212: Does Time Blocking Work for Real Estate?
Hustle Humbly Podcast
Alissa Jenkins & Katy Caldwell
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Does Time Blocking Work for Real Estate?
You've been to the class. You've seen the color-coded calendar. You've heard someone very enthusiastically tell you exactly how many hours per week you need to block for lead gen, database outreach, and deep focused work. And then you went home and tried it. And then a client called. And then a kid got sick. And then you were behind on the thing you blocked off, which meant you felt like a failure, which meant you stopped doing it altogether.
Yeah. We've been there too.
This episode started with a listener email that honestly, we felt in our souls. She was trying to figure out how to build a real estate schedule that works, but was getting all kinds of rah-rah, color-coded, absolute advice that just wasn't clicking. She also asked a loaded question at the end of her email that Katy reads word for word — and y'all, it covers everything from grocery shopping to tween drama to holiday planning. It will make you feel very seen.
Here's what we cover in this episode:
- Why traditional time blocking often fails Realtors (and why it's not your fault)
- The "floating block" approach — how to plan tasks without locking them to a specific time
- Why Alissa keeps a lot of white space in her calendar on purpose
- The power of the 10-minute window and how sprinkled productivity actually adds up
- Episode 188: Task Frequency — the must-listen before you build your weekly plan
- Episode 71: What to Do If You're New or Slow — for when you don't know what to be doing with your time
- Why you need an office day — and how it acts like a second day off
- Two days off as a non-negotiable (and why we're changing this one Realtor at a time)
- The Friday shutdown and why a Saturday morning office hour might be your secret weapon
- Mixing work and mom life without losing your mind
- What "kin keeping" is and why it's quietly running most working moms ragged
- Tips for integrating (not compartmentalizing) work and home life
- Why lower standards might be the best advice we've ever given
- Using your mom activities as networking opportunities
- How to stop letting social media gurus make your schedule for you
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ra, rah, this is the only way. |
| 0:03.8 | You gotta do it this way. |
| 0:06.0 | And color code it. |
| 0:07.0 | Color code it. |
| 0:09.0 | I think that if you fill up your whole calendar, you're going to constantly be having to dump something when something urgent comes up and that thing won't get done now. |
| 0:18.0 | Katie, we're going to change that one realtor at a time here at Hustle Humbley. |
| 0:25.9 | All these things that are so important in society before and then they started to work, |
| 0:30.7 | but they weren't taking anything away. They didn't take anything away. Yeah. |
| 0:36.2 | Hi, y'all. Welcome to Hustle Humble. It's Alyssa and Katie and we are two top producing |
| 0:40.4 | realtors in the Baton Rouge market. We work for two different companies where we should be competitors, |
| 0:44.9 | but we have chosen community over competition. The goal of our podcast is to encourage you to find |
| 0:49.3 | your own way in business. So stop comparing yourself and start embracing your strengths. |
| 0:56.7 | Hi, Alyssa. Hey Katie. How are you today? It's great. It's episode 212. Okay. And we're going to time block for or a guest. Or is time |
| 1:06.9 | blocking even possible in real estate? Yeah. How do you make your schedule? How do you make |
| 1:11.7 | your schedule? What am I supposed to be doing? Right. That's what we're going to tackle today. |
| 1:15.9 | And we just had an episode on routines, not long, maybe last episode. We're not doing routines again. |
| 1:22.0 | No, not routines. No. But we're going to talk about scheduling and sort of getting through a real estate schedule. |
| 1:29.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.8 | Also, we got a really great message that spawned the idea for this episode. |
| 1:35.3 | And we have to show YouTube our friends on the video. |
| 1:39.7 | Look at the size of the emojis. |
| 1:42.8 | In all fairness, they did not look that way in the email. |
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