Marketing is always on my “to-do” list. As a Realtor, I only get paid when a home
closes. I can market my services to
someone for years, only to have them, when they are ready to work with a
realtor, chose the first one who crosses their path, so I have to constantly
keep marketing to keep my name first in their minds. In today’s COVID19 stress filled world,
though, it is hard to know how to do that. There are a massive amount of
companies and “speakers” who want to tell me how to do it and more importantly
sell me THEIR product to help me do it, but in my head, I keep pointing out to
myself, that we’ve never been in this situation before, so you are only
guessing on what will work, you really don’t know any more than I know and am
already doing. That said, the company
keeps providing me with more and more resources to help me not only do business
in a virtual reality real estate world, but to market myself in it as well, but
that does get back to all those webnars, podcasts and virtual meetings that I
need to sit through.
Making masks has a certain appeal, as I can actually finish
several masks and see progress!! Rather than just feel like I am moving things
around, once I’ve found the right pattern and the right materials, of course.
Over the past few years, Mike has gradually taken over doing
more and more of the cooking, but now I find myself looking for something to
creatively fix – today I actually went out to the yard and picked wild violets,
because a recent St Louis Mag online article gave a recipe for wild violet
simple syrup and I thought to myself, why not? I have plenty of wild violets in
the yard and I have the rest of the ingredients on hand. Not quite sure what I’m going to do with it
once I have it made (the accompanying article was about making cocktails with
it, and I don’t plan to do that, but maybe adding it to a baked good for a
difference in flavor might be interesting…… I digress again.
Where was I?? Oh yes,
trying to stay focused. I feel like I am in a maze, rather than a labyrinth,
since it’s easy to get lost in a maze as you have different paths you can
chose, while a labyrinth has only one path that leads you to the center and
back out again as you meditate and lean on GOD for help. Perhaps, I should draw
a path in my head that goes through the rooms on my house as a labyrinth and
leads me to the center and back out again, rather than the convoluted, winding,
twisting paths that I keep making that remind me of the paths little Jeffrey in
Family Circus makes as he goes through the neighborhood on his way home, making
a short trip into a very long one… But
that’s what I just did, didn’t I? My
short little tale got longer and longer as I digressed and my mind splintered
and wove its way through what I was trying to say.
Before I digress once more, it’s time to say Adieu and go
seek my labyrinth to bring me back home and into focus.
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