Hey all, JP here.
So, I often have an opportunity to share some things with the members of our training programs about important lessons I’ve learned…
See, I’ve endured many learning curves of various tactics, methods or hacks that I’ve taken on and adopted into my wheelhouse as a real estate investor and business professional.
One of the things I’ve learned is that every single thing that you do that’s worth doing has a learning curve. Anything worthwhile takes time to learn.
Unless you’re a rare, unique genius at whatever the thing is, you should prepare yourself to have some kind of learning curve.
But if you have the insight to be able to shorten that learning curve when you can, why not?
And I’ve learned 3 key ingredients in accelerating your learning curve for anything. And I often, like I said, have an opportunity to share this with members of our programs.
But I want to share it here for everyone because no matter what it is that you learn, we’re all learning new things all the time. And these are lessons worth carrying with us in accelerating our learning curve.
When you hear someone talk about their origins in something like REI, and it feels like an overnight success, sometimes you just kind of go, “Ok, well, that’s cool for people like that, but I can’t do that.”
A lot of people may have that conversation with themselves… and your origin story is not anything close to an overnight success. There’s a lot of twists and turns and hard knocks. But what’s inspiring to me in hearing things like that is that you didn’t let those things deter you. You didn’t let them sabotage your progress or keep you from believing that it was possible.
You used them as fuel for the next thing, for tweaking your trajectory in whatever way you needed to. And I think that’s an important lesson for all of us is to know… that we will have our own learning curve with anything.
To accelerate your learning curve, you want to learn from the experiences of people like me and other REIers, through our journeys, to shorten your own version of this journey so that you can get there way faster.
But! You’ll still have your own learning curve. You’ll still make some mistakes.
So, there’s 3 critical pieces of the puzzle that you need to make sure you have to really be successful with this.
#1 Knowledge
The first is the knowledge piece. That’s what we’re giving you right now — what you need to know and what you need to do to get from here to there.
You can kind of think of the knowledge piece like the engine in a car… you can’t move a car without an engine.
#2: Courage
But you’ve got to have courage, too, in addition to the knowledge. You’ve got to have the courage to press the gas pedal, but also to possibly get off course and probably make mistakes and fail, but fail forward.
Every time you make a mistake, every time you have a setback, you get to choose whether that’s going to build you up.
If you’re going to extract value from it and become a better version of yourself because of it, use it to tweak your trajectory and grow from it.
Or, if it’s going to become proof of the negative for you, if it’s going to become something that squashes you, that conquers you…
You get to make the choice.
Courage to fail forward is a key piece in addition to the knowledge that we’re going to share with you.
#3 Take Action
Well, taking action is obvious… but doing the doing, you can have all the courage that you can muster and understand all the things, but if you don’t actually move that ball forward, it’s not going to matter if the knowledge is the engine of your success.
Put them all together…
Knowledge is the engine, courage is the fuel in the engine, and action is the gas pedal.
So you’ve got to press the gas pedal… and those 3 things have to come together for you to get from where you are to where you want to arrive.
Get through those learning curves faster, easier and smarter…
I know you can do it.