Motivation & Timing Framework for Getting Your House Ready to Sell or Rent

In the past, I've tackled time management, exterior house preparations, interior house preparations, when to sell, & finances for repairs. My seller guide covers a much broader range of topics. In this article, I'll focus on methods for boosting your ability to plan, acquire the motivation to do what you want to do, and holistic well-being for those who want to get their house ready for sale but who are struggling to get it done.

Establish or maintain a high sense of mental and emotional equilibrium

Establishing & maintaining a high sense of mental and emotional equilibrium is one of the top means of accomplishing whatever goals you have in life. In my article titled "Finding Peace Biblically & Holistically", I go over a holistic & biblical approach to tackling sources of peace disruptors. The holistic elements I go over in more detail in the article include:

• Eat/Drink Healthy

• Develop Great Sleep Patterns

• Exercise Regularly (Including But Not Limited to Physical Therapy, if Applicable)

• Tackle Underlying Problems

• Seek Help from Trusted Sources & Avoid Suicide

Establish written goals

Using a calendar daily, even on days when you don't work, is highly beneficial to a good life and to reduced anxiety. Per "7 ‘rich habits’ of highly successful people, from a man who studied them for 25 years" as published by CNBC, “Those who maintain both a calendar and to-do list are 289 percent more likely to be millionaires, as compared with those who have no real set schedule".

Time Management from a Secular Perspective

Time Management from a Biblical Perspective

Accountability Statistics

Successful habits help people to feel good about themselves. Establishing those habits can be tough, but accountability can help. Consider these statistics per an article by Markviss titled The Science of Goal-Setting: Research, Data, and Evidence that included various studies:

The Dominican University Study on Written Goals (2015)

Group	Conditions	Achievement Rate
Group 1	Thought about goals (not written)	43%
Group 2	Wrote down goals	61%
Group 3	Wrote goals + action commitments	64%
Group 4	Wrote goals + action commitments + shared with friend	69%
Group 5	Wrote goals + action commitments + shared + weekly progress reports	76%

Get accountable with others about your goals, including checkpoints

Resources include:

• Family

• Counselors

• Habitshare app (which is a great tool for daily or weekly habits with family, an accountability partner, or even your real estate agent or property manager)

• Focusmate (co-working with those you don't know, typically where you state your goals, do them, then state how you did via chat in session and at the end verbally - 25-minute, 50-minute, or 1 hr 15 minutes sessions, with up to 3 free per week on the free plan or unlimited on the paid plan)

If you're selling with Adam and you'd like him to do a Zoom session with you to help brainstorm methods specific to your scenario, feel free to let him know. If you'd like to email, text, or update a spreadsheet that Adam has access to based on the dates and times of what you're able to accomplish, feel free to let him know. I'm here to help.