Long weekends are one of those hit and miss times for the Toronto Real Estate market as it can be really busy or as dead as ever.  It's always a battle between staying behind in the hopes that things will be busy or just taking some much needed time off.  The problem sometimes is that even if you try to take some time off, you can't take your mind off unless you totally get out of the city or country for that matter.  When the phone rings, even if you had plans, that can change pretty quickly.

Anyway, things were moderate this weekend, but I must admit that I did relax a little more than usual and now on Sunday night, I'm beginning to feel guilty for not doing more.  The problem with this business is that unfortunately, the work can never be "done" regardless of if you have appointments to take clients out or not... if you have no clients, then you have to develop more and if you have clients then you still have to develop more.  The website needs updating, the systems need tweaking, the paperwork needs to get done, the training book that's collecting dust needs to get read, the follow up that's been piling up has to get taken care of and the prospecting calls / emails requires immediate attention.  Ugggh - the work is just never finished and after awhile, you really start feeling like a rat in a wheel... and you just can't stop running in fear that you'll fall off.  When is enough, enough though?

Well the answer to that is that there is no real definition to "enough" as enough means different things to different people.  If you want to make it big, your "enough" threshold better be big too as there's no other way to do it.   Who really knows if those extra blogs or the new section on the website or little feature you added to your marketing mix will actually make a difference?   The only thing you have to know is that if you don't keep moving forward, the real estate market will move forward without you.   That's the way the cookie crumbles.

So as they say, work hard and work harder!  Yeah, you read right...