As I look at my printer sitting in a box
on the floor by my desk, I need to know, "It can be easy." It can be
easy to hook it up and have it work after it sat in a Ventura, CA storage unit
for a year, jostled its way across three states in a moving van, froze during a
snowy, overnight stay in Flagstaff, AZ in winter at an elevation of 7,500' then
finally landed in Albuquerque. I haven't actively practiced knowing, "It
can be easy," for a long time. I used to practice it when I managed a real
estate office in San
Clemente CA
It didn't help that a top-producing,
hysterically-funny former attorney in the office thoroughly enjoyed
entertaining himself and regaling his audience with fascinating tales about the
Gordian knots in his transactions. Untying them engaged his intellect and
helped him avoid the boredom of mundane sales. I still remember an escrow in
which his client, also an attorney, had to write a personal check to his lender
so they would review his short-sale file (loan balance higher than sale
price). The lender wouldn't accept a check drawn on their own bank, where the
client also did his personal banking. This event provided a wealth of material
for humorous episodes in the ongoing drama. My only concern was that the new
agents, enthralled by the tales, had eyes big as saucers while listening. My
only defense was to shrug my shoulders and say, "It can be easy." I
said it so often, I believed it. The top producer and I had almost identical
transactions: both of us represented attorneys; both transactions were short sales;
both sales occurred in the same area, at the same time, in the same market
conditions. He had a bank that wouldn't accept its own check, and mine was
easy. I laughed when I realized mine was easy because I had been saying,
"It can be easy." So it was.
As an aside, just for fun, the
former-attorney top producer had his own personalized sign riders made and used them as
door prizes to lure other Realtors to come see his listings on broker preview
day. Instead of the usual “Pool,” “Ocean View,” or “Price Reduction” riders,
his said, “Seller Will Take Less,” “Original Carpet,” “Geological
Problems,” or “Unpermitted Repairs.”
I should have known I was going to have
to start practicing “It can be easy” again. Last Friday, an Albuquerque Realtor
friend of mine had her first colonoscopy scheduled. I offered to pray for her.
“Teach what you need to learn.”
Thank you, Terranda, I am not at all
worried.
Great! But it could also be a positive
experience! : )
This is amazing but if a colonoscopy can
be a pleasant experience this really was. The care
was superior and everything was normal. The doctor actually said that my colon
was boring!
I was "praying knowing" that your procedure would be one of
grace and ease.
Some of my “It can be
easy” thinking must have rubbed off, because today, one week ahead of the
deadline, I finished the required manuscript pages for the writing workshop.
Now if I can only get that #$%^& printer to work!
