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Writer's pictureMonica Burke

Clarity Wins

I was driving home from Dallas after a long weekend business trip. This was a first for me. We were expanding the team into Dallas, and all systems were a GO. We had the right assistant team lead and agents ready to go. I had met with the agents via Zoom and felt really good,


BUT


I kept getting pushback from the assistant team lead on start dates. There were a lot of personal things going on for her, toppled with unknown-to-me business dealings. The week I was leaving to go help get Dallas off the ground, she quit. She quit through an email to the broker to be removed. No conversation. No nothing. Mind you—we were on good terms.


Immediately my first reaction was, "Well, I am going to Dallas this weekend. I do not know who I am meeting, but I am signing up some agents and a new leader." Some thought I was a little crazy, and some admired the response.


I did not have time to really assess the damage, as I needed to get it off the ground. I went to Dallas and set up 5 one-on-ones with different agents and made it to a social event that was being held by the brokerage.


I met so many amazing agents. Some are signed up on my team as of today, and some brought awareness to different things.


If you know me, my social battery was DONE in that day and a half, but I pushed myself to do the uncomfortable, knowing my non-negotiable. The drive home was a great reflection for me to un-spaghetti my brain.


As I was driving, I reflected on one podcast that kept coming to mind. Do you even know what you really want? Give me your top 3 things you want in one sentence or less.

  1. I want the strongest team. I dream about each member and use manifesting techniques for all.

  2. I want to get paid to speak across stages and turn people's lives into momentum.

  3. I want complete freedom of self and expression.


My immediate next thought was, am I doing everything possible to accomplish those things? Am I in the right position to receive those things?


As I started thinking of my schedule, I realized that the leadership position I took on was actually keeping me from my number one.


When I got home, I received a DM asking me to remove a post that I felt very passionate about because I represent a certain brand, and as a leader, that is not acceptable and PC of me.


Boom. Now this position is keeping me from 2 of those and potentially speaking too (based on time consumption).


The very next day I woke up with complete clarity. I am not where I belong because I belong in my dreams, and this looks great on paper and to others, but it’s not where I am supposed to be.


Sometimes, when we take the journey of courage, we are rewarded with much more than we asked for. I went to Dallas to find who, not how. I came back with both.


I sit here before you more excited about this new era, and I even got invited to stay on in leadership in a much less time-consuming way. I am so fortunate for the owners of my brokerage because, in my experience, many brokers are fine with you doing things that benefit them but not so much you. Every time I have broken off the path to do what I was called to do—there has been resistance.


That is how it is. You have to be the bull in the china shop. You have to know what it is that you want, and then you have to take massive action towards that, which includes, many times, eliminating more than adding.


Here is one more cool reward I received. I got a call from one of my mentors offering to partner on interpersonal and business events where, guess what... I get paid to speak and share! I get to help build something new and cool that is in direct alignment with what I want.


For every NO you give, God or the Universe rewards you with a new YES!


Go do something uncomfortable. You cannot fail. You will only fall into a better situation!




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