Christian OsgoodCEO, Multifamily Strategy · CEO at Multifamily Strategy

Stay out of your own way, you can’t let you hold you back!

21 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, the speaker discusses how self‑imposed, education‑driven stepwise thinking limits personal and professional scaling. He describes a habit of feeling the need for more information or an additional prerequisite before making big moves, such as purchasing a large apartment building. He attributes this mindset to the traditional schooling progression (kindergarten through college to job) that encourages adding another step before action. A turning point occurs when he observes a 20‑year‑old colleague already managing 24 real‑estate units, prompting him to realize that alternative, more direct pathways exist and that his thinking about scaling was fundamentally flawed.

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All of us scale as much as we do. It's like, okay, well, I'm just kind of doing the things that I have to do and I want to do them. I think the things that I was nervous about initially was I need to get this much more information, or I need to do one more thing before I can go buy a big apartment building. I think it's part of the education system mindset, like kindergarten to second, second to third, you know, middle school, high school, college, job, the whole thing. I need to add another step. I think that was— I mean, that was the main thing. It wasn't even like, oh, Cody, do it. I saw the finance, it's freaking simple. It's that There was a 20-year-old in the office who had 24 units when I met him. And I was like, that exists there. Had me go, oh, wait a second. There has to be another way to play this. I'm thinking about this all wrong.