I woke up this morning with the best intentions. I felt pretty motivated and determined that I am going to plow through my tasks, do some proactive business activities and really start checking things off my list.

Next thing I know, I am reading about politics and getting every opinion about the next President and our economy and the real estate market. I decided to get to work and noticed an email from facebook, then somehow I spent the next hour "playing" on facebook and myspace and just surfing aimlessly.

As a REALTOR, most of us working from home, we have no choice but to be self-motivated, not to mention, self-disciplined. Sometimes it just takes turning off CNN, not reading the news at all and just creating your own world. I closed my email and the notification and put before me only my database of my past, current and future clients and my sphere of influence and decided not to let anything distract me.

Having the vision of what I want to accomplish and a clear picture in my head gets me DOING the things I should be doing. Things seem to flow more naturally if you have the end result in your mind. What do I want to accomplish TODAY, not tomorrow. Do I want to sit down for dinner tonight and say.."I certainly could have accomplished more today?" or do I want to feel that I put in an honest day of effort to reach my goals.

I know that I can trust that the small things that I do today will get me to my goal for tomorrow. So today, feeling like a slacker, I made 3 phone calls to past clients and sent out 3 notes and I  feel great about it! I know it seems pretty small, but at least I didn't say "I'll make 3 phone calls and write 3 notes tomorrow!" (Which I will!!) Maybe I'll even do a pop-by!