“Do more for others than you do for yourself”

Now, I know many of you have heard this saying before, but… how many people actually follow this great teaching from the Book of the Golden Rule. It is best quoted as “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “. Now I don’t want to be a preacher, however, I want to show you the benefits of this teaching and how it continues to change my life every day.

One of the things I enjoy about sitting down and writing my own newsletters is that I get to share a part of my life with you each time (as well as improve my writing skills). It allows me to take time out of my busy schedule and reflect on how my week, month and year have gone. By performing this task, I can change direction if I drift off course…in other words, mid-flight correction.

I remember when I was a child and my mother said exactly this: “do for others more than you do for yourself”. The amazing thing about her teachings was that she preached them well and practiced them perfectly. This is the good thing about children… they make fun of what they see. So, seeing my mother live according to this teaching, her lifestyle was automatically embedded in my subconscious, which is now part of my life.

You see, when I started investing in Real Estate, I did direct rentals. I knew from a very young age that this type of investment would allow me to retire comfortably and provide me with the lifestyle I was looking for. The strangest thing was that after a year of implementing my lifelong dream of investing, I realized that my approach was completely wrong and that the only reward was only on one side… MINE!

It was a WIN WIN for me and me alone!

So, without going into details, I changed my thinking and investment strategies to encompass a WIN WIN scenario for both investors and tenants. What I changed was to give them the opportunity to own the house they were in. The best part of this idea was that I now correctly aligned my investment with my mother’s teachings. By doing this, I was helping complete strangers fulfill their dreams that deserved our help.

Now… even though we’ve put all these safety nets in place. At the end of the day we can only ‘take them to the water but they have to fill their own glasses’.