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What makes a millionaire mindset<\/strong>? Everyone knows what it takes to become successful: hard work, grit, tenacity, and (usually) some form of intelligence. But with so many people (real estate investors specifically) working hard, day in and day out<\/strong>, why aren\u2019t we seeing a plethora of unbelievably successful individuals? It turns out, the problem isn\u2019t within the system of building wealth<\/a>, but the individual.<\/p>\n

Jason Drees<\/strong>, mindset coach and author of Do the Impossible<\/em><\/a>, has seen numerous individuals come to him confused, doubtful, and wanting to do more. Within a matter of years or even months, these individuals poised on success attain things that would take most people many lifetimes<\/strong>. So what\u2019s the difference between a massively <\/strong>successful investor<\/strong><\/a> and a moderately successful one?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In today\u2019s show, Jason breaks down the alchemy behind building a business<\/strong><\/a>, a life you love, and massive wealth<\/strong>. He even takes a break to coach David and Rob on their future business plans, uncovering some roadblocks and new paths that they never even knew existed. If you\u2019ve been stuck in <\/strong>analysis paralysis<\/strong><\/a>, or simply have a goal to get to fast, this is the episode to not only listen to but take notes and review so you can grow as well.<\/p>\n

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David:
This is the BiggerPockets Podcast show 601.<\/p>\n

Jason:
The whole big concept of action versus mindset versus frame is really the mental environment you\u2019re operating in. Like in the past when I did coaching, it was coaching clients around action and mindset, action, action, action. Now all of the focus I do is really helping people shift their mental environment because the right action in the wrong environment will never ever work.<\/p>\n

David:
What\u2019s going on everyone. This is David Green, your host of the BiggerPockets Podcast. If you are looking to find financial freedom through real estate, you my friend are in the right place. BiggerPockets is a community of over two million members where we have one simple goal, to help people find financial freedom through real estate. We do that by bringing in experts in the field that have done it before, we do it by bringing in stories of people that can inspire you, that you can follow in their footsteps. We provide as much information as we possibly can about how this world works. And we also do what we do today, where we bring in experts in mindset that will help you develop the right way to look at yourself and the world to achieve the goals you have and put into practice the information that we give you. Here with me today to join me is my good friend and co-host Rob, Robert Abasolo. Rob, how\u2019s it going?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Hello, hello. Man. Dude, we are right over 600 episodes here on the BiggerPockets network. Can you believe it? It feels like just yesterday we started this thing.<\/p>\n

David:
That\u2019s exactly right. We are picking up steam. You know, ever since Brandon Turner stepped away to focus on other things, we started creating more content and different kinds of episodes. And one of the things that we focused on is bringing more detail into these shows. We want them to feel more like a masterclass in a specific topic than just the same story of a different successful investor. So what one thing we\u2019d like to know is if you like that, please leave us a comment. You can do that on YouTube by following BiggerPockets there, leave us a comment, tell us what you thought of today\u2019s show, what you\u2019d like to see more of. You can also do it on the BiggerPockets website itself. Now, speaking of Brandon Turner, we actually have his coach with us today. You all may know that Brandon has his famous text letter Behind the Beard.
Well, today we have the man who was famously behind the beard and his success. Someone mentioned countless times by Brandon Turner. It is his coach, Jason Drees. Now I\u2019ve met Jason a few times. I\u2019ve talked with Brandon more than a few times about the stuff that he gets from Jason and implements it. So much of this information is sort of filtered to me through my relationship and friendship with Brandon, and Jason joins us today to talk about how to realign the way that we think so that we can hit our goals. Rob, what were some of your favorite parts of today\u2019s show,<\/p>\n

Rob:
Man, you know, he really drove it home for me on a lot. I think this really came at a great time for me because I feel like my mindset has changed a lot over the last year, several times, and talking to Jason really reassures me. One of the things he harps on here is that we should be going after, we should be following our emotion, following what excites us. What real estate project out there scares us? What\u2019s something that we don\u2019t think that we can possibly do, that\u2019s what we should be pursuing. Not necessarily the most logical path, right? Don\u2019t necessarily always lean on logic and the analytics and the numbers, which obviously there\u2019s a case to be made for that, but go after what scares you and that\u2019s kind of what we\u2019ve been doing here, right?<\/p>\n

David:
Yeah. One thing he mentioned that I haven\u2019t heard anyone say before is we often talk about mindset, and what Jason said is that mindset isn\u2019t something you can actually change. You can only change your frame and then your mindset will follow. And he gets into this idea of what a frame is, how to affect it. The view that you look at the world through, the lens that you see things and then the lens that information comes back to you is really where it starts. Brandon Turner and I often talk about this as identity. Whatever you see yourself as will determine what steps you take.
Now, if you are only here to learn about real estate investing, that\u2019s okay, you still want to listen to the show because at the end of it, you want to make sure you listen all the way to the end, Jason actually breaks down Rob and I\u2019s partnership, our goals for buying real estate and how this information could be used for us to practically take steps to achieve our goals. So you don\u2019t want to miss that, especially the awkwardness as we\u2019re asked questions that we\u2019ve never really asked each other or ourselves up until this point. What did you think about that, Rob?<\/p>\n

Rob:
That\u2019s right. Yeah. Today we actually get a look deep into the crystal ball of the future. And David, I don\u2019t think you necessarily liked who you saw in the crystal ball.<\/p>\n

David:
No, I had my little Disney moment there. I was like, oh, is that the case? And also it felt eerily like looking at my own head because my head\u2019s kind of in the shape of a crystal ball. So that was a double doozy for me.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Well, for what it\u2019s worth, I like the shape of your head.<\/p>\n

David:
I that\u2019s pretty much why it picked you as a partner. That\u2019s my one litmus test that I just need to see passed, and you passed it. All right. Before we move on to the show, let\u2019s get today\u2019s quick tip. Today\u2019s quick tip is buy Jason\u2019s book. It\u2019s put out right now by BiggerPockets publishing. It\u2019s called Do The Impossible. If you want a life that looks like Brandon Turner\u2019s, get a book written by his coach and get some of the same coaching that he got himself. All right, Rob, before we bring in Jason, anything you want to add?<\/p>\n

Rob:
You know, there\u2019s always pressure for me to add some insightful tidbit here, but no, I got nothing, man. I think we should just dive straight in.<\/p>\n

David:
I think that shows that you are a secure person and that you\u2019re able to say no, because you know you bring enough value as is, and you bring plenty in today\u2019s show. So everybody the buckle up, strap yourself in, grab the handles because you are in for a wild ride with Brandon Turner\u2019s mindset coach Jason Drees, Rob Abasolo, and me, David Green. Jason Drees, welcome back to the BiggerPockets Podcast.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Thank you, David. Quite has changed since the last time I was here and it\u2019s exciting to reconnect.<\/p>\n

