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Take Friday Off
What would you do if you could do whatever you want on Friday? If you didn’t have to go into work, if you could always have Friday off? What would you do? What would you do with that time? Would you pick up your kids from school and go 4-wheeling? I don’t know, something I wanted to do. What would you do? Would you volunteer more, would you just take more time off to do more stuff around the house?
You know the reason why I ask that is because I hear people talk about real estate, and we focus on the financial benefits into family and what it means. What does it mean to you physically, spiritually, family time, all of that. I mean, it is so important.
And I don’t think that it’s always stressed upon how important real estate can be to your life. By being able to work flexible hours. By being able to spend more time with family. By being able to do more volunteering, donate more, whatever it is. What would be your “why” if you could just get an extra thousand dollars a month? What would you do with that?
I Won the Weekly Grand
I asked myself that because I wanted to win the weekly grand, and you probably heard me say this I did win the weekly grand, but I didn’t win it on a scratch off. I made it happen for myself. I went out and bought real estate.
All it took was a few single family houses. What would an extra thousand a month do for your family? Would it pay off debt? When was the last time you looked at your interest rates on your credit cards? Boy, honey, I am working on my budget now. Would it pay off debt? Would you live in a nicer house? Better neighborhood? Better schools for your kids? Would you be able to help a struggling family member out? I am just asking all these—I am going to throw it out there.
What would an extra thousand a month do for you? What would you do with an extra thousand. I am not throwing it out there lightly. I just really want you to ponder. Close your eyes, think for a moment—if you are driving, don’t close your eyes—but just think about it. Allow yourself to dream, to dream that thought of an extra 5,000. Why stop there—go for an extra ten. Put those increments in your life and imagine how your life will change.
Gain Control
Yes, real estate allows you to control a lot more than you think. By having those passive streams of income coming in from real estate from your business, all of a sudden the control and the ball’s in your court and it’s not in your employer’s court. You make the rules.
What’s Del always say? He who has the gold is king or makes the rules, you know. That is so true. But when you own more real estate, does not necessarily mean that you are not going to work anymore, that you have to quit, but you will find a job that makes you happy. I did. Everybody up here does. We work here because we like it. We enjoy what real estate is. We enjoy changing your life with real estate.
Growth of New Members
It’s so much fun to watch our members come in and to watch people learn and grow in real estate. From writing that first offer, from hearing there are no deals out there and there’s no 50 cents, 60 cents on the dollar properties, it can’t be done or whatever. I have written so many offers. I can’t get an offer accepted.
And you ask them how many offers they have written and they say three. To oh, my gosh I just got three offers accepted. I am getting the pick of the litter. I get to choose which one I take, to I am on my tenth house, my wife’s quitting her job. It’s amazing how it just goes and it goes in a domino effect.
Are You A Bowling Pin?
And what that does for you as a family, what it does for the bowling pin theory. The bowling pin. Are you a bowling pin just sitting there waiting for the ball to come and knock you down like it did every stock market crash and you’re just going to get placed back up? And who are the bowling pins that are sitting around you, your family, and you’re letting them get knocked over again because you are not changing paths?
What would you do with an extra thousand dollars, $10,000 and up? So if you are a bowling pin and you keep getting knocked down, what are you going to do to move yourself out of that lane to change your family’s life? You know it’s amazing when you take just small steps how they have that ripple effect. A positive effect on the family around you.
Fitness and Finances
We are doing the Biggest Loser up here at work. Karen Davis, skinny mini that she is decided she wanted to stay fit and started this Biggest Loser club—which is funny if you’ve seen Karen. Karen’s video on Lifestyles Unlimited you know she’s very fit as it is, but she’s focused on fitness. She starts the Biggest Loser and because she started this, many people in the office are now in the program and are working to better their fitness, to lose weight, to become healthier, and it’s a domino effect.
It’s the same thing with real estate. When people see you working out and eating right, what do they do? They want to work out and eat right. Your family members get affected by that, by going to the gym, by doing all of that.
Same thing with finances. When your family sees you watching where you’re spending your money and—in a positive way and what you’re doing with the fruits of your money, they can appreciate it. I want to know what would you do with an extra thousand dollars. I am not playing. Five thousand, allow yourself to dream.
