Spotlight – Australian Housing Startups, your chance to shine with empathy

A discussion on QandA involved the problem Australia faces with housing affordability and the discussions ranged from negative gearing to accessing superannuation, the program also displays tweets that appear on the screen and one came up that I thought was very relevant “startups, startups, startups” I presume what the tweeter was referring to was simply good old fasioned demand and supply economic theory. There isn’t enough properties to go around, so there isn’t enough competition in the marketplace and there is no regulation on the prices dare I say it.

It would be fair to say that this applies to all aspects of the marketplace, for example Luxury cars down to second hand, demand and supply evens out. Well if this is truly the case with housing than why isn’t there a focus on creating more opportunity when clearly there is a demand, why isn’t more housing being created, with technology and architecture innovation these days we don’t have to clear more land, we can go up or reclaim old land, but for some unknown bizarre reason this is not being focused on at all, we seem to be discussing ways to change what we do instead of improving and making the most of what we do.

As housing is shelter, one of Abraham Maslow’s essential needs we need to put an empathy spotlight on property startups who promote new innovative space saving ways so we can have a fair playing field in the housing market, but where does the money come from, I’m sure we are big and brainy enough to figure it out, nonetheless we still need to put a spotlight on it and give this very important issue a chance to shine.

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Narcissism – Look at ME!

Social media is probably one of the best ways to communicate throughout history, however it doesn’t change our inner selves and how we choose to express ourselves. There has been a lot of talk of how Narcissism is rife, especially with the youth and social media has been held to blame.

Thinking back before even internet, I ran into as many narcissistic and self absorbed people back then as I do now, it’s just now it is more grotesque, posting stupid pictures of themselves on Instagram doing mindless things or just as silly trying to show off their wealth, however they don’t show us the lessons they have learned or perhaps the mounting debt they hide.

Another way to look at social media and they way I utilise it for NEW BEGINNINGS is to communicate ideas, thoughts, positivity and solutions. I find the networks I use, isn’t just Twitter, however I use Tumblr and WordPress as well and find an array of people all sharing their thoughts, and those thoughts are loaded with empathy and all coming from people I have chosen to follow or they have chosen to follow me.

Having said that you will notice I haven’t mentioned Facebook or Instagram. The reason I choose not to use these networks is they mainly focus on “Keeping up with Jones” mentality, this could be just the way they are marketed and that’s the impression I get, no doubt, however I would rather share my thoughts, feelings and ideas as opposed to me pulling a funny face on newly polished floor or trying to convince people my life is wonderful, nobody’s life is. When you share thoughts feelings and ideas you share your soul with wonderful people and at the end of the day, these are the people you chose to follow and they chose you, therefore social media is NOT to blame.

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Dismissing Timewasters

Time is money, money is time, empathy is everything. This is my motto when it comes to timewasters, in the world of business, we are always running into people with their own agendas, or their own interpretations of what we do or offer and we need to continuously remind them of what we are about, however what do we do with the people who waste our precious time with silly questions or show interest and then never hear from them again.

We usually compalin or curse or if you are really vengeful seek out to waste their time. I have another thought, I came across a tweet from Witty Parrot – “The word NO is every salesteam’s biggest nightmare. But that doesn’t mean the end of the road for that opportunity” what is the underlying meaning of that, one could say that it means you need to be more persistant in reaching more people to get to your YES or perhaps could it mean we need to approach our message more directly, maybe the person we are talking too isn’t wasting our time but waiting for us to tell them something they want to hear.

When people go to a stadium to watch their team play at a match, they all have ther own interpretation of how that game went. An obvious example would be that the winning team would think the game went great where as the losing team thought it was awful, however you have also people who may say the reason for the teams perfomance is due to poor conditions or perhaps the lead player wasn’t well, another may say that their team is highly skilled and train hard, thats the reason for their success.

Either way its their outlook that decides their response. I think it is our job as business people, entreprenuers, affiliate marketers, Sales people and so forth to discover their outlook and and see if what we offer matches their outlook and of course benefits them in someway, like when we use our empathy, hence there is no timewaster just people who didn’t get our message.

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