The road to success should be easy

While some of you may scoff at such brash comment, as everything you've probably heard in the past contradicts my headline, let me shed some light on the subject matter at hand. First of all, everyone has their own definition of success. To me, success in a chosen career path means that you at least (a) make a living at what you are doing, and (b) you are making more and more money to keep up with inflation and to show growth. If you are not growing, you are dying. Therefore, to stay still or maintain something is borderline death in my book.

Most people say that it is hard to succeed, or it takes a lot of hard work to make it, I disagree. First of all, if it is so hard to succeed, then I say you are doing it wrong. If your product is competitive then selling it should be no problem. And secondly, if it FEELS like hard work, then maybe you are in the wrong business. Don't get me wrong, I bust my ass working on these old houses, getting them ready to rent out. I'm often wore out and tired after a day of work, but it doesn't feel like hard work. It feels like everything is done for a noble cause. It feels like I'm taking needed steps to succeed. I think bodybuilding toughened me up for the construction work needed in the rental business, and my background in auto body. But then again, I think its the fact that I enjoy what I am doing, so it doesn't feel like hard work.

Therefore, in my opinion, if you are on track, creating quality products will create easy sales. And if you like what you are doing, it won't feel like hard work. When I was doing my first rental house, all I could think of was $250 dollars positive cash flow after PITI, basically getting paid for the next 20 years for that two months of work I did. That kept me motivated. And so far its worked out beautiful.