Today is a prime example:
Yesterday the Schedule looked like this:
9:45 Nicole to Harvest Festival for her performance at 10:30 - Victoria and I will walk around until the performance then hang out until 11:30 then drive to Middletown to get Victoria to Dance
12:00 Drop Victoria off at
Dance Class
1:30 Pick up Nicole from Harvest Festival then back to Middletown
2:00 Pick up Victoria and take both girls home then drive to showings first house about one half hour from home
3:00 Meet Clients tour 5 houses Then back home
5:30 Pick up girls then to Reenactment for dinner and campfire (Yesterday the girls were not feeling well and we decided not to camp out Saturday night so we were planning to come home at night then go back in the morning.)
Hold Up Wait a Minute.... Got an email from the client last night. He has to work so he can't see houses until 5:00 PM Well I could have canceled but since we were not planning to stay over and this client needs to find a house I am now rescheduling all the houses and will be going to the reenactment tomorrow morning instead. It is ok, we weren't going to spend the night anyway so I don't mind this adjustment but what if I was not conditioned to go with the flow?
The New Schedule looks like this:
9:45 Nicole to Harvest Festival for her performance at 10:30 - Victoria and I will walk around until the performance then hang out until 11:30 then drive to Middletown to get Victoria to Dance
12:00 Drop Victoria off at Dance Class
12:30 Home to reschedule appointments
2:00 Pick up Victoria and go back to Harvest Festival to get Nicole (Oh No she just called and said she wanted to go to a friend's house "Can I pick her up at 10:00?") Still have to go back to Harvest Festival because Victoria did not see it all and I promised
4:00 back home drop off Victoria
5:00 start rescheduled tour
7:00 Figure out what to do for dinner because we are not at the reenactment with the stew that I had prepared for tonight
10:00 Pick up Nicole and home to pass out.
I feel very sorry for anyone in this business and in life who can't be flexible. I have worked with those types of clients and those types of agents too. I hope that you can learn to roll with the punches or you won't go far. Please remember to call if your schedule changes. There are people who need to know. Remember they have been running around sprucing up the house for you and your clients or they are waiting to let you in.
1:30 Pick up Nicole from Harvest Festival then back to Middletown
2:00 Pick up Victoria and take both girls home then drive to showings first house about one half hour from home
3:00 Meet Clients tour 5 houses Then back home
5:30 Pick up girls then to Reenactment for dinner and campfire (Yesterday the girls were not feeling well and we decided not to camp out Saturday night so we were planning to come home at night then go back in the morning.)
Hold Up Wait a Minute.... Got an email from the client last night. He has to work so he can't see houses until 5:00 PM Well I could have canceled but since we were not planning to stay over and this client needs to find a house I am now rescheduling all the houses and will be going to the reenactment tomorrow morning instead. It is ok, we weren't going to spend the night anyway so I don't mind this adjustment but what if I was not conditioned to go with the flow?
The New Schedule looks like this:
9:45 Nicole to Harvest Festival for her performance at 10:30 - Victoria and I will walk around until the performance then hang out until 11:30 then drive to Middletown to get Victoria to Dance
12:00 Drop Victoria off at Dance Class
12:30 Home to reschedule appointments
2:00 Pick up Victoria and go back to Harvest Festival to get Nicole (Oh No she just called and said she wanted to go to a friend's house "Can I pick her up at 10:00?") Still have to go back to Harvest Festival because Victoria did not see it all and I promised
4:00 back home drop off Victoria
5:00 start rescheduled tour
7:00 Figure out what to do for dinner because we are not at the reenactment with the stew that I had prepared for tonight
10:00 Pick up Nicole and home to pass out.
I feel very sorry for anyone in this business and in life who can't be flexible. I have worked with those types of clients and those types of agents too. I hope that you can learn to roll with the punches or you won't go far. Please remember to call if your schedule changes. There are people who need to know. Remember they have been running around sprucing up the house for you and your clients or they are waiting to let you in.
Have a Good Day and Keep it
Flexible!
I'm
Paddy Pizappi - Work with me and You'll be Happy!