While sifting through the enormous amount of information available to me on Real Estate, more than one recurring theme came about, however one that I will talk about in this post is the fact that money is important.
To be financially free I needed to make more money, and make it in multiple ways. As Grant Cardone talks about regularly, I needed to start "building my pipeline", and even though you build multiple flows of income, you can never forget or neglect the main water source.
My main water source was/is my corporate job. My name has been known over the course of my eleven years, by many people in power. I accomplished this in several different ways, as I talk about in my book "Build Yourself, Build Your Career - A Different Approach to Promotions". However the last few years as I was trying to leave my company, for a programming job.
As you can imagine the name I once had as one of the most talented, respectable people in my position had vanished(maybe not the talented part, that part is hard to destroy while your still doing good work). Manager after manager tried to convince me to stay, and I would always fain away from what they would say. I'm sure I was spitting negativity half of the time, and as we know, this does nothing good for anyone...especially ones name. Eventually God convinced me to stay, one I could not ultimately argue with.
I called for, or rather asked for, I suppose "calling for" inclines that I commanded it, and obviously someone in my position should never try to do that, a meeting with the person in charge that would be the decision maker on my promotion.
We spoke at length, and I made my stance to return to my attempt at a promotion. I needed a promotion, the fact that I was topped out on my pay was one of the reasons. A promotion would bump me up into another bracket, and this would allow me to attack my pipelines harder, faster. I could grow a Real Estate empire on my current salary, but it would take more time than I wanted. To hit a plan of being financially free in 9 years required more money.
Over the next several months I re-established my name in our area. Re-establishing my name and my ridiculous talent driven mind, allowed me to be up above everyone else. I directly asked the person in charge of my potential promotion, "I need you to tell me what I need to do to be at the top of your list. I do not want to compete, I want to be your top and only choice.". This is a heavy power move, it catches most uppers off guard. Being so direct shows that you are confident, know how good you perform. It also shows that you are willing to do whatever is asked. You raise yourself up as powerful while staying humble.
Remember, being confident is not a bad thing. Some will call you cocky, full of yourself, but that says more about them than it does you. If they think you are arrogant...really...whats it to them, you don't directly impact their life, let them think what they'll think anyways.
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