Lesson learned... take the higher ground.

So I call this blog my brain dump... and find it a valuable way to capture my thoughts and quickly document my days. (Oprah has her journals... I gotta blog. For some reason "gotta blog" sounds about as exciting as Charlie Brown when he was tricker treating... " I gotta rock.")

Well I just had the oddest/bizarre telephone call at 11:30 PM. I was startled as I woke to answer it... thinking it was one of those middle of the night emergency calls that makes your heart stop.

But it turned out it was a realtor that was first a friend and then a client.... in fact, it was the person I must give credit to for introducing me to the staging concept 2 1/2 years ago.

Recently things between us had changed... While I was grateful for the staging leads he provided us, early in our business he also pushed us to rent office space from him. My partner and I decided we didn't need additional office space as we knew it was more important to invest in our Prop Library. In hindsight, this decision to invest in our Prop Library was wise and critical to our success; it has been key in differentiating us from other stagers and gives us a very unique tool and marketing advantage.

So last May, when I learned he had found another staging resource for his client's needs... I was glad for him and respected his decision. I knew it was best to disassociate ourselves professionally in the hopes to save our nearly 20 year friendship. (But I now guess that can't be, as his call was abusive and full of anger.)

So the lesson I learned is... when you don't work well with someone it is smarter to take the higher ground and walk away... and respect each the other's differences. At least that's what I am going to do.

Craig