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By Ginny Shipe, CAE, CEO, Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers, Real Estate Business Magazine, August/September 2006

Highly Effective Habits

Ginny Shipe

Ginny Shipe, CAE

CEO, Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers

"The nature of man is always the same; it is their habits that separate them."

— Confucius

Ask the person next to you to list three of their worst habits and they will probably tell you 10 without pausing. We all have habits that keep us from being the kind of people we aspire to be. The challenge is getting — and staying — tough about breaking them.

"I'll stick to my diet this time."

"This will absolutely be my last cigarette."

"I'm cutting up the credit cards once and for all."

Sound familiar? We may recognize the stress bad habits create in our lives and may want to change. But again and again, we repeat the same patterns.

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