Written By: Louise Thaxton, Certified Mortgage Planner with Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., Many, Louisiana.
“Recalculating course…..recalculating course…” screamed the vehicle’s GPS system. It was Friday night and several of us from the “Mortgage Girlfriends Mastermind Retreat” had decided we would check out the local cuisine. Now we were unsure if we had the right address. To make matters worse, another vehicle of fellow mortgage professionals was following us, and every wrong turn we took, they also took. After a call to the restaurant, we verified the address, “recalculated our course” and called our friends in the other car to coordinate our locations, we finally made it.
It struck me later how our excursion to the restaurant is much like the journey many mortgage professionals are on right now in this business. Many have lost hope, lost their vision, and lost their way in these turbulent times. Your internal GPS system may be screaming “recalculating course” right now. The definition of the word recalculating is “…to calculate again, especially to eliminate error or to incorporate additional factors or data”.
Now is the time to reexamine your business model, your systems, your leadership and management skills and your heart, to make absolutely sure that you “eliminate error” not only in your systems and actions, but also in your thinking habits. You might be doing the right things but have a negative, “doom and gloom” attitude that permeates your company, your team and your community. You may also need to “incorporate additional factors or data” into your business plan and vision for 2008.
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