Do you have a mission statement as part of your business plan? (More basic question–do you have a business plan?) Why is having a mission important? How should it guide you? You’ve heard the talks about finding your passion. But, you may be over-whelmed in your careers. It’s just too much to think big when you’re just trying to find that house or convince a buyer to work with you!

The Importance of Your Mission

This time of year, we’re encouraging everyone to create their business plans. One of the first things you’ll do in creating your own business plan is to define your mission. Why? Because, otherwise, you don’t know whether or not the actions you decide to take will fulfill your mission. You go to all those seminar gurus and just can’t decide what’s right for you. Having a solid, well-thought out mission will clear up the cobwebs and give you focus.

Tackling and Bringing Down your Time Management Challenges

If agents have been in the sales business a little while, they’ve already discovered that their biggest challenge is time management.  How can you get done in a business day everything that needs getting done? That’s where your mission comes in. Creating your mission helps you prioritize all the things you’re supposed to do. It helps you decide what not to do. Most important, it helps you figure out

     how to put YOU into your sales business successfully

I have a gift for you right now, to you assist you in defining your vision (where you want to ‘end up’ in your business) and your mission (it works for leadership, too). Click here to get these planning tools, which are excerpted form my resource The Business Planning System for the Real Estate Professional. 

Want more business planning help? I’ll be doing a webinar for the NAR’s Learning Library Dec. 8, 2009 for agents:  Not Your Grammy’s Business Plan.

Tell your broker. I will help your broker teach all of you to create great plans and use them to grow your business. Click here for my business planning webinar/coaching series.

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