To afford your $0 lifestyle with 25% set aside in savings, you need a pretax income of $0. After 18.7% in taxes ($0) and your annual $2,000in marketing, you're at $2,000. Add your broker's $8,000 cap and $800 per transaction in costs, and you arrive at your GCI target of $10,000.

At your market's average — an $830,000 home and 2.3% commission — each closed deal brings you $19,090 in GCI. That means you need 1 transactions this year.

One closings trace back to about 2 contracts, 4 clients, 10 meetings, 15 appointments, 75 conversations, and 375 connection attempts across the year.

Spread across 44 working weeks of 5 days each, your daily number is 2 calls per day.