I have a lot of fun watching General McClellan as he goes about his daily duties warning off potential attacks on our home. After each loud salvo delivered to the passerby’s who retreat quickly he victoriously returns to his couch with his head and tail held high and with an expression of satisfaction at a job well done.
Let me introduce you to General Augustus Beauregard McClellan affectionately called “The Little General” , who by the way is 2 pounds 12 ounces fully clothed, yes he does where clothes and he does have camouflaged fatigues. Now The General takes on all comers, his best friend is Ralph a neighboring Labrador who is about Thirty times The Generals weight, but they will chase the same ball and General just loves his visits with his Buddy Ralph. Next door is his first love the dash hound Ginger, The General goes to extraordinary lengths just to get through the fence and spend a romantic morning or evening with his girlfriend.
As I watch The General go about his daily duties I never see him ever finding his size to be a handicap to the task at hand, in fact it actually seems to be an advantage to him, He can crawl through, and under the shadow box fence to get to his friends, he usually is the best sprinter out there, and if he was a cutting horse he would take home all the prizes for his ability to stop and turn on a dime and out maneuver his colleagues when chasing squeaky toys. The General is the most persistent of all creatures I have yet to meet. He does not quit and he does not let the size of the task detour him.
I often think that if we as real estate agents were as committed as the General is to achieving our goals as he is to his, how successful we would be. I believe many times we see the task ahead of us as just too large to tackle, and walk away, when it’s all about how we maneuver it. Recently when I was at Publix I purchase a bone that was just as large as the General and easily weighed as much. I was curious to see how he would handle a bone bigger than himself. Well for several hours he gnawed on it one gnaw at a time, then I noticed the bone had simply vanished, I looked under the furniture, and of course by my side was General looking, sniffing and assisting me in my search, I wonder what he thought I was looking for, we did find a few of his toys and chew’s but, no bone, I asked my wife if she had seen it as I thought she may have thrown it out since she thought I was ridiculous for giving him such a large and filthy thing. The bone was no where to be found. Well later that evening when I went into the bedroom and into the walk-in closet there it was, laying beside my shoes, I guess he hoped the shoes would somehow camouflage his prize. What I could not get over was how he got this huge bone from one end of the house to the other, but he did.
What I am trying to say here is we need to think more like The Little General and when we do we will get more accomplished and our perceived obstacles will actually be reduced to the true size that they are.
This coming week the General and I will be attending a real estate conference in Orlando where we both will be spending five days at the Wyndham Resort, I look forward to the conference while he is looking forward to the furlough from duty.
Let me introduce you to General Augustus Beauregard McClellan affectionately called “The Little General” , who by the way is 2 pounds 12 ounces fully clothed, yes he does where clothes and he does have camouflaged fatigues. Now The General takes on all comers, his best friend is Ralph a neighboring Labrador who is about Thirty times The Generals weight, but they will chase the same ball and General just loves his visits with his Buddy Ralph. Next door is his first love the dash hound Ginger, The General goes to extraordinary lengths just to get through the fence and spend a romantic morning or evening with his girlfriend.
As I watch The General go about his daily duties I never see him ever finding his size to be a handicap to the task at hand, in fact it actually seems to be an advantage to him, He can crawl through, and under the shadow box fence to get to his friends, he usually is the best sprinter out there, and if he was a cutting horse he would take home all the prizes for his ability to stop and turn on a dime and out maneuver his colleagues when chasing squeaky toys. The General is the most persistent of all creatures I have yet to meet. He does not quit and he does not let the size of the task detour him.
I often think that if we as real estate agents were as committed as the General is to achieving our goals as he is to his, how successful we would be. I believe many times we see the task ahead of us as just too large to tackle, and walk away, when it’s all about how we maneuver it. Recently when I was at Publix I purchase a bone that was just as large as the General and easily weighed as much. I was curious to see how he would handle a bone bigger than himself. Well for several hours he gnawed on it one gnaw at a time, then I noticed the bone had simply vanished, I looked under the furniture, and of course by my side was General looking, sniffing and assisting me in my search, I wonder what he thought I was looking for, we did find a few of his toys and chew’s but, no bone, I asked my wife if she had seen it as I thought she may have thrown it out since she thought I was ridiculous for giving him such a large and filthy thing. The bone was no where to be found. Well later that evening when I went into the bedroom and into the walk-in closet there it was, laying beside my shoes, I guess he hoped the shoes would somehow camouflage his prize. What I could not get over was how he got this huge bone from one end of the house to the other, but he did.
What I am trying to say here is we need to think more like The Little General and when we do we will get more accomplished and our perceived obstacles will actually be reduced to the true size that they are.
This coming week the General and I will be attending a real estate conference in Orlando where we both will be spending five days at the Wyndham Resort, I look forward to the conference while he is looking forward to the furlough from duty.
