Article by Anthony Seruga and Yolly Bishop

Like any other service-oriented business today, the real estate business is focused on relationships and people, not the production of things or the parsing of numbers. This means that real estate agents must be people people, and that their unique personalities will have a significant effect on the success or failure of any given endeavor. If you want to be successful in the difficult and competitive world of real estate, above all else you must have a positive mindset.

There is no perfect real estate agent, but all real estate agents should strive for specific personality traits. They should be positive people, believing at all times that they will succeed in what they’re trying to do, eventually if not today. They should be aggressive, or at least assertive, about going after the properties they want to buy and sell, yet be approachable, friendly people that put a customer at ease.

Above all, however, real estate agents must be professional. This means maintaining a proper distance from customers, keeping promises, and always behaving like the experts they are.

Of all these traits, the one trait that everything else hangs upon is the positive mindset. If you don’t believe in your ability to sell a property, why should anyone else believe in it? And in the tough real estate world, the hardest thing for real estate agents to do is remain positive. There are a few things you can do to help yourself always look at the bright side of things.

1. Get rid of complainers and drama queens. You can’t eliminate everyone in your life, but you can get rid of friends who don’t share your ambitions and mind frame. This includes people who are always complaining and negative, those who seem to depend on drama to get them through the day, those who tear you down rather than building you up, and those who do not understand when you choose to work rather than go out and have fun. Eliminate those who can drag you down, and seek out the company of those who do share your mindset. You may find yourself hanging out with other real estate agents, and at least in the early days, that’s fine.

2. You can create affirmations for yourself that get you into a positive mindset. This is simple and less hokey than it sounds. Just formulate your goals, and then use them to build simple single-line mantras you can say to yourself. For instance, “I am a real estate agent, and I’m capable of and ready to become the most successful real estate agent in [your city].” Don’t feel locked into that phrase; create your own that works for you, and say it to yourself every morning and at times you feel stressed and discouraged. Make sure you write down those goals, too, and keep them somewhere you’ll read them every day; simply having written goals is one of the most powerful tools for success you’ll ever find.

3. Who do you admire? Few people hold real estate agents up as role models, though some of them can be, probably for the same reason they don’t hold plumbers up: you do a job that does not get much recognition and affects only one individual at a time. If you can’t find a great hero in the real estate world, read about other entrepreneurs and people who have shown the traits you’d like to have as a real estate agent.

You can go further than that if you like. If the person you admire is someone who is living, consider sending them a note telling them how you admire them and what they mean to you. In worst cases, that person will be flattered, and you’ll have put in words exactly what it is that you admire about them. In best cases, you may be able to make a personal contact with that person, starting a genuine friendship with someone you admire.

4. Study successful people, and adopt their positive mindsets and successful habits. This doesn’t mean that you need to study people in a book. In fact, your fellow real estate agents may provide you with the best possible role models. Who in your area is making the nervy deals, the huge profits, and the connections with the customers ready to buy? If you can’t figure out their habits from outside, approach them and ask. You may be pleasantly surprised.

5. Maintain a positive self-image. This will sustain you through the lean times that are sure to be coming to everyone’s town as banks tighten loan qualifications and the housing market slumps. Using your personal goals, your affirmations, and your modeling of successful people, keep working toward excellence. Keep track as you achieve each goal, and celebrate milestones. Look back every six months to see how much you’ve grown. This, more than real estate agents training, will turn you into a successful real estate professional.

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Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop of Maverick Real Estate Investments, Inc. work with builders, developers and other players in the commercial real estate industry to acquire and develop properties. They use progressive investment strategies that have proved extremely profitable. In addition to their own deals, they teach both seasoned and inexperienced investors how to be big players in the game. Visit the website for more info.s

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HistoryIt was the first western hospital in Shanghai. William Lockhart, a missionary from Britain, rent a house in the inhabited area near Da Dong Men (Big East Gate) of Shanghai County and opened this hospital in 1844(Dao Guang 24 year, Qing Dynasty). It was once named as ‘the Chinese Hospital’. Two years later, the hospital moved to Mai Jia Quan (Middle Shandong Road now), and changed its name to Shandong Road hospital also called Renji Health Care House (Chinese: ). Renji had 60 beds and started the out-patient clinic that time. In 1927 (ROC 16 year), the hospital accepted the heritage from a British Merchant, Henry Lester, with 1 million tael silver and four places of his real estate, which was used to expand the hospital. In 1932 (ROC 21 year), a building with 6 floors was constructed for the hospital, the beds was increased to 250, and it finally turned its name to Renji Hospital. Renji Hospital had got 300 beds in 1949. In Nov. 1952, Shanghai Second Medical College took over the charge of Renji Hospital from East China Health Care Administration and called Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Second Medical College. In the ‘Cultural Revolution’, the hospital once changed its name to ‘Gong Nong Bing Hospital’ (workers, farmers and armymen’s hospital) and ‘the 3rd people’s hospital’. In Dec. 1984, the hospital regained to its former name Renji. In 1985, Shanghai Second Medical College renamed as Shanghai Second Medical University (SSMU), then Renji Hospital became an affiliated hospital of SSMU. At the end of 1990, Renji had got 607 beds, 1,211 staff members, 124 of them had high ranking professional titles. In 2005, Shanghai Second Medical University was merged to Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Renji Hospital then became an affiliated hospital of School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. PresentAs Pudong became an open economic development zone, Renji chose a new place for its extension in Lujiazui. Now Renji Hospital has three parts, west part is the old place in Puxi, east part is in Pudong New Area, south part is in Pujiang Town, Minhang District. There is only an out-patient clinic in south part now. Up till 2007, the campus space is 145 acres and the building space is 185,744 square meters. It has 1,600 patient-beds. The hospital has 2,651 employees, among them 411 are senior doctors. It treats about 2,170,000 emergency cases and outpatients, about 57,000 inpatients and over 28,000 operations every year. Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease is standing in Renji hospital. Gastroenterology is a national key discipline, too. It’s also famous for rheumatology, cardiology, obstetrics, gynecology, andrology, nephrology, hematology, general surgery, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, etc. Famous ProfessorsJiang Shaoji(Chinese:), MD(1919~1995) Professor of gastroenterology. Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering Traffic East Part (No. 1630, Dongfang Road)Metro Line 4, Tangqiao StationMetro Line 6, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center StationBus: 871, 984, 980, 219, Tunnel Line 9 West Part (No. 145, Middle Shandong Road)Metro Line 2, East Nanjing Road StationBus: 14, 17, 145, 980, Tunnel Line 3, Tunnel Line 6, Tunnel Line 9 South Part (No. 2627, Lianhang Road)Metro Line 8, Lianhang Road See alsoIntroduction of Renji HospitalOfficial website of Renji Hospital(Chinese) References^ Lockhart, William (1861) The medical missionary in China: a narrative of twenty years’ experience^ Shanghai Local Archive Office(Chinese)^ Introduction from Renji Official Website(Chinese)^ Introduction of Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease Categories: Hospitals in Shanghai | Hospitals established in 1844 | Affiliated Hospitals of School of Medicine, SJTUHidden categories: Articles containing simplified Chinese language text | Articles containing traditional Chinese language text | Shanghai articles missing geocoordinate data | All articles needing coordinates

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