Winding Down 2023 With a (Nap?)... 🙋🏽‍♀️

We don't know about you guys, but we are tired. Safe to say that this year has pushed us both beyond a mental capacity that we even thought was possible. Carissa started a new position as the Head Broker for Village Premier Collection- Georgia; Josie expanded her Coaching & Consulting business; we successfully managed/ supported our real estate businesses; AND of course, we launched The Real Estate Operations Institute!

You're probably wondering how the heck does someone balance that type of workload?

Well, to quote the lovely Kymber Menkiti on ep4 of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent Podcast, "Balance is a lie" 😅. For the past several months our lives have consisted of working 7 days per week, sometimes 20+ hour workdays, and meeting with eachother an average of 4-6 hours per week to work on the launch, ON TOP OF our regular day-to-day workloads.

But pause, wait... trust us this isn't a pity party, just keep reading and bare with us for another minute.... It has taken a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to get here, and yet we DID IT! There were dozens of times when we wanted to give up, skip our meetings, push back our launch, or just have a virtual happy hour chat 🥂 instead of working on our TREOI To-do list. When you're in the Operations seat, you're often working hard to support someone else's vision... but in this situation, we both evolved from Integrators into Visionaries ourselves.

It's a beautiful reminder that you never really know just how far you can push yourself, until you make the decision to do it, or until you're forced into it. For us, we decided to take on this massive venture, and it is one of our proudest work-achievements to date. Yes, it was a huge endeavor, but it's the journey and not giving up that truly has transformed our character and created a relentless passion to continue to succeed and excel in this new pursuit together.

You don't need to juggle 3-4 different jobs plus household priorities to find out what you're made of. But it WILL require stepping into the unknown, taking a chance on yourself, and fighting hard for what you want and what you believe you're capable of. Consider this your permission to stay head down, foot to the gas, and #dothework needed to crush the BIG goals as you head into 2024. Just promise us to remember that at some point, once the work is done or in a consistent flow, then you also need to reset, rest, and recharge. With that said, the holiday break can't come soon enough for us... we definitely put in the work!!! And now, the whisper of naptime is calling soon lol 😴🍷📖

 Author: Josie Ambroise