We hear a lot about work/life balance. It sounds great in theory, but what about in practice? Especially as an agent - when it seems like the work never stops and there's no such thing as a weekend? It turns out that there are some tried and true tricks to balance your life as a real estate agent.
Time Management - Get With the Program
There's no way to break it to you other than the reality that agents must have time management skills or the balance of their life will suffer. Any person who works for themselves in large capacity and is dependent on themselves and their time for financial success is going to feel that concept more deeply. Agents need to time block and find other habits that actively seek work/life balance.
But, enough about the elusive work life balance. What does that really look like to balance your life? The truth is that it's not always going to look the same. Different seasons of life are going to bring different seasons of business and relational business. Maybe the market is hot, hot, hot - and you work a bit more weekends than usual. Maybe the dinner time phone call rule gets bent. There's also times where your child is in a busy extracurricular or your spouses work is in an upswing and you need to hold it down at home. The different variables are endless and that's why agents need to be able to bend and sway with the times - while not letting any respective branches break completely.
Learn to Let Things Go
That being said, sometimes things will need to be let go. That means that an event might be missed. Emails might pile up. Priorities will have to come into play. As agents, we always want to follow up on leads and make sure we keep growing our business. We always want to come through for our clients.
Agents also always want to come through for their loved ones. And let's not forget that regardless of our jobs and personal lives, we still need to come through for ourselves. Real estate agents can be extremely prone to burnout and it is vital that they find ways to take an actual break from work and recharge. This way, agents can be their best selves in every aspect of their lives.
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