Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it will achieve

I received this email and thought I would share the contents with you.  

I am a firm believer that 'whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it will achieve'  This has been my credo since I can remember.  

I firmly believe that you have to visualize your success in order to become successful in life or any venture you undertake.

Some of the "words of wisdom" that came across my plate recently are shown below.  The key is that you can't afford to be an average leader.

Enjoy!
Mark

So, how do you become the great leader that you want to be?

One method is by studying, learning and teaching the principles that Dr. John C. Maxwell shares in his powerful program, Lessons On Leadership.

He talks about LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, SUCCESS and TEAMWORK.

This is a comprehensive program for self-training, teaching and mentoring.

Some of the key aspects of leadership are
* Growing yourself and your team
* Learning the role of serving in leadership
* The importance of modeling
* How to connect with others
* Causing people to learn
* Gaining ideas for effective teaching
* Ways to sustain motivation
* Establishing trust
* Rebuilding when trust is gone
* Challenges of leading from the middle
* How to keep the leadership pipeline pumping
* Learn principles leaders practice to lead up
* The principles of leading peers
* Becoming a person of influence
* Competing vs. completing
* Making your attitude your greatest asset
* How to deal with discouragement
* Dealing with change
* How to profit from failure
* The four major benefits of listening
* Moving others to action
* How to avoid losing touch with your people
* Leading on the basis of trust
* Avoiding inconsistent leadership
* The pitfalls of personal insecurity
* Making the tough calls
* And many more!

I spend a great deal of my time visualizing and determining that there is no other outcome in my life other than SUCCESS and the methods of achieving success are:

* Adding value to yourself and others
* Knowing your purpose in life
* Growing to your maximum potential
* Sowing seeds that benefit others
* How motives matter
* Characteristics of people who influence others
* Evaluating what you do with your time
* Doing the right things right
* Living with integrity and leading by example
* Developing a winning strategy or "big idea"
* Building a great management team
* Inspiring employees to achieve greatness
* Creating a flexible and responsive organization
* The 10 traits successful leaders have in common
* Four strategies that will keep you moving
* Leading from the front
* Holding others accountable
* Building on strengths
* Forming relationships
* Making good decisions
* How to prioritize decision-making
* Avoiding decision-making traps
* And many more!

TEAMWORK is another area that I focus on:

* Understanding the value of unity
* Diversity in skills
* Gathering and growing a team
* Creating an environment that rewards creativity
* Motivating your team for unpleasant challenges
* The four stages of training
* Commitment that inspires results
* Communication that increases effectiveness
* Adding value to team-mates
* What a coach should communicate
* What a coach should look for in players
* Adding value individually and collectively
* Coach John Wooden's nine promises to make and keep
* Motivating players to fulfill their roles as part of the team
* Paying attention to fundamentals and details
* Five steps of teaching
* Players vs. pretenders
* Having a servant's mindset
* Why hard choices are hard to make
* And many more!

One of the benefits is that you will experience significant impact on your own growth and the growth of those around you

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Mark
A. Mark Argentino
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Women as explained by Engineers

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Thank you for reading my blog and if there is anything else I can help you with please don't hesitate to contact me,

Mark

A. Mark Argentino
P. Eng. Broker
Specializing in Residential & Investment Real Estate

Thinking of Selling? Best Mortgage Rates Current Home Prices Search MLS
RE/MAX Realty Specialists Inc.

Providing Full-Time Professional Real Estate Services since 1987
( BUS 905-828-3434
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Skinniest house sells in NYC

This house sale caught my eye, if the square footage calculations are correct, the value for this slice of New York is $2753 per square foot.  

Average price for a 3 bedroom 1900 sqft home in Mississauga is about $400,000 or about $210 per square foot.  

Wow, that means it's 10 times more expensive to live in New York!

