The sneaky (and even scary) impact of an Investment Vision Board

[Mitchell Jaworski]

I'm sure everyone has experienced this; you are preparing to move and comes across items and belongings you have not looked at in quite some time.  Many make you reminisce, but every once in a while one provides a "light bulb" moment.

If anyone has read the book "The Answer" you are familiar with a Vision Board.  Basically, it's putting up pictures of your goals somewhere you will see it daily.  

For all of 2013 I had  three pictures printed out on a piece of paper and taped on the wall next to my computer where I sat every day.  The picture was to my right and was in my periphery.  So even if I wasn't looking directly at it I still saw it, realizing it or not.

One of the pictures was a 2/2 condo with a garage in a nearby neighborhood.  I wanted a property with those parameters. The goal was never for that specific community, it was more an example.

In early 2014 I moved into a townhome that I've since  turned into a rental property.  The printout was filed away at that time - I have not seen it since.  Until today......and that's when the light bulb went off!

I mentioned in a previous post that I'm closing on property next week.  It's a 2/2 condo with a garage and it's in the exact community as the one on my vision board.  It's looks exactly the same, color and all (there are 3 different color schemes in the community). Literally the only difference, its on the next street.

That freaked me out!

When I first starting looking a few months ago, this type of unit was not in my current day criteria.  Somehow I ended up gravitating to this deal though and got more creative and negotiated more aggressively on this then I normally do - I guess now I know why.

The numbers work and I'm getting everything I want in a living space.

I had totally forgotten about the picture of this condo.  Well, atleast that's what I thought!  

That's the power of a vision board, really cool (and a little scary)