32. The Power of Five-Minute Time Blocks: Transforming Your Social Media Strategy

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Ever wondered how the little habits we adopt could transform our social media game? In today's episode of The Work From Anywhere Agent, I'm diving into a strategy that's been a game-changer for me. It's all about embracing the power of micro time blocks to boost engagement on social platforms without feeling overwhelmed.

Through my journey, I've found that breaking down tasks into 5, 10, or 15 minutes has not only kept me motivated but also increased my productivity. By limiting myself to short, meaningful interactions on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, I'm nurturing relationships and seeing real results in engagement and reach.

Curious to know more? This method doesn't just apply to social media—it's a holistic approach to managing a busy day as an agent. Join me as I share how structuring my day with these mini time blocks is making a difference, and how you might find new ways to stay consistent and focused too.

Let's keep this conversation going! Feel free to join our Business Systems for Realtors Facebook group, where we're building a community of learning and support. I can't wait to see how these small changes could make a big impact for you.

Episode Transcript

Alexa (00:00):
Today I want to share with you something that I've
incorporated into my businessthat has really just I don't
want to say changed my life, butit's made a really big
difference in how I use socialmedia and how I nurture my
relationships and, more thananything, is just kind of
continuing to support this newphilosophy that I'm adopting
into my life, which is thelittle things go a really long

(00:22):
way when done consistently overtime.
So before I even get into whatthe strategy is, I just have to
share something really quick.
I don't know about you guys,but for me, time blocking
typically doesn't work right,and it's because, like, my
attention span doesn't last anhour, let alone two or three
hours, right.
So if I try to plan somethingfor two or three hours on a time

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block, I already know that,going into it, I'm already
dreading the fact I'm gonna haveto spend that much time, and so
what I've started doing is,instead of having these really
long time blocks, kind of havingsort of buffers to say like,
okay, for the mornings, this iskind of the activities I'm going
to do in the afternoon, theseare the activities I'm going to
do.
And then I use this app calledSunsama S-U-N-S-A-M-A and it

(01:09):
gives you the ability to planyour day.
You assign how long you thinktasks are going to take you and
then you can add them to yourcalendar directly into Sunsama
and it pulls in your email.
I also use Notion for our teammeetings.
If you use, like Todoist orClickUp or any of those
platforms, it also pulls thosetasks in as well, and so it kind
of puts everything into oneeasy to consume format where

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everything you need to get donefor the day is pulled in.
You assign time to each ofthose, so let's say it's a five
minute or 10 minute or 15 minutetask, and then you add those to
your calendar.
And what I found is doing itthis way the adrenaline and the
dopamine hits that I get fromcompleting five or 10 or 15
minute tasks, even thoughthey're important, right, even

(01:52):
though they're super small,super short, super quick it
gives me that like wow, like I'mgetting something done, type of
vibe and it keeps me motivatedthroughout the day where I'm
like trying to beat the clock,right.
So if I gave myself 10 minutes,I want to complete it in eight
minutes, right?
And so it sort of gamifies allthe stuff that I need to get
done during the day, and that'smade a really big difference.
But, more than anything, the onestrategy that I've really been

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adopting is around social media.
So I don't know if I'm the onlyone, but I definitely get
sucked into the Instagram doomscroll right, where you get
stuck in watching reels and thenyou're like, how did I end up
watching a dog walk across aroof?
Like, I don't even know how youget there, right, like, but
somehow it hooks you.
And so what I've started doingis, instead of focusing on using

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content like wherever, orscrolling through Instagram
whenever throughout the day, Iset a 15 minute time block, and
so I give myself five minutes onLinkedIn, five minutes on
Facebook, five minutes onInstagram, and I literally just
scroll through the feed and Icomment on as many people's
content as I can, meaningfully,obviously, but doing it that way

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, I found that I'm generating alot more conversations from
social media.
The algorithm is showing mycontent a lot more because I'm
engaging with people and they'reengaging with my content more
as well, and so that littleroutine, that little activity,
has made a really big difference, right, and so it's only 15
minutes, and doing it fiveminutes, five minutes, five

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minutes makes it so that I getall three platforms.
Now let's say, for example,you're like I don't care about
LinkedIn, I don't care aboutFacebook, I just care about
Instagram.
Maybe you only have a fiveminute time block or a 10 minute
time block, but I'm findingmore than anything of any
routine, any activity that I'vestarted adopting is, instead of
time blocking for an hour or twohours or three hours, don't be

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afraid to time block for five or10 or 15 minutes, and doing it
that way, I promise you, makessuch a difference in your
mindset and your ability toactually execute, to stay
consistent, to feel like you'remaking progress, to not burn out
as you're going through yourday and then still respecting
kind of a structure around yourcalendar.
So, for example, in the morningsthe first thing I do is I

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always make my phone calls right.
So I do have a time blockblocked out for that.
But it's not always just likereaching out to new leads.
It'll be like following up fromnetworking connections and
things like that.
So all during that time block,I'll say I need to write a
follow up email to XYZ personand that will be a five minute
time block.
Within that one hour, then Ihave a time block that I loosely

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follow for managing my team,and so that's usually from like
10 to 12.
And so for that time block,whatever tasks my team needs is
when.
I'll actually put that in there.
And then I try to only takemeetings from well, at 1230 and
at 230, so that I can finish myday by a reasonable time.
And doing it that way I'mfinding just keeping my sort of
structure about my day, butreally leaning into those micro

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time blocks.
I'm telling you, five minutes,10 minutes, 15 minutes goes a
really long way and I cannotrecommend it enough.
So that's the episode for today.
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Business Systems for RealtorsFacebook group, and I will see
you in the next episode.