So here we are 3 weeks in and 2020 is well underway. Chris and I had some great meetings and calls this week with various people who currently are, or will soon be, key figures in our extended power team. In those conversations I think we all felt this was about the last week we can get away with saying ‘Happy New Year” :). A couple of those calls/meetings involved commercial surveyors/agents – in picking up with them again after the holidays we are now excited to be revisiting a couple of potential deals that went cold last year but where the timing could be right now, in addition to some potential new avenues to explore in regards creating commercial deals that fit our DICE model.
Anyway, back to the message in this week’s post – by now everyone has some goals set and possibly some new habits being introduced. Just like we know that gyms are packed in the first few weeks of Jan, we also know the intended good practices at the gym and at work can slip away by February. Well if you’re interested in making sure your good intentions for your property business don’t dissipate, here are 12 questions to check in on yourself. I learned these from Darren Hardy early last year and having noted them in my journal I’m going through them now for my own benefit. I hope you can benefit from asking these of yourself also.
12 QUESTIONS TO CHECK IF YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD TO GROW YOUR PROPERTY BUSINESS
[the short sentences in the parentheses highlight the harsh truths that may be going on inside your head, hopefully not however 🙂 ]
#1: Do I have a weekly calendar with slots booked for my most valuable priorities, before each new day starts? [so I can create rather than react]
#2: Do I allow too many interruptions during the day from friends, family, customers, prospects, team members to interrupt my flow and deep concentration work? [because it’s a welcome relief from the hard work of creating and finishing something]
#3: Do I talk a lot, extending conversations into longer chit chats when unnecessary? [because it’s seemingly justifiable to delay the hard work of creating]
#4: Do I multi-task? [even though I know it reduces my intellectual ability and causes me stress and anxiety]
#5: Do I love the adrenalin buzz of being overly busy? [in order to feel a sense of importance and self esteem even though it’s at the demise of my actual productivity]
#6: Is living in chaos and constant motion more comfortable to me than stilling my mind and single tasking? [because I might fear to be alone with my own thoughts]
#7: Do I find it really difficult to say no? [because I am too needy for approval and lack the self confidence to stick to my own priorities]
#8: Do I often find myself in a crunch to finish projects because I’m in over my head? [because I allow myself to be everyone else’s whipping boy/girl and don’t protect my own priorities]
#9: Do I spend hours needlessly on social media? [to escape and distract me from what’s most important]
#10: Do I waste time doing repetitious, non-vital and inessential tasks? [because I haven’t put systems in place to automate or eliminate]
#11: Do I maintain control of nearly everything because I believe no one else can do it as well? [which makes me an egotistical and delusional narcissist]
#12: Do I believe I can’t afford to hire someone to help me? [because I don’t actually value my time, my family and my health appropriately]
If you’ve read this far, you might like me have thought woah- those questions can be quite harsh and cutting. They are, but answering them for ourselves can only help by shining a light on what we need to keep us progressing in an optimal fashion. For me personally, I’ve noted some actions needed under questions under 4, 7 and 10.
Have these questions shone a light on something helpful for you?