Warm Your Life

“My mother sold real estate.  They used to call her the “Condo Queen.”  She loved it.  She sold until she was 85 and then she had to quit because of health.”

- Glenn Earl

Warm Your Life

Thursday in the middle of the afternoon isn’t marked on my calendar as a time where I expect to receive some inspiration.  But, it is as good of time as any, and since I can’t recall ever having received inspiration at that time before, it must mean that encouragement can arrive into one’s mind at any time and in any place.  Sometimes it comes to us at the least expected time and place.

The key to knowing whether an inspiration or an experience will enhance your life is to measure how active or passive the encouragement becomes within your heart.  If you receive a flash and you remain utterly passive about it then it has accomplished very little to change you.  For instance, time spent thinking about the stimulation does little to move you forward if it is not followed up by action to make it a reality.  After all, aren’t you looking to warm your life with a little more love, success, friendship and fulfillment?

What does this have to do with a Thursday afternoon?  Well, I was in a foyer waiting to go into a meeting when the office manager asked me what I did for a living.  I told her, “I sell real estate.”  And, she like most people I meet said, “Oh, how is the market?”

We spend a few minutes talking about the real estate market when her husband said, “My mother sold real estate.  They used to call her the ‘condo queen.’  She loved it.  She sold until she was 85 and then she had to quit because of her health.”  I listened to him and soon became enthralled with his stories of her.

As I listened, perhaps the one single valuable point I learned was that her life was all about building relationships, not expanding her contact manager.  For most people this one single point is both the hardest to absorb and, at the same time, the most valuable clue to successful relationship building.  We must be trying to build relationships with other humans, not seeking new people to use.

During this time when many of the people I come into contact with are discouraged by the fact that their portfolios have been wiped out; and, they don’t see a clear way to their dream of retirement any more.  This point, as taught by Glenn’s mother can be a beacon of hope.  Succeeding in genuine relationship building will eventually increase you income.  Just as important, it will immediately start improving your entire life.

I’m sitting in my chair right now visualizing my future and wondering if I’d like to have a life surrounded by people I like and admire or if I’d rather have money to live a life of leisure alone.  Would I like to spend time with people who are constantly helping me grow in life and joy?  Would I like to be doing something I love?  The answer is clear to me.  I’d rather constantly warm my life by succeeding in genuine relationship building.  If you’d like to improve and warm your entire life, build heartfelt relationships with other human beings by adding value to them through constructive interaction.  It will take  you places you never dreamed!