David:
Yeah. There\u2019s a little less beard down low and there\u2019s a little more hair on top, you see my new co-host here is \u2026<\/p>\n

Rob:
I\u2019m working on it.<\/p>\n

David:
Yeah.<\/p>\n

Rob:
I\u2019m working on it.<\/p>\n

David:
You got a ways to go before you become Gandoff. So Jason, you wrote a book for for BiggerPockets, and I\u2019m sure that a lot of Brandon\u2019s success comes from the stuff that\u2019s going to be in this book. So we would all like to know what is this book about?<\/p>\n

Jason:
So this book is really kind of the foundation of my coaching methodology, but really it\u2019s how I understood I\u2019ve created the success I\u2019ve had. The book is called, Do The Impossible, and one of the things I\u2019ve noticed being a professional coach for close to 10 years is that probably 95 to 98% of the people I meet, they\u2019re simply not aiming high enough. They\u2019re just not aiming high enough. So this book here basically is written to kind of give people the foundation of what their full potential is, how to start playing life at their full potential and more importantly, the power of mindset and how to shift it into alignment with playing at that level.<\/p>\n

David:
Yeah. You know, this topic of mindset has come up a lot. Brandon and I started a mindset oriented episode maybe a year and some change ago, because we realized that just telling people what to do over and over and over is what people think that they need, but so many people have the knowledge that\u2019s needed and they\u2019re not actually doing anything with it, that it\u2019s actually a mindset problem. You have to adjust that first before the knowledge and the information that we\u2019re giving somebody\u2019s even useful to them. So do you mind kind of maybe expanding on that concept that while people may think that what they need is answers or knowledge, it\u2019s usually not the case.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. Because mindset is this elusive thing, and I\u2019ll tell you, it\u2019s really strange being an expert in something that most people don\u2019t understand what it is. But mindset is literally, the simplest way, it\u2019s like a point of view. It\u2019s your thinking. And it occurs in your brain and it\u2019s how you view things. And one of the models I kind of use is like as human beings, especially achievers, and if you\u2019re listening to this podcast, you\u2019re growing and expanding your life and you\u2019re working towards it, as human beings, I\u2019ll give you my little graphic here. So imagine a small circle, we\u2019ll call this action. And as human beings, a lot of times we think about action, hey, I want to hit this target. I want to get a new property. I need to push up the level. So a lot of times the action comes, but what happens if the action doesn\u2019t work or you don\u2019t know what action to take, right?
That\u2019s where we get to the next layer, which is mindset, because of the mindset, your point of view, your experience, your level of thinking, determines the actions you can take. And that\u2019s where people start to understand, they\u2019re not creating the success they want, or the results they want, it\u2019s somewhere around mindset. So that\u2019s really the first component to start creating more success is to understand you are capable of more than you currently think. So it\u2019s really a game of how much can you evolve your mindset? Because when your mindset is in alignment with a target, then you hit the target.<\/p>\n

David:
So do you find it\u2019s better to sort of take an offensive approach and say, I\u2019m going to tell myself I am worthy of this, or is it a defensive approach where you have to remove self-limiting beliefs that are stopping you from thinking it? What\u2019s the way that you tend to approach that?<\/p>\n

Jason:
It\u2019s kind of a combination, right? The interesting thing is that I have come to understand that limiting beliefs and the emotion we feel around limiting beliefs is actually a symptom of misalignment, right? There\u2019s times where we have flow, where we have naturally inspired action, and there\u2019s times where we have resistance and we have procrastination. That actually has to do with alignment. So there\u2019s times when you actually have to shift the limiting beliefs around them. And one of the most interesting things that I\u2019ve learned over the past 10 years is I used to work for Tony Robbins and I was a Tony Robbins coach, and as Tony Robbins coach, we would focus on mindset and action, we\u2019d focus on beliefs. And we would literally say, okay, well, why don\u2019t you start cold calling to find off market deals? Well, I don\u2019t like cold calling, right?
And then a coach would say, well, what type of data are you going to be if you don\u2019t follow through? Right? So the coach would use leverage of pain and pleasure to force misaligned action. And what I\u2019ve discovered about 14 months ago is there\u2019s actually a level that\u2019s beyond mindset. So you have action, you have mindset. And then you have another level which I call frame and frame is you, right? Frame is you, because your mindset is here, it\u2019s in your mind. And your brain is a computer that looks through everything in the past. So as you\u2019re moving forward, it\u2019s constantly comparing anything forward to how does it compare to the past? And what I\u2019ve come to realize, and it\u2019s kind of hard to explain, but I wouldn\u2019t believe this unless I\u2019ve proven it so many times. So what I believe your frame is it\u2019s you.
Now, you and me, we\u2019re made of atoms. Our bodies is energy, right? We also know that life responds to us. Sometimes life responds to us great. Sometimes life responds to us in ways that isn\u2019t good. And what I\u2019ve discovered is that life responds to you based on your frame. You can also think of your frame as like your expectations, right? And what I\u2019ve discovered is that as human beings, we think action creates your reality. But what I\u2019ve proven is that your reality creates your action, because your frame creates your mindset that creates the action. So if a person is feeling limiting beliefs and their resistance to cold calling or raising money, that\u2019s because they\u2019re in a mindset that\u2019s misaligned with that, which is in a frame that\u2019s misaligned with the target. So if you shift the frame into a frame of alignment, the mindset will shift, and then those limiting beliefs literally become irrelevant, just like that.<\/p>\n

Rob:
So I\u2019ve got some questions for you, Jason, because this actually really hits home for me specifically.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah.<\/p>\n

Rob:
My life has really evolved and changed in a lot of big ways over the past 24 months, and I feel for me personally, that I was a completely different person three months ago, and I feel like I was a completely different person from that six months ago, and then nine months ago, and 12 months ago. Every three months, I feel like I have a completely different mindset change. So obviously I\u2019m the still person, I\u2019m being hyperbolic. But from the way I think about things, the way I think about business, the way I think about financials, the way I think about investing and all that kind of stuff, it really does change day to day for me, because I\u2019m in a spot where I\u2019ve set all the goals that I\u2019ve always had in my whole life. And I hit them and it\u2019s because I run full force, and so I\u2019m kind of curious, for me at this point, I had a whole five to 10 bullet point list here of all my goals and I keep hitting them. And so now I\u2019m wondering what\u2019s next for me? I don\u2019t know how to evolve my mindset when I feel like I\u2019ve hit my goal. So how does that play into something like this?<\/p>\n

Jason:
Goal setting or-<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah. Goal setting into-<\/p>\n

