Kris Krohn here and some of you have asked me if I would actually talk more
about how it got started on my journey in the land of real estate, creating
wealth, retiring at the age of 26 so in today's video, I really want to back up
and share with you some of the moments in my life that really helped me create
this self-made success and I hope it will help you on your journey too.
So many people asking and wanting to know, Kris, how did you do something so
extraordinary financially in such a very short period of time? And I thought today
I would try to give you really the the full story behind how it happened
because I think there might be some nuggets there that can be useful for you.
It started actually when I was 8 years old that we're like going back to the
beginning and I would witness my parents struggle with money and really fight
about money. My mom being more Irish and my dad definitely being German, you mix
those two together, you're going to get kind of a little bit of a volatile scenario
and my mom and dad would be pretty vocal about their fights, they try to keep it
away from the kids but there was no doubt in the fact that we knew that
there was fighting over money. My dad was an entrepreneur, trying to make it in
business, nine kids and I'm number four and if you study child theory, order
theory, I'm the glue, right? I'm the one in the middle that's trying to keep the
family together and so one time I overheard my mom and dad in the office
at home arguing over money and I have this
strong feeling, I want to make enough money someday for my parents. Now that's
a cute thought and feeling of an eight-year-old trying to be the glue to
hold the family together but something really touched my heart and felt very
very inspired that day and so I just got it early on in my mind that I needed to
have enough money growing up for my family and also for my parents so
basically two families and if I fast forward the next moment that really
impacted who I am today happened when I was 15 years old. I was in that awkward teen
years where it was right before my big growth spurt and I was kind of
chubby, I didn't have a lot of self-confidence and I really wasn't
aware or awake to life, I felt kind of picked on and made fun of in school, I
think most people probably did but my dad got me a paper out, he tried to put
me in different sports and try to awaken something from within and nothing was
doing it but my dad put me in front of the paper out and I was curious and I
came to life and it awoke this inner entrepreneur, right. An entrepreneur
who by the way, the summer earlier during school had actually sold mom and dad's, I
basically had made my own fun dips out of mom's sugar packets with kool-aid and
had kids buying that for the first half the day made like 40 something dollars
and I got pulled into the VP's office and she confiscated after she tried
snorting some of it. I couldn't figure out why at the time, she
thought us doing drugs, I figured out later on but anyway, I had this
entrepreneurial thing going on and being a paperboy, I could make $400 a month
delivering these papers after school on my bike, loved it so much I picked up
within six months two more routes all next to each other so I had this bag on
the front and back and I was carrying 70 papers and I had to like line up the
addresses and the people and then to boot, I was going for speed. Within six
months, my body trimmed down, I hit this growth spurt, girls started taking some
notice, I went through that awkward puberty phase and really woke up with
some confidence. I remember there was this moment between my two bike routes
where I just stopped and felt that I had woken up consciously to life. Combined my
desire to want to take care of my parents financially, combine that with
this empowerment of I believe in me and I was going to carry that now till I got in
college and I remember the day I got married. So third day of school, I met my
wife and nine months later, we got married and we had flown out to the East
Coast from Utah to get married cause that's where she's from and all my
family came out, all my siblings except for one and on that wedding day, I
remember I felt like we were starting for us something new and I felt like I
was ready to conquer the world, I was going to take the world down, I was going to
win, I was going to claim everything that was in my mind, I had a plan, I was going to
be a doctor and I was going to take care of my family and my parents and that's
where I entered the real world, that's my history in a nutshell that brought me to
the point where, alright, I'm a married man now, I got to get serious, I got to take
it down and you know how I'm going to do that? I'm going to excel in school, I'm going to
get good grades because anything I've ever wanted, I could effort. Day one of
that chemistry class, I get there right in front of the professor, you know the
professor saying? Alright, to a class of 200 students, my job is to fail 90% of
you, grade you on a curve because most you should not go into medicine. I'm like,
oh dude you're speaking my language, that's right, we're going to
weed out 90% of these clowns and I'm going to rise up make this happen. Well fast
forward four months, get to the end of the semester and I got a C and a C grade
in and of itself is maybe not a bad grade but if you want to be a doctor and
this is the start of a long science career, I sat down with my science person
that I'm supposed to sit down with my career specialist
and he looked at my grades and said, "Kris, this is not for you, get out."
