Patrick Riddle here to help you do an exercise that can help you determine what you really want out of life.
Ready?
Note: This doesn’t have anything directly to do with real estate investing… BUT, what you’ll learn will translate to EVERY aspect of your life. Serious stuff here.
Basically, what you’re going to do for the next 15-20 minutes is put yourself into the ideal average day in your life. I don’t mean your “best-day-ever” scenario (like meeting your hero, winning the world series, doing a deal that makes you $1million in a day)… that’s not what we’re looking for.
What you’re looking for deep down in your core is this: What is your ideal average day?
If you had to live the same day over and over every day for the rest of eternity, and you could pick what that day was like where you would be completely happy to live this day every day… how would it play out?
- How would it play out from the time you got up to the time you went to bed?
- What would you do?
- How would you feel?
- What would you (and other people) say?
- How would your day go?
You don’t want to be broad in this. Take a little time to think out minute by minute in detail what would go on.
Your ideal average day – what it is you truly want deep in your core
I’ve got something that’ll help…
Start visualizing and writing. It may take you 15 minutes… it may take you 2 hours.
It’s seriously amazing what comes out that you probably didn’t think about before, when you really put in the effort to do this.
One of my colleagues did this a few years ago — and the movie of his ideal average day has played in his head subconsciously almost every day. It not only keeps him motivated to achieve his dream life, but it subconsciously pushes him toward those images.
Shortly after he did this little exercise, he and his wife moved into a house that was very close to the one he visualized, not quite exactly, but close. And I’d bet the next house he moves into will be eerily similar to the exact house in his “ideal average day.”
That’s how this stuff works.
If you skip doing this exercise and think you’re above it or don’t have the time for it… truth: I kind of feel sorry for you because if you can’t implement that simple exercise that does A TON of good for you and your success — how’s it going to be when you have to implement something that takes more effort to… like getting private money, talking to sellers, negotiating, finding the right investor-friendly attorney and on and on?
Hmmmm… something to think about, huh.
Ok, as promised, here’s the helpful worksheet. I strongly encourage you to use it. Block time on your calendar to do this exercise if you need to. Just get it done.
Worksheet…
Your Ideal Average Day Exercise
Your Ideal Average Day – What it Is You Truly Want Deep in Your Core
Describe your ideal average day below.
Include everything in detail…
- When you wake up
- What you do in the morning
- Even the words and subjects of the conversations you have with people
- What you do for work (doesn’t have to be working for 8 hours if that’s not ideal for you, it could be you work for 3 hours)
- Everything you do from morning until night
Start visualizing and writing. It may take you 15 minutes, it may take you 2 hours.
Get started now!