Maine’s Bass Harbor Lighthouse Is One Of 68 To Explore.
For years you have worn a tie cutting off your air supply, been chained, pinned to the wall by a corporate office desk.
But no longer because years ago you invested in a Maine waterfront property. And now have the time, your schedule permanently cleared to enjoy it to the fullest. And because the Maine real estate is on the waterfront, the options to enjoy each day to the fullest are endless.
There is no right or wrong way to enjoy a Maine lake, a coastal park lighthouse, or just being riverside camping.
You decide what to fill your day to day in the four season outdoors of Maine. Investing in kayaks, bikes, hiking / camping gear, a set of down hill and cross country skis is a good start. You can add a motor to the fun with boats, snow sleds, four wheelers and dirt bikes. But the quiet to think, experience wildlife, natural sounds happens best when everything is turned off, unplugged in Maine.
Plenty of fun can be had at Maine local farmer’s markets, exploring the neat small towns and villages Vacationland is famous for round the blue and green revolving marble. But outdoors, not with a zillion people handy to your elbow or any one at all is where the peace, deep reaching experience happens.
Creating unique, taylored to just you outings is so easy. And no cost, low cost is the cherry on top once you live full time in Maine. Thinking of relocating, retirement or just investing in some Maine real estate? I know a broker who is ready to help you with that dream. To scratch that itch, satisfy the hunger deep inside you to get to Maine. Start tapping into the four season natural outdoor recreational opportunities you deserve, have earned in life.
Relationships, in life we have many with God, family, neighbors, friends and through work.
Teaching Others What We Have Learned.. Maine. But sometimes our hopes and dreams are not shared by the ones we love around us. When you live in a busy, urban area, relationships become that much tougher. Because of the extra struggles, the added pressures of city living that take a lot out of you. Leaving not as much of you for the relationship.
Maine is a place where the setting, the natural four seasons unspoiled surroundings can help any relationship.
The beauty is spiritual, all around you in Maine. In my job as a Maine real estate broker, it is very common to be working with property buyers who are starting over. Looking for a Maine lake property to vacation at as they blend families, start a new relationship.
Pain and suffering happens in life.
It causes us to grow, stretch, accept. It is “not about me, but others” is a good reminder to stay tuned, there’s for more to come. You and I don’t know the ending, and if we did what would be the fun, the experience or wonderment of that? Day at a time, remembering life is not over and others around us care if we dare to share comes late for some. Maine is a second chance, always your best case scenario place to begin again for many of our real estate buyers.
Thinking It Though, Figure It Out At A Maine Lighthouse.
In my job when I have to handle a Maine real estate sale with a nasty divorce I try to stay objective. But when one or both spouses I work for are badgering the other, I have to worry about their kids. The kids who want to love both parents but who get caught in the crossfire. There is a fine line between love and hate is an expression my wise Dad often reminded us four boys during bean suppers on the Maine farm.
I often wonder why did you marry this person if now the other is so dark, bad, rotten?
It was your choice going in right? What changed in that person? Did they become alcoholic, get in a car accident and suffer organic brain injuries that altered their personality? And if the divorce, split is the right thing to do because of that other no good son of a… well, you fill in the expletive that works best for you.
Conflict resolution with a mediate not litigate approach to life helps. Keeps it from being a putting out a fire with gasoline merry go round situation. Hurt people hurt people though. Maine is a place to figure things out. Like why you react to this situation or person the way you do. Maybe it is not them but you. The thoughts and attitudes you carry around in you that keep you a prisoner, held back from your greatest potential.
Our Maine Governor Lepage has ten little words that he has led his not always easy life growing up.
“If it is to be, it is up to me.” That pretty much sums it up quick and easy, down and dirty simple. I am glad I live in Maine. A place that is peaceful, less populated, and drop dead gorgeous. See her beauty one Maine photo at a time.
I hear the complaint, feel the gushing, rushing from the Maine real estate buyer who I ask “is something missing in your life?” Building A Better, Happier, Peaceful You Starts With Looking At Your Life’s Layers.
That is the lead in welcome question on our Maine real estate website. Often the purchase of a Maine property listing is sparked by the buyer’s need to “fix something”.
Many city dwellers if asked what is missing in their life will start with the word space to feel safe, to just be able to think. They realize their jammed in, wall to wall existence is cutting off air and robbing their peace. Slowly learning that their first world problems are not life and death important.
Worries about crime, keeping up with the marathon pace all take their toll on a body. Add a couple of pallets of heavy high cost of living for good measure and let simmer as the temperature, pressure rises.
You are not born a Type A personality but are taught and rewarded to be that way.
Competitive, hard driving, at war with time, feeling guilty relaxing. Add in some worries, fears that cause a daily dump of stress hormones in to your system and you become a Rambo on a mission. A force to be reckoned with, like a wild animal being attacked. Wondering if it’s to be the main course, what’s for supper tonight. Feasted on by the approaching crouched approaching predator. That is not here for just a social call. Hears the dinner bell ringing.
We create layers of stress, like a life lasagna of worries, negative thoughts.
