by Dustan Woodhouse | Mar 5, 2022 | #ThisIsBrokering, Be The Better Broker
Is Brokering stressful? “No” Not if once you make the decision that you ‘don’t do stress’. This is a path that takes courage, a leap of faith, and the setting of boundaries. Here are two tactics that build on the strategy required to eliminate stress...
by Dustan Woodhouse | Jan 26, 2020 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 1
I can recall one Mortgage Broker saying to me upon exiting the business after less than four years, “I can only conclude that people do not like me.” This was a person paying not just an economic toll, but clearly an emotional one as well. On paper this Broker had...
by Dustan Woodhouse | Nov 15, 2019 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 2
An excerpt from Chapter 29 of Be the Better Broker, Volume 2. Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. –...
by Dustan Woodhouse | Nov 8, 2019 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 2
An excerpt from Chapter 29, Volume 2 of Be the Better Broker. During one of the first business-planning meetings I ever attended at my original brokerage, one of the Brokers stood up and made a comment that has stuck with me to this day. “If you’re just starting out...
by Dustan Woodhouse | Oct 25, 2019 | Be The Better Broker, Volume 2
An excerpt from Volume 2 of Be the Better Broker What’s your plan? The key is actually having a plan to start with. In the A-Team’s case it may have involved some suspension of disbelief, along with the apprehension of bad guys via a hailstorm of automatic gunfire,...