainty Principal
Did I tell you that I spent some time travelling last month… The best bit about plane rides is reading, well when you get sick of movies anyway. I picked up a Stephen Hawkins book at the airport for some light reading as I flew over the Indian Ocean. I learnt that you can’t measure… Read more »
South Africa…
60 hours of traveling time in the space of a week… That was me last week, as I headed over to South Africa for my first eXp conference (eXpCon) as a part of the organisation. There were several elements of the trip that blew me away – today I am going to just look at… Read more »
Fish Spines
“I am so damn angry with myself, this should NEVER have happened.” I spent a day late last year travelling to, waiting around in, and coming back home from a small hospital in East Auckland for the removal of a fish spine in my finger. I took my son, my brother-in-law, and my nephew out… Read more »