Have you noticed lately that weekday traffic is practically nonexistent and cars move at a snail’s pace on the weekend? Vacation season is here and commuters-turned-beachcombers are headed to the sandy shores or mountain-lake resorts for some R&R.
For many of us, planning for our summer vacation began in January. We searched Google and Yahoo for the perfect place to unwind some six months down the road. We had checklists for everything - what to do, where to eat, and what to bring. We even had a contingency plan just in case Mother Nature didn’t cooperate.
I’m curious. Why is it so easy to plan vacations yet so hard to plan our business? Somehow business planning just doesn’t seem to fit anywhere into the entrepreneurial real estate agent’s DNA. Oh yes, we set financial goals and even convert the dollar goal into units. Then we go about our merry listing and selling way, hardly thinking through the process of how we’ll get from point A to point B. Sometimes we hit the number and sometimes not. But would we hit the number more often if we planned? I believe we would.
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