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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

This is Why Most Agents Lose Opportunities | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

How long does it take you to write the perfect email or send the perfect text? By the time you're done, someone else will probably already have that listing appointment. Real estate isn’t about perfect. It’s about first and fast.    Are you serious about growing your business FAST? Coaching is the shortcut that makes sure you make the right moves and never miss a beat.  Schedule your free consultation to learn more: 🔗https://www.tomferry.com/free-coaching-consultation/

Transcript

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0:00.0

How often in life have you struggled to finish your project because you just, you just couldn't get it perfect.

0:06.7

You couldn't get the right tone of the email.

0:08.8

You couldn't get the right message on the video.

0:10.9

It could be as simple as simple as just the photography that you're taking of a home.

0:15.0

Here's my mindset.

0:16.1

Ready?

0:16.9

Done is better than perfect.

0:18.8

Done is better than perfect.

0:20.0

Now, I'm not saying, right, if you're talking about brain surgery, we than perfect. Done is better than perfect. Now I'm not saying, right, if you're

0:22.4

talking about brain surgery, we want perfect. But in the case of sending the email, sometimes just

0:29.3

getting it done is better than laboring for hours over the right word choice, trying to make it

0:36.4

perfect. Heck, put it in chat GPT and say, make this perfect.

0:39.3

My point to you is this, in an environment like this,

0:42.3

where we've got declining transactions, where we've got opportunities to expand,

0:45.3

it is only through action, consistent action,

0:48.3

that we actually take control of our destiny and dominate in this environment.

0:52.3

So we've got to get out of this mindset of like laboring over, doing the same thing over and over

0:57.5

until it's absolutely perfect.

0:59.3

Just make the phone call.

1:01.1

Send the text.

1:02.1

Do the work.

1:02.8

See what happens.

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