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Here is a little movie that I just came across.  I think that you will enjoy it.  I just thought I would share this.  God Bless

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4. Don't start working on  house chores until the end of the business day. You wouldn't wash the dishes, walk the dog or cook lunch for the kids if you were in a real office. Give yourself short deadlines for specific tasks and do household work only in between, but then stop and go back to work.  Doing the house chores will not grow your business, and besides, clients need to know when you are available for them.  If you are busy doing home things, your work will suffer.

5. Return calls from friends and  check messages only at scheduled times. Being stuck in a home office all day can be frustrating, so instead of seeking distraction through communication, tackle boredom by allowing yourself short breaks outside. Take advantage of your situation by getting into your neighborhood and farming, or just getting to know the neighbors.  Let yourself be seen.

I hope this helps.  If there are any other suggestions that you can think of, please comments.  Peace.

Earl The Pearl Sorrells 

I just wanted to share this little 2 minute movie.  I thought it was pretty good and gets you thinking a little.  In our businesses today, service is key, but so is our attitude while doing the service.  How is our attitude?  Do we need a check up from the neck up?  I think we all do from time to time.  It is too easy to get stuck in our own little world, and doing "busy" work.  We need to be sure that we are still being to relate to others.  Anyways, enjoy the movie.  Peace.  Earl The Pearl Sorrells

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I just got a quote that I have to share.  In this time of sales taking a little longer, or finances being a little tighter, or having troubles even getting a listing, we need to make sure that whatever task we are doing, we are doing it to the best of our abilities.  Don't do things half way or trying to find shortcuts.  Others will see and realize what you are doing, and that will effect you do the road, if not now.  I don't care if it is going out of our way to pick up that piece of trash, or clean up after someone else, we must look for and find ways to serve others.  Don't allow ourselves to become so self-consumed that we forget about the others around us.  Don't allow our troubles to be fore front in our lives and wear them on our shoulders.  We need to just go doing something to better the situation, instead of focusing on it and making it bigger than it really is.  The more we focus on our problems, the more frozen in place we become, and we can actually bring on more problems, by not stepping our and moving on.  We have to get up, dust ourselves off, and do something that will promote our business and ourselves.  Don't allow those around the office, who are complaining about how bad it is and just want us to sit there with them, to bring us down to their level. Complaining does no one any good, and puts nothing on our families table.  It is time to make things happen.  The days of getting phone calls from people who are ready to buy and know exactly what they want is over.  We have to learn how to work now.  It is time to be a rainmaker.  Enjoy this quote.

Earl The Pearl Sorrells

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

Rosamond Municipal Advisory Council were presented a plans on a proposed master planned community located at Rosamond Blvd., between 72^nd St and 75^th St W. If this project continues to progress, Rosamond will have a place that is somewhat like the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica.

Plans include commercial and residential areas, with single-family attached and detached homes.

The plans are still in their early stages, but members of the council liked what they saw., even though the board didn't take any actions. This was only a presentation. The board didn't see anything objectionable at this point. They still have to see if there are any negative environmental impacts.

The project covers about 160 acres, near the Willow Springs Raceway. They are planning a movie theater, restaurants, boutiques, cafes, and a walking area. They are also, seeing about a supermarket. Down the road they may have a convention center, a maybe a gas station at Rosamond and 75^th St W. They are also, considering a hotel.

The plan also, calls for 428 homes on lots from 6000-10000 sq ft. These homes will be from 1800-2200 sq ft. There will be some lots that are from 12000-15000 sq ft with homes that are 3000-4500 sq ft.

The planners are also talking to a church group who wants about 10 acres for a house of worship.

There will be a park like greenbelt that ill separate the homes from businesses to reduce noise. These project also has several entrances to enhance traffic flow.

The planning commission looks at if this is in a flood plain, safety concerns, and resident concerns. There is still a lot in the air, like home prices, and when planners can actually break ground. There also, isn't a dollar figure yet on the total of the project, but "it's going to cost a good chunk of money."

I think this would give some new life in Rosamond and really add to the value of life in this sleepy little desert town. The Willow Springs Raceway already attracts people every weekend, but this could be the shot in the arm needed to put Rosamond on the map, and raise the quality of life. This could make Rosamond a vacation destination and have people dropping their dollars here. Well, that is my opinion.

Earl The Pearl Sorrells

Words of Inspiration Passed Down 1-15-08

I hope you find some words of encouragement in the following quotes. I tried to pick ones that I think will speak to most of us, and some will speak to you more than others. If you get any help from just one, it will accomplish what it was meant for, to promote you. We are coming out of a rough year for a lot of us, but it is time for us to take the bull by the horns and lead him in the way we are to go. No more holding on for dear life and hoping we land okay. It is time to take control of our time and make a decision how we will get to where we need and want to. It is time to stop going with the flow and break out of the mold. Step up and be counted. It is time to go to work with a plan and action. It is time to dream big dreams and then put on your overalls, and get to plowing and planting and watering. Let's not sit back and wonder how this year will be. It will be whatever we make it, whatever we are willing to commit to. Be true to yourself and those we want to help. After all, life is about helping one another to be successful in life, not just have money. May all you put your hands to prosper.

