Editorial
Front Page - Friday, May 14, 2010
Affiliate of the year recognized for compassionate service
Erica Tuggle
During the WCR May meeting, Sally Hunt was recognized as affiliate of the year. Ann Hale (right) handed off the award to Kathy Gibson, who works with Hunt at Guarantee Title and Trust. Hunt was unable to be at the meeting due to recent sadness that required her to take a leave of absence, but it did not diminish all she has done for the WCR, Hale said.
- Erica Tuggle
On Cinco De Mayo, the Women’s Council of Realtors joined together at the DoubleTree Downtown hotel for feasting, to talk about improving their spirit of entrepreneurship and to recognize one of their own for compassionate service. Although the debate on choosing a dessert was in full form, the ladies of the WCR seemed no less keen on beefing up their real estate know-how.
Robert Moss, a team leader at Keller Williams downtown, gave the speech while the WCR members and their guests delved into a meal of pot roast, mashed potatoes, veggies and their choice of strawberry cake or apple empanadas.
Moss said, as he made his way around he room (he said he was not a podium kind of guy), that each person there was full of emotion and the passion to increase their business if only they knew how to push through the adversity. He encouraged those in the room to make the step from being an entrepreneur to being on purpose.
Moss explained to the audience that he had taken a class years ago that showcased six perspectives to help individuals take their life to a higher level. During the luncheon, he said he would only expand on the concept of “Moving from E to P” for the sake of time.
He asked those in attendance to put down their forks, look at him, move to the edge of their chair and say all together what the color of a yield sign was. There was a resounding answer of yellow before he flipped to the next slide of his presentation that displayed a red yield sign; the color they have been since 1963, he said. He said this proves that everyone can learn something more. This, he said, is part of one of his favorite sayings that, “When you change the way you see things, the things you see change.”
Moss continued into the presentation by identifying all in the room as entrepreneurial members with the natural ability to make things happen, full of energy, drive and enthusiasm.
He said there is a fundamental level of achievement everyone is born with that they can reach called “the law of the lid.” This means five people around anyone in all areas of their life influence the limits on their finances, spirituality, matrimony and so forth. He said this is the difference between being an amateur and becoming a professional. To get through this ceiling of achievement, he said, entrepreneurial people look to find something greener when they hit a dead end and this cycle plays on and on until the person makes the decision to move toward their purpose. He said moving toward purpose is uncomfortable but with focus, options, models and accountability, a person can be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
This is done by constantly being held accountable and emulating those who are excelling in areas a person is struggling with, he said. It is also aided by education, as he emphasized when a person stops learning, then they will stop earning. Those who keep a person on purpose, he said, are called the board of directors, and as an example showed his “board of directors” with photos of his wife and daughter. He finished his speech by encouraging the audience to pick one thing for the next five years to be on purpose with, and he guaranteed doing this would increase their success.
The WCR showed they are on purpose to get new members with a recap of the new member orientation at the end of April.
Karen Flores, who is co-chairing the Ways and Means committee, took the mic to remind members of the Purse Live Auction in August to raise funds for the committee. She also said that the WCR fashion show is tentatively planned for October, who the Men in Real Estate calendar will be unveiled with several examples of beefcake.
Ann Hale stepped in to announce the presentation of the new affiliate of the year. Sally Hunt, born in Shelbyville, Tenn., was awarded this honor for her continued service to the industry in many forms. She was praised for her compassionate nature, from her gentle care of her pet horses, birds and dogs to her care for her three children and eight grandchildren, and still further to her dedication to creating genuine relationships with every person she meets.
Hunt established the Chattanooga Area Swim League while raising her children, and after they were grown she entered UTC to earn two bachelor’s degrees in nursing and psychology in a five-year period. She joined Guarantee Title and Trust in 2000 and became active with the WCR. Unfortunately, Hale said, Hunt was in Murfreesboro at the time of this meeting on a leave of absence that in no way diminished all the work she has done. Hale asked Kathy Gibson of Guarantee Title and Trust to come forward and accept the award on Hunt’s behalf.
WCR President Cheree Dumas announced a meeting for May 18 at the Homebuilder’s Association, where the state president for the WCR would be in attendance, and encouraged all to call the association to make a reservation for this free cookout event. Dumas said she was going to Washington, D.C. in the next week to represent the local chapter and return with new ideas and information, all of which she would report in the upcoming newsletter.
She said the next board meeting is May 29 at the CAR Magnolia Room at 10 a.m., and the next general membership meeting will be August 4 at the DoubleTree Downtown hotel, where Bo Watson will speak on “Real Estate in the Legislature.”
Before the meeting was adjourned, a door prize drawing was done for a book on the history of real estate in which Kay Ivey’s name was drawn. This adds to her continued streak of wins of WCR prizes.
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