Take Control of Your Day!

I recently read a quote from Jim Rohn, nationally-renowned, motivational speaker, that is so simple and profound.

"Either you run the day or the day runs you!"

It's been hard for me to get that quote out of my head, so I've decided to write about it.

I know many of us have day planners to keep up with appointments during the day, but in real estate, it's so easy to get distracted by having to 'put out fires'. Then before you know it, half of the day is gone.

How did it happen?

I challenge you to write down what you do in your business over the next 3 business days. List the actions/appts completed and how long it took. Then look at how much time in between was wasted on distractions, i.e. phone calls, that could have gone into your voice mail until your designated time of returning calls.

Eliminate as many tolerations, interruptions and distractions as possible from your daily activities. This is a 'muscle' in your head that needs to be flexed, so that you make the most of your time.

It's impossible to be "ON" in your real estate business 24/7, but even if you only increased your efficiency of completing daily activities by 10% - 20% in the beginning, you'd see a big difference in your sales production.

If you focus really hard to completing your activities as quickly as possible, you'll be able create more balance in life between work and play. What if, by really focusing, you could do your daily activities in half of the time? What would you do with the rest of your day? You could add more income-producing activities to your schedule or take sometime off.

So plan your next day's schedule before you finish for the day and that way you can take better control of each day!