A speaker left a six-figure corporate job for real estate in 2007, just before the financial crisis hit. He made mistakes but stayed focused on four priorities: family, spirituality, health, and business. The question: how do you actually balance all four?
Before you start your year, you have to decide what the big rocks are. These are the priorities, the non negotiables in business and in your personal life. So that come the end of the year, not only did you crush it in business, but you have maybe the lifestyle or the bank account to show for it. And you're also winning in all the areas of life that you want to win in. So my initial sort of entrance into this business, I left a very cozy corporate job where I was making, with stock incentives, a multiple six figure annual income. And I left that to get into real estate three months before the shift started happening in my market. Looking back, June 2007, inventory shot straight through the roof. The end of 2008 was the onset of the great financial crisis and I didn't do it. All right, I will say I made all the mistakes that you could make. Yet I was very clear on what my priorities were. So for me, the big rocks, you know, when you look at the 30,000 foot view, the big rocks for me are being a good husband, being a good father. My spiritual journey came a little bit later. But taking care of myself physically, I say I sacrificed some of that in the early days. And then business. So how do you get it all done?
