Happy New Year
1. Get a size #10 envelope.
2. Get a piece of paper and write down four things that you would love to do in your Michigan real estate investing business. It could be something you want to learn. It could be a person you want to meet. It could be a place you want to visit, like a foreclosure auction. Somebody you wanted to talk to about private money. To put up a website for your business. Start a blog. Visit REO’s Checkout an apartment building. Whatever it is you have been thinking about for a while but never got around doing it.
3. Put the paper in the envelope. Seal the envelope and put it somewhere on your desk where it stares back at your every day.
4. Call three of your real estate investing friends and tell them your list. Ask them to call you every Friday and check on the progress with you. Now you have accountability partners.
5. Do something. Do anything. Everyday. Even little things add up. The strategy is to get into the habit of moving your real estate investing business forward every day.
6. On January 31, 2009 – open the envelope up. How did you do? Finished three out of four. Good. Make another envelope for February 28, 2009 – transfer the one unfinished item to February and call your three friends again and let them know what you are up to for February 2009.
Writing goals for the whole year is a good exercise but it rarely inspires urgency in any of us yet we all know that 365 days just come and go.
This way you have 31 days to get your list of things done. Four things done every month. At the end of 12 months. 48 things done. It is impossible for your real estate investing business in Michigan to stand still if you follow this strategy.