Steve D Valentine tells newer real estate professionals to plan how their career will shape their life. Ten years ago he didn't want to teach; now he's ready to mentor and invest. Recognize when you're ready to pull levers like mentoring, investing, or recruiting, so your network can eventually let you work solo.
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If you're here and you may be newer in the business, think about either one of us, right? Ten years ago, I didn't have the desire to speak and teach and do the things. You may be coming up on a point in your career where you're like, I have some value to give, and guess what? Your career shifted and evolved. But at least you're at a place that gives you the ability to go, yep, I'm ready to pull that lever and give back now. Right? I'm ready to grow into that, or I'm ready to start doing the investing piece, or I'm ready to start talking to agents about coming over here. And so you start to think like, well, I'm at a place. And this is always a question, like, is there a lid on your growth? And not just talking about in your sales, I'm talking about in your life, right? Because you could come to a point. You know, you're what, 33? You come to the point when you're 50 that you're like, you have this great network of agency, you have this great referral business. Some of your referral business is being handled by your network. So you don't have to do the work. You don't have a team. You can operate pretty much solo. And then maybe you are just helping agents determine which brokers they go to down the road, because it's a lever you can pull because of the life that you built.
