Placerville Real Estate Blog

Well, as the joke handed down from my French Canadian ancestors goes, yesterday you looked, “and there we were, gone.”

No one was being vebose yesterday because we were all out selling. Actually Helen and Kathy were hard at work being verbose all day while Bridget and I were out working, each with our respective clients, in the rain, showing homes both distressed and not, and perhaps selling a couple that weren’t so distressed.

What a team.

It’s invigorating, that’s what it is. Yep, that’s right, I’m going with “invigorating”. I’m working my way through Martin Seligman’s excellent book, Learned Optimism, and even though I’m only on chapter two or so, I think it’s safe to say “invigorating” will prove a better word choice for this weekend’s activity than “exhausting”. Seligman’s book, if I’m reading it correctly, is about the scientific basis underlying the idea that optimism leads to greater success for most organisms than pessimism (duh). More profoundly, Seligman’s book puts forth the thesis suggested by the title: there is a scientific basis and framework for the idea that one can teach pessimists to be optimists.

That works for me. I’m basically a pessimist undergoing directed self study in optimism. Optimism is an essential career skill for Realtors®, insofar as our job involves subjecting ourselves to as much potential failure as we can in order to be successful.

That’s invigorating.  Trust me.