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Time Management: "Teaching the Pig to Sing..."

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Lake Homes Realty

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.

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Eric Reid
Renaissance Realty Group of Keller Williams Atlanta Partners - Lawrenceville, GA

So if you cant teach that pig to sing do you just tosh it in the air and see if it will fly. ???

Jul 07, 2008 02:45 PM
Anne Hensel
South Beaches Real Estate Professionals - Saint Petersburg, FL
Realtor - Broker - St. Pete Beach, Treasure Island

HI GLENN I HEAR YOU, I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM WITH MOST OF MY AGENTS.

We talk about time management and I can just see that it does not sink in. . . . .

so, I think to myself   "when pigs fly"

Jul 07, 2008 02:47 PM
Glenn S. Phillips
Lake Homes Realty - Birmingham, AL
CEO, Lake Homes Realty / LakeHomes.com

Eric, You may be on to the logic used by those that try to justify over-priced houses... surely it will fly this time!  Thanks for the comment!!!

Jul 07, 2008 02:48 PM
Glenn S. Phillips
Lake Homes Realty - Birmingham, AL
CEO, Lake Homes Realty / LakeHomes.com

Anne - I agree, change is so hard for so many people.  Or they "think" they are efficient ("hey, what is there to fix?").  I tell the clients we coach on processes and communication, "you know, success is not mandatory! There are more choices than the choice to just show up and hope."  Thanks!! Glenn

Jul 07, 2008 02:54 PM