These are the keys that you have read about before yet have not made changes in your life yet. The interesting thing about success is that there are so many people that have come before us that have shown us the way. They write books and present their findings, but we are too stubborn to change. I am going to jam these points down your throat one more time.<\/p>\n

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Read<\/h3>\n

Never in my life have I finished reading multiple books and said: \u201cMan I wish I did not read so much.\u201d Reading gives us life, it gives us ideas, it helps us grow, and it works the imagination and keeps our minds sharp.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bill Gates often talks about how he reads 50 books a year. If a billionaire is reading 50 books a year then why are we not trying to read 50 books a year?<\/p>\n

Here is why: It requires discipline; it means that when you would rather watch TV, a movie or YouTube, you need to resist and pick up a book instead. It is not a hard thing to follow yet we struggle with this.<\/p>\n

I used to consider myself not to be a \u201cnumbers guy\u201d but I quickly realized that to be successful, I had to shake this notion. To do this, I started reading everything I possibly could about finance and numbers. I bought books on investing, learned real estate, stocks, downloaded apps, took courses, I just got excited on the topic. I would not stop until I felt like I understood money and investing well. It all came from deciding to read.<\/p>\n

Mentorship<\/h3>\n

As humans, we are simulation machines. We learn from imitating those around us at an early age. Here is the problem, when we get older we get stubborn and stop simulating. We try and create our path by learning on our own, but trial and error is slow and often the most costly way of learning.<\/p>\n

I quickly learned this when I was learning about numbers. I was lucky enough to be mentored by the CEO of Group Home Riches<\/a>. Not only did he teach me about numbers and real estate in a way that I understood, but he mentored me as a CEO as well. He introduced me to ideas that I would have never learned about without him.<\/p>\n

I always thought investing in real estate only consisted of buying houses and renting them out to others. My mentor taught me about specialty real estate like investing in group homes. Group homes rent out by the bed, and you can stick two or three people in one room. That means that a 3-bed room house that would rent for $1300 to a family could rent for $600 per bed making $3600 a month instead. I realized the power of mentorship that day. Some people are playing the game at a higher level. I was able to enter this business pretty quickly because I had someone showing me the way.<\/p>\n