DON'T FORGET TO SLEEP!!!!!!!!

[Brandon Penn]

As obvious as it may seem, REMEMBER TO SLEEP! As real estate investors we tend to go 100%, 100% of the time. You have to remember to take some time for rest. 

One thing that I have tried the last 6 months is writing everything I need to do for the next day out after I get finished with dinner. Then my phone goes off at 8pm. There is nothing that happens after 8pm that can't wait until 6am the next morning. this allows me to spend some uniterupted time with my family, and relieves a lot of stress in of itself. Anything that needs to be imediately attended to at 3am is probably going to require 911, and again there is nothing I can do about a fire at 3am. 

Then once it is time for sleep I fully purge my mind of thoughts (extremely hard I know). This took about a month to perfect but anytime that I started to think about what happened during the day, or what I was going to have to do the next day I snapped back to clearing out my mind. I have found that doing this allows me to sleep much better throughout the night and therefore make me much more productive during the day.

I heard it said that we are the generation of hustlers. We wear the fact that we go full throttle in business and are always working as a badge of honor. The truly succesful people I have met in my life are more concerned with balance than they are with hustling non-stop. Of course there are going to be times we have to work 80hrs per week, but after we get past that deal we are trying to close, or flip we are trying to sell, we need to remember to put just as much focus into our rest and relaxation. Hang out with friends, go on vactation, spend time with family. Even if you have all the money in the world it won't mean anything if you are physically, and mentally ill and unable to enjoy that money.

If you only take away 1 piece of advice from this post it is that nothing needs your attention at 3am. Turn your phone on silent, and handle whatever it is that happened first thing in the morning. If you have a call service for maintenance then that is great, but if not you need to remember to sleep!