Jason:
[crosstalk 00:13:12] Growth expansion.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah, do you feel like goal setting is a healthy way to change your mindset or is that something that holds us back? Because it kind of sounds like you were saying, when you\u2019re framed in a box here, it\u2019s a little tougher to escape from said box.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. Goal setting is absolutely a powerful tool, and it also depends on where you\u2019re setting goals. What I\u2019ve found to be true is that in order to hit your goal, you have to evolve into the mindset that\u2019s in alignment with the goal. What I\u2019ve found is instead of going through and picking apart limiting beliefs one after another, you can actually shift your frame and instantly get into alignment. And what I would say to most people who are consistently growing and expanding, I\u2019d say, well, fantastic, Rob, because that\u2019s what\u2019s going on right now. We\u2019re all growing at an accelerated rate. And the questions I use with my clients to do goal setting is we ask the question, what do you want? Which we all ask. The only problem with that question is that question is based on past reference. So you say, what do I want in 2022? Your brain\u2019s going to give you an answer on 2021, the second question to ask self is what is possible? And when you ask yourself what is possible, you\u2019ll actually get an answer that\u2019s based on external reference. Okay. Now, if you\u2019re above external reference, you won\u2019t get that, but most people are not. The third question, and this is the question I would ask you actually, Rob, right now is what would be an impossible target for you to hit this year, impossible, but would be a lot of fun anyway?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Okay. Wow. Listen, I\u2019ve thought about this a lot. So would this be a financial goal, investing goal, or just kind of just throwing everything out there?<\/p>\n

Jason:
We could do it in each area, but I just figured, I\u2019d throw it back out here to see what comes up.<\/p>\n

Rob:
So right now I currently have about 14 properties in my portfolio. I would say an impossible, in my mind, goal for one year from now would be to get to a hundred units.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Okay. That sound exciting?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah. Yeah. It does. It does, because it would basically take the four years, four, five years of investing that I have and effectively quadruple the rate at which I achieve that, right? Because I did that over four years. So doing it in a year, to me, it sounds not really quite as feasible.<\/p>\n

Jason:
From your current, but is it physically possible?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yes. Yeah, definitely. If I start going down on the route of, you know, bigger fundraising, syndications and all that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. Yeah. So if you started to aim at that target now, did you notice David, how he got excited when he talked about that?<\/p>\n

David:
Yeah. You could hear the change in his voice, his tone.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. And what that question does is it pulls up an intuitive answer and that\u2019s like we start to follow our excitement. So when you ask about goal setting, there\u2019s a concept I use called, known and unknown. Now Brandon talks at length about goal setting and visionary and all of that stuff. I don\u2019t do it at all, because there\u2019s two different places you can set goals. You can set goals on the known and you can set goals in the unknown. The simplest example I can give you is that let\u2019s say you\u2019ve got a new, new listener. They have a day job. They want to replace their day job with real estate income. They make $10,000 a month, they read David\u2019s book and they\u2019re like, okay, I need a hundred bucks a door. I need a hundred doors. I could probably do two this year, three next year. So I could probably a hundred doors in five to seven years. That\u2019s known, like from today\u2019s point of view, that\u2019s known.
They could map it out backwards. 10 offers per deal, 10 properties per offer, et cetera. And you could like map it out backwards. Now that\u2019s known. At the same time, that real estate investor also knows that they could get into a single deal or deals that generates $10,000 in passive income in five to seven months. They just don\u2019t know how. The book that I\u2019m using, the Do The Impossible book is really about how to get an alignment with those unknown targets that radically accelerate you, and when you\u2019re doing goal setting and the known, you can absolutely set goals three years, map them out backwards, but when you\u2019re setting goals in the unknown you have to do them one step at a time because life literally only gives you those targets one step at a time.<\/p>\n

David:
So Jason, can you give us a hypothetical example of what an unknown goal might be? And then what some of those mile markers, like you mentioned, would be to get to that unknown goal?<\/p>\n

Jason:
Well, absolutely. Right. My business last year did two and a half million in revenue and my impossible goal right now is to do 10, to quadruple this year after almost tripling last year. Do I know exactly how to do that? I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve got one on one coaching, I\u2019ve got group programs, I\u2019ve got live events, I\u2019ve got certain people here, but I have no idea which, am I going to be more successful pushing all my energy to our live event or one-on-one coaching or group coaching program or focus on books? Like, I don\u2019t know. Right? Now I can make a guess from this situation, but what I want to do is follow the process of life to get the most exciting result, because what I\u2019ve proven over the past couple years is like, I\u2019m literally following my excitement.
So if I\u2019m looking at all of those right now, it\u2019s like, okay, what\u2019s the plan for the year? If I look at the plan for the year to hit 10 million, I have no idea. I would just be guessing. Now, if I say, what would be my number one target it in the next 90 days? What\u2019s the most exciting thing I can work on in the next 90 days? I actually start to get different answers. So you basically start to pull intuitive direction and excitement out, so you start to walk that path of accelerated targets.<\/p>\n

Rob:
So that is very interesting, Jason. I actually was just talking to a friend about kind of a similar head space here. And he\u2019s said, I don\u2019t know, maybe he was following you on Instagram. But basically he was telling me to set your goal, like take whatever you want to make. In his instance, it was a monetary goal. So four million he\u2019s like, I want to make $4 million next year through my Airbnb investments, my real estate investments, another company he\u2019s starting. And he said that he found this quote or someone he knows told him, take that goal and then 10X it, and that\u2019s going to be 40 million dollars. Set your goal for 40 million dollars. It doesn\u2019t really matter if he can hit that 40 million or not, but then to retroactively work backwards and figure out how he can get to that 40 million, because that\u2019s a really hard goal. But once he maps out how to get to 40 million, getting to four million dollars really isn\u2019t quite so scary anymore because he already figured out the big, bad beast down at the $40 million mark.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. And that\u2019s an example of thinking from a different point of view or different perspective or different frame to start generating different thoughts, and really what this is really about, the whole big concept of action versus mindset versus frame is really the mental environment you\u2019re operating in. Like in the past, when I did coaching, it was coaching clients around action and mindset. Action, action, action. Now all of the focus I do is really helping people shift their mental environment, because the action in the wrong environment will never ever work, right? And the simplest example I can give you about a frame is like, as far as being in an open frame is like, you can be walking down the street and someone can walk up to you and say, Hey, you look like a very nice, a nice upstanding citizen and reach out and hand you a million dollars in cash.
Now, what\u2019s your reaction, right? Do you say, thank you. Do you say what\u2019s the catch? Do you say I can\u2019t take this, right? Now, regardless of what you say, just because that scenario is not likely, doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not possible. The average person walks around with expectations that things like that aren\u2019t possible, so things like that don\u2019t happen. When you live in a reality where anything is possible, then you start to see opportunities and connections and you start to open up. So you start to operate in a frame that\u2019s more open and then you see ways to jump up in success.<\/p>\n

