The real estate agency has never really been a work of nine to five. Most agents know what they enter. But there is a difference between being flexible and being constantly available. Somewhere on the line, the culture “always about” industry has gone from admirable to completely unsustainable for many agents. And for a growing number of people, it is starting to take its toll.
According to a 2023 report, 52% of workers said they felt exhausted. Among self -employed and those who work from home, that figure jumps to 67%.
Stanford University’s research also found that productivity falls significant after 50 hours a week. Once you reach 55, it gets worse. In fact, someone who works 70 hours a week gets approximately the same amount made from ASY working 55. That extra time does not make your business forward, simply wear it.
This may appear in all kinds of forms. You are the second marketing. Lose the focus in half of your tracking list. Doubts in the decisions you would always make without thinking. It is not because you are not able, it is because your brain is too believing to keep up with your lifestyle.
Even short breaks, for minutes here and there, have a leg show to improve the approach up to 50%. But when you drive your own newspaper, breaks are often the first thing there is. It is one of the reasons why exhaustion crawls faster in autonomous agents. There is no built -in structure, no one who touches him on the shoulder and tells him to take five. It is only you, your outstanding tasks list and the pressure to keep the wheels.
That pressure also affects its dream, and bad resistance has an equally higher blow effect. Studies show that it slows their thinking by 40%, its productivity falls by 11%and increases its risk of exhaustion by 23%. It becomes a loop: the more exhausted it is, the less effective it will be, what makes you feel, what makes you work more hours, why the magicians exhus on you even more.
And then it is loneliness, something that is rarely talked about, but 60% of self -workers say they feel isolated. When things are going well, that independence can feel brilliant. But when you are struggling to stay motivated, or you have no one to bounce, it can make everything feel heavy gay of what it should.
So what is the answer? It is not about reducing your ambition or completely turning off. It’s about creating enough space in your week to think real. Put the structure in place so that it is not running only with adrenaline. Get support when you need it. Delegating what you can. And recognizing that if your energy is low, your performance will also be, no matter how many hours it is happening.
The best agents with which I work are not the ones who work the longest hours. They are the ones that protect their time, their energy and their attention. They are built in recovery. They treat rest as a strategy. And they direct businesses that serve them, not vice versa.
If you have a leg running with Vacey, you are not broken. You may burn. And the sooner he recognizes it, before he can do something about it.
Why do the agents who care properly take care of them? They are not just healthier. In general, they are also much more profitable. Remember, the strongest USP in your business will always be you, so you begin to tend like this.
Chris Webb is the founder of the real estate agent consulting
