Welcome

March 29, 2012 By

WelcomeGreetings, and welcome to Bradley K. Warren and Associates, Inc.  My name is Brad Warren, and I am a real estate business coach and seminar leader.  Since 1978, I have taught seminars in 18 foreign countries, in 27 of the United States, in front of over 40,000 people, and have done one-on-one coaching with hundreds of professionals and business owners.  Since 2003, I have been focusing my practice on the real estate profession, and have launched this website with the goal of bringing the best tips, tools, and techniques to real estate agents to help them grow their businesses with less effort and struggle and more results.

To start you off, I am offering a FREE 20-page e-book on Time Management (it’s actually a chapter I wrote from a larger book entitled Blueprint for Success: 12 Powerhouse Professionals, which includes chapters from Ken Blanchard and Stephen Covey as well).  My chapter focuses on what I believe is the #1 impediment to running a successful real estate practice, and that is the effective and efficient use of time.  I talk about goals, how to keep a time log to track where your precious time really goes, how to prioritize, how to effectively use To-Do lists and planners, how to plan a week at a time, dealing with drop-in visitors and telephone interruptions, the 7 steps to masterful delegation, 10 tips for overcoming procrastination, ideas for running more effective meetings, and a few suggestions for improving your communication skills.  I believe that this chapter alone, if you read it thoroughly and implement the ideas I’ve presented, will make a huge difference in how you schedule and plan your weekly activities, and will result in more productive use of your time and greater accomplishment of your goals.  A wonderful side benefit is a dramatic decrease in stress!  So go now to the top right hand side of this page, type in your name and email address, click the ‘Subscribe’ button, and the chapter will be on its way to you immediately

Some thoughts on “time management”

May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment

From Howard’s Gift, by Eric Sinoway: “Effectively pursuing our life’s work – having a satisfying life and a rewarding career – depends on successfully managing the allotment of time we’ve been given.  It is, of course, a finite allotment; we’re all going to die someday; and each day until then will last just twenty-four hours.  So we face some big questions about how best to manage those hours and days:

1.  How should we apportion our time among the various facets of who we are and who we want to be?

2.  Are we using our time in a way that leaves us feeling generally satisfied or dissatisfied?

3.  Are we managing time (I would say activities instead of time) in a manner that enables us to fulfill our most important needs and wants?

4.  Are we unwittingly squandering this precious resource by being reactive and allowing events to manage us?”

One incredibly powerful way to address all of these questions is to plan your week in advance, something I’ve been doing every Sunday since October of 1982.  It’s the one thing that’s made the biggest difference in my productivity and effectiveness.  I’ve written a short, 1 page article entitled The 5 Step Planning Process for Goal Accomplishment.  Email me if you’d like me to send it to you.  And remember that I don’t believe in time management, since you can’t really manage time.  But what you can manage are the promises and commitments you make to yourself and others to do something within a time frame.  Now THAT’S manageable!

What would you have done?

March 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment

I attended a seminar last night on Power Partners and networking, and after 90 minutes of the leader encouraging us to listen more, ask more questions, and build relationships, I was talking with an acquaintance I hadn’t seen in a while.  Right in the middle of our conversation, another attendee at the seminar walked right [...]

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An inflection point

March 21, 2013 By 1 Comment

An inflection point, or what I would call a “coming to a fork in the road point” is a chance to change the way you think about something, an opportunity to take new and heretofore unrealized actions.  As Howard Stevenson says it in Howard’s Gift: “Very few people see inflection points as the opportunities they [...]

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In here, out there, out here

March 16, 2013 By 3 Comments

A distinction was made in my first class on The 3 Laws of Performance that dealt with listening and being in relationship with others.  “In here” refers to me being in my head, in my own thoughts, so I’m not even really listening to you at all, I’m busy thinking about what I’m going to [...]

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“It’s not what you eat, but what you digest, that makes you strong…”

March 6, 2013 By 1 Comment

“It’s not what you eat, but what you digest, that makes you strong.  It’s not what you earn, but what you save, that builds your wealth.  And it’s not what you learn, but what you remember, that makes you wise.”  That’s from Kevin Trudeau, the leader of the Global Information Network.  And to go one [...]

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The source of all frustration

February 27, 2013 By 1 Comment

A client was telling me about an experience they had that left them very frustrated and upset.  I am just finishing up The Three Laws of Performance by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan (an excellent read, by the way) and since Steve was an old est trainer from back in the day, it reminded me [...]

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