Tuesday, March 10, 2009

I am with Michael from Serr.biz learning how to use the back end of my blog. He is the best. Exciting stuff. The control freak part of me is very excited about this ;-) I can control my own blog soon. Yay.

Yesterday was a good day. I like Mondays, typically. I like to start the week off on a good foot. I think having a good Monday sets a precedent for a strong week, so I usually go out of my way to make Monday’s extra productive. Yesterday’s Monday certainly was.

I wanted to share one thing with all of you reading my blog. I am not perfect. Sometimes I make mistakes. We all do right? It just so happens that, I made one yesterday. I did apologize, but this client was still unhappy. It happens from time to time in everyone’s business. Here’s what happened.

I am feeling the effects of the daylight saving clock change. I am so sensitive to pretty much everything, even little things like this effect me. My name, “Adina” is a word in Hebrew; the meaning is sensitive or gentle. I always make a joke out. Why didn’t my parents call me something that means strong and tough or ”Nothing bothers her”, ha! Oh well. Although I didn’t physically go to the office this weekend (a luxury I started affording myself about a year ago, in part because I grew my staff and it was unnecessary for me to be their 7 days when I started to pay salaries to people to assist me, but also in part for just plain sanity.) I know we were busy. We didn’t get any apartment applications though, which is always something that bothers me. Generally speaking, it’s not THAT strange, as the month just started and most people are looking for April 1st. A lot of people will take at least another weekend to look around before making their decision, and right now there is certainly a lot to look at. So I will take some deep breaths this Monday morning and try not to worry too much. Worry is, of course, part of commission syndrome. When is your next deal coming? You worry and worry…

Here I am, sleeping with Luna and the Blackberry again. Woke up not too long ago and read this about my long time agent Esther. It's emails like this that make me want to sleep w/ the phone after all...

Esther, 10 out of 10.

Late start this morning for me. I went out with my agent Erin last night after work. I like to do it as often as I can. Bonding with my agents. We are friends as much as we are a company. I do care for them very much. I care for them as people not just as my staff. We have a great vibe in our office because of our care and concern for one another. I think it is very unique. Luckily, there is really rarely any awkwardness about the blurred lines between our personal and professional feelings towards one another. There is a great deal of respect for me as their “boss”, they are my troops, they hate to let me down, and for that I am very grateful. We work together, as much as we laugh and cry together. I can see when they are down. And I want to know why. I do feel responsible for them. I enjoy taking care of them. They are like my family. I feel like ‘Momma Adina” As Ray says “you always feed me”. Translation- I pay for lunch. I am lucky to have them. I like giving them advice, especially the girls. Most of “my girls” as I call them are in their 20’s and almost all of them are single like me.