Audrey's Blog

New Year, New Opportunities

This morning (the 1st work day of the year) brings more than a new year for me … it brings a new opportunity.  This morning I am starting a new phase of real estate career as the full time Productivity Coach for Keller Williams McKinney.  What exactly is a “Productivity Coach”?  So glad you asked!  My opportunity is to help any agent in our office to take their business to the next level.  That might be helping a new agent to launch their career from ground zero or helping an experienced agent take their production higher than it’s ever been.  Whatever their goals are, we work toward accomplishing them through a high accountability program of one-on-one and group coaching sessions EVERY week during which I help agents define and execute a business plan and achieve a work-life balance that places God and family before business.

365 days ago, I would have never conceived that I would be making a professional transition quite like the one I am making, but as we all know God often does chuckle at our plans.  Adding a new Reedlet to the mix was definitely a catalyst for this change, but looking back, I realize that it’s been inevitable since our first Reedlet made his appearance in 2008.  The production/sales side of real estate was a joy to me.  Helping individuals and families find the right place to call home was an incredibly satisfying way to earn a living.  The only drawback was the inevitable night and weekend work.  Before the Reedlets, that wasn’t such a big deal.  After the Reedlets, I realized that wanted to be spending that time with them and Chris.  When I expressed that frustration to my Team Leader, he threw out the idea that he wanted a Productivity Coach in the office and asked if I would be interested in interviewing for the job.  After a lot of soul searching and a month long interview process (he’s nothing if not thorough), we both decided that this was definitely a win-win situation.  So in October, I begin transitioning into the position and finishing up with the clients I had working at the time. 

What I’ve found over the last 3 months of building the program is that it appeals greatly to several aspects of my personality:

1. The OCD goal driven side of me finds incredible satisfaction in helping others achieve their goals which in turn helps me achieve my goals.
2. The highly compliant side of me LOVES helping agents implement proven systems to achieve those goals.
3. The nurturing, mommy side of me glows with joy when I see what these successes do for my agents – personally and professionally. 

As I start today able to focus 100% of my professional time on this new opportunity, I’m feeling on incredible amount of excitement and anticipation of what the year has to bring for me, my family, and my agents!

Friday FIVE

Inspired by Stacy Julian’s post, here are 5 RANDOM things going on in my life right now. 

ONE
If everything goes as planned tonight, Logan will be moving to his big boy room and into his big boy bed this weekend.  The room isn’t exactly finished, but it’s livable & safe enough for him to make the transition now – a full 2 months before Tegan’s arrival.  As a related project, I’m almost finished cleaning out all of our crap from the Children’s Retreat so that we can begin transforming it into what it’s supposed to be – the Children’s Retreat. 

TWO
I am just over 30 weeks pregnant and Tegan will make her scheduled arrival into this world exactly 2 months from today.  Woo hoo!

THREE
I am about to go take photos of the bluebonnets that are finally popping up in my front flower beds.

FOUR
My romantic heart cried at the end of Bones last night.

FIVE
My runny nose & sore throat cried when I heard on the news last night that this pollen infestation (and my subsequent raging allergy attack) is likely to go on for at least another 2 weeks. 

A Random Act of Kindness

Something oddly cool happened to me on the way home today.  I was out in Keller with a buyer.  My routine after I finish showing houses is to stop at a convenience store to wash my hands.  I’m not a germaphobe, but I have just been in strangers' houses for hours.  I think most sane people would feel the need to wash up.  Being the roving Realtor that I am, I have my favorite highway haunts.  Among them is QuikTrip.  They have clean restrooms and life sustaining, caffeine containing Diet Coke – what more can a girl ask for?  So, I stopped by the QT just off 114 in Southlake to wash up and grab a tall cold one (Diet Coke that is).  As I was pulling out my $1.07, a random guy walked up and put his coke & hotdog down beside my Diet Coke and stated very firmly “these are together” as he waved some bills at the cashier.  For one of the few times in my life, I struck speechless.  A couple of thoughts were competing for gray matter – (1) This chump thinks I’m paying for his junk food … WTF? (Of course, that was before I noticed that he was waving money around.)  (2) Is this guy so pathetic/creepy/hard-up that he’s trying to pick me up in a QT??? (I’m not sure which one was more disturbing: trying picking me up or doing it in a QT.)  Anyway, he finally said “it’s a random act of kindness” and handed me a card that said:

You’re just received a
RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS
We wanted to bless you out of the abundant blessings we have received from God.

Now it’s your turn …
Do something kind and unexpected for someone else.
(Leave this card behind when you do.)
It’ll make you feel good.

First United Methodist Church, Springtown

Once I figured out what was going on, I think I had the biggest smile on my face.  It was all I could do to utter “thanks – have a great night”.  How freakin’ cool was that?   It cost the guy a buck and some change, and it totally made my day.  The rest of the way home all I could think about was what opportunity I would be presented with to pass on the card.