Rob:
So I think in a sense, it kind of is the mindset of anything is possible, but that almost feels like very lofty and like a little tougher to really live by. But is that a mindset that we should be kind of adhering to that anything, like legitimately anything is possible and we just have to be open to those opportunities presenting themselves, or do you think there\u2019s also a little bit of work that we have to be putting towards it to opening up those things that are impossible?<\/p>\n

Jason:
That\u2019s a great question. What I\u2019ve found is that the frame you\u2019re operating in creates the reality you\u2019re operating in. So you both are successful than the average person out there, I know that you\u2019re high level performers. And you\u2019ve seen a lot of people who have limited points of view financially, right? They think money, it\u2019s hard to make money, that literally, your environmental expectations, your frame determines what you think. And what actually happens is your frame determines the frequency of your brain, which then determines your thoughts, which then determines if you have naturally inspired action or you have procrastination, or you\u2019re in alignment or fear. So what we don\u2019t realize is that we are every day creating our operating mental environment, and most of us are resistant to what\u2019s fully possible based on our past references. So the more you start to open and operate with a more open, more possibility based point of view, then you start to see things. And when you start to see things, then you have different ideas and different ideas create different actions, different connections, and it kind of snowballs.<\/p>\n

David:
Do you think you could give us an example of a client you had, or even if it\u2019s just a hypothetical one, of what their frame was like before this made it into their world, and then how their frame shifted that led to more success so we can see what this would look like in real terms.<\/p>\n

Jason:
One of the frames that I\u2019ve been talking about a lot, at least a lot recently with my clients is about overwhelm. Now, as you create success in life, you start to get to a point where you have more stuff and I\u2019m sure everybody on this call has been overwhelmed before. If you\u2019re in a place of overwhelm, it\u2019s almost like there\u2019s too much stuff going on. Too much stuff is too much life, but the reality is a lot of people resist overwhelmed, but the reality, the point of view, the frame that I like to point out is that the way you get overwhelmed is because you were so successful in the past, you\u2019ve created more stuff than you can manage. So that, to me, sounds like a good thing. And overwhelm also, if you\u2019re in overwhelm, which is a frame of overwhelm, you\u2019re looking at the world and the current reaction is like, I can\u2019t manage all this. If you\u2019re in overwhelm, it means it\u2019s possible for you to not be in overwhelm.
So you can also see overwhelm as the indicator to level up and shift your mindset. As in, the feeling of overwhelm is the indicator of the presence of an elevated frame. So a frame shift can be simply as simple as a point of view that literally blows away every roadblock and limitation that the previous point of view had. That\u2019s as simple as a frame shift is, but when you start to make that shift, you start moving, you start thinking differently.<\/p>\n

Rob:
I think that makes a lot of sense, personally. I think one of the easiest ways, correct me if you have kind of other points of view on this, but this is where I think someone like a mentor can come in and really help somebody. Because for me, there have been so many points in my life where I had limiting beliefs, especially about real estate and investing in this, oh, I can\u2019t do that. I can\u2019t finance that. I can\u2019t finance that. And then you talk to somebody that\u2019s done it, and you talk to someone that\u2019s done it 10 times, and you talk to someone that\u2019s done it 50 times. And then they\u2019re just like, what are you talking about? Of course you can. This is all you have to do this, this, this, this, and it\u2019s so clear for other people.
And I think having someone that you can talk to, or be a sounding board for, that to me has always helped me in my scenarios. And I think that\u2019s probably why I\u2019ve had so many mind shift changes this year, because I\u2019ve spoken to so many people in my space, whether it\u2019s content creation or real estate or investing that are all better than me. Not as a person, but in their space. They\u2019ve mastered it. And they talk to me and they inspire me and I\u2019m like, whoa, I had no idea that was possible. And then I see other people doing it. I\u2019m like, well, I guess it is now. I guess it is possible, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to try to do you. And so for me, that\u2019s always been very helpful is just kind of connecting with people that are in the same niche, but are just maybe 10 steps ahead of you.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Mentors are a very powerful part of the equation, right? Because they can show you what\u2019s possible. One thing that can happen though, is when you have a high level mentors like both of you and David, and David\u2019s here kicking out real estate investor strategy 500 because he is got so much experience under his belt, a version 500 strategy doesn\u2019t run on a version one mindset. So sometimes if you ever wonder why your mentor strategy isn\u2019t working for the mentee, it\u2019s because their mindset may not be high enough to run the strategy. And that\u2019s actually a good a place where coaching comes involved to help the mindset evolve. But it\u2019s like, you want to coach on your team, you want a mentor on your team, right? That\u2019s a great equation.<\/p>\n

Rob:
And can you explain to us just briefly what that difference is?<\/p>\n

Jason:
Mentors are experts in strategy, where they typically have done something you want to done before. So they literally have a result that you want to achieve or they have expertise in the actual strategy. What a coach does is a coach helps evolve who you are, evolve your mindset. So it\u2019s not just strategies. It\u2019s like the mindset, because mindset generates and run strategies. The coaching evolves the mindset of you to a higher level. So you can run higher level strategies.<\/p>\n

David:
I\u2019ve noticed in many times in life we want to go to who we think is the most successful person we can find and say, teach me. And once I started training in jiu jitsu, I noticed, like I\u2019m learning from a Gracie, who\u2019s a family that\u2019s known for bringing Brazilian jiu jitsu into the United States, and he\u2019s been doing it since he was like four years old. It\u2019s his entire life, under insane pressure his entire life. I can only imagine being a Gracie and doing jiu jitsu. You just have a target on your back all the time. Right? And so when I\u2019m trying to learn, I quickly realized he\u2019s the last person in this gym that I need to be asking questions of. He was six years old when he was learning what I\u2019m learning right now. It is lifetimes ago that even entered into his, he has, like you said, a completely different mindset.
He\u2019s looking at this from such a different lens, right? I\u2019m learning a technique and he\u2019s trying to teach me in the scenarios when I might use it and how it\u2019s better than another one. And I\u2019m like, I actually just need to practice moving my body in that way over and over and over until I get muscle memory down. I can\u2019t even hear what you\u2019re saying. And so what you\u2019re describing right now, Jason, I see this happen and things other than just in real estate, it\u2019s kind of a life thing where it\u2019s not always best to go to the most successful person you could find and say, show me how you do things, right? Like you said, the information they have doesn\u2019t work on the operating system that you\u2019re running. You have to start with where you are at and work on improving your operating system. You have anything you want to share on that note?<\/p>\n

Jason:
That\u2019s a great point because when you think mentor, you\u2019re like, oh, I need to go to the person way up here on the top shelf. But the reality is, a mentor is simply someone who\u2019s done something you\u2019ve done before and it could be just a peer of yours or a neighbor. Sometimes you just hear something that gives you one distinction that\u2019s a game changer. So I would say, I tell people like, look for mentors and look for them everywhere, and it\u2019s not like you have one mentor, you may have a mindset mentor, a sales mentor, or a business mentor, a family mentor.<\/p>\n

