Time Managment is for those who want to sell!!

Time managment is the only way to stay afloat in this business. Start out small, so you don't get time managment overload. Move up as you grow. You have to want to manage your time or this will never work for you.

Start here:

1. The to-do list:

Write out a list of your top priorities for the day. Start with three, then move it up to five. To-Do Lists should be prioritized lists of all the tasks that you need to carry out that day. They list everything that you have to do, with the most important tasks at the top of the list, and the least important tasks at the bottom. Motivating yourself is to keep your list relatively short and to keep it in front of you at all times throughout the day. Aim to complete it every day. Here's an example:

1. Call Joan Smith about listing her house.

2. Call Jim about an investment property.

3. Call those three fsbo's in my area.

2. Accountability

Find 2 agents in your office to meet with weekly and discuss progress, if you have your daily goals set then you will find that monthly and yearly goals are attainable. One agent will not be enough to hold you accountable. We all need accountability.

3. Just say "no"

Saying "yes" to every person that wants and needs something from you is not going to make time management better. Or make you an inherently better agent - it will, instead, set you up to be in your own personal ceaseless losing battle to do your best at every task you agree to take on, so get rid of those go-nowhere leaches.

4. Multi-task

It is difficult to do multiple things at once, but think how much more you could accomplish! Simply find other ways to do two or more things at once. For example, update your website as you return calls, answer emails while you are waiting for documents or files to download, and clean blog as you chat with sellers.