What do you do if your personal well-being is suffering due to professional demands in real estate?

Real estate can be a grind. If work is hurting your well-being, fight back! Set boundaries: clear work hours, email/call times, and delegate tasks. Prioritize self-care: schedule breaks, eat healthy, exercise, and unwind with relaxation techniques. Disrupt the work-life blend: make time for hobbies and vacations. Finally, seek support from friends, family, or industry resources. Re-evaluate if needed - are your goals still aligned? Does your company culture support you? Don't be afraid to prioritize your well-being for long-term success.

If your personal well-being is suffering due to professional demands in real estate, prioritize self-care by setting boundaries, delegating tasks, and practicing stress management techniques. Make time for activities that promote well-being and seek support from colleagues or professionals if needed. Balancing work and personal life is crucial for long-term success and fulfillment in the real estate industry.

Setting boundaries in any industry is key. Understand what works for you, what boundaries you need, and don't be afraid to communicate them either

Take a vacation and think about the meaning of life. Just a couple days away can make a huge difference. You still have your cell phone and laptop to be connected but a different environment. Realize it is only business and not personal. Try not to get excited about challenges. If you are calm your client will be calm too.

Practice time management tools like time blocking your schedule, defining your hours, reserving time off or time for yourself each week, and stick to the boundaries that you set. It's easy to break our own rules or rearrange our schedules when a demanding customer or persistent client requests, or squeeze an appointment in when we promised ourselves the afternoon off. In real estate, we are usually trained to or adopt the practice of telling everyone yes because we fear losing business by saying no. The reality is that customers who are serious largely understand that they aren't the only customer you have and that you don't run a 24/7 business.

Build your network of key allies and your support system. You don't need a big team or your own assistant to delegate tasks. Maybe you partner with another agent in your office and can trade off covering for each other when you have time off or have multiple customers to serve at once. Look for someone who maybe has a similar sales volume or does business in the same neighborhoods or neighborhoods near those that you work. Find out from your brokerage if there are any staff members that provide agent support. Utilize 3rd party services for tasks like transaction management, listing photography, social media management, sign delivery, errands or deliveries, and don't be afraid to ask for help from the broker-in-charge.

Whether you are the employer or the employee, rest periods will restore your soul, give meaning bringing balanced perspective to life. Reexamine the ethics/morality/spirituality of physical/mental exertion. Ruth 2:14 says, “Now Boaz said to her at mealtime, “Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed parched grain to her; and she ate and was satisfied, and kept some back (for her mother-in-law).

I’ve had burn out, I could argue it comes with of the territory, building company’s, making it. But reshaping that juggernaut; oh thats hard. It’s a rite of passage for everyone, at some point. The key part is reclaiming a life/work balance, maturing, learning from experience and hind site. If I had to choose one thing you can’t be without on that journey: it’s gratitude. If you can wake every day, truly thankful for the little things; you just won. Time and pain really are our greatest allies because it’s our greatest teachers. So I will end on something odd; I wish you much pain young, because if you’re lucky, it will teach you lasting happiness older. Happiness is an action not a thought.

Real estate is no different from succeeding with any other business. It takes hard work, and there will be many long days, late nights, weeks without a day off, and holidays when you find yourself working. But, that can't be every week for months on end. If it is, stop! Take a step back and regroup, reorganize, revisit your goals and your big "why", regain control, and do it before you reach total burnout, affect your health, or damage personal relationships that you care about.