The Thanksgiving Holiday is a great reminder of why, as people and realtors, we do the things that we do. The Three Questions: In the children’s book, “The Three Questions,”  based on a story by the great Russian writer Leonid Tolstoy, young Nikolai seeks answers to three questions that he has been agonizing over for some time:… Read More

My friend Gary and I had dinner last week.  Since he had yet to see my house, he met me there before we left for the restaurant.  As the owner of a Fairfield County, Ct. landscaping business, property is of particular importance to Gary.  While he perused the back yard from my kitchen window, he emphatically questioned, “Al, have you ever mowed your lawn yourself?  I… Read More

“The past can suck you in like black holes.”  – Dan Rockwell, Leadership Freak Should Have As business leaders prepare to put a bow on 2012, I hear a lot of regret in their voices.  Comments referring to what they feel they “should have done.” Focusing on what you should have done is debilitating.  “Should have” demeans and debases your… Read More