So how do you balance your family life and work life? Hi! my name is Yasser Khan and I'm the author of property agent secrets book which is the most powerful book in real estate industry guaranteed! So a lot of agents you know they're asking this kind of question now that we are in a circuit breaker and we because of the coronavirus we have semi lockdown they ask me how to balance work and family life not that more and more people are staying at home. So, you know, if you ask the experts, if you read books on this topic, if you can even do a search or Google online there are so many answers out there and you know some people say that you know you know that you you know is virtually non-existent there is no balance between work life or family life and there is no difference and people can switch between work one moment and next to you know family family life when they're working from home especially right so and and other I didn't say that you know seriously if you went asking this question then the problem is that you know you may not be enjoying your work life will not be enjoying your work so how do you balance between these two extremes how did you reconcile between these two ideas so what's my take on it here's the thing right okay that the single most consistent answer to this question has to do with habits and you know whether you're in the habit of you know anything or not whether you're in balance or not right so people who can balance their life who can balance all aspects of their life you will find that they are very very you know very very consistent right and that directly has to do with this concept how you do something is how you do every single thing so people who are very very organized especially for example you find that table very very neat and organized you'll find that those are the people who are better in terms of balancing certain I expect like for example especially when they're working from home they know how to prioritize work and they know how to you know spend time dedicate time for the family right so it all comes down to habit and you know the thing by habit is that you know they are good habits they have bad habits and you know the bad habit is that you know you've got no balance at all you know you you know work live with family live and you get confused so for example you know sometimes you know even I used to fall into this trap for example you know I like for the unfortunate that some my favorite show on TV and suddenly you know all those years ago I would find myself being pulling in by the show and I will forget all about work for example right so that is of trap that you and I used to fall so how do I overcome that and the thing is that you know you go to dedicate there are two ways to it you know one space and there is time so the space expect the speed sensor is pretty straightforward that you go have a dedicated space that you get a workstation that you set up for you know by that you get a laptop just for work at home for example and then we have a setup and you know set up a connection with internet and set up a cloud service and all that you know how many people do is you know every Pete every person has their own preferred way of doing it so you know a workspace is this dedicated space that you use just so would and you know some people they even build a home office and do know that ideal but my every person is able to do that right so for those of you you know who have dedicated space then I think that solves the problem pretty much 90% or 80% of the problem of mingling right you just you know check yourself up in the etiquette is paid and then you know you continue doing what you're supposed to do and you find that you get more things than that way right and then you know I for those of you who don't have a dedicated space what do you what did you do right then it comes into you know the area of timing right you got to find you go to you know up there for a few days you know how can you you know observe your your daily routine right observe not only the thing about routine is that you not only have to look at your own routine you should go to look at your family routine you're supposed to look at the routine of the children right so early on I said that you know the mistake I made was I was frequently mixing work with family and other confused like what happens when I have a favorite show on TV then I was stay and watch it and you know that's the test my floor right all those years ago and even sometimes nowadays as well so how did they overcome that is that you know the things that I realized that I wasn't paying attention to what the routine of my family of my children I knew my own routine right but the thing is that you know when I jot it down you know what time this peak this vicar what time they asleep what a match my wife's you know need to do certain things like you know meal times for example and rest time and play time especially especially right so you know I wasn't taking note and all this change when I started documenting and when a document right you know I have I kept careful notes of what time I wake up and even you know I mean you know this you don't even have to take notes you just have to have an application on your smartphone right just download an app on your smartphone and it will tell you what as your waking time how long did you sleep what are you doing right even especially in your home right you would do a big turn or when you log on to you know Facebook for example how much time you spend on that and all that and you tell you you know so I use a lot of tools like that and that that gave me a better idea of my own schedule of my own you know routine while I was doing and where I could improve so I saw all the holes there I saw all the you know the bad things which I were doing and I knew what I had to get done right but you know you know because I hadn't factored in my you know my family you know their routine maturity and my spouse's routine right that I you know that is why the successful than ideal but when I swapped it in when I found out you know about my man my children about my wife and all that know when they wake up do the same thing the devil to me and you know I could see a pattern when I saw a pattern right then I was I realized that the specific timing will work very very well and because the thing about timing is also early on physical space right I also mentioned right now I'm talking about timing right and when I understood about timing I realized one more thing which I didn't mention energy so space time energy right so there is a specific time in the day when your energy is the highest is the maximum and in that maximum time you get the most things done you know have you heard about the 80/20 principle it appears 80/20 principle says that you know 80% of our time our productivity comes from only 20% of activities so you go to find those 20% of activity when you do that 80% of your work is done 80% to your productivity is completed so you know when I realize when I analyze right all the timing where I'm spending on I realized that you know 20% off you know all okay all the things that I was doing right right okay in the entire day entire day 80% of the productivity that the productive stuff that I got done what only done in 20% of the time and that 20% of the time was done when my energy match my motivation right man have you got the highest and I could talk the most most things done and when you are in your energy revenue energy is the highest right you are in the zone and you can get things done you got you got very few you know blockers because very few you know our chances of not getting things done because death depended your energy is higher and seriously seriously no Delta 80/20 principle in action and when I found out it was mine boy you know mind blowing thing for me I realized what was the thing that was holding me back and you know when I discovered that right I kept doing it again and again and again and every single day I did that and the productivity went up all the way and by productivity I mean you know you know improving professionally you know taking my business where I wanted to go working on my business so that I get less things done yet I get more income I get more you know customers coming in and I am able to serve them better so that is what I mean by productivity so you know the secret to balancing work and family is actually in these three things the first is space you know the second is time and the third is energy and that is how you do it!