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WCAoR Tech Tune-up is an educational convention you don’t want to miss!
Upcoming Events:
We have listened to the feedback from last year’s event and WCAoR’s Tech Tune-Up 2008 will meet all your expectations and requests! An expert panel has been added to this year’s event that will speak on various technology topics and give audience members an opportunity to have a live Q&A with the panel. The Tech Tune-up will offer an increased number of technology related break-out rooms where attendees can learn everything from search engine optimization to tips and tricks on MLXchange. There will also be more technology courses that offer MCE credit as well as we have increased the number and variety of vendor booths. An added bonus — more prizes such as flip cams, a Nintendo Wii gaming system, and a smart phone! More give-a-ways and more opportunities to learn how you can use technology to enhance your business! Registration is now open for Tech Tune-Up at www.wcaor.org.
AUGUST 20 CRS Membership Luncheon Westwood Country Club - 11:30 a.m.
AUGUST 21 ABoR Wine Tasting Cru @ The Domain - 6 to 8 p.m. AUGUST 28 WCR Networking Luncheon ABoR auditorium - 11:30 a.m.
SEPTEMBER 4 Austin Mortgage Bankers Luncheon Austin Country Club - 11:30 a.m. Guest Speaker: Joyce McDonald, executive dir. with Frameworks CDC SEPTEMBER 5 WCAoR 2nd Annual Tech Tune-Up Texas State University’s Round Rock Campus - All day
OCTOBER 22 ABoR’s Realty Roundup Austin Convention Center - 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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For more business success, turn attention elsewhere To obtain a visual picture of whether your life is in or out of balance, Schmitt advises clients to rate CONTRIBUTING WRITER themselves on a scale of one to 10 in six areas: REALTORS are often guilty of taking business personal and spiritual; relationships, family calls in restaurants while they are supposed to be and friends; career and business; finance and chatting with family and friends. They eat lunch in money; play and recreation; and physical their cars, work on their computers at night and skip environment. Then she tells them to pick one of those areas to improve upon and choose an exercise, all due to business demands. They do all these things because they think it is action step that they can take within the next going to get them ahead. But consider this: devoting two weeks. “I am going to focus on play and recreless time to business and more time to other areas of life, such as personal, spiritual, financial and envi- ation,” says Cheryl Eskridge of Wimberly ronmental issues, may actually be a more effective View Realty. “I didn’t know there was such a thing.” path toward career success. Susanna Boyer of Sellstate Classic Realty “Many people find out that business has taken over their life and time for doing other important says recreation is an area she has neglected things has become almost non-existent,” says Suzan as well but will now make a greater effort Schmitt of Full Life Coaching Group, who recently to spend more time in that area. “It will help me spoke to members of the Women’s Council of REAL- relax and help me to get out more,” she says. Susan Horton of Realty World, John Horton & TORS. “For many of us, our free time is interrupted with cell phone calls, e-mails, computer work, Associates, who has been taking steps recently Blackberries, school activities, carpools and endless toward achieving a more balanced life, says she is a to do lists. There never seems to be enough time to true believer in self examination. “It’s phenomenal,” she says. “I am on my way to a balanced life. It’s a get everything done.” great way to look at time management.” Presorted Standard Dianne Acuna of Land U.S. Postage PAID Mortgage says she agrees Austin, Texas that striving for a greater Paid Permit #715 balance will make her P.O. Box 81366 become more focused. Austin, Texas 78708-1366 Kay Cobb of House Masters adds, “I think it will make me more aware of things that I have pushed to the back that I should push to the front.” Don’t forget: You can visit us online 24/7 at www.realtylineonline.com Prissy Pense of N-2
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Balance Inc., a credit repair company, said she is going to commit to organizing her paperwork at home for one hour every day. She hopes to become organized enough so that she can paint her home soon and improve her physical environment. “I am going to make an effort to get home in time,” she says. “This will give me an incentive.” Carrie Weikert of Keller Williams Realty says she is going to turn off the television at night and focus on reading motivational books. “It is very important to me in this changing market to learn how to strategize and incorporate new ideas to improve and adjust my business,” she says. Mary Ann Nations of Keller Williams Realty says she is also looking forward to exploring a more balanced life in hopes of seeing an improvement in time production. “That way, when you get home you can let it go,” she says. Where to begin? Here are some ideas: Have dinner with friends or family twice a week, turn the TV off for one hour, spend 15 minutes in quiet reflection or prayer, start (or finish) a beautification project in your home, resume (or begin) hobbies or creative activities. Before long, you should be feeling more productive and achieving desired goals— at home and work.