Good Morning, it’s 6:25am and I’ve already been up for an hour. I don’t mind being up early in the morning in fact I really like the early morning hours. In the winter though it’s the getting up part that is the challenge. Just the first of many today I’m sure.
While my brain is still waking up I started thinking about the full day ahead. That’s not unusual, they are all full days. It wasn’t always this way. When we worked for other offices sometimes the days were half full…or half empty and sometimes we had to work really hard to keep other agents from draining our day completely.
Being on our own at MoonDancer Realty is the best thing that ever happened to us. At first it was a little scary but completely exhilarating and liberating. If you’ve ever heard the expression you’ve got to “pack your own parachute” you’ll understand. As independent contractors, we need to know how to act independently and accept the consequences of doing so…whether we work under someone else’s umbrella or under our own. At the core of that philosophy is honing your ability to concentrate on your work and not be drawn into the vortex of your co-agent’s dramas. You’ll never ever be able to control the drama queens and kings…they’ve packed their own chutes.
We used to watch fellow agents spend hours playing online poker while on “floor duty” and even though we’d never participate just the mere notice of their activities served as distraction and irritant. You would think it wouldn’t matter to us, after all it was their business, right?
So, even though being a completely independent brokerage isn’t for everyone, we work more productively without the safety net of working for someone else. This way we’re responsible for full days, half full or half empty days but we never have to worry about someone else in our office draining our days.
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