All Forum Posts by: David Monroe

@Account Closed A monthly/weekly planner is nothing more than a to-do-list. Without setting your goals properly you don't have a direction to go and you can end up wondering through the year aimlessly.

@Ayne C. The simplest way to break you goals into daily actions is have 3 to 4 weekly goals and then set no more than 3 must do action items each day to meet your weekly goals.

In order to set weekly goals you should have 4 to 6 quarterly goals that have actions steps to accomplish them. These action steps can be tied to weekly goals.

To help setting your quarterly goals, you should really be setting 7 to 10 annual goals.

If you do this and follow them daily, you can get where you want to be in life much faster.

@Steven Bond That's very refreshing to hear Steven. Congratulations on your commitment to give back.

@Account Closed Have you taken the time to create quarterly goals for the this first quarter and weekly goals to help you achieve them? I'm sure you have more on your plate then just going to school for 3 classes a semester.

@Mark Fries Then why are you responding this post... lol.

@Lorraine K Davis A Not-to-do-list is all the mundane tasks that you should not be doing. These are the items you can get rid of, delegate, or hire a VA to to do.

By writing all the not-to-do-tasks down and keeping them next to your Daily Big 3, the 3 most important action steps you need to to do for the day, you will have a reminder to stay away from the things that won't move you forward or make you any money.

PM me if want a free copy of the list I use.

Awesome, you may be going a little overboard with scheduling minute tasks but if it works, who am I to argue.

Are you using a not-to-do-list?

@Jordan Moorhead Are you at least scheduling your days, doing the above would be better, so you can ensure you're meeting your goals. As a Real Estate agent have to assume you have set goals, at the very minimum, an income goal?

@Steve DellaPelle I would highly recommend setting annual goals first, if you haven't done so already. Your goals should follow a SMARTER framework, Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Risky, Timely, Exciting, and Relevant.

After you set 6 to 10 annual goals you should set 4-6 first quarterly goals with action steps for achievement.

On Friday at the end of the day, Sunday, or early Monday morning, you should set 3-4 weekly goals.

Each work day create up to 3 major action steps to get you closer to achieving your weekly goals, and focus your day on the action steps. In the sales world one of those action steps would be prospecting for new business.

At the end of the week, rinse and repeat. The only change would be to review and reflect on your week before setting next weeks goals.

For you, those action steps can be completing sections of the processes you're creating for your management company.

@Steve DellaPelle Do you set weekly goals to help you achieve those tasks on Monday?