Quick story.
I was talking to an agent I coach. Sharp guy. Works from home. Every morning he sits down to prospect, and every morning someone needs a snack, someone lost a shoe, and the dog has opinions.
By 10am, he’s made two calls and feels like a failure.
He thought he had a discipline problem. He didn’t. He had a room problem.
Here’s what 30 years of selling in San Francisco taught me: your first 90 minutes decide your whole day.
That’s your best brain. If it gets chopped into 6-minute pieces, you’re not prospecting. You’re just sitting near your phone.
You can’t build a listing business in a hallway.
The fix is boring, which is why it works:
Get a door that closes. Spare room, closet, garage. It doesn’t need to be pretty.
Set the rule out loud. “8 to 9:30, I’m at work.” Your family will adjust faster than you think.
Prospect before anything else. No email, no news, no scrolling.
If home won’t work, leave. A coworking desk costs a couple hundred bucks a month. One listing pays for years of it.
Most agents I talk to don’t need more motivation. They need a better setup.
Motivation runs out by Wednesday. A system keeps working.
So hit reply and tell me: where do you work every morning, and what keeps pulling you off track? I read every reply.
Chris
Christopher Stafford DRE 01155105 | 30+ year listing agent in San Francisco | Founder, The "Listing Collective"
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