This is the full article:

The sale of 75 1/2 Bedford Street, NYC's skinniest house, has made it to public record.
The nine-and-half-foot-wide house of indeterminate mid-1800s construction date was asking $2.75 million when it hit the market   at the end of August, and it saw one chop to $2.499 million   before it found a buyer.
That buyer's identifying information is sadly obscured behind a corporation (with, clue, a P.O. Box in South Florida), but we do at least now know the 999-square-foot property's final sales price  : $2.175 million.
A profit for seller Stephen Balsamo, who paid $1.6 million for the house -- after a bidding war -- back in 2000. And a bit of a deal for the buyer, who got a roughly 13 percent discount off the most recent asking price. (More of a deal considering an early '08 estimate that pegged the value of the house at $2.5 million.)... read more...
I hope this finds you Happy and Healthy!
All the Best!
Mark
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Spectacular Australian Natural Phenomenon

This power point presentation below is so incredibly beautiful and amazing
to view and read about. Nature is amazing!

Someone sent me this presentation as a large file, but it's easier to click
the link below to view it on your computer. When you click the link, choose
open, unless you want to save it.

The presentation is here for you to download:

http://www.pipistrel.si/file/download/232_aeb8eb940c98/gloriamatutina.pps

The file is 1,5 M large, but worthy of downloading because the photos are truly stunningly beautiful!

Enjoy
Mark

The "Tech Support" Scammers Called HTG (So We Had Fun with Them)

hi!

This may be old news, but read this if you want to see how intricate the scammers are, no wonder they
are successful

http://www.howtogeek.com/180514/the-%e2%80%9ctech-support%e2%80%9d-scammers-called-htg-so-we-had-fun-with-them/

Mark

Number of High-Rise Condominiums and Townhomes for sale in the Square One City Centre Area and the Central Erin Mills area of Mississauga

There are many high-rise condos and townhomes for sale in the central City Centre (Square One) and Central Erin Mills areas of Mississauga - as of April 13, 2015 

This area is bounded by 403 to Webb Drive, Confederation to just east of Robert Speck Parkway, see the map below for exact boundaries.

The number of condos for sale in the City Centre area of Mississauga are:

·         bachelor condos for sale - 10

·         1 bedroom condos for sale - 208

·         2 bedroom condos for sale - 222

·         3 bedroom condos for sale - 12

The number of townhomes for sale in the City Centre area of Mississauga are:

·         bachelor condos for sale - 0

·         1 bedroom townhomes for sale - 7

·         2 bedroom townhomes for sale - 14

·         3 bedroom townhomes for sale - 8

Central Erin Mills is bounded by Britannia and the 403, Winston Churchill to Erin Mills on the east from Britannia to Thomas, then Thomas approximately over to the Credit river, see the map below

The number of condos for sale in the Central Erin Mills area of Mississauga are:

·         bachelor condos for sale - 0

·         1 bedroom condos for sale - 9

·         2 bedroom condos for sale - 10

·         3 bedroom condos for sale - 1

The number of Townhomes for sale in the Central Erin Mills area of Mississauga are:

·         bachelor condos for sale - 0

·         1 bedroom townhomes for sale - 1

·         2 bedroom townhomes for sale - 1

·         3 bedroom townhomes for sale - 16

·         4 bedroom townhomes for sale - 0

I will update this number from time to time to see if there is any trend up or down over time.

Have a great day!

Mark

City Centre Boundaries below

Central Erin Mills Boundaries below

Clocks Spring Ahead this weekend - Reminder to test Smoke Alarms

Hello!

 

This weekend we change our clocks and move them ahead one hour this Saturday after midnight.

 

This is also a reminder for everyone to replace the battery in any battery operated CO or smoke/CO2 detector where you live and to check the proper operation of all detectors and operate as they should.

 

You are supposed to be doing this on a monthly basis, but this is a good time to test if you have not been doing this monthly testing.

                                                                                                                                                                                      

Please test each CO and smoke/CO2 detectors and make sure it works properly when you press the test button.

