A 10-step plan for having a life outside real estate

If you’re spending too much time working on your business, rather than creating memories with those you care about, try this 10-step process. It makes no difference which step you take first. The point is to begin the process and build from there.  Continue reading

Want to take back your personal life? Start with these 3 tips

To achieve optimal work-life balance, you must learn to manage time. Here are a few things you can start doing today to immediately improve your time-management skills. Continue reading

Everybody’s working for the weekend: 4 tips for work-life balance

With great schedule flexibility comes great responsibility. Sure, you set up your own schedule and don’t have a boss looking over your shoulder, micromanaging your every move. But you probably work more weekends than the average person. Here are a few … Continue reading

How Family Caregivers Make Career and Elder Care Work

With the number of working Americans caring for an aging parent growing, you might expect that companies would be increasing benefits to help the family caregivers manage these duties. But according to the 2018 Employee Benefits Survey from the Society… Continue reading

For Scientists About to Rock (We Salute You)

Science and music are closely connected. Says Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH): “Whether you’re working with another person or a whole team of people who have different skills, different dreams and different aspi… Continue reading

How to balance your real estate career and personal life

When describing her unique family situation onstage at ICNY, Stephanie Lanier explained, ”We really got into real estate for the flexibility and the financial income — remember why you’re doing it.” Continue reading

Clients taking over your life? 10 tips for gently setting boundaries

When you set expectations from the start with your clients, you’re creating the tone for the collaborative process that is buying and selling real estate. We asked agents all over the country how they set boundaries and client expectations. Here’s what… Continue reading

5 reasons it sucks to be a parent in real estate (and how to make it work)

From never having free time to figuring out how to prioritize your kids while making your clients feel like they’re No. 1 — being a real estate agent with kids isn’t easy. Here’s how agents are balancing their work and family lives. Continue reading

5 essentials for a better work/life balance for agents

Hours turn into days which blur into weeks and then months, and often we’re left blinking into the bewildered eyes in the mirror, no better off today than last year. Continue reading