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Real Estate jobs and work.................

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Real Estate Agent with Aubrey and Associates Realty

Today we got an email from our broker that included the quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson which says, "That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do.  Not that the nature of the thing has changed, but that our power to do is increased." 

I think that is the nature of Real Estate and in many ways of life.  The more that we work on our presentation skills, scripts etc., the easier and more confident we become doing them.  The same with meeting new prospects, the more that we stretch ourselves and leave our comfort zones, the better we will be at finding new business.  In sales meeting the other day, an agent in our office made the comment that we work at Real Estate like it is a job.

As bad as I hate to admit it, he is right.  We need to set in our minds that there are certain activities that we have to do everyday to be successful.  We have to prospect no matter how difficult or distasteful we may think that it is.  We need to work our spheres of influence, contact our sellers and buyers.  We need to put more into the time that we spend working Real Estate.  By that I mean that we need to be as efficient as possible, eliminating activities that are time wasting by nature.  We need to try to do the most productive thing possible at any given time. 

We need to prioritize our time to the best of our abilities, it isn't always easy.  Everyone has the client that wants us to drop everything and rush to show them a house, and depending on your circumstances, that may be the most productive thing that you can do.  My point of this blog is not time management, but rather, sometimes it is no pain no gain.  I know that with myself, I really need to push myself to do that which I hate to do even when it is good for me. 

As much as I hate to admit it, we do need to work Real Estate like it is a job.  We also need to do those tasks that will make us successful, even if we don't like them!

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Comments (8)

Sal Poliandro - Helping People Win
RE/MAX Properties - Ridgewood, NJ
Broker Associate

I had a manager give me the best advice. If you treat real estate like a job you will be compensated like a job. If you treat it like a hobby you will get paid like a hobby. I don't need any more hobbies :)

Sal Poliandro - Bergen County Realtor

Nov 29, 2007 04:34 PM
Roberta LaRocca
Simply Vegas Real Estate - Las Vegas, NV
REALTOR®, Broker, Salesperson, NV. Lic BS.507
You are right, we do need to treat it as a job.  In every job, there is something that you don't like to do or are not comfortable with.  Oh well, that's the job, so do it!
Nov 29, 2007 04:38 PM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate
Hi Tony and Darcy:  How bout if we treat it as a career ?  I have had hobbies.  I have had jobs.  I enjoy my career much more than either of those, and the compensation is much better, too.
Nov 29, 2007 04:44 PM
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QEC Internet Services - Long Beach, CA

There is a lot of truth in what you have to say.  Once a human mind is stretched, it will never returns to its original dimensions.  Your comfort zone can keep you in a rut and so you won’t take opportunities to enhance your skills or potential.

You can know each salient point mention in your article, but unless you do something to put them in action in your life, nothing changes.
 

You'll hear me declare boldly, knowledge is not POWER, but the application of Knowledge is where Power is derived.

Nov 29, 2007 04:45 PM
Julie Chapman
Julie Chapman Broker - Ormond Beach, FL
Daytona Beach Shores, Florida

On my son's yearbook page I offered the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson "Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true." along with the words of of Enimen "You do do anything if you want to, man....."

Nov 29, 2007 06:05 PM
Tony & Darcy Cannon
Aubrey and Associates Realty - Layton, UT
The C Team
Thanks for the posts!  I agree that job always sound like the acronym just over broke.  Sorry I borrowed that from Amway, but I agree with Karen, I try to think of it as a career.  To me a career is what you love to do and get rewarded handsomely for, only it still requires working at it like you do a job.  Thanks again for your incite each of you.  I love Emerson quotes, he was a brilliant man that seemed to "get it"! Thanks for sharing Julie.  Ntsike, you are so right, without stretching there is no growth nor power.  Sal, I do agree with your broker, and Roberta, you summed my ideas up very well, direct and to the point!  Once again, thank you, each of you!
Nov 29, 2007 06:35 PM
Anonymous
Juanita McDowell

What a great post to start my day.  Thanks!

Nov 29, 2007 09:01 PM
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Matthew Zgonc
Aksland Real Estate - Modesto, CA
Realtor, CFS, CVS
If you are doing something you love, then you will have passion behind what you do. Otherwise you are just going through the motions.
Nov 30, 2007 01:37 AM