I said, "Kris Krohn don't quit." so I doubled down,
I said, I'm going to figure this out so I took the same class again.
I got a tutor, I worked my butt off and I get to the end of the term and guess
what, I've got a C minus Same material, did it again, worked extra hard and got a
worse grade. Friends, I was pursuing a path that was not in my natural aptitude
and ultimately, it was a crushing day because when I talked to my career
counselor that time, I had to admit he was right. It was like the first time in
my life I felt, it was like the big balloon of excitement
for life that day got popped and I'm like, oh I'm stepping into this real
world where life sometimes just sucks. I felt hammered. I remember walking home
that day feeling like crap and I went home and I told my wife and was actually
nervous, I was scared to tell her, I don't think I can be a doctor. It didn't even
faze her, she didn't even blink, she's like, well I believe in you, you'll figure
it out. I'm like, really? I kind of sold you on this premise and you know,
wasn't that kind of part of you falling in love with me? She's like, no. So I knew
that at that point, I had to figure something out and the plans that I had
had for years was not going to happen the problem was is that as I researched
all the different opportunities and ways of how it's going to get where I wanted to go.
I just remember feeling, I sat down with a different career counselor because now
I wasn't going in the medical field and he started putting options in front of
me like psychology and this and that kind of thing and to become a
teacher and I started looking at all these options and I remember how I felt
inside, it was like, have that pit my stomach like, oh what's this major
called and how much money can they make? Well $60,000 but what's this path and
how much can I make? Well $40,000? What about that one? $80,000.
I'm like, how am I actually, how am I going to take care of my two families
because that just doesn't sound like a lot of money to take care of one?
I didn't have a whole lot of real-world experience with money but I knew that it
wasn't going to be enough and I remember how sickening that really felt. I don't
know if you've ever felt that way before where you once had dreams and you were
excited about life and then that bubble got popped and then kind of deteriorated
but I'm so grateful for those moments because they're really what kick-started
my journey. The moment that truly changed my life was
when my wife and I ran out of money and we were going into debt and heard her
checkbook had bounced, didn't have the ability to buy groceries that day and
when I found her in that state of tears from coming home from the grocery market,
wasn't able to buy food and in that moment, I felt like the crappiest human
being alive. I was like, oh I have never felt so low in my life.I am pathetic, I'm
a horrible friend, I've let my wife down, I'm a bad provider and I was working
full time. Again, so grateful because all of that is what led to my really big
transformation, might lead to your really big transformation because for me, it was
a moment and that's all it needed to be. It was a moment for me to decide, I'm
going in a direction that I don't like, it's debt, it's no money, it's no
happiness. I need to find a new path and frankly, I don't need to be offensive to
any of you young people watching this but college was only going to, it wasn't
going to give me everything that I wanted, it was going to give me a step in
the direction of what I wanted. Sometimes we look at college like it's the last
most important education of our life. It's kindergarten compared to the
education that you need in life, the real world of education that I would need
could not be found within the halls of university and university is great for
people that if you want to be a doctor, you better be going to college, right?
