Category: lessons learned
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Book Summary: Atomic Habits, the greatest book ever written on “habits”.
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones is a book written by author James Clear. The book provides a comprehensive guide on how to build good habits and break bad ones. Clear argues that small changes can lead to big results, and that the key to success […]
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Pennies into Fortunes
Years ago, I listened to one of the most prolific speakers of a generation. He was already dead by the time I learned of him, but I bought everything he had ever written and everything I could buy that he had recorded for listening. He changed my life and therefore changed the trajectory of life. […]
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This one thing holds most people back from owning wealth building income property
One of the biggest concerns I hear from would be real estate investors is “I don’t want to get that call in the middle of the night that something big is broken and needs to be fixed asap!” Just for the record, I have never received that middle of the night call. Matter of fact […]
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The three people in your life you can’t spend too much time with
Here is the reality of life, most of us are getting our advice from the people closest to us. When we are born we are born in to a family good or bad, and the things we see and are exposed to influence how we make decisions and how we interpret things. I don’t want […]
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4 things you must STOP to create wealth with Income Producing Real Estate
This morning I was thinking about all the reasons and excuses I thought about before I became a real estate investor. I was like most people when I started too. I had very little money to invest, but I knew it was the right thing to do and would pay off in the long run. […]
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Lessons learned from being a landlord…Going cheap cost you more
One of the goofiest lessons I learned and I say goofiest, because it never crossed my mind in a million years that this would happen. I had this tenant named Donna. Donna was a tenant for about three years. She was on section eight (government assistance). She had already gotten another apartment approved for her […]
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Incentives and Consequences-audio blog
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5 reasons I have to get back to writing again
Wow! It has been almost two years since I posted a blog on this site. I did write a lot on another site I own for about a year, but I haven’t technically done any writing for the last nine months or so. So what compelled me to pick it back up? I felt like […]
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How many Thursdays do you have left in your life?
I don’t know about you, but no matter what I do, it seems like I always use more time to do something than I should use. This is not a new phenomenon. Actually if you look it up there is actual supposed law for this belief. Called Parkinson’s Law. Cyril Northcote Parkinson, actually wrote about […]
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Spaghetti and Marshmallows and why kindergartners beat CEO’s in this task.
If you had to make a bet on which team could perform a certain task better between a group of kindergartners, or a group of business students amongst some of the top elite schools in the United States and abroad. Who would you bet on? Peter Skillman, an engineer, put together a competition to answer this […]
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