Dean Graziosi explains why small, continuous changes beat big New Year's resolutions. Instead of overhauling your life at once, try Kaizen: cut soda and white bread, or build a real-estate list before viewing properties. Slow wins.
Hi, this is Dean Graziosi, and I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. I'm sitting here in my office right now trying to get caught up after a long weekend. I'm sorry that the blog is a little late today, and I just wanted to wish you an incredible holiday season and give you a little tidbit for going into next year. One thing I know for sure is that most every single person watching right now has some sort of New Year's resolution. And I'd bet to say some of it has to do with exercise or health and making more money and building security for your family and getting rid of some bad habits, maybe smoking or cocktails or something like that. But here's what I want to share with you. Most thing I know is when people set so many resolutions or goals that by January 15th or February 1st, you're right back into doing what you're currently doing right now. So I want to give you another suggestion. I read a book on Kaizen. Kaizen. Kaizen, I think it is. It's how Japanese rebuilt themselves after World War II. It's how they use in their business practice. But really what it means is. Let's just throw that fancy word out, right? What it means is slow, continuous change instead of these big goals. I want to lose 40 pounds by February 14th. I want to make 50 grand by April 1st. Slow, steady change makes all the difference in the world. So if you want to lose weight instead of going, I want to lose £40. I want to stop eating everything bad. I want to get to the gym four days a week. And it's so much you get overwhelmed that you get overwhelmed, I should say, and you go back to what you were doing. Why not just do small, steady steps like saying, no more soda and no more white bread for the first month. That's what the example of slow, continuous change and how it can stick in your life. Instead of saying, I want to do my first deal by February 1st, how about, I want to find the perfect real estate agent. I want to read Dean's new book. I want to build a buyers list by February 1. By March 1, I want to look at five properties. I want to make an offer on at least one by April 1st. I want to execute and do my first deal. I say that only because I would hate for you to be like the norm. The masses make all these huge goals, all these huge New Year's resolutions and have none of them come true when you deserve it and you know that you do. Well, I just want to make this quick and give you that little tidbit. No real estate information today. I want to make it easy over the holidays. I have a crazy I still have family, got a house full sitting home. I got a pile full of stuff on my desk that I need to get to. But I want to say Happy Holidays and I look forward to an amazing 2010. We got some great stuff coming, some training videos. This site here is going to explode. My new book, our Real Estate Success Academy and so many wonderful things. Happy Holidays.
