Any body interested in having an accountability partner?! Someone to report back to and motivate you to prospect hard!!!?

I tried this kind of thing with others for different things in life...study groups, weight loss, prayer, and work. Each time I ended up being annoyed or was annoying. LOL

My "accountability partner" is my bank account. When I see it start to go down...I need to work on getting it filled up again. ROFL

You are always there for YOURSELF so you have to find motivation within.

Whenever I feel lazy or tired I think of what will happen if I don't do it and the people counting on me.

That works fine.

My accountability partner is my wife. If I'm not out prospecting, she tells me to get a 9-to-5 desk job.

That usually does it for me. :P

That's brilliant and it is the truth, there is no hiding from the
hard facts.

Look in the mirror and ask that person what the Competition would be doing?

Then, do it BEFORE the Competition does.

I think this post has gotten away from its intent.

Im pretty sure usmcrealtor is looking for someone like minded to work with to take each others production to the next level.

I would be interested. Please feel free to PM directly and we'll set up a time to talk.

If there are others in the forum that are also interested please feel free to PM me as well. Perhaps we can set up a weekly mastermind group.

Good for you usmcrealtor for sticking your neck out there and being proactive!!

Best to stick his neck out there and be proactive in giving his clients the best possible service. THAT'S the best and most honorable way to get new business.

Accountability partners, coaches, and all this new age nonsense is just an excuse for people to be lazy and useless, but huddled together for warmth and comfort.

These relationships end up being organized beotch and moan pizza sessions.

Seminars, Craig Proctor, Tony Robbins and clones, DVD's, magic formulas, accountability partners, motivational gurus: All of it is nonsense. Just do it. And do it right. All the business will come to you, just like it does with ultra-high quality practitioners in all other fields.

For some reason, real estate agents, and probably all sales professionals, seem to be the biggest suckers in existence and especially ripe for hustlers and huxters. No other field produces more nonsensical help systems than this one.

It's funny, but then again it's sad...

I have to agree that the bank account is a perfect motivator.

It would seem that some training can help those with less than automatic sales skills. But the funny thing for me when I watch the training videos my broker shows us, they are always perfect examples of sales people that annoy me... ;)

Basically in this business you have to learn to depend on YOURSELF because YOU are the ONLY person you have absolute control over.

Honestly, my opinion is - if you lack the gumption to stay motivated on your own, you should reconsider your decision for this business. While it's good to get support, training and some coaching, ultimately your success is going to depend on YOU.

I gave a little more thought about the role this person is to fill, and have concluded that the perfect person to fill it would/should be your Principal Broker . . . . after all, he/she already has a vested interest in your success or failure.

I am laughing at this Caravan. It reminds me of the Seinfeld Episode where everyone was either a mentor or a protege, but no one did anything.

We had another seminar in the office today. I never go. Last week they fought over who was bringing the pizza. How's that for accountability?

For me my accountability partners are my kids and wife who expect me to be the bread winner. And as Perky and others wrote, the balance in my bank account tells me all I need to know about what I need to do the next day to generate income.

You know, for some people, the idea of an accountability partner works. That is the basic idea of coaching! I don't do it but I certainly don't think there is anything wrong with it. It might help someone with prospecting avoidance to have someone to talk it out with.

I would look for someone in my own office IF I wanted to do it. That way I could see if they were lying to me about their production. (one reason why I think anonymously posting one's statistics in a forum like this is kind of uninteresting).

I took Floyd Wickman's cold calling program back in the day. It lasted 10 weeks and you were kicked out w/no refund if you didn't list a property by week 5. Accountability works sometimes!

I couldn't agree more with Perky REALTOR! You have to "want to" help people naturally, and to be inherently driven to do the job better than any other real estate agent. If you have to "create" your motivation, then your "sales techniques" will fall short of being genuine, and your yield will not be maximized.

You can want to help people naturally, and be the bestest agent on the planet, but there are a lot of agents out there like that failing miserably. The reason is that most of them feel that prospecting for business is sleazy and/or they are afraid of rejection. It is hard to go out and prospect for business.

It's easy to say "just do a great job for you clients and the world will beat a path to your door." That only works when you have clients, after you have been in business for a few years. But how about when you are just starting out?

Imagine that you are in a new city, know no one, and have to start making a living that will pay your bills every month. How far does motivation and a great work ethic get you? Nowhere! Without the basics of finding prospective clients, whether it be FSBOs, expireds, total cold calls, or doorknocking and asking for business, you've got nothing. You can be a great realtor once you find a client and still suck at prospecting. That is where accountability could help. To push past the call avoidance and do the unpleasant part that gets you to the good stuff.