David:
So now when it comes to deciding like what goals do I want to set? Where do I want to go? I know one of the things that you talk about is using emotion as an indicator or a guide for some of those decisions. Can you elaborate on that a little bit?<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. That\u2019s a great question. And when we talk about alignment, because what I found is that hard work doesn\u2019t create success. Alignment creates success, alignment with success. Hard work increases your chances of getting into alignment with success, that\u2019s what I found. And simply through trial and error of my own, I\u2019ve worked and had company had failed and failed and failed like year after year after year, I had things that didn\u2019t work, didn\u2019t work, didn\u2019t work, didn\u2019t work. And then all of a sudden, in 2019, I hit a wall and I quit and I\u2019m like, all right, I\u2019m going back to sales, I\u2019m not meant to be a coach, nothing\u2019s working. And then after I quit the next month, everything started flowing in. And that\u2019s when I started to realize that hard work doesn\u2019t create success, alignment with success creates success.
What I\u2019ve discovered over to time is like, okay, well, if we know alignment with success creates success, how do you know when you\u2019re in alignment? We have an internal guidance system. We all have a guidance system and they\u2019re called emotions, right? But most of us are conditioned to follow our thinking over our emotions, because what if that thing that you\u2019re procrastinating, you don\u2019t want to do, what if you\u2019re not supposed to do that? Or it\u2019s supposed to be done a different way. So what I\u2019ve found is that when you follow your emotions, you can actually dial into better targets because sometimes we\u2019ll feel, we\u2019ll think I need to do this target first before I do this one, because I\u2019m super excited about a multifamily deal, but I think I need to do a single family first. That particular person should go straight for what they excited at even if it seems like a different target or contradicts their mind because the internal guidance is really the best path to success.<\/p>\n

Rob:
So there are instances in your mind where it does make sense to kind of follow the excitement versus sort of I suppose the logical next step, because it does make sense to a lot of people getting started, for example, single family home, maybe I do one of those before multifamily. We do see it all the time though, people do start multifamily often, but it could be because they\u2019re excited and they\u2019re willing to make it work in that instance.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. Like do you want to spend your life doing things you\u2019re supposed to do or spend your life doing exciting things?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah. Usually the exciting thing I think. I think that\u2019s how I\u2019ve always approached it. I very much like to be uncomfortable. I don\u2019t know why. I\u2019m sure my wife and I\u2019s life could be a little bit easier if we just took the logical step. But I do like taking big swings because I think being able to go after something that scares you a bit really, really can guide a lot of success. That\u2019s how it\u2019s felt for me. So you speak a lot about the sort of the resistance here and the misalignment, how does one go about removing that? Definitely understanding here, follow the excitement, but if you are misaligned, how can one prevent something like that?<\/p>\n

Jason:
Well, you can\u2019t prevent it because it\u2019s always going to happen, and the faster you grow, the more you\u2019re going to get out of misalignment, because as you start to grow, imagine this little axis is time and this is growth and the average person grows like this and as you grow and grow and grow, you need to integrate the parts of you or the lessons or the experiences that are not at that frequency of the higher level. If you\u2019re growing at an accelerated rate, you\u2019re going to have to integrate faster and faster and faster. So the way to continue moving is to be open to the alignment and open to when the resistance comes up, know that you\u2019re getting out of alignment. So when resistance comes up, the best thing to do is really to stop and just breathe.
And the simplest way to frame shift out of that is just to get a sense or imagine the version of you that\u2019s not in resistance. Frame shifting is that easy. So can you get a sense of a version of you that in this situation wouldn\u2019t be feeling resistance right now? And with a little focus of your attention, you actually start to shift your frame and you start to get an alignment. So the first step when resistance is literally just stopping and breathing, because a lot of times we get we\u2019re pushing and pushing and pushing and when we stop, we start to see things differently and that allows us to kind of move into alignment.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Is there ever an issue with something like this where, because I agree, I think you hit a groove and you\u2019re like, okay, anything\u2019s possible, I\u2019m chasing this, hey, it\u2019s working. Hey, I\u2019m really good at this. Hey, I\u2019m now very confident about this. Is there ever a moment where resting on your laurels and letting your guard down can really lead to misalignment? Is that something that\u2019s possible for somebody that is a high performer and someone that\u2019s absolutely crushing it or does that tend to be a more rare case because they figured it out?<\/p>\n

Jason:
Does like resting or pausing take them into resistance? Is that what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Well, I guess overconfidence is the question here, right? Can you be perfectly aligned like we talked about and you\u2019re crushing all your goals and now you\u2019re so over confident that, is it possible that you\u2019re over confidence can lead you down the path of misalignment?<\/p>\n

Jason:
Well, I think overconfidence can lead you to comfort, like overconfidence, like there\u2019s confidence, like you\u2019re certain you can hit the target, like being in a state of certainty and confidence of like, yes, I can hit the target. That is a pure state of alignment right there. Can you be over overly confident? Like what does that mean? Does that mean you\u2019re a hundred percent certain, but then you\u2019re not open to flexibility or what does that actually mean?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Sorry? Is that rhetorical or are you actually asking me right here?<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. Because you say overconfident, I\u2019m like, what does that mean, over confident? Because I hear, one sign of alignment is certainty. I\u2019m confident I can hit the target. That\u2019s part of it. We all have different paths in life and you may be overly confident, excited, confident, things are working great for three months and you\u2019re like, things are going great, I can relax for a month. And if I relax for a month, things may shift, but that\u2019s also the natural process of life. It\u2019s not necessarily a bad thing. You may be killing it, killing it, killing it. You take a little break and all of a sudden you stop killing it. But then that little discovery from the break period from restarting is what kicks you into a higher gear anyway.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah. I think that\u2019s what I was wondering because I think that it, for me, it\u2019s very tough to stop, right? I\u2019m doing what I set out to do and I feel like if I stop, I\u2019m no longer going to be able to hit my goals because I\u2019m no longer working towards them, but it can lead to burnout. And so I have found myself taking a few more breaks and resting and kind of just digesting the world in front of me a bit, and that seems to have given me inner peace and mindset. So yeah, that answers my question.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. And I would say like, do you have to keep working for your goals to keep working? Or are you in a frame that\u2019s so aligned at a level where deals just find you now without doing anything, because those are both frames and you get to choose which frame you\u2019re going to be in.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah. I think that\u2019s the part that I\u2019m trying to figure out if I\u2019m being honest. I\u2019m trying to figure out how hard do I have to work? Because I work very hard and I like it. I like this world. I like the ability to be creative and I find that creativity is what fuels me. But obviously hitting your goals isn\u2019t everything, spending time with family is everything too, and that\u2019s probably where I\u2019ve kind of been pushing myself more towards is that side of things.<\/p>\n

