As I occasionally do, this episode done monologue style, meaning no guest, just me. Good news is, it's short. Bad news is, it's just me. No cool guest sharing an amazing journey to the world of real estate. I hope you listen anyways.

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Every now and then, I produce a monologue episode of the Real Estate Sessions. Monologue meaning there is no guest, just me, usually sharing a thought or two. This week is one of those episodes. 

At RateMyAgent, we have core company values. We reward employes that excel at a particular value at our monthly company update meetings. A few of these values are “One Team, One Dream” or “Customer Obsessed”. We just instituted a new value, “Be Straight Up”, which encourages us to speak up when necessary to question, challenge or applaud ideas, strategy or workflow.

My favorite company value is “Give a Shit” which means We are passionate about the success of RateMyAgent and will work in the best interests of the business. 

I bring this up because I feel the same way about life. I t makes a lot of sense to be passionate about the success of my fill in the blank Family, friends, community, and work in the best interests of my fill in the blank Family, friends, community.

I believe many people feel the same way. 

Along those lines, I’d like to share the way I view things on a daily basis. The term Prosocial was introduced in the 1970’s as the opposite of anti-social. My take on prosocial is when the opportunity presents itself to take an action that leads to a positive result, or just as importantly, prevents a negative result for someone, do it. 

Here are some examples from a typical day in my life: 

If I’m on my daily walk, and I come to a street to cross, if a car is waiting to merge into traffic, I always turn to walk towards the back of the car and cross the street behind it (if clear) so the car doesn’t have to wait for me and possibly losing a opportunity to proceed and wait another 45-60 seconds for the next opportunity.

If I’m leaving a store and walking to my car in the parking lot, if I notice a woman in front of me walking down the same aisle towards her car, and we are the only 2 in that portion of the lot, I will cross over to another aisle and walk away from her so I’m not someone she has to worry about. Going a few extra steps out of my way is no big deal.

When checking out at the grocery store, I always try to rotate barcodes and empty the hand carry basket myself because I know as someone that worked in college at a supermarket, it makes a difference.

When I play in the weekly skins golf game, I anticipate and seek opportunities to make sure I’m not holding up pace of play, and if I notice we are, I double those efforts. Fortunately, I play in a good foursome.

As I said before, I believe many people do some version of the same thing. There is no expectation of reciprocity. There can be a feeling of a higher self worth, but that’s ok.

There are however, people that completely ignore these opportunities. They are so focused on themselves, they fail to see opportunities to create a positive result or...