Foreclosure Investing Lifestyle
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:27:23
I do not define success in terms of winning or losing but rather by whether I am challenging myself to be the best that I can be. One of the reasons I left my 9-5 corporate job besides getting laid off was because I wanted MY OWN lifestyle. I wanted to create my own lifestyle for me my family and my friends. I wanted to become a back the best at what I did. I accept that anything I set my mind to. I would be successful at that endeavor.
However my biggest problem in working for a company where I was not the boss the president or the owner was that I could not set my own schedule. I would not be able to go skiing when I wanted play golf or jaunt when I wanted. I was a terrible employee because I wanted to do things when I wanted to do them. And today I dont want to be accountable to anybody except myself and my family and the populate that are counting on me to create real estate transactions.
Dont get me wrong. I was pleasant at my jobs and I showed up and I produced revenue. But the reason that I evaluate I was a terrible employee was that I only wanted to work just 2 to 3 weeks a year. To me a JOB means Just Over Broke and my time was not my own time it was my boss time.
When I first started in the real estate investing business I had to ask my wife to give me a chance to make this work. I had a severance package so I had three months to move forward. When we cashed the first check of $8,000. I took $4,000 and took my wife to Paris a place she always dreamed of going. That helped tremendously in my pursuit of this business.
Now that I have established my business I take off one week for every six weeks of work. This gives me five to eight weeks of vacation per year depending on how my deals are going. I use this time to connect with my family vacation work on other projects and just go out and enjoy life because isnt that what it's all about? If you're working so hard that you're not enjoying life then you be in my opinion to rethink your priorities.
My 15-yr-old son cut and I go to hockey games football games and other things that a 15-year-old and his dad can do together. My 6 year old daughter Chloe and I go skiing in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where we live and we do it 10-15 times a year. We go camping act motor home trips fly to Maui to go to the beach and much more. This is truly a life that I am designing.
My belief is we should constantly have to better ourselves to acquire new skills to refuse to be bogged down with the feeling of.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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