 

Also, please check the date on the CO detectors and the smoke/CO2 detectors manufacture date.  Most are good for 7 years, some for 10.  If any of the detectors are expired you should replace them with a new detector, this is very important for your safety.

 

Also, please don't forget to change your air filter for the furnace.  This will not only improve your air quality in the house, but also reduce your gas and electricity bills by allowing the air to circulate more freely.

 

Thank you,

Mark

 

Fraud Alert - Scam Mail and your loved one's

My mother passed away about 6 years ago. About 5 years ago my Dad got a computer so he could email me and my brothers and "keep in touch". He would occasionally forward me an email that told him he won huge sums of money either in Euro's or USD or some great prize. They were so compelling, he was 'sure' he had won. Of course I would tell him these are all scams or phishing emails and after some convincing on my part, he would finally delete the email.

My Dad turned 87 last April and whenever we visited him we would notice that his dining room table was covered in letters from companies 'shouting' out to him that he had won $30,000 or $100,000 or millions of dollars or a new Ford Mustang Convertible car or trip or holiday etc. All he had to do was send $25 or $50 or similar amounts as a "processing fee" or "administration fee" or some type of fee to hold his winnings or begin the process. We would ask him about the letters, but he assured us that they were just junk mail and that he only liked to read them and would eventually throw them out.

We did not know the extent to which my Dad was answering these letters and sending cash or cheques in the mail until we finally gained access to his bank accounts. He had sent hundreds of letters back to these people and had written more than 100 cheques and paid out probably $1000's of dollars and maybe more than $10,000 to these scammers. We have no idea of the total amount he got tricked into sending to these fraudsters.

Very recently, we found out that my father has progressive Alzheimer's and we've moved him into a long term care facility. We never knew that answering these letters gave my father something to do and gave him false hope that he would receive the money or prizes. These letters with their promises became my Dad's new reality. When we cleaned out my Dad's apartment, in many of his drawers and "private" storage areas we found many pieces of fake ruby jewels with fake gold chains inside cheesy red velvet (plastic) bags. He had paid $20, $30 or even $50 for some of these pieces of junk. Good grief! He never told any of us about this world he was participating in.

We had his mail forwarded to my home address in late December 2012 and my wife and I have been receiving and opening his mail for about a month now. Some days we receive only 2 or 3 pieces of junk/scam mail addressed to my Dad. Other days there were 10 to 15 or even more pieces of mail on one day!

It's absolutely shocking the amount of "scam mail" he receives that claims he has won lotteries, prizes, trips and more. Once an unsuspecting person sends payment to these scammers, they sell the list of 'suckers' to other scammers and it snowballs.

These are all fraudulent scammers from all over the world. Some of these letters are from the Netherlands, others from Hong Kong, The Middle East and parts of Africa. These countries must have loose mail fraud laws or maybe inexpensive mailing costs. Very little of these letters originate from Canada or the USA.

Yesterday, we received a piece of mail from the New Scotland Yard Metropolitan Police Department in the UK! See a copy of the letter below.

My Dad had sent money to one of these Mass Mail Marketing Fraudsters and the police in the UK were intercepting payments sent by unsuspecting people like my Dad and retaining the letters and payments as evidence in their investigation.

The letter from the police indicates that they are no longer taking action with this matter and they returned my Dad's $25 cash he had sent in the mail. Wow! What a world we live in.

Also, along with the letter to my Dad, the police from Scotland Yard included a brochure containing information and advice about scam mail and a campaign they have in the UK called Think Jessica The statistics are astounding. Mail scams in the UK cost consumers about 3.5 billion pounds per year! You can read more at this link about Think Jessica.

I'm posting this on my blog because many of my clients and friends are about my age and have parents or family that are in their 70's or 80's and they are most susceptible to these types of crimes.

If you see a pile of letters sitting on your families table, ask many questions about what they are doing with the letters and try to help them avoid being scammed by these fraudsters like my Dad was!

I wish you and your family All the best!
Mark