This is a phrase I use with our team regarding Time Management and Focus.  It comes from the country* saying....

       "It's like teaching the pig to sing... it just wastes your time and annoys the pig."

One of the skill areas I am focusing on for myself is improving time management and prioritization.  This is important to me and will help my clients and our firm.

There are so many wastes of time in every industry... and our lives.  For instance, in real estate my personal belief is that over-priced houses are such a waste of everyone's time.  Are you really selling or not? 

Bad cold calls are another waste...  If you can't get me interested in 30 seconds, then please take some classes.  Not all calls are something I am interested in but you might still be interesting or of value to someone I know.  But come on.... be interesting and interested.

Look around and you can see that many successful people are either inherently skilled or, more likely, have developed their focus skills.   We can all practice and improve our own skills in these areas and it does yield better results!

"la laalaa la lalala la la" :-)

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* In the interest of full disclosure, I grew up in Bear Creek, a town of about 1,000 people (pigs are not counted) in rural Northwest Alabama.