Jason:
What I\u2019ve found that works best is to work in the way you want to work. If you like working hard, then work hard. If you work hard because you think you\u2019re supposed to, well, that\u2019s something different, right? I like doing big things. I like working hard and I also like playing hard. So the more that I follow my own unique desire and my path for work, and what I give to my team, what I do to myself, the more I do it my way, the more success I\u2019ve seen come through, because every one of us is different and everyone is viewing our lives from different, unique perspectives. So however else someone else is doing it is irrelevant. And what really matters is what is the way that you want to do it?<\/p>\n

David:
That\u2019s such a good point. And I notice, I get this emotion that is not good when I hear, I don\u2019t know how I\u2019d describe it, like frustration or there\u2019s just a sense of you\u2019re asking the wrong question when maybe our listeners or people that want to learn how to invest in real estate, say, what am I supposed to do? What\u2019s step one? What\u2019s step two? They\u2019re they\u2019re looking for an instruction book that\u2019s fool proof, that if they just do these things, they will end up where they want to go. And I\u2019ve never understood why. I knew that was the wrong question, but I think what you\u2019re describing right now might be answering that, it\u2019s because not everybody is going to enjoy doing the same things. They\u2019re not going to be good at the same things. And it\u2019s not going to work the same way for a lot of people. I think what you\u2019re talking about is what Brandon would often refer to as, does this feel light or does this feel heavy? Is that one of the tests that you give when trying to determine what someone should do?<\/p>\n

Jason:
Well, part of it, right? But really you can\u2019t, and I talk to people, investors all the time, like you can\u2019t out plan the risk. It\u2019s just there, you can\u2019t. So when you get those investors who are asking, I get that, and my hallucination right or wrong and why you\u2019re frustrated is because they\u2019re asking you for the secrets that you worked your butt off to create. And it\u2019s not that you don\u2019t want to share those. The first step really is a decision to play the game, to play the game. I\u2019m going to do it. And you\u2019re asking what step one is-<\/p>\n

David:
Commitment.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Step one, yeah, are you committed to the result? That\u2019s step one, right? And it\u2019s really frustrating, it is to me too, when people ask for your advice or your mentoring and they\u2019re not taking the action or not willing to do the work.<\/p>\n

David:
I would say that\u2019s the definitely a part of it. But it\u2019s not just that, Jason, it\u2019s also what step one for David Green was, is not going to be the same thing as Rob Abasolo. We have different goals. We\u2019re going to use the same vehicle to get there, but there\u2019s an infinite number of ways to put it together. And my personality led me down the path that I\u2019m taking. There are aspects of real estate that I love, and there are aspects that I just cannot stand. So when you mention, work hard at the things you want to work hard at or something, I started thinking about how I used to love being a cop, and I could work a 20 hour shift as a cop and I would love 19 and a half hours of it. Even though it was hard work, it didn\u2019t feel hard. I loved doing it.
I loved saving money. So it was not as hard for me to delay gratification and not spend because I loved watching my bank account grow and that feeling of progress that I was getting towards a goal. There are other people that don\u2019t have my makeup and maybe saving money is very difficult for them. They might have a different relationship with money. They look at money like it\u2019s a way to make friends or it\u2019s a way to have fun or enjoy life. So that person\u2019s goal might involve raising money from other people to put into the deal, not just saving up their own money. And when we ask that question, what\u2019s the blueprint, I just want to follow it. It\u2019s absolutely forsaking the fact that you\u2019re a unique individual with unique skills that you\u2019re going to have to use those to get towards your goal.<\/p>\n

Jason:
A hundred percent, right? The success formula is make a decision and do everything you can to hit it. Adjust as needed, right? And if you don\u2019t know what direction to go, A, B or C, which one\u2019s more exciting? Which one feels heavy, which one feels light? Use your guidance system.<\/p>\n

David:
And that\u2019s really what I wanted to get at is that like for Rob, he loves to create. And the time I\u2019ve known Rob, he has used that phrase probably 12 times. So I know in his heart, creativity is incredibly important and I\u2019m looking forward to getting to know you better, Rob, where I can find out what it is in you that you\u2019re trying to get out through creativity. I think that\u2019s very cool. But I also see just like my former co-host, the infamous Brandon Turner, that time with family is incredibly important to you, right? Like Brandon would with things that, to me, I never even thought twice about because I didn\u2019t have family in the equation. So he would have to approach problems differently than how I would approach them. And that\u2019s sort of what I wanted to highlight is it\u2019s so important to start with where you\u2019re saying Jason, because we all have different motives that are driving us.
We all have a different end result we want. We all want financial freedom through real estate, but financial freedom for the purpose isn\u2019t anything in a value in and of itself, it\u2019s what you do with that freedom that\u2019s going to give you value. So you\u2019re going to structure your portfolio differently. You\u2019re going to go about it in a different way. And I think part of what\u2019s really cool about setting a goal like this is it forces you to sort of learn things about yourself on the way. It forces you to trim the fat off of your own steak, in a sense, as you\u2019re trying to push towards that goal. Usually every big goal that I\u2019ve ever set made me a better version of David because in order to hit it, I sort of had to jettison the parts of me that were not helpful, useful to others, bringing value, and I had to double down on the parts of me that were focused on other people or good in general and that\u2019s just another reason why trying to find a blueprint, just show me the shortcut, I just want to do what someone else did. You\u2019re robbing yourself of the entire journey that makes your skills and what you\u2019re trying to do in life so powerful.<\/p>\n

Jason:
That is, yeah. That\u2019s like so true, right? And everybody\u2019s a unique, you\u2019re not here for the destination. We\u2019re here for the journey. And the reason I love getting people towards impossible targets is because when you start playing at the level of impossible target, it\u2019s not really just hitting big targets. It\u2019s really following your own path in life, doing it your way. And when you start to follow your excitement and your path, that\u2019s where your success comes, your impact to other people comes, your financial success, when you start doing it your way. And the first way to do that is to start moving past all the limitations from your past that have prevented you from playing that way. So you can do more. You can be more. Follow that path. Absolutely. And along the way you evolve to be that person, a hundred percent.<\/p>\n

David:
All right. So if I have to create systems and models and guides for the agents that I\u2019m trying to teach and how to sell these homes, I have to get clarity on what worked for me in the past, what our clients are looking for. Then I have to influence the amount of agents it\u2019s going to take to sell thousand homes. In order to do that, I have to become a stronger leader. I have to care about people more. And so what I love about when you set a big goal is it forces you to become a better version of you to get there. I think it\u2019s one of the ways that capitalism, when it\u2019s done well, contributes so much because if you want to have more wealth, if you want to build more money, you have to become more valuable to other people. You have to think less just about yourself, or you have to indulge your vices less. And so that\u2019s why when you hear successful people that like, it\u2019s never enough. It\u2019s not always the money. I mean, sometimes it is, absolutely there\u2019s people that get caught up in that, but for others, it\u2019s the growth. That that might be the most addicting feeling of all.<\/p>\n