Nothing motivates like the fear of survival. Except instead of fight or flight to avoid being eaten, our fear is man made, social engineered. Like the term artificial intelligence, it was nothing God intended. Or that you find between the covers of the red or black or white bound family Bible. When you climb on your personal survival exercise machine and you have trouble finding the off switch. To shut down, relax and release the pressure on your body and over crowded, no vacancy mind.
This is the part where a shameless pitch for buying a piece of Maine real estate comes in. A property on a pristine lake, wooded acreage on the side of a hill with a long expansive view. The setting designed to help you slow down. Because man has not invaded it, spoiled it, set up any carnival tents yet. Just you, your thoughts, some wildlife that meanders, wanders in and out to visit through out your relaxing Maine day.
Slow Down, Capture Your Thoughts In Maine By The Water Video.
In Maine, the eat or be eaten heavy protective armor is removed.
Vacationland is the 4th lowest crime state. People wave, smile and say hello rather than ignore or suspect you are up to something no good. Or mean them harm. In Maine property is so low cost you own the title to the land free and clear. Out right. No mortgage demons tread milling in your head to weigh you down with worry.
Back to the part about your thoughts. If you head and heart are filled with junk, worries, hurts, how can you experience life and be fun to be around? Hurt people hurt people. Without knowing why. As an island forms and you become the only Gilligan on it. No Ginger or Mary Ann to enjoy the sunsets with.
With a lot of work, the type A personality man or woman with the fight or flight, five alarm fire bell ringing in their head can recover.
It starts with seeing what all those stress hormones are doing flooding their system. Always feeling anxious, multi tasking around the clock means you never catch your breath. Can not spend time in relax mode with your feet up, in the sun and able to watch the world go by. Without a care in the world. The ability to put down your sword, walk away from fights and eat some desert.
Baggage, how many pieces, what size, shape, color are you carrying?
God examines your heart, can start pruning and replacing the weight of sin with the breath of life, pure love. If you let him, if you are ready. Or continue to blame others for your problems, feel sorry for yourself and be robbed blind of all the peace and joy you deserve. And that so do your family, loved ones, community around you do too. Happy, content, not being heavily burdened carrying the weight of the world delivers you to still waters. Frees the mind, soothes the soul. Isn’t that the perfect setting for loving others, the relationship with yourself?
Maine, have a piece. Own some Maine real estate. Start small, think big. Just an acre in the woods is the base camp you need to explore Vacationland and your personal life. To begin replacing the clutter, guilt, overbooked fatigue with feelings of joy, contentment, peace.
When I worked at a local Maine radio station, the news we read usually was from a wire service.
The Country Has Four Main State Messed Up With FSSR, ME Not One Of Them. The Associated Press, United Press International the two chocolate and vanilla choices. Pretty much it. And the smaller the Maine radio station, the more rip and read happened.
But writers can ramble on in blogs, on the news, the extra pages in books. So taking the six line Maine news story and condensing down the wordiness, tightening it up can free up more time in the broadcast for extra news stories. Hopefully local ones. Or the rewrite of the AP and UPI wire service, especially on weekends when the quality of writing took a dive, a dip, also allowed the local addition of news possible. An extra line to tie in something happening in the the station’s broadcast area, out in the backyard.
Big national stories could have a tie in with what is happening here.
Sometimes, often the city news is not the same dynamic or application as here in rural Maine.
Or news from a larger Maine area four hours away from a small couple hundred person town is not the carbon copy, one size, fits all either. Further refining and adjustment to reflect the local zip code and appetite of the local ears listening to the broadcast taken in to consideration. To make it home grown.
That is why nothing upsets me more than hearing the news of four states with an upside down real estate market. With high levels of FSSR (foreclosure, short sale, repossession related real estate sales). And the national media and even Maine real estate agents, brokers, REALTORS buying in to the gloom and doom. Maine is 46th lowest in the nation for FSSR. Hello? Does not apply here.
What is happening in California, Florida, Michigan and Nevada real estate market especially is not the norm here. It does not apply to us but the media with a one size fits all approach and news desk far far from lower population Maine hammers away at the sky is falling.
Which serves to make the public scared, misinformed.
And to pull back, wait, sit, worry.
I joke to our outside of Maine real estate buyers that we take money right out of the equation. Properties are always low cost, cheap. We live like we are always ready for a recession. Careful spending, getting value before we do or we wait. So the national helter skelter red alert warnings and news coverage can further the keep your hands in your pockets. Not out where we can see them at all times.
Moonlighting, extra jobs to round out the process of promoting Maine, getting the word out about the Pine Tree State, Vacationland up here in the right hand corner of the country.
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Take a dip in a Maine lake is one of the benefits from buying, owning Maine waterfront real estate.
But the camp, cottage, home or just land on Maine waterfront is more than fun and games when the temperature is high. And everyone is eating watermelon, grilling and chilling. The loons singing or crying, the fishing early in the morning, walks as the sun is going down are part of a Mane waterfront experience. But fall hunting trips, winter snowsledding and cross country / down hill skiing and spring trees budding all part of the ride. Here are two examples of Maine waterfront, hit the video button and sit back, enjoy.
