If You Are Grinding, You Might Be Doing It Wrong
Loan Officer Freedom
Carl White
4.9 • 753 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Loan Officer Freedom, the #1 loan officer podcast in the world, you will see the simple tweaks that have taken many LOs from working 60 hours a week and closing a few loans per month, to working 40 hours a week and actually closing more…all without buying anything.
I remember someone said some words to me that changed how I thought about being the “working stud”. Those words went something like this… “Hey Carl, if you think there’s no such thing as work/life balance, you’re doing it wrong”.
After a little bit of time really thinking on those life changing words, I started realizing that doing what the top producers around me do, it’s achievable. And it was.
So, here’s the deal. We do these very simple set of activities first thing in the morning, and these are the things that get you more loans in less time.
Tune in to hear about how I roll out the Daily Success Plan.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is Carl White Broadcasting here in actually in the podcast room, a new room here at the secret headquarters here in the mortgage marketing animals slash freedom club. |
| 0:18.3 | And you are listening to Loan Offs or Freedom, number one podcast in the world for loan officers. |
| 0:26.1 | And thanks to you guys for forwarding these episodes to your friends. |
| 0:30.4 | This one's going to be kind of short and simple, but a very, very, very powerful message. |
| 0:36.5 | And I think I'm going to title this, I was grinding and doing it wrong. |
| 0:41.7 | I was grinding and doing it wrong. |
| 0:43.2 | And here's the thing. |
| 0:44.4 | So I was doing it wrong. |
| 0:46.8 | And how that worked out was that early in my loan officer career, I found myself, and maybe |
| 0:53.6 | many of you do this right now, |
| 0:55.2 | I found myself working like 50, 60, 70 hours a week. And here's the funny thing. So the funny |
| 1:02.7 | thing is my coworkers at the time encouraged, actually encouraged me to work those kinds of hours, |
| 1:10.2 | right? They patted me on the |
| 1:12.0 | back and said things like, hey, Carl, nobody works harder than you. Like, that's a, you know, |
| 1:16.9 | something to be proud of. Or Carl, you're a working stud, right? Those kinds of things. I'm sure you've |
| 1:22.6 | heard those kinds of things, too. And it was like working all the time somehow was a badge of honor, |
| 1:29.6 | right? It wasn't until a very dear friend of mine asked me a real simple question that was a bit of a slap in the face, |
| 1:37.3 | but in a good way, right? And I don't like getting slapped in the face. Let me just clarify that. |
| 1:42.7 | And this, this, this slap in the face question that my friend clarify that. And this, this, this, this, this slap in the face question |
| 1:46.5 | that my friend asked, said, well, Carl, let me ask you something, buddy. How's that working out for your |
| 1:51.7 | family? How's that working out in your family? How's, how's it working, you know, 50, 60, 70 hours? |
| 1:58.2 | How's the working evenings? How's the, How's the answering the phone call when you're with |
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