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| YOU GOT TIME? |
Last week I received notice that my application was accepted to participate in BETA test program for a new mobile real estate app designed to help you stay organized and on task in this mobile on the go world we now live in.
In the application I was to list the “techy” things and the programs I currently use to help keep me organized and up to date in my real estate business. I also had to detail my thoughts on how I was going to be able to reach my 2014 goals, and I realized that in every note I was making in preparation of my application there was always one key common word that I kept writing down and that was TIME
Time can be your best
asset if used properly, but to most its an enemy because they waste so much of it. How many times do you hear people say “ I
didn’t have time” , when really what they should have said was “I didn’t take
the time” We all have 24 hours in a day,
its how we manage it that makes or breaks us.
You have the same number of hours per day that Albert Einsten and all
the other great leaders in history before us had, so I didn’t have time is
nothing more than poor management skills.
We manage our money, we know how much we have, where its at
and where it has to go, , and we even
invest it to make more, but we fall short when managing the best commodity that
we have, which is TIME.
Time is more valuable than money….You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. How are you spending your time???? ~Jim Rhon
If you worked every day as hard an as efficient as you do the day before vacation, just think how successful you could be. It’s the LIST that you make and the deadline you have to work on that makes that day a successful accomplishment, so why is it you don’t do that every day?
Here are a few of my thoughts
on using time to my best advantage to stay efficient
SCHEDULE YOURSELF A ROUTINE AND RULES AND STICK TO IT
I have a schedule for my basic daily work tasks,
which consists of things I need to do everyday to stay on top of things and in
business. and try the best I can to stick to it.
I've found that keeping to a routine makes for a smother and more
productive day. Get yourself a 24 hour
calendar and start blocking off time for the basics you do everyday and you might
have to tweak it the first couple weeks to see what schedule works best for you,
but once you have that time slot designated and its working, your already on
your way to an efficient routine
USE
YOUR TIME WISELY
Work from a List. Every Sunday evening I make out a list of the
things that I really want to get accomplished (over and above my daily lists)
in the coming week, and then every evening I make a list of what I want done
and things needed to be completed for the next day. This works excellent
for me and once my daily tasks are done then I can go to my "what I want to get accomplished this week" list and start
chiseling away at that. This way you prioritize
your jobs, so when you get called to show houses or to go look at a house for a
listing that day you that your weren't expecting you have a clear mind because your have to jobs are done and you
wont have to worry about things you still haven't taken care of yet.
PRIORITIZE YOUR EMAILS
The first thing I do in my daily work schedule is
prioritize my emails I only read an
answer emails first that are important and pertain to my clients or business that are imperative and need to
be addressed ASAP. I have several
folders in my Outlook email program and
move the rest of the emails to those category folders to look at when I'm done working for the day,
so its on my own time. There’s always interesting email articles about
real estate items or sale ads from merchants on the next hottest item, but those emails
aren’t going to make or break me that day so I move them to a folder to read
later on my own time. If I was an employed worker for someone else I wouldn’t be able to read personal emails at
work so why should I do it in my own business.
** TREAT YOUR WORK HABITS AS IF YOU WERE WORKING FOR AN
EMPLOYER **
FACEBOOK
, has nothing to do with work, so leave it at home.
You can do a status update, post articles or
video tours of your listings to your business page without even opening up
Facebook, so read it and watch your friends funny videos on your own time.
It's all about common sense and self control, and applying it to your daily habits