Jason:
It is, right? And the higher you aim, the faster you\u2019re hit with growth. So it\u2019s really a game of saying yes to more, how fast can you get back into alignment? And then how do you continue that journey? And people ask me, how do you do that? And I call this like walking your path to greatness, your own unique path to greatness, are you playing at your full potential, going after impossible things, and doing it your way. And some people are afraid of that decision to walk the path to greatness, and what I do is I basically give myself no other option. That\u2019s the only option is to walk the path of greatness, to explore my full potential, because if I\u2019m going to be, I don\u2019t know how long I\u2019m going to be here on this planet and this body, so I made as well, make the absolute best of it as I can. And sometimes there\u2019s a little growth and sometimes there\u2019s a lot of growth, but it\u2019s always growth and expansion to become something more. It\u2019s always an evolution.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah, for me, I think just the way all are talking about it is very, it really hits home for me because I think growth is kind of seeing how you react when things go wrong. Similar to what y\u2019all were saying, people always reach out and they\u2019re like, Hey, give me the shortcut, give me the one line shortcut that\u2019s going to make me a real estate pro like you. And what I always have to tell them is you don\u2019t become a pro at anything by things going right. You become a pro by everything going wrong. And so you have to be willing to accept failure as part of your growth. And that, to me, everyone sees portfolio and content, they\u2019re like, yeah, you\u2019re crushing it. But I\u2019m like the only reason I\u2019m crushing it is because I failed the whole way and I just adapted to those failures to enable my success.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Absolutely, right? If you would\u2019ve talked to me 10 years ago, I would\u2019ve said I\u2019m going to be a race car driver flying in jets all over the planet, and I\u2019m not. That was my path to get here that it was failure, failure, failure, failure.<\/p>\n

David:
Yeah. And that\u2019s why having a humble spirit is so important, because if you\u2019re going to learn from failure, you have to be okay with it. You can\u2019t interpret failure as you having low worth yourself because you failed. It\u2019s bringing me back to jiu jitsu again, I was just training yesterday and I was training with a black belt, and what we would do is we would just start to spar and then he would stop me in the middle of it and say, do you see what you just did right there? Why did that happen? And I would work through, I left too much space between us. And he said, yeah, when you leave space, I can do this. Do you see what you just did right there? It was literally everything I did wrong. He just kept bringing up. But by the end of the session, I now know don\u2019t do all those things, right?
That\u2019s literally how we get better. He didn\u2019t stop me and say, you did that thing great every single time. Those really aren\u2019t the things that I need help with. And so I think that just sort of is a testimony to why mindset is so important. You got to be okay with having your mistakes pointed out. You\u2019ve got to be okay with making mistakes. You can\u2019t interpret those like you don\u2019t have worth as a human being because someone\u2019s pointing out where you did something wrong, and when you\u2019re in that mindset, you welcome that feedback. You welcome the mistake. You go out there and you take action, and you screw up and you\u2019re grateful because it helps you get on the right path, and I think that\u2019s why somebody like you, Jason, is so valuable in someone like Brandon\u2019s life and in a lot of our listeners\u2019 lives where you can help cultivate that mindset where you don\u2019t fear failure anymore. You almost look forward to it because it\u2019s getting you to success faster. I think, Rob, is that more or less what you\u2019re kind of getting at?<\/p>\n

Rob:
A hundred percent. For me, with the platforms that you and I have, David, and just being able to impart any amount of experience, I can at least look at my failures as there\u2019s a silver lining. Silver lining is I\u2019ll be better from it and hopefully, maybe I can help someone else not fail in the same way, and if I can do that, then it wasn\u2019t a failure at all, because we\u2019ve helped people, we\u2019ve enabled people to be the more successful version of themselves.<\/p>\n

David:
So Jason, at this segment of the show, I would like to know if you\u2019d a live framing exercise on Rob and I. So Rob and I are partners. We buy real estate together. We have a very big goal that feels impossible for this stage of our partnership, and I would love it if you would sort of break us down and let everybody hear, this is what it looks like when you go through this process.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Okay. Do I have permission to coach you?<\/p>\n

David:
Yes. Just please be gentle.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Don\u2019t slap us around too hard. Don\u2019t mentally jiu jitsu us too hard.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Won\u2019t make you tap. Make you tap. So what\u2019s the target?<\/p>\n

Rob:
I think David and I have set a loose goal, I think we\u2019re open to collaboration here, but I think we\u2019re looking to close on a property every single month. It\u2019s probably going to take a little bit of systems and collaboration to get to that point. It\u2019ll probably take a couple more months to get to the point where our systems are fully lined up. That\u2019s our big lofty goal. We want to do one luxury property every single month.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Okay. And when do you want to do the first one?<\/p>\n

Rob:
We\u2019re in it. We\u2019re doing it right now. We\u2019re in escrow on a property in Arizona and we just had inspections and we\u2019re set to close sometime in April.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Is that a stretch goal or is that an easy goal?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Initially it was a bit of a stretch goal. What do you think David?<\/p>\n

David:
Well, I think getting one under contract was, I don\u2019t want to say easy, but it was definitely possible. But repeating that every single month for the rest of the year would be a stretch goal.<\/p>\n

Jason:
So let me ask you this. What are you after by closing one property a month?<\/p>\n

David:
I think one of the things that would stand out to me is by doing it every month, it will full force us to maintain our communication and contact with each other. We will have to build, I mean, we have a system we\u2019re using right now, but the word system is often overused. It\u2019s not just about having something, that\u2019s being good at doing it. So it will force us to get good at the rhythm of how we\u2019re playing this game and how we\u2019re working towards our goals. It will also give us more, what do I want to say here? Like kind of a case study to be able to share with the BiggerPockets audience, this is what we\u2019re doing, this is what we\u2019re learning, this is what went well, this didn\u2019t go well, a steady stream of information that we can dispense.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah. And another really important thing for us is when we talked about our strategy, we were like, oh, what if we buy five houses a month? And this and that. But now I think we\u2019re actually looking to heavy up on the luxury properties because it\u2019s arguably, even if it\u2019s the same cash flow, we think it\u2019s going to be more, but it\u2019s less work than managing five to 10 smaller properties that add up to that luxury property.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Now, how are you feeling about this target now?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Better, better, because we\u2019ve actually done it. So we\u2019ve gone from being conceptual to talking about it for a couple months to now we\u2019ve actually implemented it. And so now there\u2019s something tangible to hold onto so that when we know we want to replicate it, we\u2019ve done it once before and we actually have tangible evidence and experience to guide us.<\/p>\n

