In today's Agent Insights post, Margaret Woda - a REALTOR® / Associate Brokers in Crofton, Maryland- offers agent advice about how HGTV has made your job, as a real estate professional, easier.

Here's Margaret:

Real estate never sleeps – you’re on 24/7. If you’re competitive in your market and responsive to your clients’ needs, you may feel like you must constantly be available and working. Unfortunately, this ambitious attitude does not always fare well.

Have you ever experienced that anxious feeling of being overwhelmed? If you keep feeling it day in and day out, all this stress can cause burnout where you’re physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. Burnout is more than just feeling tired. It brings down your energy, decreases your productivity and can cause you to feel hopeless, irritable and even resentful.

How do you go about preventing burnout in real estate?

Follow our 5 strategies to stay on top of your game and avoid burnout:

Building a dynamic real estate team provides a lot of benefits. Namely, the fact that you collectively have a much larger network, more robust expertise and you have the ability to service more clients at a time. If you've been considering the option of inviting another agent (or agents) in to help you build your brand but aren't sure where to start, you're in the right spot.

This post was inspired by an “unstoppable agent” rule shared by Tom Ferry for real estate pros at his Success Summit last week - Rule #3: be unstoppable with your morning routine.

To grow your real estate business quickly, you need to qualify your leads as efficiently as possible so you can prioritize your time to high quality leads. Doing so will allow you to get the best ROI while allowing you to create optimized content so you’re able to stay engaged with the rest of your leads via consistent e-mail follow up.