No one wants you to figure that out in the back of the veterinary story so
it all really came to a head with feeling really crappy knowing that
things needed a change and I decided that I would move heaven
or hell and do anything and everything required not to live the next 40 years
in financial lack, in a manner I had seen my parents do it. That decision was a
really important moment because I had a lot of crappy feelings inside but the
only thing that I had was this tenacity said, I'm going to mount up, I'm going to
rise up and I'm going to conquer, I'm going to figure out how to do this and four and a
half years later, I was retired, just after graduating college but what really
happened that made the difference that I would submit to all of you is the one
thing that we really need that we're not really trained that we need, in fact, we
don't even know what we don't know, we don't even know what we don't know that
we don't even know that we don't need that we need to know, if you follow me
there, is this idea that the higher education, sometimes school gets in the
way of the higher education. The higher education ultimately for me came through
mentors. You want something in life and you got to find the men and women that
have it and you got to find a way to get into a relationship with them where they
can show you how to do it, you got to find a way to make an arrangement with
them somehow some way where they could take you under the wing and whether they
can actually spoon feed you the critical knowledge that will make the difference
because in the end, it's not always what you know more often than not, it's
actually who you know and people are the ones, life is a business of people. People
are the ones that are going to take you where you want to go in life, it
translates and transcends systems and and business formulas and things
that have provenly worked. Who are the people that are going to get you where you
want to go? I found some people in my life that when I found them, they didn't
know that I was looking for them and they certainly did not want to work with
me. The first man that I found, my wife and I were financially
struggling and in church, we decided to take this kind of Church
evening class for marriage improvement and on the fifth week, it was on finances
and they had this guest speaker come in that spoke very sophisticatedly and
there was something different about him and so I wanted to approach him after
the class, it's like, what is it about you or what's your career? What do you do for
work and he hadn't worked last ten years of his life, he actually just got back
from international traveling with his young family and I found out that he had
done it through real estate investing. Moment he said that, I caught the bug, it
just, I knew my path, I knew what I needed to
do, I just didn't know what that really meant so I started tracking him down
literally even drove out to the dude's house and knocked on his door and he was
frustrated like, you don't have an appointment, you haven't like, what are
you doing here? And I was begging for him to teach me and in that same manner, I
found two more mentors that year that is road on their coattails and I was hungry
for anything that I could get. I would go where I needed to go, I'd get on any
plane that needed again, I would do anything required to figure it out.
At the end, four and a half years later retiring the first time and then
creating this wealth and doing all these great things in my life, I think I've had
to chalk up what it all possible. It has nothing to do
with real estate, it has nothing to do with money, it had to do with the desire
to be a self-made man, it had to do with this knowledge that no one else going to
figure this out for me, no one else is in charge of my life the way I'm in charge
of my life, no one else is going to author my future, depends in my hand and the
book is blank and it's up to me and so my whole story, yeah, I created wealth and
real estate and I've created wealth in a number of other industries and yes, real
estate is my major backbone and yes, you can you know go to my website, click the
link and learn from me and let me teach you how to replicate what I've
done and I've done that for thousands of people but the one thing that you're
really going to need beyond any of that is do you really have a reason inside of
you big enough to motivate you to move? Because if you do, day in and day out and
move on your own, unmotivated by anyone else, then you have what it takes to
achieve frankly just about anything that's inside of your bandwidth of your
potential. None of us really knows how long life is, don't really know if it's
going to be a long one whether we're going to get old, if it's short but you're alive
today and that's a gift. What are you going to do with it? So many of us are
living beneath our potential because we're waiting for it to be handed out to
us for someone to reveal it, to us for someone to make it easy enough, to make
it 3 simple steps. Listen, the road to real success in getting where you want
to go, it might be the hardest thing you've ever done but it's actually why
you're on this planet and that's your journey of being here so my invitation
for you is to figure out how to get connected inside with that motivation
that says, you know what, this is my life and I'm going to make this happen. Sure, I
might use Kris' system or somebody else's system but that drive has got to
come from within and if you want to know how to get it, it's just a choice. Are you
ready to start your journey of being your own self-made success? Then I want
to invite you to click the link up here and get in touch with me my team.
I've laid out a number of different ways that we could play together, ways that I
can mentor with you, way that you can work with me in my team, ways that I can
get you extra deals. Listen, real estate has its tough parts and it can be hard
but that's why I brought the team and the supplies and the properties to make
it a whole lot easier for you. If you're ready committed to getting start on your
journey, then come learn what those options are
and let's play and create wealth together.