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Happy Thanksgiving! During the month of November, we've been posting your comments about what you're thankful for. We haven't been able to post all your comments, so we'll continue posting comments after Thanksgiving. Today, blogger extraordinaire Frances Flynn Thorsen has many, many reasons to be thankful:
1. I am grateful for a large and loving family, the Flynns and Maliszewskis and Thorsens.
2. I am grateful to the core for two magnificent sons, Jens Holger and Andreas Holger. They swell my heart and make me very, very proud.
3. I am grateful for Ralf and a 33-year adventure that has taken us through blissful sunsets and some rapids that few other couples could survive.
4. I am grateful for Arizona, its warm and embracing sun, a new state to call home.
5. I am grateful for dreams that did not give up on me.
6. I am grateful for lessons learned in some sorry and stupid ass mistakes I have made over the years.
7. I am grateful for every single moment I have lived and I would not change a single second in my life.
8. I am grateful for the past and the memories attached to it.
9. I am grateful for the present and the memories we are creating today.
10. I am grateful for the future and the memories we will craft over time.
Read the other 90 things on Fran's list of things to be thankful for on her blog, The REALTY Gram.
In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, we're posting comments from our readers on what they're thankful for. Today's entry is from Gail Pullan of Altanta.
I am thankful for being a REALTOR®. This profession allows me to help my fellow Americans achieve that great dream, home ownership!
by Hilary Marsh, Managing Director, REALTOR.org
I am thankful for the opportunity to make a difference in helping REALTORS be successful in what they do by understanding and using the resources their national association provides for them.
I'm thankful for my exceptionally intelligent and hardworking team, for my large network of fabulous colleagues, and for the warm and engaged communities of REALTORS and REALTOR association executives I have met online and in person.
I'm thankful for my managers, who help me grow professionally every day.
I'm thankful for my son and daughter, who are blossoming into wonderful young adults.
And I'm thankful for my sweetie, who has welcomed me into a new family with open arms.
By Wendy Cole, Senior Editor
Are your Thanksgiving cards to past clients in the mail?
Uh, what?
At a Thursday seminar called "What to do NOW . . ." for salespeople with innovative Chicago brokerage @properties, more than 100 practitioners sat with blank stares when company performance coach Rich Rogala asked if they'd mailed notes of gratitude to people who have ever given them business. "We have a holiday specifically designed for giving thanks," said Rogala. "Why don't you thank your clients?"
He promised to make templates of Thanksgiving notes available for anyone who needed them, but just tossing out the proposition to the room crowded with slightly maudlin salespeople triggered nods of appreciation from those seemingly starved for ideas about how to spend their work time productively. It's an emotional and relational business, after all.
Is anyone else planning to send out gratitude cards? If not, why not?
by Hilary Marsh, Managing Director, REALTOR.org
Last week's request on Twitter, a "micro-blogging" tool that limits entries to 140 characters, drew more responses from REALTORS® and others about what they are thankful for:
"Thanks to all the Realtors today who are adapting to the brave new world of real estate by helping their customers & clients navigate change." -- Emily Medvec
"I am thankful for all of our great clients who have helped us to have an amazing year in real estate in Metro Detroit." -- Maureen Francis
"I am thankful for all the wonderful people, clients and colleagues & business partners, who have come in to my life as a realtor-Fantastic!" -- Pam Buda
"Thankful for the opportunity to have everyday be different and to work with many great people, both clients and industry related." -- Tim McDonald
"I am thankful for loyal and patient clients and all my friends in the social networks." -- Joe Spake
"I am thankful 4my amazing brokers who make me feel like I'm top in sales whether I'm selling cribs or stuck home w/kids!" -- Cin Langston
"I am thankful for my friends and my family. They just keep supporting me through every up and down in this market." -- Cat Zwicker Grant
"While I am not a Realtor, I am thankful for the resilience of Realtors in the face of adversity - and their willingness to try new things :)" -- Chris de Jong, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, we're posting comments from our readers on what they're thankful for. Today's entry is from Jim Coleman of St. George, Utah.
The expression of thanks, the process and experience of giving thanks, and the reflection of Thanksgiving are matters very personal and unique. They are in direct relation to the life experiences one has enjoyed or suffered. I am thankful for the great blessings given me to be in this great land of freedom and abundance. I am thankful I have had the opportunity to fail and to grow; to deal with adversity and become strong; to excel and realize the thrill of high achievement; to enjoy the peace of happy relationships with family, loved ones and associates.
