So I woke up one morning and I'm still running my other business and my body hurts every day, my mind's fuzzy, I'm chugging caffeine, I'm drinking alcohol to calm down, not sleeping, no recovery, never taking a break.īUT THEN, I analyzed my income. But we did put in the time, we built a small team around that and we had a very successful ability to squeeze massive returns out of that. Right? That's the way that you do this is you make money and then invest in real estate. So I raised that money and we moved forward on that and I thought it would be easy. We switched zoning from industrial to a higher value in multiple other cities. This is one moment that we have to go after- the cities are changing all their zoning. I looked at this opportunity with some of the high net worth wealthy individuals that I was lucky enough to be friends with and I just said, guys, this is a snapshot in time. It was a unique investment model of investing into zoning changes of cities that were changing zoning all across the state of California. And there were a number of real estate deals. “Aha” I was in the right place at the right time. But the absolute “aha” moment that I'm talking about was right before the escrow, when I woke up one morning and evaluated the business and said, my heart and soul, aren't in this because of the price I'm having to pay, there has to be a better way. It just consisted of me, working myself to death, health was failing, relationships failing. I was so wrapped up in that moment because the business was doing good, but there were times it wasn't. In legacy, well I couldn't even think about legacy. But I gave that up and that was a very difficult thing at that point in time. I chose to move forward confidently with my business and with my passion over that relationship. It was killed by the business and I chose the business. Even in my dating life, my relationship was over. My professional relationships were all that I had. I was making a ton of money, but I was paying for it. The next area in my life I analyzed was wealth. But that moment in escrow was the absolute worst my health had ever been. So, I actually had to literally go and educate myself and learn how to do it. But, I didn't know how to be successful and make good money, while providing a good life for my future family without living like this. I reached the point where it was so bad, I knew there had to be a better way. Health was always a passion for me, the majority of my life and d I knew I had not been living it. I wanted it to be the easiest escrow anyone's ever been through, and I put it on my back to do so.īasically, my health was suffering and I found a lump somewhere that should not have existed. During this escrow period, I had to make sure everything was on track, every detail I wanted to perfect. I was chugging caffeine constantly, just trying to get more and more work done to ramp up to make sure those sales were continuing to increase. I was sleeping very poorly, only a couple hours a night, three, four hours a night, max. My health in every category, was terrible. My stress level had reached an absolute plateau. And every area of my life suffered and, and hit a wall in one moment.Īnd that wall was in the middle escrow selling this business. And while it was fun at that time, it wasn't sustainable. It was a really fun, exciting time, but it reached a breaking point. We had a marketing budget of six figures a month that we were just killing, resulting in sales being through the roof. We had a team of 40 something people, which to me was massive at that point in time, I could have never envisioned something bigger than that. It required constant upgrading of business plans, strategies,etc. I had worked for six, seven years nonstop, essentially hundred hour weeks. It was 2018 and I was in the middle of an escrow for my company. In the three categories of health, wealth, and legacy. It was where everything clicked about what I should be doing, where I should be spending my time, what I was passionate about, the investment models that worked, the ones that didn't, how I should be spending my time and more importantly, how I shouldn't. This moment in time was the “aha” moment for me. I want to talk about a very specific moment in time.
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