Good Question, Glad You Asked #2: How Do You Make This Job Less Stressful?

Recently Rob Shore, CEO and Founder of Wholesaler Masterminds®, was asked to field questions from a group of aspiring wholesalers who are enrolled in their firm’s training and development program.

The questions they asked are, likely, on the minds of many current and/or future wholesalers.

For that reason, we thought we’d share the questions, and his answers, with you.

Question

Can you share some tips on balancing work and travel with life, family and friends, and how to make this job less stressful?

Audio Answer:

Transcribed Answer:

I’ll give you one tidbit that I think is the most important tidbit that would help most folks. And I continue to work on, and I’m going on 30 years of marriage.

When you are home, be home.

Let me say that again, and make sure I am clear in this.

When you are home, be home.

So where does this come from? Well, this comes from the fact that I already professed the fact that I was a bit of a workaholic.

I was working constantly, and even when I came home, even though I had a local territory, even though I would be the crazy person that would drive from San Luis Obispo to Orange County, take a four and a half hour, five hour drive if traffic was crappy just to get home, to be home at 11:00 at night to sleep in the bed with my wife… when I got up the next morning at 7:00, where’d I go?

I went to my office to work, and how long did I stay there?

Oh, a good 11 to 12 hours.

And what did I do when I got done? Well, not much because I was burned out.

So, that was not affording a really solid home.

At one point the conversation with my wife was, “Well, why are you disappointed in me for what we’re doing in our relationship when I make all this effort to get home?”

And she said to me, “If you’re going to come home, be home, be present.”

Be present in where you are at in your engagement outside of work, because if you allow yourself to be overcome with work all the time, then you can’t possibly be present and be home.