How To Stop Procrastinating And Finally Get Stuff Done In Your Re

[Joe Evangelisti]

Most people get into real estate investing because they have exciting lifestyle goals that they want to meet. It’s true that investing is a great way to make money (sometimes a lot of money) and passive income, it’s really rarely about the dollar signs. Rather, it’s about the ability to work for yourself, spend more time with your loved ones, enjoy the nice house and car, pay off your parent’s mortgage, and more.

Now here’s the reality: Life is busy. And not everything about real estate investing is fun, engaging, or easy. There’s hard work and uncomfortable conversations and sometimes you have to push yourself to get going some mornings. (That’s the case with EVERY career – whether it’s a job for someone else or a business you run).

So how do you blast through procrastination and dominate each and every day? Here are 3 strategies I use.

1. Take Responsibility. Look at your family. You love them. You want the best for them. You want to give your spouse all the nice things she or he deserves, and you want to give your kids all the opportunities and advantages in life. Well guess what: it’s YOU that does that. You make that happen by picking up the phone, talking to motivated sellers, negotiating deals, talking to cash buyers, meeting people, looking at houses, dealing with your team. They won’t get done without you (even if you have a team doing the actual work for you, you still need to do something to get the work to your team). The only way you’ll get everything done is by realizing that the health, happiness, and wellbeing of your family rests on you doing the work.
2. Time Bank. Different people have different advantages – a big network, supermodel looks, or an amazing talent – just to name a few. But there’s one thing that’s the same for all of us: time. At 12:00 A.M., when the calendar flips to a new day, another 86,400 minutes are deposited into a time bank. That sounds like a LOT of time! But you use some of it up while sleeping, eating, and driving around. How much usable time do you have in the day? Far less. As each minute passes, another withdrawal is made from your time bank. If you think of those minutes as dollars, it can change how you think of the value of your time: Each day you wake up with $86,400 “dollars” in a time-bank account. And as each minute passes, you spend a dollar. Some minutes are wasted on frivolous activities, other minutes are invested with productive activities. Recalibrate your thinking this way and you’ll remember how valuable your time is!
3. Do One Thing Right Now. It’s easy to procrastinate when you feel overwhelmed at having so many things to do at once. And I’m a notorious multitasker – doing many things at the same time. But if you find yourself procrastinating, it’s because you feel like you have so many things that your brain just sort-of shuts down. So list everything on a piece of paper and just take one small action on the first thing right now. Don’t worry about anything else. Just do one thing right now.

These three simple mindset shifts are really powerful to change your thinking and end procrastination. When you do that, you suddenly discover that you have so much time every day to get so much done! Your investing empire awaits and now nothing is holding you back from building it!