Why Simplicity is Key w/Karen Cooper

There's a tendency to believe that achieving success is complicated, but as most successful people will attest, simplicity is the best way forward. How can simple approaches help you reach tremendous heights in your business? Can you apply simple ideas to practical manifestation? On this episode, I talk with industry veteran Karen Cooper to hear how she’s put surprisingly simple tactics into practice to great effect.     Takeaways + Tactics Be consistent. If you want to grow your business you need to have a consistent approach, whether in communication with clients or systems used in-office. Confidence is key. You can boost your confidence levels by making sure you’re constantly dealing with potential clients- even the non-serious clients. Take every interaction as a learning opportunity. Commit to a new morning ritual over a 30-day period. This is how you’ll build new habits and instill self-confidence.   At the start of the episode, Karen explained the importance of investing in your business. That investment should come not only in the form of finance, but your time and energy. With that said, Karen also shared that the time you spend should allow you to build systems that mean you do less work as your business levels up. We also discussed: That the position you’re good at now will be easily replaced by someone else when you scale your business How your time in-between transactions should be spent on creating systems Why systems are the only way forward   For the most part, our inability to reach our goals lies in our mindsets. Whether that be because of a lack of self-confidence, or insufficient motivation, we have the power to prove ourselves correct. The great news is, we also have the power to prove ourselves correct when we tell ourselves we can do something. Stop telling yourself you can’t reach new heights or complicate the process. Take the journey to success back to basics and make good on new rituals.   Guest Bio- Karen Cooper exemplifies what it means to be a real estate professional, and is one of the owners of the Platinum Group Real Estate team at Pearson Smith Realty.  Karen is an Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR) and has her Virginia Real Estate Broker's License, which afforded her the opportunity to spend more than 2 years managing two offices and over 100 agents for a busy Loudoun brokerage. Karen regularly volunteers in the classrooms for her 3 sons, and is a life member of Lovettsville Volunteer Fire & Rescue, having spent over 10 years as an EMT/Shock Trauma Technician and serving several years as the company's Rescue Chief and on County level committees. Learn more at http://www.goplatinumgroup.com/karen-w-cooper/