I am thankful for the great individuals who have given me opportunity and helped me to gain vision and strive for accomplishment through service to others and realizing personal development in the process. Above all, I acknowledge and give thanks to the Lord who has given me all I have and who has made it possible to progress due to His great gift to all mankind.
Truly, Thanksgiving is a time not only to reflect upon the goodness of life and enumerate acts of kindness and inventory blessings too numerous to count, but also make personal acknowledgement and give heart-felt thanks while thinking of those less fortunate and striving to help them gain a measure of peace and greater prosperity. I am a very fortunate man.
Jim Coleman, ABR, ABRM, CRS, GRI, e-PRO, SRES, and REALTOR® of 34 years
by Hilary Marsh, Managing Director, REALTOR.org
I put out a request on Twitter, a "micro-blogging" tool that limits entries to 140 characters, and heard from several REALTORS® about what they are thankful for:
Here's what I'm thankful for, Hilary: "Honoring our Veterans"
--Matt Case
I'm thankful for such a great band of RE.net friends and the fun times we have when we actually see each other live in person
--Matt Fagioli
I am thankful to be in a business where success or failure depends almost completely on my actions and ability!
--Jay Thompson
actually having clients. :)
--Shanna Lafontaine
There are so many things I am grateful for, but this election, think what you want to think about politics, this election for me means so much so much more than politics, we will always have the political machine with us and get things done in spite of it.
This morning, reading USA today, looking at the pictures on the front page of these young beautiful smiling faces celebrating Barack- I just started crying, here at the Westin, getting ready for the shuttle to register for the convention. I cried and I remembered being very young and asking my mom why Rosa Parks had to sit in the back of the bus, and why there were separate drinking fountains down south, and my mom said, its not right, it has never been right, and throughout history there has been prejudice against many races and religions. I remember watching Martin Luther King on TV and thinking how handsome, and what a great speaker he was, so in control and such good manners, I know I wished so much that things would change at that moment in time.
I am grateful that I live in this Great Country, One Nation, One Nation Under God, God, who I think Toni Morrison said, is the color of water, and I believe is bigger than our smallness and loves all of us. I am grateful that Martin Luther King's life was not in vain, and I felt that wish of a little girl in Simsbury Connecticut in 1963 came true today.
--Jodi Tussing, Director of Career Development, CENTURY 21 Access America, Connecticut
I am grateful to be on the right side of the ground, and all my parts work.
I am grateful to be at the NAR conference, surrounded by old friends and meeting new friends.
I am grateful to have a wonderful network of women and men who support and guide me, many relationships forged through my Realtor volunteerism at Women's Council of Realtors.
I am grateful that both of my parents are alive and well.
I am grateful that I have a roof over my head and food to eat.
I am grateful that my family taught me good values (IMHO!) and gave me a good education.
I am grateful for the numerous opportunities I receive every day, to serve in my industry, to help other Realtors, and consumers.
I am grateful to the children with whom I spend my volunteer time: my little sister, Rocio, and my 'boys' who read with me in the JCC Literacy Program-Omar and Donovan. They all bring me such joy!
I am grateful for the fellowship of Rotary.
--Judy Moses, President, Pathway Home Realty Group, Newton Centre, Mass.
In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, we're posting comments from our readers on what they're thankful for. Today's entry is from Annie Becker:
I'm thankful for buyers, some of whom I've worked with for years, who are as loyal to me as I am to them. Many of them are now realizing that the time has come to get a great deal. It feels like a great gift when they get back in touch and I realize that they've been unsure about when and what to buy, but certain that they would call me when the time came.
Here's the original post.
By Stacey Moncrieff, Editor in Chief
This is the time of year when we get the chance to take stock of—and give thanks for—what we have. So as Thanksgiving approaches, REALTOR Magazine and the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Publications staff would like to take a breather from all the economic uncertainly and hear from you about what you’re thankful for this year. Please take a few moments to enter your comments, name, city, and state. During the rest of November, we hope to surface a new “I’m thankful for . . .” post each day.
I’ll start: I’m thankful for the wonderful relationships I’ve built with REALTORS® and NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® staff over the course of my career here. I’m grateful for the health of my husband and three children, and for the great joy they bring me. And I’m grateful for the wise guidance and love I’ve received throughout my life from my parents and my older brother and sister. Being the baby of the family has its advantages!
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