MISSION
STATEMENT
Our mission is to be the best we can be for you, for our
friends, our families and for ourselves. Stewart Emery’s
renowned muse on Mastery perhaps sums up our commitment
to excellence best. This is something we read in every
staff meeting each Monday morning. It is the basis for
both our lives and our professional real estate practice
in Lake Tahoe.
Mastery
Mastery in one’s career and consciousness growth
simply requires that we constantly produce results beyond
and out of the ordinary. Mastery is a product of consistently
going beyond our limits. For most people, it starts with
technical excellence in a chosen field and a commitment
to that excellence. If you are willing to commit yourself
to excellence, to surround yourself with things that represent
this and miracles, your life will change. (When we speak
of miracles, we speak of events or experiences in the
real world which are beyond the ordinary.)
It’s remarkable how much mediocrity we live with,
surrounding ourselves with daily reminders that the average
is the acceptable. Our world suffers from terminal normality.
Take a moment to assess all the things around you that
promote your being “average.” These are the
things that keep you powerless to go beyond a “limit”
you arbitrarily set for yourself. The first step to mastery
is the removal of everything in your environment that
represents mediocrity, removing those things that are
limiting. One way is to surround yourself with friends
who ask more of you than you do. Didn’t some of
your best teachers, coaches, parents...etc.?
Another step on the path to mastery is the removal of
resentment toward masters. Develop compassion for yourself
so that you can be in the presence of masters and grow
from experience. Rather than comparing yourself and resenting
people who have mastery, remain open and receptive: let
the experience be like the planting of a seed within you
that, with nourishment, will grow into your own individual
mastery.
You see, we are all ordinary. But a master, rather than
condemning himself to his “ordinariness”,
will embrace it and use it as a foundation for building
the extraordinary. Rather than using it as an excuse for
inactivity, he will use it as a vehicle
for correcting, which is essential in the process of attaining
mastery. You must be able to correct yourself without
invalidating or condemning yourself, to accept results
and improve upon them. Correct, don’t protect. Correction
is essential to power and mastery.
Stewart Emery |
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