Moving forward
Today I looked at my next potential rental property. It's a duplex that needs a bunch of work so I'll get a good price on it. One of the old tenants up and left so there were a bunch of personal belongings left behind. In a closet a book caught my eye, something by Billy Graham with one word that was really big and it said HOPE. Suddenly I felt a huge rush or chill run up and down my spine, but the good kind where you feel the power of God or whatever rush through you.
After 12 years of ups and downs in the game industry, I've turned to real estate and soon a conventional service business to stabilize me through the hard times. After just finishing off my other rental and feeling the power of residual income, then looking at my next property and seeing a book with the word HOPE in the title... I guess it felt very empowering and as if I was meant to do this business. I always wanted to get into rentals but always found obstacles. But now that I'm in it I love it and I'm not looking back. I want to own at least 20 rental properties, and that is my long term goal. So I guess it was pretty ironic (or was it) that this book I find in a rental property completely describes my state of feeling right now. If I didn't have this rental house I think I'd have gone crazy being laid off with nothing to work on. I'm so glad and grateful I invested in this little house because it's really changing my world.
Anyhow, moving forward, I'm about to open my new store called "That Computer Guy". I'm pretty excited really, just in general to see how well it does and to open many new doors in my life. I'm tired of begging the game industry for work, and I honestly I could care less if I ever talk to another publisher or have to ask for work again. I want to be in a position where people come to me. That is the way it always was when I had a service business, and even when I started 4D Rulers, people were coming to me. Its because we had something of value and people wanted it.
Somehow I lost that along the way, and got in a horrible rut where I was always scrambling to make payroll and then bad decisions that were made from a lack and limitation mindset began to take hold, and then of course failures stockpile and pretty soon your self esteem drops, and the spriral continues. I've had some good years here and there, but overall I'm very disappointed with the game industry. I'd like to make some more games, but I want it to be like the old days where I have at least a small team of good guys in house and we're doing something we all love and put our hearts into. Only then will we have value and make it big time IMO.
At this point though, I'm all about stability and cash flow, yet keeping my independance so I can follow my real estate dreams, and have a flexible schedule.
After 12 years of ups and downs in the game industry, I've turned to real estate and soon a conventional service business to stabilize me through the hard times. After just finishing off my other rental and feeling the power of residual income, then looking at my next property and seeing a book with the word HOPE in the title... I guess it felt very empowering and as if I was meant to do this business. I always wanted to get into rentals but always found obstacles. But now that I'm in it I love it and I'm not looking back. I want to own at least 20 rental properties, and that is my long term goal. So I guess it was pretty ironic (or was it) that this book I find in a rental property completely describes my state of feeling right now. If I didn't have this rental house I think I'd have gone crazy being laid off with nothing to work on. I'm so glad and grateful I invested in this little house because it's really changing my world.
Anyhow, moving forward, I'm about to open my new store called "That Computer Guy". I'm pretty excited really, just in general to see how well it does and to open many new doors in my life. I'm tired of begging the game industry for work, and I honestly I could care less if I ever talk to another publisher or have to ask for work again. I want to be in a position where people come to me. That is the way it always was when I had a service business, and even when I started 4D Rulers, people were coming to me. Its because we had something of value and people wanted it.
Somehow I lost that along the way, and got in a horrible rut where I was always scrambling to make payroll and then bad decisions that were made from a lack and limitation mindset began to take hold, and then of course failures stockpile and pretty soon your self esteem drops, and the spriral continues. I've had some good years here and there, but overall I'm very disappointed with the game industry. I'd like to make some more games, but I want it to be like the old days where I have at least a small team of good guys in house and we're doing something we all love and put our hearts into. Only then will we have value and make it big time IMO.
At this point though, I'm all about stability and cash flow, yet keeping my independance so I can follow my real estate dreams, and have a flexible schedule.
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