To Own Your Life, you must truly believe and expect that you are in control of your life. If not, then Owning Your Life will be an unattainable dream. The good news is that the decision to Own Your Life is as simple as flipping a mental switch in your mind to take control of your life. If you haven't already done so, you can decide to take control of your life right now. Yes, right now. Once you make the choice to Own Your Life, you can advance to Step 2.
Owning Your Life means that you know what you want and where you are going. Define your purpose by thinking about what's important to you for self, family, community, spirit and career. Set personal goals that will enble you to achieve happiness in each of the important areas of your life. Establish your personal vision.
There are many things in life that make you happy that require little or no money like reading a book with a child or going for a relaxing walk. Other things in life that make you happy need some or a lot of money. These can include positive activities such a funding a wedding, buying a house or donating to charity. Sometimes, people need money to recover from challenges such as a health problem, divorce, job loss or debt. Even though money cannot buy you happiness, we all need money to satisfy basic needs and beyond. A key step in Owning Your Life is to understand your financial needs as they relate to your vision for happiness. Therefore, it is important to tanmslate your non-financial goals into finanical needs.
However, your financial needs are more than having a truckload of money suddenly show up at your door. You have financial needs that are immediate such as paying for food, while others may be well in the future such as funding retirement. This thrid step in Owning Your Life focuses on translating your non-financial goals to achieve happiness into time defined financial needs for:
Cash Now: up to 1 month
Cash Soon: 2-6 months
Cash Later: about 1-3 years
Cash Much Later : more than about 5 years
After you define your time-defined financial needs, you must establish a prcatical plan to meet those needs. About 90% of us rely on a job (working for a company or someone else) to provide sufficient and secure income. A good job can be a good source of Cash Now while providing opportunity for self-actualization (if you enjoy your job). Often, a good job is not enough to meet all of your time-defined financial needs. Moreover, putting all of your eggs in the one basket of your job can be a risky course of action. A practical plan should include developing a small business that is predictable and manageable.
Real estate investing is one such business. Own Your Life LLC has comprehensive programs that show how to use real estate investing to achieve your time-defined financial needs in ANY market, whether it by a balanced market, a buyer's market or a seller's market. Own Your Life LLC teaches all four real estate investment strategies and how to match these strategies for your personal sitaution, your local market and the stage of the market cycle. One size does not fit all and one strategy does not meet all the needs. Own Your Life is not limited to real estate investing, but it is a good start.
In Step 1, you decided to take control. Now you must take action to convert your vision into reality.
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