What’s Your Day Look Like?
I have been in my new job and career for 6 months now. Can you believe it?! I have gone from not having a clue to what I am doing to closing 10 loans so far! To say I have come a long way is an understatement. I started out in an industry I didn’t know much about that is full of rules and regulations to now being able to serve customers’ needs in the way they need to be served. I am not there yet by any means but at least I know where to go to get the answers I need, and I understand our internal systems enough to get things done.
So now things have shifted away from spending all my time trying to figure out what I am doing to being more strategic and intentional in building my business. It is very easy for a loan officer to sit behind a computer all day and “work on loan files” and never reach out to anyone to try and help meet people’s loan needs or generate any kind of business.
So, I’ve made a plan.
I still work on loan files every day, but I am reaching out to folks in the real estate and financial industries to see how I can best serve them with the new skills that I have. I also am making sure I let my circle of friends and family know what I do now so that if they are in the market to purchase a new home or refinance their current one I can help them out as well (even though I am only licensed in TN and KY I can still help anyone out as I have internal colleagues that I partner with that are licensed in all 50 states).
What is your plan?
A Real Christian Businessman realizes that it is very easy to put our head down and just “do the work” every day that we are supposed to do. But being intentional and making a plan as to “how” we are going to do our work honors God and sets a great example for others. I still falter in the plans that I make every day/week, but at least I have made a plan and am putting forth the effort to keep moving forward.
Don’t wallow through each day working on whatever comes up before you. Think a little about how we can best do our job and it will return many dividends.
Let’s set an example for others as to how we should go about “doing what we do.”
Make a plan.
“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?” Luke 14:28 (NIV)