Tony & Darcy - The C Team's Blog

Darcy and I spent Saturday afternoon and night in Las Vegas.  My sister, her seven year old son and husband have a time share down there and we drove down to visit with them.  It was a lot of fun, we stayed away from the Casinos and still had a great time.  I usually enjoy time spent with family, we get together so infrequently anymore that it is good just to sit and catch up. 

Darcy and I did go to a really nice restaurant while we were there.  I know that there are scores of good restaurants in Las Vegas.  We enjoyed a really nice lunch at the Rincon de Buenos Aires, it is on West Spring Mountain Road, I think on the 5300 block, it is in the Cathay Hills Mall, I think.  Anyway, it was excellent!  Not terribly expensive, just really good.  For those unacquainted with Argentinean cuisine, it is very good.  Not too different from Italian food, not hot spicy, just really good flavor. 

It is good to get back and go to work, we will have to contact our Active Rain friends on our next visit to Las Vegas and get to know them in person, anyway, it is nice to take a little break every now and then and get back to what really matters.  Have a great Week!

I nearly forgot to advise everyone of the annual Cedar City Livestock & Heritage Festival on Friday and Saturday.  There will be a sheep parade down Main Street on Saturday Morning at 10:00 am, followed by a Color Country Quilt Show From 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. 

The highlight of the Festival is Country Music Singer Songwriter Michael Martin Murphy will perform Friday Night.  For a complete schedule of events and costs visit the web site: http://www.cedarlivestockfest.com/

Have a great weekend.  We are actually going to miss this event, but if you do come, please stop by the ERA office at 259 W 200 N one of the agents will be glad to assist you with your Real Estate needs!

I am reading two books at once, one is Flip by Gary Keller, the other is the Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner.  I will be honest, I started reading the Leadership Challenge before I purchased the Gary Keller book, and have struggled to read it.  I have made a goal for myself to finish what I start, so I keep plugging along.  Today I came across a great quote for us in our business not just today, but even when the market is good.

The quote is in the form of a question by Elaine Fortier: "We must ask ourselves, How do I go to work today and do something that will move the enterprise and myself another step in the right direction?" 

I thought that was a great question to begin each work day with.  What can I do to improve my business and myself each and everyday?  What do you think?

I think that a big part is doing something that makes us money.  Generate leads, show homes whatever leads us to a closing and making some money.  Anyway, I thought that I would share this today.  Have a Great Day!

I have just began to read Shift by Gary Keller with Dave Jenks and Jay Papasan.  I haven't been able to get a lot read just yet, but I did come across something that caused me to stop and think.  He talkes about this being a great time to learn about the business and that once you know it is time to do, but more than that, he calls it focused action. 

I have thought about this and although I have thought that I was doing this, and managing or budgeting my time effectively.  I realized that the phrase focused action, is more than just working the business.  It is setting specific goals, and organizing your time in specific tasks to accomplish those goals.  It isn't just enough to make a goal of generating 5 or 10 new leads during a time period, it is setting down and saying to yourself, my goal is 10 new, qualified leads a week.  I have failed each day that I work if I don't generate 2 of those leads each day. (assuming a 5 day work week, I used a simple example, you could use more or fewer numbers.)

I have come to the conclusion that it also means that if lead generation is your primary goal, it needs to be done first then move on to your prioritized list of goals and work on each in succeeding order.  I have not read the entire book, just the first few pages and I can't wait to learn and do.  Have a Great Week!

I hope that everyone in enjoying a prosperous Monday!  I (Tony) just returned from near Capitol Reef National Park my favorite place on this earth.  I did a lot of hiking and some photography.  I found muscles that I had forgotten that I had!

Here are three of the photos that I took.  To me it is beautiful, I know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  

 Cedar City is the Gateway to the great National Parks in Utah!

With the weekend off, it is time to get back to work.  Have a great week!