I read in TIME Magazine years ago that the average worker is interrupted between five and ten times an hour. That’s a minimum of fifty times a day. How in the world are you supposed to get anything done if you’re interrupted fifty times a day, at minimum? And, of course, my next question is: how many of those disruptions are self-inflicted, or at least co-participatory? And when I think about it, that article is probably almost ten years old. Scary. Indeed, I don’t need to tell you this (though I will). If we were half as good at doing our jobs as we are at wasting time, hamstringing ourselves, and pursuing dead-end habits, we’d all be living on a private island, or something like that.

Obviously, there are workshops, lectures, seminars, conventions—all quite expensive—that will tell you how much time you waste, and how to turn it all around. Too many books have been written on how to get out of your own way to even begin to talk about it, so we won’t. But, by all means, if that’s what you need, then go for it. If it’s going to make you a better agent, a better human, then get to it. But in the meantime, I’ll continue telling you how to schedule your time more wisely, so this whole real estate thing makes a lot more sense, and you make a lot more money.