How To Take A Day Off!

9 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker addresses a common question from solo real‑estate agents: how can they actually take a day off when they run their business alone? He explains that modern technology—smartphones, constant news cycles, and 24/7 accessibility—has made traditional time‑management techniques obsolete, leading to mental stress, physical strain, and damaged personal relationships. The speaker argues that agents must relearn how to disconnect and bring their business under tighter control in order to create space for a genuine day off.

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How do you get a day off in real estate, especially if you're a solo agent without a team? Mm. Well, this question that came in, I got lots of answers to because it also goes into the request I get all the time from people asking for help on time management. I will say that time management was easier before we had these little rectangles here that I'm recording on right now, before we had 24/7 accessibility on cell phones. Before we had a 24/7 news cycle where we stare at the news all the time. We used to know how to turn things off. Well, friends, we're going to have to relearn that because the way we're living right now is so unhealthy. It's creating mental stress, it is creating physical toll, and frankly, we're killing our relationships. So there's a lot of reasons to get your business under control to the point where you can get a day off.