Earl The Pearl Sorrells

"Those who turn back know only the ordeal, but they who persevere remember the adventure" Milo L. Arnold

"To character and success, two things, contradictory as they seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self." William Wordsworth

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself." Henry Ward Beecher

"Than God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know." Charles Kingsley

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all time to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause." Theodore Roosevelt

"The most important thing in life is to live your life for something more important than your life." Unknown

"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." Yogi Berra

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." Epictetus

"Things could be worse. Suppose our errors were counted and published everyday like those of a baseball player."

"Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau

"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope." John Buchan

"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish-very gently." Chinese Proverb

"How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands." Ps 119:9,10

"If you are not guided by God you will be guided by someone or something else." Eric Liddell

"A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men." Thomas Carlyle

"The successful man has ambition: Before an engine has any power, it must have a fire under the boilers. Ambition was the fire that stirred Edison, Lindbergh, and other successful men who have been more interested in achievement than in public applause." A. B. Zu Tavern

"Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is formed as we learn to cherish principles and to submit to self-discipline. Character is the sum total of all the little decisions, the small deeds, the daily reactions to the choices that confront us. Character is not obtained instantly. We have to mold and hammer and forge ourselves into character. It is a distant goal to which there is no shortcut." Sidney Greenberg

"Cheerfulness is the great lubricant of the wheels of life. It lightens labor, diminishes difficulties, and mitigates misfortunes. Cheerfulness gives a creative power which the pessimist never possesses. A sunny, hopeful, optimistic disposition sweetens life, lightens it's inevitable drudgery, and eases the jolts along the road." Councillor

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"We have not inherited the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children." Native American Proverb

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." John Shedd

"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny." Carl Schurz

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness, and conversation." Grantland Rice

"In golf as in life it's the follow-through that makes the difference." Unknown

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning." John Henry Newman

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." George Horace Lorimer

"Strength of character means strong feelings, and strong command over them. This is where foresight, judgment, and will-power untie to form the most vital and important cement of strong personality. To subordinate the lower nature to the higher, to be able to forego a present pleasure for a greater future good, is a distinguishing mark of the highest type of character. Self-denial is essentail to manhood; for, to make one's life count, demands sacrifice." Councillor

"The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator." Louis Pasteur

"Just do what you can. It's not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father. I'm a good husband." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth. You must give some time to your fellowman. Even if it's a little things, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too." Albert Schweitzer

"The Lord will either calm your storm or allow it to rage while He calms you." Unknown

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." Booker T Washington

"A truly spiritual man's creed is not live and let live, but live and help live." Roger Babson

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no brief candle for m. It is a sore of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw

"We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty." C.K. Chesterton

There are a lot of numbers involved when you are looking to buy a home. Perhaps one of the most important is your credit score. Also referred to as a FICO score, this number tells a lender how likely you are to pay back your debt. The higher your score, the more likely you are to make good on your commitment.

Clearly it is in your best interest to manage your credit wisely because it can boost your ability to borrow. Start by finding out your score. Each person is entitled to one free credit report annually. If the number is lower than you would like, here are five tips for raising your score.

1. Start by paying your bills, from credit cards to utilities, on time. Delinquent payments pull down your rating. And the later your payments, the more negative the affect.

2. Do not automatically close accounts, even if they are old or paid-off. You want creditors to see that you have a history of meeting your debt obligations.

3. Don't open unnecessary new accounts or add accounts too quickly. While it is true that lenders like to see a mix of credit, they also consider the length of the relationship. Too many new accounts can lower your average account age, which can also lower your overall score.

4. If you are very concerned about your score and need to make more sweeping changes, consult a credit counselor. These professionals can formulate a plan that can help you consolidate debt and create more manageable payments.

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Homeownership isn't always a happily ever after story. There are times when owners can no longer meet their mortgage obligations. In this case, there are several options.

One is foreclosure. In this scenario, buyers have a grace period where they can stay in the home and try to make good on their outstanding debts. Eventually, if they are unable to reverse their current course, the bank or lender will evict the owner, reclaim the home and place it on the market for sale.

A second, lesser-known option is called a short sale. Here the lender agrees to take a loss on the home in exchange for recouping most of what is owed to them. In other words, if you owe $90,000 on your mortgage, your bank may agree to take $80,000 and consider the debt paid. The benefit for the lender is that the case is expedited and closed without the added expense of a foreclosure proceeding. Of course the seller would not see any profit from the sale.

If you find yourself in such a position, research the short sale option further. Start by using online resources to learn about the agreement. If you think it is feasible for you, consult with your lender and a real estate attorney who is familiar with this arrangement

Also, it is very important that you understand the tax implications in a short sale. While the lender may be willing to accept less than what it is due, the government will consider the debt forgiveness as income and a taxable gain. Speak with a certified public accountant that is well-versed in this area.

When you closed on your home, you surely did not envision yourself in this situation. Unforeseen circumstances, such as a job loss, can put you in a position you never imagined. It is imperative that you look at all options, including bankruptcy, foreclosure and the short sale before you select the one that will work best for you.