Gold out of the weeds


Doing things different to the rest of people around you will send you to different places.

I’m not saying Cook Island, Vanuatu, Fiji… some of my last trips, but “other places”.

You’ll get sued.

You’ll sue someone.

You’ll get robbed.

You’ll make amazing friends.

You’ll meet incredible people and partners.

You’ll grow… faster than “the rest”.

You’ll become smarter, calmer, more focused… faster than the rest, by the way.

Be around people that you admire will push you closer to that people… you’ll become one of them.

This is why friends, colleagues, partners and so on are so critical.

Solo you can do things faster, but with great people around you, you’ll go further.

One of the things that cost me a long, long time to learn was the “focus”.

To separate the gold out of the weeds.

What I did in Real Estate terms is explained below.

​Is this piece of Real Estate a good investment?​

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