 Next time you get an email or a text or an email or a phone call ignore it for two hours Just totally ignore all the incoming emails and text messages and phone calls for two hours Here's the other side of it though The answer in the phone every time somebody calls and answering all the DMs and stuff like that It has to be strategic, right? You have to find your zen, right? You have to find your Ricky, okay? There's a You know there's there's a Ricky to it because there's a lot of things that I completely ignore This is key. This is big. I'm not a reactionary person I'm not a reactionary agent a lot of people when they get an email they jump right on it You know and they react they react they react I don't want to stereotype every single agent that reacts but but the most part they're average agents, right? When you take a second and okay every fire that you think you need to put out can wait for example If you're like if you're a reactionary agent, you're responding to every text every phone call every email If you're showing property to a buyer, you're in the house with them You're showing if you're looking at everything you're talking to them about what you might offer what you think It's worth and how nice it is and you are you even going to look at your phone, right? If you feel your phone vibrate, you know somebody's calling you you're gonna look at it Are you gonna answer it? Are you gonna answer emails are you gonna answer texts are you gonna text people in front of your client? Not if you're a good agent. I know agents that you I know agents that do that But the really good agents they want to give their undivided attention to their client that's in front of them They're gonna ignore all this stuff and then what happens after you get shown you don't show the property You tend to those fires and those what happened the fires are still there to put out They didn't go away because you ignore them for a couple hours So why is it okay for us to ignore these problems when we're showing property? But it's not okay to ignore when we're doing other things that are very important that we need to do to build our business You know, here's the thing when you start to ignore things so that you can be more productive now and you push those things off till later It's an amazing thing that happens. You feel so in control now You feel so in control of your business. It's not controlling you you're controlling it So try this next time you get an email or a text or an email or a phone call Ignore it for two hours. Just totally ignore all the incoming emails and text messages and phone calls for two hours For no reason just ignore for two hours and see how it makes you feel It's so empowering because now you feel like you're controlling your business you're controlling your career You're controlling your situation Other people aren't dictating what you do when you do it how high you jump and all that stuff And so the way that I'm able to do so many things It's because I get up at 430 and I answer those DMs in the morning, right? Like today, I kind of I was at the bank waiting on something and I had some time I was sitting there Boom, I answered a bunch of DMs right then. That's random, but Schedule wise it's in the morning. I'll answer them all in the morning and then I'm done for the day So if you DM me during the day chances are you're not gonna hear back from me until 430 or 530 the next morning When I'm answering those DMs so everybody thinks I'm answering all these DMs. How do I do it? It's because I'm intentional about when I'm gonna do it, right? Every little stealth is calculated You know what I mean? And so it's the same thing at night people think this is crazy And when five o'clock rolls around, I'm totally done, right? I shut work down completely and then I switch over to father husband I think it's really important a lot of people work till 10 o'clock They wake up the next day and they're burnt out. They're burnt out. They're like their mind is like shot See, there's two things. There's two things when you're new and you have hardly any emails coming in All right, it's okay to be reactive. It's okay to be reactive when you're new you don't have anything There's nobody's trying to you know, hit you up that much. I mean, you know, have anything. Oh, yes Right, right. It's okay to be reactive But what happens is as we get busier and busier then we don't adapt to try to continue to be more more productive We just stay a lot of these agents stay in that reactive States and they never really transition over to okay, I have a lot going on I can't just react to every little thing. Here's the other side of it though. There are moments that I have to react I'm not saying I ignore every little thing if somebody texts me and says I'm ready sign a listing agreement You think I'm gonna ignore that? Absolutely not You know, I'm gonna put an offer in or I want to meet you right now to look at this house Oh, I'm on it. I'm on it dog gone. Right. Here's the problem Where you draw the line with the things that you push off to stay productive and to for your time blocking activities And where do you what are the activities that that you need to react to see that's the problem is people aren't Differentiating they're they're just reacting to everything when really only a good five percent ten percent should really be Reacted to I'll tell you negotiating a deal writing a contract a listing appointment or showing property or four activities that I feel like Are the highest priority over everything and if somebody wants to write an offer negotiate Have me come to look at their house to possibly list their property or show property I will drop everything that I have and I will that's that's what we do this for is to get out of those scenarios But everything else needs to needs to be Organized, you know, and so that you can get done what you need to get done Some people tell me that I have a time blocking issue. I can't quite fit my calls in I can't do this And I said you don't have a time blocking issue You're doing something between the time that you are wanting to make calls You know, you're doing something between 9 and 12 the problem is you're having a priority issue You're not making the things that you need to do a priority over these other things that you're doing during that time block period