Welcome back my YouTube friends this is Richard founder of short-term rental
secrets.com and Airbnb super host on this episode of motivational Monday
we're gonna talk about ABC not see how about L always be learning so this
episode is really prompted by the fact that I had two good friends of mine say
to exact opposite things at different times not together and I'm trying to
like reconcile it and figure it out and there is a common thread and that's the
point of the message one Fred said to me Richard do you ever work like all you do
is you ski and you travel and I don't understand when you ever do any work and
yet somebody who knew me actually better said the exact opposite Richard you're
always working like do you ever not work and the reality of it is is my work as I
define it is to learn I'm always learning I read as much as I possibly
can I don't know what the point of the reading is I don't know whether I'm
gonna actually do something like that but I been reading my entire life and I
think there's tons of information and the key to that information is how you
assimilate it and use it Steve Jobs famously said it's how you connect the
dots and so let me give you a perfect example
I was recently in Jackson Hole I'm looking to invest there and turns out I
found not only one investment for probably closer to three and I'm going
aggressive on it I think it's a great opportunity and the reason I can go
aggressive and think it's a great opportunity is because I've been doing
real estate for over 20 years and so when the opportunity presents itself I
can pounce but more realistically it's not that the opportunity presented
itself it's that I've created the opportunity for myself because I've been
studying real estate because I've been a successful investor because I understand
how deals are done I'm looking for things and I know when I see something
that's great and then I can push and push and push so let me give you this
example I was reading the local paper and I read about a deal that you know
you couldn't imagine happening today about one of the first very successful
developments there there's a couple thousand acres and the deal was not on a
handshake seller financing handshake no paperwork and hundreds of acres worth
millions of dollars today traded hands and then they did it a second time at a
third time and they forged a partnership and I had no idea that I was studying an
example or or a model for how this might be done I remember looking at and saying
wow that's remarkable I wish I could engage in a deal like that deals like
don't happen anymore well lo and behold I found myself through some creative
networking and through some creative thinking and through trying to forge a
partnership in a position where I started to propose elements of that and
not a handshake per se but how about some seller financing oh okay that might
work well how about if we structure it this way and now I'm in the process with
a partner like-minded who's selling development and I'm buying one to work
together was that article that I read like the impetus for this deal I don't
think so but did I benefit from the fact that I had read that even though I
didn't know about it at the time and like did it give me some strength and
some motivation and maybe guide me a little bit maybe and so the point of
this message is read as much as you possibly can it may be relevant to may
be irrelevant whatever you're looking at could be a guide or a model for your
future just like this video you're watching this video
maybe nothing comes of it but my guess is you'll take something away from it
and at some point you'll say you know I remember Richard on that video said
always be learning and then I took from that video I tried this it didn't work
there but it did work here now look where I am and as a result of watching
that video these four things happened like Steve Jobs said those dots
connected so I hope I've encouraged you to always be learning try as much as
possible this YouTube channel for me me being in front of the camera it's a
learning episode I'm in the process of writing a book am i learning every
single day my book coach has told me the best books change the authors so I'm
writing it for like me I'm trying to help as many people as possible through
the book but what I'm actually doing is helping myself and I'm learning and I'm
growing and to that end earlier today Charles and I were talking about
different things that we can do to help you the audience learn and I think that
we're gonna start to segment the audience so people that are just getting
started that don't have a lot of understanding about real estate or
hosting or whatever that's a different group versus people that are expert and
are growing and are trying to add multiple properties and the education
the content that we can provide they're probably via membership is going to be
different but I want to encourage you to grow whether you grow and learn with us
away from us on the bus on the you know the newspaper doesn't really matter
always be learning so I hope I've motivated you on this Monday morning to
go ahead and keep learning as much as you possibly can if you like the video
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