What would your real estate report card say?

[Eric Medemar]

I think we can all remember the dreaded feeling of report card days from our childhood. The level of stress you felt typically depended on how well you thought you had done in your classes. Looking back on those moments I realize that the report card was a great way to report our progress toward the specific goal of gaining education. Our grades were many times never a reflection of our interest in a subject, but instead a reflection of the fear that our parents put into us if we did bad.

After the last year of our formal education we no longer recieve paper report cards. Instead we have the report card of life. If you are flunking in a subject life can make you miserable, broke, or at least make you switch subjects to something else of more understanding. The problem with the life type of report card is that we don't have any parents to answer to. We only answer to ourselves. I don't know about you but if I had only had to answer to myself in my early years report cards would have been alot different.

Suspend reality for a moment and picture yourself as the parent of you. Essentially that is what we need to become. What would the parent "you" think of the progress of the "child" you. How would your report card read?
would your real estate grade read something like this:

C+ Comments: Jonny (you) has a great understanding of the subject, but he could be applying himself more.

or maybe

D Comments: Jonny is easily distracted and tends to wander off in class.

or maybe the most common

F Comments: Jonny knows the material, but is having trouble applying it.

I would suggest trying this excercise with all aspects of your life. Finance, Communication, Phys Ed, and Home Economics. After you give yourself the grade. Think of how "you" would feel as the parent of you. Think of how much stress "you" would be under knowing that you had to report to your parents. If you have thoughts of getting to the mailbox before your mom and dad, perhaps you should rethink your way of doing things.

Eric Medemar