Real Estate Virtual Assistant

Have you ever attended a real estate seminar, bought the product that was being promoted, only to return to your office, put it on a shelf and never open it? Or maybe you have started to create a new marketing program, only to get bogged down in the middle of it and never complete it? You are not alone! Many of your fellow agents have done exactly the same thing and are now making promises to themselves never to let the same thing happen again. 

Cynthia Morris in her e-book, Cross the Finish Line! Five Steps to Leaping Over the Hurdles to Completion, provides us five steps to help us finish what we start. I have a sixth option…hire a real estate virtual assistant, but more about that in a minute. Take a look at the advice Cynthia Morris has for us: 

1. Identify Your Motivation

Start becoming a great finisher by doing some soul-searching. In a notebook or computer file, write out an answer to this question:

What is important about becoming someone who finishes?

Understanding your unique motivation for staying through the entire process is an essential piece of the puzzle. Get clear on what’s important about finishing.

You may come back and add more as your motivation becomes more apparent to you. You may craft that motivation into one sentence that you keep nearby when you’re creating. A single affirmation or reminder of your commitment can do a lot toward achieving the finishing line. Develop your own version of the Little Red Engine’s mantra: “I think I can, I think I can!”

2. Commit to a Project

You most likely have a number of projects in various stages of completion. These ideas marinate in your mind, spoiling as you become overwhelmed and distracted by your creative inspiration. It becomes easier to let them fall to the side rather than make choices to commit to one project after another.

When you decide to be a completer, you need to choose where you will focus your time and energy. You will be tempted to work on several projects at once. This is fine, if you manage to follow through and finish at least some of them.

3. Build Structure

External structures help you stay organized and focused. You will need to learn what works for you, but you’ll have to commit to structures like deadlines, timelines and accountability. Your inner saboteur will pipe in with notions like “I’m not a deadline person,” or “Lists don’t work for me.”

Take this is normal resistance that surfaces when you try something different. Sometimes creative people think they need to be free and flexible, but the truth is that structure allows creativity to flow. Creative people actually like structure, for it gives them the needed focus to bring their ideas into form.

4. Stay on Track

Getting clear on your motivation, committing to a project and developing a plan of action are the first three crucial steps. Staying with your project to completion is critical to becoming a completer. As Molly Ivins wrote, you need to “dance with them that brought you.”

Don’t flirt with your other ideas once you’ve committed to go all the way with one. You’ll need to develop your creative stamina, hone your emotional intelligence, and stay connected to all the previous reminders about why you’re doing your project and what’s your payoff for finishing.

5. Acknowledge and Celebrate Completion

This final step is often overlooked. After all that work, we skip the fun part! But it’s important to put this into the creative cycle. Too often, we rush to the next thing, overriding the need to acknowledge our efforts.

Before you pop the cork on the champagne bottle, take some time to acknowledge what it took to get here. Take the opportunity to learn about your creative style and what it takes to bring your projects to fruition. Acknowledging and celebrating will help you build confidence to complete future projects.

This is empowering information to help us get some of those unfinished projects completed. If what you really need is more hours in the day or the ability to delegate projects to someone else, outsource to a real estate virtual assistant. You don’t have to make a long term commitment to a real estate virtual assistant. As your real estate virtual assistant, I will work ‘project to project’ and be available to you on an ‘as needed’ basis.  No need to worry about having enough work for a full-time or even part-time in-house employee. Just use me when you need me. I will take the projects you don’t have time for over the finish line so they will start making you money!

Also read:
What Is A Real Estate Virtual Assistant?
Meet Ruth Ann Macklin, Real Estate Virtual Assistant

For more information about the Benefits of working with a real estate virtual assistant, visit my website, myREassistant.com, email me at info@myREassistant.com or give me a call at 757-271-6047.

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