Originally from Nashville, Josh Anderson graduated from Louisiana State University in International Trade and Finance. Josh served 8 years in the U.S. Army, including a 10-month stint in Bagram, Afghanistan, during Operation Enduring Freedom. These experiences, coupled with the education he received from Louisiana State, have molded him into a focused, disciplined, and strong willed individual. Josh Anderson can best be described as a man of high energy with a passion for Nashville real estate. He is a business savvy professional with a strong desire to cater to his clients’ particular needs. Client satisfaction is paramount! Josh’s market expertise coupled with his superior negotiating skills set him apart from the rest.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“you are brand-new, you really don’t know what you don’t know and I think it’s hard to find clients. As one of those things when you’re new no one really knows what you’re capable of. I think the one thing that you can do as a new agent that I did was I learned as much as I could possibly learn and I worked constantly, probably too much… I was doing as much as I could to learn as much as I possibly could as fast as I could. Because again as a new business owner you might have great ideas but you really don’t know what you don’t know and you don’t know what’s going to pop up”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals with one of the world’s bestselling success books by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan – Click this link to listen to the Jay Papasan podcast on The entrepreneur Way
- The Millionaire Real Estate Agent Book by Gary Keller and Dave Jenks and Jay Papasan
- Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones Book by James Clear
- 100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them: Use Their Secrets to Boost Your Business and Investment Success Book by Transcriber John Quincy Adams Diaries Digital Project, Emily Ross and Angus Holland
Favourite Quote:
- “If you can’t outsmart people, outwork them.” Bill Veeck
- “The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there’s two things: You’re getting off first, or I’m going to die. It’s really that simple, right? You’re not going to out-work me. It’s such a simple, basic concept. The guy who is willing to hustle the most is going to be the guy that just gets that loose ball. The majority of people who aren’t getting the places they want or aren’t achieving the things that they want in this business is strictly based on hustle. It’s strictly based on being out-worked; it’s strictly based on missing crucial opportunities. I say all the time if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready.” Will Smith
Recommended Online Resources:
- Podcasts
- YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“just show up, that’s half the battle, just show up. You can’t get intimidated by people that are more successful. It’s just show up. The other piece that goes along with showing up is… A lot of what I do is basic things, I just do basic very consistently. So, it’s kind of consistent persistence. So, I just do the same thing every day and it’s worked for me for the last going on 13 years now. So, show up, stick your hand out shake hands with people, introduce yourself. Everybody puts their pants on the same way regardless of how successful or how much money they have. You put your pants on one leg it is time… Find a mentor, find and industry expert and pick their brain as much as possible. Don’t worry and invent the wheel… There is no reason to reinvent the wheel. You can put your own spin on things but don’t reinvent the entire wheel.”…[Listen for More]
More About Josh Anderson:
The Anderson Group Real Estate Services
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” Albert Schweitzer
Other Quotes From the Chat with Josh Anderson:
- “I think you have to find a mentor. It can be a mentor that’s not even in the business or the industry that you are going into”
- “time blocking- I don’t think it’s something that is really taught in school. How to block your day off to where it’s efficient and you are successful and you are not reacting, you are being proactive and not reactive to situations. I am very structured…”
- “I think success is a series of doing the basics very well”
- “if you tell somebody you are going to call them, call them. If you tell somebody you going to do X, Y or Z, do X, Y or Z and plus it somehow and make it even better”
- “you work hard, you create great relationships and you do what you say you’re going to do”
- “study business, study leadership, study the industry that you are in, figure out what people have done before you, and figure out how you can make little changes to win at a very high level”“I just don’t give up. My work ethic is I won’t let people outwork me”
Leave a Reply