At the end of every year, I do an internal audit of every single real estate file in my company before we close out. Sometimes I catch stuff, sometimes I don’t. This year I did and after a long week of combing through every file, I know my bootie won’t clinch if the real estate commission walks through my door for one of their super cool random external audits.
So tonight I was thinking about how important internal audits are for our emotions and mental health. Mainly because one of the things I noticed in our files was by not spending the extra 3 seconds to do it when it was needed, it created a very stressful week for a lot of our crew. We got it done, but we made it more than it needed to be. It felt dumb.
So why don’t we deal with our emotions in a timely manner? Why do we let all these unaudited, unreconciled emotions linger into our future? Because we think at the time they don’t need to be dealt with? Because we can’t be bothered? Why is it okay to burden our relationships with “stuff” we didn’t feel like dealing with from our past?
Short answer is, it’s not okay and we shouldn’t wait. Long answer is deeper than that and different for everyone based on their own experience. So this year I’m going to dig a little deeper into the why, poke a little harder at the because, and do a little more internal auditing so these things don’t fester. And I’m going to take this inventory often and not only in crisis mode when it takes 10x longer to close out.
Happy auditing! It sure does feel good to know things are in order no matter what they are.
Deeper Than a Puddle 