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Multifamily #Trust30: Five Years
#Trust30 – Day Five
Great questions coming out of the #Trust30 challenge. Today, the prompt is what would you say to the person you were five years ago? And, what would you say to the person you will be five years from now?
Growing up Multifamily
I’m entering year seventeen in the multifamily business and I think it goes without saying that I have met some amazing people and learned a ton about our business. Five years ago marks a point of significance in my life that really defined some things for me. I had become so consumed by my work that I lost touch with those that mattered most to me.
What would I say to that person? It’s time to grow up.
What would I say to the person I will be five years from now? You have a long way to go; take care of your health and welfare so you can take care of those you care about. Keep family front and center to all decisions you make and trust that honesty and forthrightness are your friends even when they feel like they are not.
What about you – what would you say to these respective persons?
Your thinking these questions are not getting any easier contributor,
M
Multifamily #Trust30: Be Unrealistic
Day four in the #Trust30 challenge. Today’s prompt is a good one…
Our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion, we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlour soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing left is to, you know, actually go make it happen. What are you waiting for?
I know some crazy cool people who have ceeded to the calling in their hearts and as such have created compelling lives for themselves. Walking away from that which seems safe [Read: understanding that nothing is truly safe.] prompts a bit of fear. Especially in light of supporting a family and building a portfolio of multifamily investments. So many how, what, where and when questions come to mind. Toss in a dose of fear and I have recepie for stall. With that said, I’m up to putting it out there – if you don’t think it and speak it, it will never happen….
Multifamily Portfolio and Public Speaking
To speak to today’s prompt; “What is one thing that you’ve always wanted to accomplish but have been afraid to pursue?”
I have two:
1. Moving my multifamily investment portfolio to a place where it supports the dream of running a property managment company
2. Become an accomplished public speaker
What about you? What does today’s prompt stimulate in your heart and mind?
Your truly liking the #Trust30 challenge contributer,
M
Multifamily #Trust30: Build More Lego Apartment Buildings
Day three of the #trust30 hits us with the NOW…
Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you had one week left to live, would you still be doing what you’re doing now?….(Author: Jonathan Mead)
Live More Mindfully
I think the otherwise simple answer to this question is; I would spend more meaningful time with my family. I would play more monopoly with them, I would build more lego apartment buildings with my son, play more ‘Ken and Barbie find their first Apartment’ with my daughter and I would go out on far more date nights with my girl. It’s somewhat tongue-in-cheek with the point that being mindfully present with the ones you love and the ones that love you back is where the real wealth of life extends itself.
Your short and to the point contributor,
M
Multifamily #Trust 30: Using Multifamily
We are on day two of the #trust30 challenge and today’s prompt is;
If we live truly, we shall see truly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not everyone wants to travel the world, but most people can identify at least one place in the world they’d like to visit before they die. Where is that place for you, and what will you do to make sure you get there?
(Author: Chris Guillebeau)
Using Multifamily
I truly believe that organizations are created to serve the people that serve it. And, if done right those that are served then, in turn, serve those that participate with the organization in the way of human and fiscal transactions. Simply said, serve people and they will by default they will serve others. I use multifamily as a platform for education and the creation of wherewithal.
Education and Means
I also view my career 100% as an education that will end in my own endeavors. Today, it also provides means for the health and welfare of my family. I won’t work for someone for the rest of my life. I will serve in exchange for the education and a fair living, until that moment comes where it makes sense to move on. And, to speak to today’s prompt, using some of those means to get out into the world adds to character development.
International travel is something that I have always been intrigued by and not unlike using the the Multifamily business for an education, I see it as a way to add to and build character. And, the multifamily business is one way to fund it all.
To me, Ralph’s quote is more about who you become as a result of living out loud with no reservations as long as it is in the context of sticking true to internal values. Where would I go? Somewhere remote and unwired in any way.
Where would you go?
So with that, I sign off this Saturday morning to head for a run.
Your looking forward contributor,
M
Multifamily #Trust30: Self Control
Day One of the #Trust30 challenge:
Nothing like a punch to the gut to get things started. The following quote and subsequent action step showed up in my inbox as promised:
That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? . . . Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Identify one of your biggest challenges at the moment (ie I don’t feel passionate about my work) and turn it into a question (ie How can I do work I’m passionate about?) Write it on a post-it and put it up on your bathroom mirror or the back of your front door. After 48-hours, journal what answers came up for you and be sure to evaluate them.
Self Control
Self control instantly came to mind but I did not have a post-it. I chuckled and thought I could write about finding a post-it as my biggest challenge of the moment. But, that would obviously be missing the point of the exercise. So, I grabbed the nearest piece of paper and wrote the word out. Looks like Sunday mornings writing time will be dedicated to the subject of self control.
In brief opinion, self control is getting more and more difficult in the wired world. Now, I could displace it on my self diagnosis of ADHD or an Addictive Personality or I could blame it on Facebook, Twitter or any other host of social media platforms but at the end of the day, it’s on me. It’s that space between stimulus and response called choice. I get to choose what I spend my time on despite the stimulus. And, it really is predicated on my ability to control thyself.
Majoring in the Majors
As it relates to the multifamily space, my biggest challenge at the moment in my business – How can I be compassionate and passionate about rising delinquencies at our more challenged assets? The mechanisms are in place and the processes are solid. On the backside, unemployment figures are not getting any better, people are one ‘life event’ away from complete financial wipe out and poor financial discipline is exaggerate by misaligned needs vs wants logic.
There it is – would love to hear what your biggest multifamily business challenge is at the moment. Please rock the comment box below – if you feel compelled.
Either way, have a compelling weekend. It’s going to be a crazy hot 98 in #STL tomorrow.
Your thinking hard about self control
