Welcome back fellow real estate investors to REI Wealth Academy, this is John, and today I wanna talk about declaring. We’re setting goals, we’re trying to accomplish our big why, we’re making sure that we’re tying our big why to those goals, we’re doing smart goals, we’re trying the emotion to the big why, we’re recording it, we’re evaluating it, we’re asking the question what happens when we don’t accomplish something. All those things are awesome, so much so sometimes that you actually want to declare what your goal is. I wanna be a millionaire in 10 years. Maybe that’s the goal that you have for your life and then you’re working back out, “Okay, this is what I need to do today, this month, this week, this year in order to set myself up to be able to accomplish that.

But the crazy thing is is I promise you somebody, somewhere when you say that will say, “Pf, you’re not gonna do it.” Maybe even you’re telling yourself that inside your head a little bit, that you actually need to square some things yourself and make sure that you’re actually attaching that big why to crush any of that negative self talk out of your own head, but I promise you there’s gonna be naysayers that are going to be out there.

That should not stop you from declaring. Part of declaring is simply writing it down on paper, so you have our goal sheet that’s gonna be there, actually reading that, having that in front of you, having that out of your head onto a piece of paper to be able to do that. The next step is actually gonna be to declare it. And I’m not saying you need to go tell every single person, you need to blowup Twitter every single day about what you’re doing. Maybe that’s the answer for you though.

I don’t know, I can’t make that decision for you of how best for you to declare and to stay motivated and pumped up and to put, at least declare it to the people that are going to help you get where you wanna go. They aren’t gonna tell you, “No, you can’t do that.” They’re gonna go, “How can I help?” I would suggest that you should declare to people that you know and trust, who are gonna help you along your goal and help you hold yourself accountable, especially on days that you wake up, when life is happening and you don’t want to go out and do some of the actions that you need to take.

I know it’s one of the hardest things for me, one of my people that I talk to and I declare to is my dad. I also declare to my mom, to my wife. These are all people who I’m going to be responsible or I’m already responsible for in general. Now my four year old, two year old, they have no idea if I was declaring any of that to them, and that’s okay, that’s why I’m able to declare that to my wife and ask her what can I do for her, what goal can I set for myself that is going to help us accomplish the lifestyle that we want as a family. Those are things to think about and who you would wanna declare it to, but you have to be able to declare.

If you’re not able to put it on paper, if you’re not willing to tell people and expose yourself a little bit, how are people supposed to know that you’re doing that? And I promise you, even inside your network, and if your Facebook page or any other social media that’s out there, the network that you already have, that you may not even know you have is now able to understand what it is you’re currently doing, what it is you currently value.

You will attract a lot of the people that are going to help you along with that process. You’re probably gonna be able to find private investors, you’re probably gonna be able to find sellers. The things is you wanna be able to constantly declare what it is that you’re doing an...