ActiveRain Contest - Overcoming Tactical Addiction

The 3 things I have or plan to eliminate are:

1. I am eliminating the unknown, by writing my blogs ahead and scheduling so that i do not miss a day. A blog a day is a great recipe to attract new clients. Not scheduling sometimes has me so busy, that i do not make it back to Active Rain to get that blog posted.

2. I have changed security settings to eliminate span emails. I was getting over 200 emails a day which is a huge time waster.

3. I am eliminating time wasters in my office. Those include sales calls, water cooler talk and walk ins that have no ability to purchase and no home to sell. Every day i see a half dozen walk ins or more. With say 42 walk ins a week, maybe 2 are customers and 40 want to sell me something or ask questions for free. 

Almost forgot about this challenge, and one we shouldn't, as it will make us more productive!

Making your life more productive

Our blog post can be found here.

The three eliminations:

1. Eliminate callers going to voicemail.

2. Eliminate unwanted email.

3. Eliminate paper

Thanks for hosting the contest!

I have made some changes this year to give me more time for myself and for time to get out and meet new people. 

1) I have scaled back my time on social media. I plan to focus more time on those aspects of social media which have given me a return on my time investment. Right now that is my blog. 

2) My office is being remodeled. I'm not painting or putting in new flooring, but I'm reorganizing for efficiency. I'm also changing the pictures on the wall, to something I feel more comfortable with. I inherited this office, and haven't completely personalized it yet. 

3) Even though I'm making my office more about me, I have been spending less time in the office. I'm out and about more in the community meeting new people. I've been doing this for two months, and I've gotten several new buyer leads and I've had fun doing it. 

3 things I eliminated that have really made a huge difference for me....that's easy.

1. Stay focused on the task/project I'm working on now. I used to get distracted by phone calls, texts or whatever and it would take me much longer to get back on track. In fact it took a lot more time to re-group and get focused again.

2. Clean up my email and get rid of every last junk mail on a daily basis.  My inbox used to be so full of crap. I didn't want to take the time to clean it up as so I used to let it build up until it was ridiculous.  Now I get rid of stuff right away so I never have to deal with it again.

3.  Many years ago (due to a great mentor of mine)I made a choice to stop spending time with people that are downers, always complaining, blaming others, you get the picture - negative nellies.  I focus my thoughts and my time with positive people and positive subjects.

4. Ok you said 3 but here's another one because it used to be a huge time sucker.  Facebook time  is limited. Period.

There's nothing like procrastinating until the very last day of the contest to submit my entry, so put Procrastination down as number 1 on my list.

#2 is being distracted, whether it's wasting time on something completely mind-numbing like a computer game, or checking my phone every time an email or text or Facebook post is generated. There's so much to do and only a limited number of hours in the day, so it's best to focus on the job at hand.

My #3 has served me well, and it's to make a to-do list every night before going to bed of the things I need to accomplish the next day. It keeps me focused on the tasks at hand so nothing gets left out or forgotten.

I'm working on eliminating these 3 things that are a drain on my time without the ROI. 

1. Referring consultations that are beyond a range where it is cost effective for me to drive to. I do let them know that I will have to charge extra if they wish but otherwise, I refer it to someone else. For me, it's learning to say "no."

2.I'm not stressing over the need to read every post here on ActiveRain and comment on every post I do read.  

3. And, since I'm a stager, I've edited the social media platforms that I'm on and am focusing on 3.  And even with this, I now set a timer and I no longer stare as the Facebook scroll keeps scrolling and scrolling. 

1. I answwer calls as they come in so I don't waste time listening to voice mails and returning those calls.

2 I limit much of my marketing to the MLS where my  listings go to over 98% of the web sites out there.  Very little need to post elsewhere.

3. I spen very little time on coscial media except AR as AR keeps me on the first page of the internet in my area.

A different type of challenge

Trying to Eliminate Time Sappers

Here are my 3  'rry' I want to overcome ---- 

WORRY - the biggest killer should be killed, isn't it?

HURRY - no rush on anything. Plan ahead and yes, no hurry.

and

CARRY - no more carrying the baggage of past. It gets heavier with the passage of time.

It's been said that we should not create a vacuum when we eliminate something. Those things will try to come back and re-occupy the space.

One should fill in with something creative.

Here are the things that I'd like to add (or replace) with three 'RY'.

BERRY - considered as a healthy diet. A diet do impact the thought process.

MERRY - a mindset of being happy. Brings positive energy.

and

FIERY - being passionate about business, goals.

Ummm my 3 things 

1. Working from home with a 1 year old. Will try to go the the office more to get more work done

2. Looking for different ways to generate leads offline. I will just allow God to continue guiding me for the leads to just fall in my lap.

3. Wasting so much time would be the last. I need to create a schedule  and spend at least 2-3 hours a day on educating myself about the business.

My three things are:

1. have chosen to UNSUBSCRIBE from shiny object promotions in my Inbox

2. Digging out old faithful wristwatch, as I have grown accustomed to using my smartphone, then always have a text or email that can wait when all I really wanted was to know the time.

3. Set a timer for Social Media, limit to 10-15 minutes of Facebook a day.

3 things that I  plan to  REMOVE from my day to day activities that waste time and will help me be more productive:

1.  Too many activities in different directions.  I will stick to my scheduled block timing for task.  Which will include more networking and getting out of my comfort zone. 

2. Getting stuck in social media zone..  Wisely use my time on social media.  Use an app to post on different platforms at one time. Take advantage of scheduling post and blogs.

3.  Procrastination keeps me in the same spot.  My biggest struggle is waiting to do something til the last minuet.  I make time to complete an activity NOW I plan to get it done in a timely manner! 

Three things that should be eliminated.

1. Days without a well organized plan of action.

2. Days spent doing things that should be delegated.

3. Days when I let other peoples priorities over take mine.

Three things that should or could be eliminated from my day-to-day activities:

1.  Keeping my time on social media to a limit (10-15 minutes in am and pm)

2.  Organizing my day the night before

3.  Controlling the Distractions in my life so I can concentrate on my business

Sure hope that EST is a mistake, most of us have grown accustomed to everything on Active Rain being on PST, like the time on this comment.

Sorry I missed this one!

Missed this one...but here are my 3 things:

1) second guessing the work of others

2) beating the dead horse "leads"

3) reading too many un-real estate related posts/comments and articles.