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The highest sales prices in all of Texas.
Going big — since 1960 and counting.3508 CRESCENTAVENUE / DALLAS / SOLD3525 ST.JOHNS DRIVE / DALLAS / SOLD6930 TURTLE CREEK BOULEVARD / UNIVERSITY PARK / SOLD© MMXIX Sotheby’s International RealtyAffiliates LLC.All Rights Reserved. Sotheby’s International RealtyAffiliates LLC. An Equal Opportunity Company. Equal Housing Opportunity. Briggs Freeman Real Estate Brokerage, Inc. is independently owned and operated.4228 Boyer Place / Dallas / $575,000LaTour Condominiums / 3030 McKinneyAvenue #601 /
Dallas / $734,000 3509 EuclidAvenue / Highland Park / $15,250,000150 SE County Road 2230K / Corsicana / $979,5009674 County Road 106 / Celina /±100 acres /
7 hole golf course / guest house / $6,975,000 6507Tulip Lane / Dallas / $2,799,0007623 Cliffbrook Drive / Dallas / $549,0003504 Marquette Street* / University Park / SOLD /
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ecause of today’s
information overload
— fueled in part by so
much social media —
good advice often gets
lost in the sheer volume of it all.
Good news: I’ve collected a few
favorites. Some are straightforward
pearls of wisdom; others are more
obscure. But they make me think
harder, dig deeper and act quicker. I bet
they’ll do the same for you. Individuals
who turn lemons into lemonade — and dramatic setbacks into instructional learning
curves — are inspirational.
Former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson said luck always seemed to
happen at the intersection of talent, hard work and good timing.
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud,” wrote the late Maya Angelou in her
book of essays,Letter to My Daughter.
Then there was founding father Benjamin Franklin, who counseled to “never
ruin an apology with an excuse.”
Remember college professor Randy Pausch’s sensational bookThe Last Lecture?
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand,” he said.
“Initiate change right now,” said author, columnist and businesswoman Arianna
Huffington. (She knows a good tip when she sees one: She’s had a great advisor.
“Whenever I’d complain or was upset about something in my own life,” Huffington
once said, “my mother had the same advice: ‘Darling, just change the channel. You
are in control of the clicker. Don’t replay the bad, scary movie.’ ”)
Here are a few more nuggets that have struck me: Solicit others’ opinions before
supplying your own. In other words, stay quiet and listen — you’ll learn more.
Follow character: It is the thing that drives us to do what is right, as opposed to what
may be easiest. Dreams are just dreams — until you take action. And, remember,
without action, ideas are only dreams.
Kenneth Burdick, CEO of WellCare Health Plans, said, “Surround yourself
with good people. And part of that is surrounding yourself with people who
think differently than you. Surrounding yourself with people who have different
experiences than you. In business, it’s all about the team.”
Finally, there’s this challenge: Pick action over inaction. Or, in the words of Phil
Night’s little tennis-shoe company called Nike, “Just do it.”ROBBIE BRIGGS,President and CEO
Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty
[email protected]The Advice You’re Missing
FROM MY PERSPECTIVE
*Represented BuyerSOURCE: REALTRENDS: 2018 AVERAGE SALES PRICE