My partner, Greg Herder, and I are in the middle of our Gateway seminar program in Orlando as I write this and I have been talking to so many agents who are so panicked about their business and life, they have lost any sense of balance. They seem to be in such reaction, that I thought I would write the next part of my comments from last week, about some of the hazards of being or becoming a workaholic. Think you don’t have a problem? Then take the Test below and see how you score…
So, are you a workaholic? Even if you're not someone who describes yourself this way, you might be on a slippery slope toward an unbalanced life. Answer "seldom," "often" or "never" to the following questions to gauge where you stand:
1. You work outside of your desired work hours.
2. You find yourself canceling or postponing planned events with your friends and family because "I have to show a property."
3. You find yourself working seven days a week.
4. You don't take one entire weekend off each and every month.
5. You fear taking vacations because your business can't survive without you.
6. You answer your cell phone, interrupting family activities or "free time."
7. You find yourself trying to do two or more things at once.
8. Your daily work rarely matches what you planned to do each day.
9. You find yourself working "in" (tactics) your business instead of "on" (strategies)it.
10. You lay in bed at night thinking about your clients or your job instead of dreaming about that tropical vacation you've got planned.
The more "often" answers you got, the better the chance that you are a workaholic. Too many "seldom" replies and you're also in danger. The first step to overcoming the workaholic trap is recognizing that you need to change the way you do business. The systems Greg and I teach at the Gateway are all about working smarter, not harder, to achieve the lifestyle you truly desire, to the make more in less time, to leverage yourself through marketing systems and people . These are all topics for another article; this one is all about creating awareness and alerting you to the dangers of being a workaholic.
So what did you discover? Let me know how I can help you!
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Don, Great post!! I used to be a workaholic, now I realize how important it is to have a well balanced life. Real Estate is like the movie Field of Dreams, build it and they will come. If you build your business based on ethics, fairness and doing the right thing people will be gravitated towards you and you will succeed in spite of yourself but being well organized and having systems in place is so key to success and without that we are doomed to chasing the next deal and postponing our lives and our families in search of the next deal, the next commission and so on.