To Succeed In Real Estate Marketing,
Maintain Effective Time Management
Maintaining a work-life balance, based on
good planning
and effective time management, is a critical element of your
ultimate success in real estate.
With a sound balance, you can devote your time and energy to achieving your goals instead of dealing with personal and domestic problems.
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Being Out of Balance Causes Problems
The more out of balance and control your life is, the longer and less productive hours you work. An imbalance also increases the likelihood of serious physical and emotional problems. You probably won't eat as well and are likely to consume more caffeine, alcohol, sugar and fat. You will be less likely to exercise on a regular basis and get enough sleep. This will increase the likelihood of your getting sick more often and being sicker whenever you do get sick. People who lack this balance tend to be constantly tired, feel like they are running uphill all the time and getting nowhere. Feeling like they lack control, they can think of more things that aren't getting done than are getting done. Just as success the path to success starts at the
planning stage
, so does the path that leads to having an imbalance in your life. The difference of course is that effective planning and time management lead to success, whereas the lack of effective planning and time management generates a state of imbalance.
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How You Benefit From Effective Time Management
The best goals reflect your personal beliefs and values. In planning your work life, it is also important to consider your personal responsibilities. This is achieved by establishing your own work-life balance.
Work-life balance is a state of well-being that allows you to effectively manage your work and family responsibilities. In practice, a sound work-life balance allows you to integrate your responsibilities to yourself and others into your demanding life as a real estate professional.
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Controlling Your Activities
Work-family balance helps you manage your responsibilities towards any or all of your partner or spouse, children, aging parents or disabled family member. It also gives you a sense of control over your life. Among the many benefits of effective planning, is a sound plan that gives you a sense of direction that will help you control your life. From the perspective of maintaining your work-life balance, how sound is your plan? How does it help you balance your work and non-work responsibilities? Perhaps it’s time to
revisit your plan
and make the necessary revisions to make it more useful in helping you manage your work-life balance. In the simplest of terms, without a sound plan, you at risk for the problems arise from an imbalance between your work and personal responsiblities. It is difficult, if not impossible to achieve a work-life balance alone. You need to depend on your family, friends and a network of personal and community supports. A supportive work-based environment is also critical. The more support that you can draw upon, the better your balance and the more likely your ultimate success.
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The Golden Rules of Time Management
1.Time management is a system of organized activitiesOrganizing your activities means prioritizing them. Top priority goes to those activities that are most directly related to achieving your overall goals. 2. Work by objective not crisis Try though we may, we cannot totally prevent crises: they are inevitable. We can however control how we respond to them. In responding to a crisis, the best solution is the one that will best help you achieve your overall goals and objectives.
3. Plan solutions to problems that can be anticipated This yields two significant benefits. It minimizes crises and offers near instant solutions for those crises that do arise form time to time. See Rule # 2. 4. Do something as opposed to nothing Doing something keeps you moving toward your goals; doing nothing stalls your progress. It usually requires more energy to regain lost momentum than would have been required to maintain the original momentum. 5. You can’t always get everything done that you have planned When this happens, add the incomplete items to tomorrow’s to-do list. If they still don’t get done, perhaps you do not really need to do them. Maybe they should be delegated. See Rule 8 below. 6. Delegate when possible You need not do everything yourself. Do only those tasks that you must do and that you can do better than any one else. 7. Set goals constantly Achieving short term goals leads to achieving medium term goals, which in turn leads to achieving long term goals. That’s what success is all about. 8. Live a balanced life
Field Guide to Time Management for Real Estate Professionals
contains a wealth of useful information about effective time management for real estate agents. If you only get one idea that helps you manage your time better, it’s well worth your visit. Effective
marketing action plans and effective time management go hand in hand.
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