WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
WEEKLY NEWS, JANUARY 20TH 2025
WEEKLY NEWS. IT’S 2025, a highly anticipated year, highlighted by March 15 when my beloved Tamara walks down the aisle with her seriously nice bloke fiance. I am beyond excited about this day.
Yes, we are also selling our home of 23 years and buying a new one, maybe in a different area. The final piece in the stress has been finding the right Aged Care for our mum. Huge life events at the start of 2025.
It has been challenging however, it has renewed my determination about the customer experience where I believe many businesses let down their clients. It is a learning journey but these significant events have demonstrated the ‘other side’ and client first, purposeful real estate will be key moving forwards.
I listened to timely podcasts (podcasts are an addiction) when Janine Garner and her guest discussed ‘dharma’ and then Simon Sinek and his guest discussed ‘Loneliness’ and our need for community.Both resonated highly, reinforcing my path of purpose.
Time will tell of course but I move into 2025 with my purpose and my word of the year which is ‘Thrive’. Thrive is not about money, although we need money to live, to pay bills, my days of money ruling my life (ah, the heady days of luxury cars, private school education for my children and compensating my children with things rather than my time) is hopefully over. I love money or the things it can supply however, I truly believe that real estate and life can be done differently.
I still won’t be perfect and I will still provide my real estate services for a reasonable fee, life is a journey, of lessons learned after all.
A more philosophical newsletter this time!
A Week in My Life
A trip to Bunnings to buy the last minute things before we sell.
These are the things that I have delayed until almost everything has been done.
The little things that we hope will aid the impression buyers receive about our home.
If you have been following along you will know that we are working on ‘elbow grease’ rather than big ticket items.
It has been challenging at times and we quickly realised that age factors into packing – we have accumulated TOO much stuff and shifting crates around is hard yakka.
Getting things (like the pool) to sparkle and housework seem never ending and we are not even on the market yet!
I congratulate us for getting to this stage. It’s really part one of the process but it feels like we have already run a marathon.
Like a marathon, you don’t just suddenly run one on a whim. You plan it and you prepare. You start with small steps or small runs, building your endurance and focusing on your food intake.
Selling a home is like this. The little things that make the big event a success.
Fingers crossed.
