What moved you?

[Robert Cummings]

I read Keith Boley's short article "So you're new to this" and I really appreciated the useful ideas, things I did not think of or do when i started.  To me I am 'still' starting.  But what actually made me purchase my first property after years of talking about it?  It was a game called Cashflow.  Some friends invited my wife and I over for dinner.  After which they pulled out this game.  The premise is that you are in the rat race, just going around the board and accepting whatever life throws at you until you buy that first property or start that business.  Then you seem to be on a roller coaster but you are out of the rat race. There are high and low points but the game changes (at least mine) your thinking.  Shortly after I found and purchased my first duplex that provided cashflow.  So what was your catalyst to 'just do it'?