What’s on your to do list?

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There’s so much to do these days, even in a down market. But what’s on your to do list for today? Most agents find themselves trying to solely concentrate on making sales and getting new leads and clients. This probably includes checking email 50 times per day, answering and making phone calls, and going on appointments. Having this kind of frantic schedule leaves very little brain power left for making remarkable changes for your business and development.  If you are only focused on being frantic, like most agents are, you aren’t making progress on your real goal…actual business development.

You need to take some time each day or week, only a few hours, to work on projects that you enjoy that will create more business. Like to blog? Take three hours each week and work solely on that. I like to work on my blog about twenty minutes each day, doing research and writing posts. Why don’t you work on writing and formatting for your newsletter? Or get some research done on that new area of town that’s going to become your niche in the marketplace.

Point is, you need to take a breath….(that was nice). Then figure out the big picture task that you really want to get done this week or month. Then write out the three to do items that you can achieve today to move that vision forward. If you don’t take time to look at the macro picture of your  business, you will forever be stuck running in your hamster wheel without any real progress.

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