Are You Holding Yourself Back?

Published by Alexis MacIntyre
Provided By KW Blog

Profit share offers unlimited income potential. But it requires unlimited thinking. When I first joined Keller Williams, I had one strong limiting belief around growing my profit share tree. I was afraid to come off like I was “selling” the company. As I’ve grown within KW, I’ve internalized a deep appreciation for our family and I’ve recognized that growing my profit share tree has absolutely nothing to do with selling KW. It’s about attracting talent.

Yes, growth is important to Keller Williams. We’re proud of this! If growing our company wasn’t important to us, what kind of business stakeholders would be? By the way, profit is important to us as well. But we are, first and foremost, a talent company. We are about attracting talent to provide extraordinary service to buyers and sellers. We are also about growing talent – and, most importantly, committed and gifted leaders. A company filled with talent attracts talent. Lots of talent equals lots of customers and lots of homes bought and sold. Lots of homes bought and sold equals lots of profit. And in a company that shares almost half of its owners’ profit? Well, that means more profit share dollars given to those associates who help grow the company!

If you want to grow a profit share tree and enjoy passive income, just spend more time getting to know the people who are talent around you. There is a quote that sticks with me, by novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, “Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.” This philosophy is our soul. We share our models, our systems, our time and our owner profits. Our associates who earn profit share internalize this at a deep level. They build relationships with talented people who they’d like to be in business with and invite them to experience KW.

So remove your limiting beliefs. When you know that Keller Williams is an amazing place to be, it’s easy to grow your tree. Simple, really. People are honored to be recognized as someone who others want to be in business with. Admittedly, it can sometimes take time, but the long-term rewards can be astonishing. If you find talent and that talent feels like Keller Williams is the right fit for them, it’s a mutual win.

By the way, I’m continuing every day to work on my limiting beliefs around profit share. One of the first steps I took was to complete the exercise on page 19 of the Wealth Building Workshop: Profit Share guide–I’ve written down all the things that I love and appreciate about KW so that when I speak to someone about an opportunity with our company, I can focus on what’s most important to my heart.

What’s your limiting belief around profit share and what are you doing to remove it?

Are You Committed to Your Dreams?

Published by Alexis MacIntyre, Director of KWU
Provided By KW Blog

Are you committed to your dreams? I thought I was. Then I had a mindshift.

My husband and I had our first child, Violet, in December last year and I came back from maternity leave in March. Shortly after my return, I attended Leadership and Motivation with Master Faculty Trainer John Davis. In that class, you write down your dreams, without limitations, in order to translate them into goals. I started writing…”Be completely debt free…Travel to Italy…”

Then, things started to get intense. I began thinking about Violet and all the dreams I had for her. I had aspirations before about starting a family and our life together. But now she was here. She was a real person in my life – for whom I now have more emotion than four silly little letters in the word “love” could ever describe. And the dreams I starting writing for her and for her life were powerful. I had trouble holding back tears as I wrote—I was so deeply, emotionally invested.

I wrote down many dreams for Violet. I dream for her to grow up to be an intelligent, self-confident woman, who stands up for what she believes in, and always does the right thing—even when no one is looking. But I also recognized that some of our life worth living dreams would need to be funded. I want to create memories with her on family vacations, to send her to any college she wants to go to and to role model the importance of donating to causes we believe in.

I started thinking more strategically. I had to admit to myself that despite all the training our University provides on growing your profit share tree, there was a lot more I could personally do to really focus on growing my tree. I no longer needed to do it just for me and my husband anymore, I owed it to Violet. I’ve now recommitted myself this summer to growing my tree and becoming more purposeful about attracting talent to our wonderful company.

Through this summer’s profit share initiative, we’d like to help you grow your own tree. I’ll be sharing some of the whys and hows on this blog in the coming months. One of the best starting places is to recognize your own dreams. Dig deep and think without limits. Write them down. Share them. And find someone to hold you accountable. By the way, two of the best ways to do that are by attending (or starting) a Wealth-Building Workshop in your market center and signing up for the Fast Track Profit Share Coaching Program with MAPS and coach Brian Combs.

Are you 100% committed to your dreams and are you taking necessary action to build your own profit share tree? If not, what would it take to get you there? We’d love to hear about your journey.