Sheila Moran ~Broker Bits~: October 2009

FACEBOOK workshop ~ October 20, 2009 ~ Hosted by:  Kelly Printing and Promotions & RE/MAX ACCESS

The San Antonio RE/MAX council is hosting it's annual www.MiracleMonsterMash.com costume party on October 28, 2009.  The event will start at 6:30p.m. at the Greater San Antonio Builders Association!  There will be a costume contest, dinner, beer, wine and margaritas!  Come celebrate the season, see the costumes, have some fun, but most importantly raise money for San Antonio Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital in downtown San Antonio.

I have tickets to sell for $50.00 per person.  Checks to be made payable to:  Children's Miracle Network

I just couldn't resist.  Jimmy Stewart wrote this great post yesterday  about why his Active Rain blog is so important to him.  He mentions that he took a personality test.  His version was a Behavior Styles test.  He also mentions how his personality will help him help people with what he possesses.   

Many of the comments mentioned the DISC personality test, which we use heavily in our office.  I noticed that some people were interested about the DISC test so I thought I would share with you a website where you can take a quick and easy test (as well as your office mates, employees and team members) to see where everyone falls into place.  This is an online version and costs only $16.00.  Once you have the results and you know "what" your style is you are able to apply it in different ways.  You can take an additional "team assessment" to place the people on your team in the proper strengths positions or take a career assessment.  There are many things that can be achieved with better understanding from these tests.  

To take the test yourself, go to

www.MotivationalLiving.com        

Once you have your results it will tell you exactly which style you are:  D I S or C   What the strengths are of these different types, how others perceive you, how you perceive yourself and what could be personal growth areas for your type.  

My top 2 profiles are D & I (I'll let you figure out what they mean), but my highest strength is a Persuader.  I have included the "outline" of such. 

Persuader

An extremely outgoing and social person/ sheila tends to make friends easily and likes to have

fun with others. She wants to make commitments even if she may be unable to keep them;

but that is because of her desire to please, not because of any intent to deceive, sheila tends

to be very spontaneous, easily becoming bored with routine tasks.

sheila is motivated by her ability to lead groups and influence others around her. She is

someone who takes the responsibility of leadership seriously when it is given to her, and is

typically able to make important decisions without delay. She exudes confidence and others

respond to sheila's natural ability to be a front runner.

Others see sheila as a versatile person whom they rely upon to break up monotonous or

routine situations. She tends to be individualistic, and may sometimes prefer to do things

outside of the team. sheila may even be perceived as "restless", since she tends to move

quickly from one thing to the next.

sheila likes to try an innovative approach, and may even resist expected behavior. She likes to

make decisions based on her "gut feeling", relying on her intuition to determine what she feels

to be the best approach to a solution. She may sometimes be viewed as controversial because

she tends to seek extreme or unorthodox measures of achieving her goals. sheila may not be

very detail-oriented, and this will tend to create a need for others to "fill in the gaps" when

finishing things up,

After you have taken the test come back here and tell me what YOUR style is !  

Matt Stigliano transferred over to our office in July of 2009.  He is a shining example (my words, never his) of what a little "leap of faith", planning, goal setting and surrounding yourself with an awesome team will do for your business!

Awesome job, Matt!

Your on your way up!!

Garden Ridge, Texas ~ Sold and Active Happenings

Beautiful Garden Ridge, Texas is located approximately 4 miles north of 1604 and approximately 3 miles west of 35 North.  It's nestled in some beautiful mature trees, convenient to Randolph Air Force Base, 35North to Austin as well as 1604 that surrounds San Antonio.

Currently this is what is available for FOR SALE in the Garden Ridge city proper.  Listings grouped by pricing.

This is what has SOLD in the last 6 months for Garden Ridge, Texas.

Interested in seeing what you property should list for?  Give me a call, I'd love to sit down with you and talk about a marketing plan.

Have some fun at the Gruene Music Wine Festival, October 10-11, 2009

All of the proceeds from this event benefit the United Way of Comal County

This weekend the 23rd annual Gruene Music & Wine Festival is being held!  Last night featured a concert with Pat Green at Gruene Hall, SOLD OUT.

Today there is wine tasting from NOON till 6p.m. at the Grapevine

9p.m. Today at Gruene Hall-Joe Ely Reunion band

and tomorrow

10:30-10p.m Texas-Style Musicfest - Gosel Brunch, Specialty Beer Tasting, Cowboys Gamem, Handmade wine Accessories & Gift Market, Festival Food & Music by:

Asleep at the wheel, Reckless Kelly, The Detrailers, Two Tons of Steel (my favorite), Seth James, Adam Hood, Rob Roy Parnell and more!

If you find out that maybe you need a lift home after enjoying all of the spirits going out remember that you can always call Tony's Taxi which is a local taxi cab and get some safetly!  Call them at 830-627-8294 or tweet Rhonda @tonystaxi

This morning we woke up to lightening, thunder and tons of rain!  South Texas needs this rain desperately.  My son and I jumped in the car so I could run to the office to pick up the last bit of a project that I am working on (yes, a REALTORS job is never done).

This is what we ran into! 

p.s. No we didn't cross like some stupid guy that risked the Fire Departments' Crew and truck at another crossing that we passed!

Standing so close to something so powerful was interesting.  You could hear the rush of the water flowing over the road and into the "DRY" creek.  Watch out for mother nature!

I thought I would share with you this geat post!  As a Broker who has an Agent in my office that is currently struggling with breast cancer (for the 2nd time) I ask you to take some time, donate and spread the word.