Paula Mosley's (pmosley) Blog

The Organic Chemistry of the Real Estate World . . . I once read that when someone is enrolled in med school, there is a course that is so tough and intimidating; many students drop out before they even start the class. Organic Chemistry. It is the course that separates the mice and the men. Only...

“You are so dumb. You are really dumb, for real!” – Antoine Dodson, YouTube Star WARNING: The following post was written high atop my soapbox. Readers’ discretion is advised. Sometimes, I just want to scream the words of Antoine Dodson aloud for all managing brokers/broker owners to hear. “You ar...

Consistently Inconsistent Sometimes in life, you are granted the opportunity to “practice what you teach”. You are also given chances to admit your shortcomings. For me, this is one of those times. I am a big advocate for consistent blogging. It has many fringe benefits, one of which is to educat...

Isn't bazaar how we can feel terrified of something only to realize that we were worried or afraid for nothing? A great example occured in my life just last week. My only child, Kylie, moved out of our house and into her college dorm - three hours away. I have lived in complete angst for at least...

Energy Crisis My personal energy levels have been odd lately. I’m normally like the Energizer Bunny, but in the past few weeks, I have felt more like a turtle trying to run across a peanut butter covered highway. I was speaking with one of my coaches about it, and they issued a homework assignmen...

I am an avid reader and a curiosity junkie.  I often find inspiration for my blogs from the books, magazines and articles I read.  Today is no exception. I love "Success" magazine (if you are not a subscriber, I highly recommend it success.com).  The July issue was chock full of content for entre...

Velvet Handcuffs The velvet handcuffs of real estate: free leads, free marketing materials, free desk space, free, free, free.  Everything is FREE but the agents!  It all reminds me of an Aesop's fable called "The Dog and the Wolf". It goes like this: A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when...

Did you know that when building rapport, 93% has nothing to do with the words we use (courtesy or research from Dr. Ray Birdwhistle at the University of Pennsylvania)? The actual break out is 55% physiology (or body language) and 38% tonality (or how we say our words) and 7% the content of the me...

Throughout my life, I have heard people say things like “man, he is a class act”. It’s like an illusive adjective that I understood, yet could not define. Recently, I was reading a book, and it gave excellent ways to be recognized as a class act. As not to R&D (rip-off and duplicate), I will shar...

It’s Roller Coaster Season, Baby! When I was a kid, one of the parks we visited during the summer, was of course, Opryland. They had amazing shows, great food (to a kid, at least) and wonderful rides. My favorite was “The Wabash Cannonball”. It was a metal coaster, and people would scream like cr...