Let’s talk this week about boxes! Not just any box though, lets chat about thinking boxes. What are thinking boxes? Thinking boxes are the patterns of thinking we all tend to fall into on any given topic that, on occasion, keep...
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THINKING IN REVERSE!
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…AND THE GYGES EFFECT
Emotional intelligence! What does it mean? In 1990, psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer published an article on the topic in a psychology journal called Imagination, Cognition, and Personality. The title of their article was simply, “Emotional...
HOW TO THINK LIKE A SCIENTIST
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…AND EXPERIMENT YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS!
I’ve been in lots of discussions lately about thinking, how we think, why we think what we think, and how we can think better. I’ve been in these conversations more and more, most likely because it’s a fascinating topic for me. From...
THE TRICK TO FINDING A MENTOR IS TO NOT NEED ONE!
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PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR APPRAISER TRAINEES!
Unlike many other businesses, the appraisal business still follows the mentorship model, so it requires any new entrants to find a willing mentor to take them under their wing, so to speak, to teach them the ways of the business, as well as the technical...
HOW TO MAKE $10,000 PER HOUR!
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As the title suggests, I’m going to teach you with this episode how to earn $10,000 per hour. I’m not being deliberately hyperbolic and Its not some kind of scam. It’s a way of thinking that has never been taught to most people and doesn’t make sense unless or until you...
THE FOUR BEHAVIORS OF THE ELITE!
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I don’t know how many of our listeners remember back in the early days of the podcast, occasionally I would do an episode where we’d pull from the proverbial mail bag and do a whole show just off of a listener’s question on some topic. I miss those days, and the mail...
ARE YOU HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
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SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE APPRAISERS!
In this Real Value Podcast episode, Blaine goes over the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey and gives unique insight and context for each one of the habits.
We talk often on this show about habits, how to develop better ones,...
ARE YOU EVEN COACHABLE?
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TOP REASONS TO HIRE A BUSINESS OR LIFE COACH!
As you can probably imagine, being a coaching company, in addition to running an appraisal firm, as well as some other businesses, we get inquiries fairly frequently about our coaching services and those inquiries, most of the time, lead to some...
THE SCIENCE OF GIVING
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Today’s show is on a topic very dear to my heart, and we’ll get right to it so those who are turned off by the very word can skip to the next episode and no time will have been wasted. The topic of today’s show is giving. The word itself conjures up different things for...
YOUR CUSTOMER BILL OF RIGHTS!
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WHAT WILL YOU NEVER ALWAYS DO?
As the title suggests, every organization should have a customer service bill of rights as part of the foundational operating principle and guidelines that you run your business on. I already know what many of you are thinking, especially from the appraisers...
THE LEAN APPRAISER!
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Imagine traveling to a foreign land where everything is new and unknown to you. You are unfamiliar with your surroundings, the plants and animals of that region, the people are different. Everything around you is new and unfamiliar. You’re walking through a densely packed forest and your...
THERE’S GOLD IN YOUR CRACK!
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This episode is part personal experience and part valuable lesson. After all, our lives are the sum total of our personal experiences and the thoughts, beliefs, and lessons we choose to cultivate from those experiences. This story and lesson begins in 1992 after I had packed up my life and moved...
