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We have all heard the new age, self help rhetoric about thinking positive and taking control of your destiny. "You are the architect of your own reality," "what you think is what you create" and "thoughts become things." These are some of the sayings weve heard lately about taking control of not only our lives, but taking control over ourselves. How does this relate to business or real estate you might ask? Mike Brooks, from Broker Agent Social thinks it has a lot to do with real estate and sales.

Mr. Brooks says that how you talk to yourself can have drastic effects on how you view yourself and how you perform. You may say to yourself that you dont talk to yourself, but what did you just say and who did you say it to? You may or may not believe in self motivation and creating your own reality, but if you take a steep back for a moment, and remember how your parents taught you and how you teach your children you might think twice about this positive thinking stuff.

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Every mother and father inherently knows positive thinking works, and can form and shape our lifes. Think about teaching your children how to catch a ball in the back yard or teaching them to tie their shoe laces. What do they say time and time again? I cant do it! And what do you say in return? Yes you can, dont say you cant do it, if you say you cant you wont be able to do it. Say you can do it, I know you can. At what age did this rule stop applying to us? What we say to ourselves and how we think does affect our lives.

If you say youre not good enough to close the deal, then youre not good enough to close the deal, just like catching the ball in the back yard as children, the same rules still apply to us, only now we juggle many balls in the air, and our families depend on us, our financial future depends on learning how to catch that preverbal ball. You can do it, I know you can!

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Every once in a while technology jumps forward and we all get to look on with chagrined amazement. Back in the 80s Star Wars gave us a glimpse into the future and we were all simply amazed. Dumb struck, we all looked at the screen with hopes of our own space ship in the near future, at least I did anyway. Apple Corporation has certainly given us a technological jump or two in the last decade. Looking at the iPhone and iPad, and even the iMac, it really feels as though we are in the new millennium, but our cars still have wheels. No floating around for us yet.

Well, one of those technology jumps forward is here. Its not ready for the public as of yet, but wow, its cool looking. I think it has a little ways to go, but it looks like well be floating around before you know it. This is almost better than one of those futurist sci-fi movies. The movements are what make this thing so cool. It looks like magic.

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Something people didnt like about the Internet a few years ago, and maybe even today, is that its so impersonal. That is still true, but not as much as it was. The way people succeed in business and social networking is to get personal. You cant just have a computer program list posts for you and presto, you get customers and generate a social network. You have to talk, or chat, with people online, you have to make comments on their posts, and reply to their comments on your posts, you have to personify your brand.

Just like with old fashioned face to face socializing, you never know how you and your network of friends and acquaintances will need each other in the future. Social networking in the Internet has become the same thing. Linkedin and other social networking sites connect people of like minds, making it more likely that you will have things in common and possibly have common goals.

If you want your car fixed you can always look up a mechanic in the phone book, but you feel so much better if you have your car worked on by someone you know and trust, a mechanic you have gone to in the past or someone who has been referred to you by a friend. Its also the same on the Internet. When you are looking to have something done and you turn to the Internet, you always try to go with someone you know or trust, or even have had some personal interaction with.

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We all love to buy the latest and greatest toys on the market, especially if we can say its for our kids, and of course, we get to play with it too, but how do we justify buying a new toy for our business? Can we really justify such procurements? As long as it has a purpose, functions within the scope of our business, and adds value to our daily activities then we can surely make a b-line to the computer store at our local mall.

What of the iPad? I, like many, arent sure if its worth the purchase. It looks like a fun toy, but do I really want to purchase something to simply watch movies, listen to music, and read email? No I dont. As Im told, however, the iPad does more than that. Thank the maker! Now I can justify the purchase, I was really hoping I could. From what I hear, read, and see there are several ways this nifty little device helps with all sorts of business tasks, even within the real estate business.

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Not that were looking, but there is another side to all the hype over the iPhone. As great as we all think it is, there are those that have something else to say about its greatness. Although maybe not enough of a deterrent to buy the wonder phone, the information should at least be considered.

One thing a great many people are upset over is the AT&T contract. Everyone is waiting for the iPhone to be available through other carriers, which would hopefully open other possibilities for customers, developers, services, and possibly the iPhone itself. The one thing we all love about the iPhone is that its pushing other phone makers to push the bounds of technology and constantly come up with new features to add to phones. Apple has pushed the competition and created a technology race, which we all benefit from.

One thing that has really come a long way is the built-in camera cell phones have as standard equipment. The iPhone has a notable 5 Mega Pixel camera with a 5x zoom, a flash, and a video camera, but the competition has left the iPhone behind with 8 and even 12 Mega Pixel cameras. The Droid by Motorola has an 8 mega pixel camera and the Samsung M8910 Pixon12 boast an impressive 12 mega pixel camera.

There are other negatives, which are arguably not all that negative, but again, they at least need to be considered when researching your future purchase. Read and decide for your self if the cons out weigh the pros.

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