Ok, so I started August with a BANG and then it dwindled into nothingness... and now I figured I might as well tie up loose ends by finishing the month and the hot season with a little something, something.  Crap - time just flew by didn't it?  Guess that's what happens when you're having fun, which you'll be happy to know that I tried to do for once in a long time.  I tried to have so much fun and focus on the social/personal life that I think people took notice and thought that I'd become a party animal, but not to worry because I'm still a far cry from that title.

 After the last couple years of non-stop hard core work, I took a little much needed time out for myself and to re-gain some of the life and relationships that I also let drift to nothingness.  I am a self-confessed workaholic, and it actually hit me one night pretty hard when I had car trouble and I needed some help... since I had not gone out much while I was busy working like a machine and never made time for anyone, it was very difficult for me to even ask anyone to make time for me.  When you're a damsel in distress, it's not a good feeling to know that the only people you feel comfortable calling are your car service company or business related acquaintences since they're the only ones you have consistent contact with. Not good at all.

Alas, August was a month of change and liberation for me... after reading a bunch of real estate career books, I realized that this "overwork & overwhelm" wall is one that many, many, many realtors hit and the sad thing is that not all of them ever recover from the collateral damage.  I suppose I'm lucky to have hit it pretty quickly and I'm still agile enough to make stuff happen despite the bumps and bruises.  I took a lot of time out for me, but that's not to say that I didn't work... quite the contrary actually.  I did work and I did deals and I lost deals (due to the million bidding wars - oh god, don't get me started on the bidding wars... business wise, that's all I can seem to remember for this month, but I will have to save that for another blog though).  Of course, I didn't have as stellar of a month as I could have had if I put my 120% like usual, but that's ok.

Anyway, the moral of this story is that as people, we need to step back sometimes and really question why you're doing what you're doing and figure out what the side effects are.  The findings may be staggering, so be prepared.  The grass is always going to be greener on the other side of everything and you can't always have your cake and eat it too... but then what good is having a cake if you can't eat it or even worse, it's rotten by the time you're ready to?

*munch munch*