Ep 311 - Motivational Monday - How To Get From Where You Are to Where You Want To Be

Hey, everybody. Flip and Danny here, founders of the Freedom Real estate group, family of companies. And welcome to another episode of our.

Podcast, which is called Freedom through Passive Income.

That's right. And welcome to another episode. This is a motivational Monday episode. And this one is how to get from where you are to where you want to be.

Yeah, I'm really excited about this one because it's something that we've done in the past and I am ready to re implement it because I changed it from. Well, let's just talk about it and we'll tell you how we changed it. So there's things that you want more out of life and then there's things that you want less out of life. The things that you want more of is more success and usually more time with family. In our case, more time just with each other and our families. I guess in Texas and Arizona we could say that. What do we want less out of life? Noise.

I would have had a four letter word, but noise. Distractions, stress overwhelm all the fun ones.

And when I say noise, it's like the other day while we were waiting for the Pixie Paws dog bus to come, I was turning off all my notifications, right?

Yeah.

Yeah. That to me was noise. Like my watch was buzzing, my phone was buzzing, and I was like, I cannot take it anymore.

Yeah, I don't know how you do it. I don't know how you did it. You don't do it anymore.

Yeah, I don't. It's all turned off and surprisingly I'll pick up my phone and it doesn't even have like the little red dot that tells you you have something there. So I'll go to text somebody real quick and I'll go, whoa, I got a lot of messages. It's hilarious. Where's Danny? Yeah, I want less of that out of my life. And right now I'm revisiting all of the things that actually help me when I' focused and super productive. And what did I do at that point in time that is going to help me? And that's why this topic came up and I was like, ah, okay. So I used to do this a lot better. I changed it from so the brain hack is here. Brain hack, Yep. I'm doing lots of brain hacks this week. The brain hack is having a one track mind. And what we mean by that is, if you've read the book, the one thing you already knew as I was going down and talking about this, that this is what I'm talking about. You just Want to focus on one thing. And what I was referring to on how we changed it is I've been referring to a top three. Like I've built my. What's my three wins for the day? What's my three wins for tomorrow? And that would be my top. But sometimes you can't even get three things done. So this one thing, it could be the first thing that you do for the day, and it doesn't have to take very long and you can do more things. It could be so big. It is the only thing that you put on your list for that day or that week or whatever it is. But the point is to ask yourself, what is the most important thing? What is the needle mover? What do I need right now? If you're building a business, you need revenue. If you're trying to achieve freedom through passive income, you need investment opportunities that give you the type of returns you want to be able to achieve your goals. What is your one thing that is the highest priority and that's your one track mind. That's all you're going to think about. And depending on how large of a project that is, again, it's just the first thing that you start with, or it's something that you work on and you only work on and you forget about two and three until number one is done. So the idea behind this is it changes the way you think and how you work and the results you get. And literally your results just. I don't know, I'm thinking Ferrari. That's what's in my head as I'm trying to describe this. It's like you get faster results and more impactful results because you're not juggling between so many other things, which I've fallen into the trap of lately. I can have my top, but I get ping, ping. I need this, I need that, or we got a deal. We got to do a pitch deck, we got to review it, we got to change it. We got to. And I'm like, I can't even get anything done. So I actually am going to go back to one thing just to retrain myself how to focus on one, not three, and how to turn off all the noise so that I can actually get productive through the end of 2022 and get myself back on track with what I wanted to achieve. So, again, sometimes it's the first thing you do, sometimes it's the only thing you do. But that one small brain hack eliminates stress and overwhelm too, right? And allows you to get better results. So Flip, I'm gonna put you on the spot.

Uh oh.

There's lots of things that you're doing right now. Right. So what would you say for this? You just have tomorrow. Today and tomorrow. So you have two days less left of this work week when we're recording this. I know it's publishing on Monday, but we're recording it on Thursday. You have two days left. What is the one thing that you would put on your list?

Just I'm working on right now. I'm working on the Roth and 401k and HSA and just our asset protection and our retirement stuff. That would be it. Now that's a huge chunk.

Yeah. That's not to say that's more than.

One thing, but it is one thing. To me. It's one thing thing because that's where I'm going. I probably won't focus on HSA yet, but it's one of the things that I'm working on in there. So it's working on the solo 401k and just strictly focusing on that.

Yeah, yeah. I think actually the solo alternative. Because we're calling the attorney today. Right. I think that's probably the one thing. Like what you said was a big project. So we're giving you a live example. Flip is working on all this stuff. He's also working on. Yeah. The asset protection, the taxes, the new LLCs, and all this stuff that he's got on his plate. Of all of that, he's got to choose what's most important. Otherwise you just lose your days. Right. You've got too much and you're overwhelmed. Like, what do I start with? I can't even figure out what to do, what's my highest priority. But if he just focuses on the one thing, then our attorney call today is actually going to enlighten us and tell us exactly the strategy that we need to do in order to accomplish what we're trying to do. And then we can take the next steps and. Or prior reprioritize it because maybe it's not top of the list anymore based on what that answer is. So that's just a perfect example of, hey, that was. That's one thing that we just put at the top of Flips list that's going to take him probably 20 minutes on the phone today and then it's going to allow him to reprioritize from there. So something like that reduces overwhelm, right?

Yep.

Oh, that's the only thing I really have to get done. And then you feel so accomplished at the end of the day, like, I did it, I did my one thing and it doesn't matter. And of course you do other things, but, you know, you did the one that was you identified as most important. So it's a needle mover. It's a good brain hack. We wanted to talk about it because everybody's trying to figure out the most efficient way to get from point A to point B. And the world we live in today is full of so many distractions and so much noise that even though we naturally and instinctively know we should be doing things like this, it's easy to get swept into the distractions and the pings and everybody else making their priorities, your priorities, which should never happen. You first, and then everybody else shut off the phone. You know, just eliminate it all. Get your one thing done and take breaks and just say, hey, I'm going to be available at 12. I'm going to check text, I'm going to check phone, I'm going to check whatever. For those of you who have another job and a career that you're passionate about and maybe freedom through passive income is your one thing, then you're going to attend a webinar or watch a webinar or review a pitch deck. That's all. That's it. That's all you had to do. And then maybe tomorrow your one thing is to call and ask questions. So I think it's a really simple way to just take a world of stuff and go and move the needle and make you really feel accomplished and happy. That will produce happiness. We all want to be happy.

That's right.

So I think it's a, you know, invest smart, live happy. It's kind of our motto.

It kind of is. Yeah.

So I hope this was impactful. So you just have to decide what your one thing is.

Yep, that's it exactly.

Yeah.

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