1) What Is Your Destiny?
You can study real-estate strategies, marketing techniques and deal-making like when you studied subjects at school or university. “The mind is everything, what you think, you become.” Think like an employee or think like an entrepreneur? You are building the organisation from the ground up, often from nothing at all! Do you have what it takes to realise your destiny from a standing start?
2) Being In The Moment
As long as you are in business, you will be always challenged. You put out one fire, only for another to spring up. It is the nature of the beast when running your own business. You and others are impacted by your next decision. Will it be the right one? Being in the moment is being prepared for anything!
3) Attachment Brings Suffering
Can you separate yourself emotionally from the things that you love about your business? They could be your colleagues, the excitement of doing the deal, the thrill of making money or the ego derived from telling others about your accomplishments. We suffer when things don’t go to plan, as can often happen. Our attachment can leave us bitter, as it can linger with us for a long time to come.
4) Everything Changes...Except Change Itself
Yet, many property people constantly assume the market is moving mostly upward and tapering back slightly from time to time. If this is the data that we consume, mostly fed by government policy and the media, then we are blinded from foreseeing any potential rapid corrections. If we’re uninformed, then we’re unprepared, just like beach-goers watching curiously as a tsunami heads towards shore.
5) Be A Tree
Are you forever chasing your next deal, your next payday, or proudly telling others of a real or even made-up success? To grow spiritually and financially, adopt the philosophy of your company being a fruit-bearing tree from which others benefit. You grow your network, nurture working associates and long-lasting relationships. The rewards are a real meaning and sense of purpose from your “tree”.
FIFTY YEARS HENCE:
How will our self-importance be remembered 50 years hence? Everything changes, and if you are lucky, someone in your family may remember you. However, these lessons give us perspective on everything while forging our own path during the here and now. Don’t leave it till you are on your death bed to regret all the things you wish you had done differently in the past.
