The Performance Six
Mar 09, 2025
Real estate success isn’t about hustle, luck, or grinding out more transactions. It’s about operating at a higher standard—one that ensures long-term, sustainable, and repeatable success. That’s where The Performance Six comes in.
Formerly known as the Six Building Blocks, this evolved framework represents the gold standard for real estate mastery—a system designed to help agents thrive through standards, strategy, and execution.
Whether you’re familiar with these principles or encountering them for the first time, one thing is certain: The agents who embody The Performance Six don’t chase business—they cultivate it. They aren’t reactive; they operate with precision. They aren’t trapped in the cycle of survival; they’re wired for sustainable success.
In an industry full of distractions, gimmicks, and fleeting trends, it’s easy to get pulled off course by the latest bright shiny object. We don’t coach bright shiny objects. We coach a relentless pursuit of the fundamentals. The last thing any agent needs is a new idea. What they need is mastery—a deep, unwavering commitment to getting the basics right, every single time.
That’s what The Performance Six delivers. These six principles act as your guardrails—keeping you focused, eliminating distractions, and ensuring that every action you take compounds toward real, sustainable success. This isn’t about doing more. It’s about mastery, not more.
Let’s break down The Performance Six—and why mastering these six principles is non-negotiable if you want to build a thriving repeat-and-referral business.
1️⃣ Practice Mindfulness | Rewire for Success
Success starts in the mind. Most agents operate from a scarcity mindset—reacting to market conditions, client whims, and external circumstances. But top-performing agents don’t play defense. They understand that the key to long-term success is rewiring the brain for mastery, not survival.
🟢 The Shift:
- From reactive to intentional
- From scarcity and fear to confidence and clarity
- From attachment to outcomes to commitment to process
Mindfulness is the foundation because how you think dictates how you operate. Every choice, conversation, and strategy stems from this core.
2️⃣ Optimize Time | Master Your Most Valuable Asset
Time is the only non-renewable resource in your business. Most agents waste it on low-impact activities, reacting to distractions, and mistaking movement for progress. High performers operate differently—they focus on what matters most.
🟢 The Shift:
- From busywork to high-value activities
- From letting the day control you to owning your time
- From overcommitment and exhaustion to efficiency and effectiveness
- Time optimization ensures that every minute spent in your business creates maximum impact—without burning you out.
3️⃣ Cultivate Relationships | Build a Business That Compounds Over Time
At its core, real estate is a relationship business. The best agents don’t focus on lead generation—they focus on relationship generation. They create raving fans who bring them repeat business and endless referrals.
🟢 The Shift:
- From transactional to relationship-driven
- From chasing the next deal to building a business that feeds itself
- From one-time clients to lifetime advocates
Cultivating relationships isn’t just good business—it’s the only way to build a sustainable business.
4️⃣ Implement Process & Systems | Define Success, Then Rise to It
Your business is a reflection of your standards. Raise your standards, and your results will follow. The best agents don’t lower their standards to meet clients where they are. Instead, they bring clients up to their level of professionalism, expertise, and process.
🟢 The Shift:
- From doing whatever it takes to close to operating with unwavering standards
- From inconsistent service to structured, repeatable excellence
- From accommodating everyone to working with ideal clients
- Process and systems drive success. They dictate who you work with, how you operate, and how your business scales.
5️⃣ Master Communication | Influence Through Tactical Empathy
Real estate is a high-stakes game of trust and influence. The best agents don’t use scripts—they use tactical empathy. They make people feel understood, defuse objections before they surface, and lead conversations with clarity, confidence, and authority.
🟢 The Shift:
- From convincing people to making them feel understood
- From handling objections to defusing negative emotions as they arise
- From transactional conversations to building lifelong trust
Great communication is the difference between chasing clients and being their trusted advisor for life.
6️⃣ Act Strategically | Align Actions With Success
Effort alone isn’t enough—you need the right effort applied strategically. Acting strategically means aligning your daily actions with long-term success, eliminating busywork, and focusing on what moves the needle.
🟢 The Shift:
- From random effort to intentional execution
- From chasing low-probability deals to high-probability opportunities
- From reacting to business to controlling the flow of business
Agents who act strategically aren’t running on a treadmill—they’re climbing a mountain, with every step taking them higher.
🎯 Mastering The Performance Six starts with Implementing Standards—and that’s exactly what we’re tackling in this 4-week intensive starting this Thursday, March 13th at 1 PM PST / 4 PM EST. This program is designed to help you implement and uphold the standards that make success inevitable. No more guesswork. No more scrambling. Just a structured, sustainable way to run your business at a high level—without the stress and unpredictability. You don't want to miss this class.
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