Lots of great highlights this week! A Team Circus and a Texas wedding all in one week! How much better can it get?

So proud of all the work you guys did in May. It was a strong production month and it closed out so much smoother than expected. Things are definitely starting to settle down and get back to a more normal flow. All your hard work is paying off!

It’s a little late so  I’ll be light on the commentary this week 😊

I hope everyone had an outstanding mother’s day weekend!  I hope everyone was able to take some margin and spent time with friends and family rebooting.

This one is for Shelly…. 

We used to have this phrase we would say all the time when things were tough but we were pushing through to make it happen  “GO CATS”… Yes you might have guessed Shelly was a cheerleader and her high school team was the cats….

As a over scheduled type A personality that is always on… I found some good points in the podcast Focus on this episode #85 The Hidden Power of Hobbies. (of course I had to listen to it on 2x speed because some parts are slow but the podcast makes a good point on hobbies

Ok so to start things off just want everyone to know that the chickens that are left are all good… They stink and we are soooo ready for them to go outside. The roosters are HUGE! Shout out to the Spells! They were right having a chicken by your desk makes everything more fun 😊

I hope everyone had an awesome Easter or Passover weekend. We are all so blessed to live in a place where we have the freedom to celebrate our religious beliefs as we see fit.

As we start heading in to normality with the pandemic starting to slowly fade and the focus increasing on getting back to some level of normal it’s a great time to reset. Reset our health, reset our schedules, and reset our best practices.

Between daylight saving time (which I hate because it always ruins my rhythm) , traveling, crazy volume, and limited capacity it was a long week for everyone.

I came across this drawing…. Which reminded me to stop checking the news and other lame cr@p on my phone 😊

With all that’s on everyone’s plate right now it is more important than ever to come back to center, find our compass, and focus on what matters most.

2020 we and the mortgage Covid boom has really created increased pressure on an already intense industry. March’s volume is going to resurface a ton of these feelings. So we need to be proactive and stay super connected to all of our team members and help them work through a very challenging month.

The mortgage industry is high volume, high stress and high turn-over right now. Recruiting and retaining top talent is definitely what is making or breaking companies right now. I have included several items that resonated related to these current challenges.

Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you have a blessed week!

This week my learning time was focused on a couple of areas, improving negotiation skills, and learning to focus on what matters most so most notes are around those subjects.

A couple of weeks ago I read the book "How to take Smart Notes".   This book at its core is about leveraging the Zettlekasten method for taking notes.  But in reality is about helping you build a creative toolbox for learning, thinking, writing, and storing knowledge. 

My notes this week don’t really have a theme. There are a lot of random thoughts as I was fortunate enough to ‘take in’ a lot of unrelated content in this week.