Tonight was the last night of a short vacation. I enjoy these breaks as the make for create resets. I find myself still thinking about my business though.

I was looking at the sunset over the bay tonight. I thought that as the sunsets here, it is rising elsewhere. Yet there are so many in the business world don't see things that way. Instead of looking for that other opportunity, they simply wait for the next day to come around.

That might not be the best way of doing business and if you refuse to improve the business model during that "down" time, you are betting that nothing will change. At one level I applaud having faith in the next coming day. Where I can't tell you what that next day will look like, I can tell you that change is one of the few constants we know is coming.

Are you waiting for that next day to come? Are you waiting for that next recession, that next new tenant to find you, that next purchase, that next new opportunity to find you? If the best you can do is blame the real estate cycle, blame your location, blame your property type, blame government, blame the Non-Quals........I feel comfortable saying that there are opportunities out there that you might be missing by not looking into the mirror.

SOMEBODY is making money no matter the market conditions. Sometimes you have to figure out how to still profit when the market changes.

We are getting older... we have seen the market conditions repeat themselves. Yes, you can definitely learn from history! It does not always exactly repeat itself, but it does frequently enough you can make a profit under almost any conditions.

He's a deeper thinker than I am. Somedays if I can tie my shoes I think I am meeting my goals.

Ray keeps pushing some of us to think more creatively.

I appreciate it more than he knows.

Philosopher King -

Well said Ray!

Sadly many people are best sometimes left in the dark.