Kathy asks Coach Linda for Help:
“I know how you believe in Time Blocking. When I’m time blocking I feel like I am limiting my ability to be spontaneous. Help! I see the benefits but feel constrained. ” –Kathy
Kathy is facing what many agents feel when it comes to committing to a time blocked schedule in order get more done in less time. Many feel closed in—as if in a box. When in reality a time block schedule opens up your time and you accomplish more in less time with more time for leisure.
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Linda’s Response to Kathy:
SITUATION
Kathy wanted a focused schedule but wasn’t sure how she would actually follow the schedule she made up because up to this point it was only a piece of paper that she organized but did not follow. She would look at the schedule with dread rather than with confidence knowing it was the key for higher productivity and time to herself.
OBJECTIVES / GOALS
Coach Linda suggested Kathy write a schedule of her current workdays, listing what she spends her time on and what she accomplishes. Next she asks Kathy to be creative in what she wanted to create in her real estate business. She asks her to take out her original time blocked schedule and to review it to identify the areas that created the anxiety she spoke about.
SOLUTIONS
Kathy felt restricted in her business by her time-blocked schedule. The schedule reminded her of a strict teacher telling her how and what she was to do in her business. She already knew what she wanted to accomplish and was willing to make the time available but on her own terms. She didn’t “get” the context of her current time blocked schedule.
Coach Linda explained to Kathy that her way of thinking regarding time blocking was very common and it was all right to ease herself into her schedule in creating categories in blocks of time.
TASKS AND SYSTEMS TO REACH SOLUTIONS
For instance - creative time for real estate, use colors to coordinate her different functions in business, block in time for spontaneity. Just create blocks of time that build discipline her to keep showing up. Kathy needed to take some action on her schedule, and not just rebel against it.
While in action she could tweak it along the way instead of rebelling against it. Allowing it to sit dormant it would take up space in the back of her mind, zapping her time and energy.
In Coach Linda’s experience time and energy are wasted because Kathy would never really get her mind off of that time block schedule she was supposed to be following for her business to succeed. She knew Kathy would wrestle with the thought of how she could get her way and not let the schedule win over her.
AH HA BREAKTHROUGH MOMENTS
Kathy got her ah ha breakthrough moment when she felt the freedom in the blocks of color for creativity and spontaneity in her schedule. She now looked at her time blocked schedule with excitement and wonder as to what she would create in the slot of time designated for real estate. She was well aware that her to do list needed to be accomplished although that was now an accompaniment to her creative time in her business.
RELEASING AN EMOTIONAL BLOCK
As with most real estate agents, Kathy felt blocked in (no pun intended) with time blocking. Coach Linda has found that most real estate professionals like Kathy are people oriented—and at times to a fault—in that relationships are all they want to establish in their business.
In fact, real estate is a business where systems in building and maintaining its structure must be in place—at the same time as establishing and maintaining client relationships—
which are an essential part of the internal business systems.
BREAKTHROUGH RESULTS
Once Kathy changed the context of her time blocking to be more colorful, with blocks of colored time slots to be a creative building process with additional time to be spontaneous, she was unstoppable. The tool that is designed to enrich her business was no longer restricting or confining her. It became her tool to open her schedule, not to inhibit it.
Kathy, just keep coloring your business the color of green because that is what you will be seeing after a short time of time blocking. –Coach Linda
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