I will admit that I am a chronic procrastinator, but I thrive under a deadline.  If I have weeks to do something.  I will wait to the last possible moment to get it done.  However, under a deadline.  I kill it.  I come in under most times or nail just as the clock strikes the deadline.

I am, also, a very impatient person.  I know exactly where I get that from, Mom and Dad.  I make the joke that my brother got the best of my parents and I got the worst.  What I hate with working with the public is that they are impatient and must have it now.  So, when I accommodate and hurry right over they are lounging back as if nothing is going on and nothing needs to be done.

This is the same guy who will call my office line at 930 in the evening.  I have learned to ignore my phone over the years and I can go to be not worrying about it.  Really, at 930 at night, there is not a lot that I can do about it anyway.  My wed guys are all doing something else, my underwriters are asleep and I know my processor will kill me if I call that late.

Learning to squelch the “hurry up and wait” monster is hard.  It is not an easy monster to defeat.  I battle it every day.  I learned to make a list, use my calender function on my blackberry and just have that “I don’t care” look on my face.  I know that last one really gets people, but it is fun to watch the look on their face when you roll up with a completed project done right and done way before time is up.

Making it all happen in the required time frame and then some

Dave Woodson

I think I have let it be clear that I am Mortgage Broker in NW Indiana and a pretty damn good one at that.  I specialize in Indiana FHA I am sure you all can read the news that being one is not all that easy today.  Well, they are right and so wrong at the same time.

Well, to be honest with you.  There are days that I do not want to get out of bed.  I am wiped out, tired, depressed and so on, but I have been trying to lose weight.  So, I will drag myself out of bed and get my daughter ready for school and then I hit the gym.  Wow, what a difference a couple of weeks make.  I have lost upwards to 14 pounds and kept them off.   I am no where near my goal weight, but I am inching my way there.  The tunnel rats in “The Great Escape”did not escape in one day.

At my absolute heaviest, I think I topped out @ 301 lbs.  I will dig up an old pic and post it on here before the day is over.  Today, I am @ 265 lbs and my goal is 225 lbs.   I am 5′11, I carry a pretty stocky frame and I think @ 225.  I will look pretty damn good.

Back to today,  tired, I want o nap.  I have worked out, I am dragging ass all day.  I got up, I worked on what, I cleaned the house.  I am now back here in the basement that is where is my home office is or as I call it the Mortgage Bunker.   banging out this blog while I wait for one of my clients to drop off a packet of information for me.

The lesson here is today.  Action, get up and start, the motivation will catch up to you.  If you don’t feel like working out go anyway and once you are there you will be glad you went.  Well, at least, when you are done you can sit in the hot tub or the steam room.

Burning the Boats,

Dave Woodson