How To Make 2016 Your Best Year Yet

How To Make 2016 Your Best Year Yet

Happy New Year!

It’s 2016. We’ve turned the calendar for a new year and now we’re faced with 12 blank months of opportunity. What will you do to make the most of 2016?

In this blog post, I want to share with you how to make 2016 your best investing year yet.

It’s simple, and probably a little surprising for most people: If you want to make 2016 your best year yet, you need to get more courage.

Sounds funny, right? I mean, most people are talking about New Year resolutions and goal-setting and that sort of thing right now. Those pieces have their place but I like to focus on courage. When you get more courage, you can push through so many things that are holding you back, and you’ll end up victorious. With courage, no problem can stand in your way. 

So how do you get more courage? Here’s a cheat sheet I created to help you become more courageous:

Remember the times that courage has helped you. You relied on courage (instead of anything else) to learn to ride a bike or to meet the person who would become your spouse. All through life, a sense of courage has helped you overcome problems. Sit down and list them. (Learning to drive, showing up for your first day of school, getting a job, etc.)

Make goals that inspire you. We often set goals but they’re rarely inspirational. Rather, we set them out of duty. For example, we might set a goal that says, “I want to make $X.XX a month income” and we leave it at that. But we should instead set a goal that says, “I want to make $X.XX a month, which will allow me to quit my job so I can spend more time with my family.” By dialing in some inspiration into your goals, they’ll help motivate you through the challenges.

Remember what a lack of courage will cost you. It seems to take more courage to work through the challenges of investing, versus how easy it is to default to the less-courageous actions. For example, staying at your job because it pays the bills versus the unknown of becoming a full-time investor. However, this easy default activity will cost you more in the long-run, because you’ll have less money and less time with family. Everything has a cost – and courage usually costs the most in the short-term but provides the biggest, longest-term benefits.

Build your courage. Courage can be learned and built in you by doing small things: take an unknown way home next time you’re out driving; take cold showers (yes, this really works to build courage!); go up to someone in a coffee shop and introduce yourself; take a spontaneous weekend trip with your spouse to somewhere you’ve never been. Yes, I realize these things might sound strange but they will build courage, which will help you be a better investor.

Get educated. We fear because we don’t know or don’t understand something. But when we build our knowledge, we fear less. So the easiest way to grow personally and professionally is to learn. That’s one of the reasons I partnered with another investor to open the vault and share my best real estate investing strategies at LevelUpRealEstateTraining.com. Go there now and find an area that you have fear about, and then get trained in that area. Your courage will increase with your knowledge!

When you have courage, you can attack your real estate investing unrelentingly. With more courage, you will embrace and become proficient at the things that used to hold you back. With more courage, you will rise to the occasion and tirelessly work toward achieving your goals. With more courage, you will push beyond your limitations and achieve a level of investing this year that you never dreamed possible.

Author: Joe Evangelisti
Phone: 609-346-4610
Dated: January 4th 2016
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About Joe: Growing up in a family of builders, Joe learned the fundamentals of real estate at an early age. Wor...