Those of you in brokerage, what does your day-to-day look like?
How do you start your day, what time, what activities, and how do you finish strong for the day? Do you do appointments in the morning or afternoon? Do you do calls in the morning or afternoon? I'm looking to see what worked for us this year, and may change it up a bit going into the new year. Would love some fresh ideas!
[{"id": "f9ne5ne", "text": "Strip club trips were +eV this year.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "f9nei3l", "text": "Emails and plan the day from 7-730ish. Get to the office at 830. Call for an hour or hour and a half. Handle emails and admin. Lunch around noon. Calls for an hour or hour and a half. Admin until it's all done. I do meetings all in one day per week if possible. I may have four days like the above then all day Thursday in meetings. That's ideal. I get as close to that as I can.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "f9nek32", "text": "Smile and dial, coffee, meeting, tour, coffee, smile and dial, strip club, dinner, time with the girlfriend", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "f9nlhdk", "text": "Ideally:\nWake up/check emails/read CRE news around 7:30. Gym from 8:30-9:30. Calls and emails until 12:00. Projects and assignments all afternoon and into the early evening. (I\u2019m a night owl and partner up with a morning guy). Go to industry happy hours then dinner and bed.\n\nReality: \nMeeting and property tours all day, step aside for a few minutes to bust out emails on the phone and make calls while driving. Work late into the evening getting fully caught up for the next day and complete projects and assignments. Go to industry happy hours and miss dinner (obsessively checking emails all the time). Come in on the weekends to take care of any outstanding projects. \n\nThere\u2019s brokers that will be out half the week and only work on a handful of large deals throughout the year because they\u2019re content with only making a couple hundred thousand or even less. There are brokers working 60 hour weeks because they want to be top producers in their office and market and that\u2019s their goal. Some brokers accomplish the same things in vastly different ways (maybe one wins clients by heavily researching the market spending hours at the desk, while the other relies heavily on socializing/happy hours and spends hours at the bars). One of the cool parts about this career, you can structure it in a way that works for you and makes you happy!", "replies": [{"id": "f9p44ms", "text": "This pretty accurately catches the jist of it. My comment about strip clubs isn\u2019t the reality. Well, never say never. The freedom that he references here is what rang most true to me. You can put in 25-30 hour weeks once you\u2019re fully established and make 100-300k. Or you can keep grinding, put in 45-60 hours a week every week and be a million dollar broker. \n\nReality for me:\n6:30 wake up, get ready, eat breakfast, coffee\n7:45-9 get to office, prep, emails, read articles, LinkedIn\n9-4 combination of - making calls(15-50), meetings, and tours.\n4-6 admin work\n6-6:30 go home\n6:30-7:30 gym \n7:30-8:30 cook and eat dinner\n8:30-10 chill.\n10 go to bed", "replies": [{"id": "f9qfpn2", "text": "Your reply made me realize I missed one of the most critical daily items for my personal success - chill time. I was actually having anxiety problems and it took a little bit for me to realize it was because I was always constantly \u201con the clock\u201d in my mind. If you can\u2019t find something that gets your mind fully off the job (in addition to exercise), I think the lack of constants in this career can really get to you!", "replies": [{"id": "f9wnfqu", "text": "Yea I\u2019ve also found that I\u2019m my best when I\u2019m exercising and also having at least an hour at the end of the day to just chill", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "f9o326s", "text": "5:30 meditate (trying to learn journaling)\n6:00 gym\n7:00 home chores\n8:00 project/partners/update\n9:00 audiobook\n10:00 office work emails calls\n14:00 breakfast/lunch with contact or broker\n15:00 marketing checkup/calls/ office work\n17:00 close up set up for next day deligate.\n18:00 *calls to past clients while driving\n19:00 personal hour/dinner\n20:00 search loopnet or Zillow for opportunities or family time\n22:00 sleep", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "f9oat95", "text": "Eyes open. Grind.  Dinner.  Eyes close (remember to fit in water, food, alcohol, laughs and exercise)", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "f9okcs3", "text": "Can\u2019t offer anything but interested to hear from those that can. Anything beyond \u201cwe\u2019ll wake up follow up emails keep calling people then go home\u201d is appreciated lol", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "f9okp8b", "text": "In December!? Quite different than every other month lol. It\u2019s either crunch time or time off it seems.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]