Be Wise, Seek Council.

The man most known for wisdom, Solomon, gave us this advice.

Proverbs 15:22Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they succeed. 23A man has joy in an apt answer, And how delightful is a timely word!…

 Are you seeking "many counselors" and strong advice from those who have done what it is you want to do? Isn't it logical that someone who has done what you want to do would be the best person to tell you how?

 Just last week our Director of Operations, Jennie Franklin, and I flew up to Minneapolis/St. Paul to council with the Broker Owners and Leadership team for RE/MAX Results, the largest RE/MAX franchise in the World. The owners, John Collopy and Marshall Saunders not only made their time available to us but that of all their department heads. It was truly a whirlwind two days.

 We have become accustomed to being the ones that other RE/MAX brokers from around the country fly out to spend time with, and we very much enjoy sharing with them. It was wonderful to be on the other side this time. While we are the 43rd largest RE/MAX in America and always one of the fastest growing they are the largest in the World! Where we have 150 agents they have 850, where we have 6 offices they have 28, where we did 432 million in volume they did 3.8 billion!

 What was so exciting was how much of what they do felt very familiar, very comfortable, we found that we felt very much on track, and that we are doing the things we need to be doing. They were once our size and it was easy to ask what they did, what pitfalls to avoid, what they would have done differently could they do it again. We came home as excited as we have ever been with new information ready to put into place.

 If you are building your business, who are you seeking for council? Look for those who have businesses that you admire and would love to emulate and buy them lunch, find a way to get to ask them about how they did it, and what they are doing that you need to adopt. Look for those who's lives are those you would like to as well. These mentors do not have to be everything you want to be, you can learn from one aspect you want in your business or life and from someone else on another area.

No matter what you do, find them, and learn.