Jason:
And David, how are you feeling about that target right now?<\/p>\n

David:
I feel more excited about it talking about it. I can see one of the things that jazzes me up about any opportunity is the concept of synergy. So I really like it if I can have success in one area that will also make a lot of other things I\u2019m trying to do easier, kind of like the concept in the one thing. And so being able to have success in this field will make this podcast better. It will add more value to the BiggerPockets audience. It will make Rob and I\u2019s relationships stronger. It will obviously build more wealth, but it will open up doors for ways that we can show other, we\u2019re sort of trailblazing in this sense, because I don\u2019t know anybody else that\u2019s really pursuing what we\u2019re pursuing, the way we are. We\u2019ll have to be raising money to do this. So it\u2019s going to stretch. That\u2019s one of the areas I think that makes it feel extra hard is I\u2019ve never raised money at scale before. I\u2019ve done it for individual properties, a couple hundred thousand here, there, but now we have to have a steady stream of that coming in every single month.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Are you thinking high enough? You thinking big enough?<\/p>\n

David:
I think we came up with this goal as this is a pretty stretch goal for right now, for the very beginning. I don\u2019t think in a year or two that this would be very difficult to hit. I think we would reevaluate that goal once we found like we were hitting it successfully.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah, for me, I would say, I have never purchased a property of this size. It\u2019s really quite, quite expensive. It\u2019s 3.25 million dollars, and every property that I\u2019ve purchased, for the most part, the average is sub a million. So to go to something three times more expensive, I\u2019ve already hit a really big goal. Like that to me was, okay, 3.25, that\u2019s out there. That\u2019s big. That\u2019s so much bigger than what I\u2019ve done. Now, arguably, I could go bigger. And I think doing one of these per month, that seems, I\u2019m not going to say unrealistic, but that\u2019s a lofty goal.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Okay. If success was guaranteed and you could not fail, would you still aim at the same target?<\/p>\n

Rob:
I\u2019d go higher. No doubt. I think I would want to go from buying one a month to going out, raising a lot of money to go and build 20 or 30 of these all in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n

Jason:
What about you, David?<\/p>\n

David:
I would probably buy more of them that are existing properties, and I would be looking to hire more people to manage them because I can see that we would get so many of them, it would become pretty much impossible to keep the books and make sure all the work was being done. So it would turn itself into an organization if success was guaranteed. So we would need to be hiring more people and creating a more fine structure to it.<\/p>\n

Jason:
And back to you, David, what would be an impossible, what would be completely impossible for you to hit this year, but would be a lot of fun to do anyway?<\/p>\n

David:
With the specific goal that Rob and I have here? If we hired an acquisition manager and a person to help raise capital and just let them loose, like we\u2019re just going to buy 10 to 15 of these things every month and this person\u2019s responsible for raising money and this person is responsible for picking the properties and managing them. That feels impossible, but that would be a blast if we could get to the point that Rob and I were just meeting every week and picking out the 10 properties that we were going to buy and letting everybody else worry about the details.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Do you like that target Rob?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah. Seems pretty impossible to me in a good way. I agree. I mean, I can\u2019t really fathom buying and closing 10 to 15 luxury properties that are over two million dollars, but that\u2019s because I\u2019ve never done it before. And so it seems to me exciting, but also how? Like how can someone do that?<\/p>\n

Jason:
So can you get a sense, now when I talk about frame shift, when I say get a sense, like imagine you\u2019re at the grocery store and you\u2019re looking straight ahead and you know the person to the left is looking at you. Right. You know, we can sense that. Can you get a sense of a version of you in the future anytime, next week, next year, 10 years, 20 years. Can you get a sense of a version of you in the future that if we brought you in today, you\u2019d look at that impossible target and say, I can do it.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah, yeah, I can.<\/p>\n

David:
I can.<\/p>\n

Jason:
And can you get a sense of a version of you that\u2019s hit that impossible target at some point in the future? The version of you that has actually hit it?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah, definitely.<\/p>\n

David:
That\u2019s a little tougher.<\/p>\n

Jason:
It\u2019s a little tougher? Okay.<\/p>\n

David:
Yeah.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Can you get a sense of a version of you that it knows it\u2019s possible for other people on this planet to hit that impossible target?<\/p>\n

David:
Yes, I\u2019d say so.<\/p>\n

Rob:
I think so.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Can you get a sense of a version of you in the future that knows if other people can do it? You can do it.<\/p>\n

David:
Mm-hmm (affirmative).<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Can you get a sense of a version of you in the future that has hit that impossible target?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yes.<\/p>\n

David:
Yeah. I can more now.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Hold your awareness on that version just for about five, 10 seconds. And how are you feeling now?<\/p>\n

Rob:
I think so purely based on just kind of running this exercise with you and taking who I am today, if I could just go talk to myself two years ago, I think I would completely blow the mind of younger Rob if he could speak to me today. And so in two years from now, I\u2019d like to think that the same thing happen again if I could speak to that person.<\/p>\n

Jason:
And David, how are you feeling now after that exercise?<\/p>\n

David:
If I\u2019m being honest, there\u2019s some resistance that I don\u2019t know that I would like the version of me that I\u2019m seeing that I would have to become in order to hit that goal.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Okay.<\/p>\n

David:
I see somebody who would have to be way or matter of fact, a little bit sterner when it comes to the people that work for me and the goals that they need to hit. I wouldn\u2019t be able to sort of be like the Disneyland version of David that we could be on this podcast where we\u2019re inspiring people and we\u2019re trying to find those underdogs and coach something out of them. When you get to that level, it\u2019s much more like you can\u2019t quit the underdog anymore. They have to be experienced. I wouldn\u2019t get a lot of the joy out of helping teach people. And I think that\u2019s where I\u2019m sensing, like I can\u2019t see a version of me that it would still do what I do right now and be able to do that well. I feel like the part of me that\u2019s encouraging would get in the way of running an enterprise that big because I would allow for performance that wasn\u2019t where I would need it to be. And then if I did sort of become like that traditional hard nose CEO, this is the way it has to be, I would lose some of the fun that I\u2019m having right now. That\u2019s what popped in my head when I went through the exercise.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. That\u2019s great awareness because that\u2019s your present frame trying to make sense of how to do that, right? Your present point of view. But when you get a sense of version of you in the future that was able to hit the impossible goal, doing it the way you wanted and had someone else running the business and being that person that needed to be.<\/p>\n

David:
That would be the only way it could happen. That\u2019s exactly right. There would have to be a person between me and the people that I talked to that sort of acted like a buffer that didn\u2019t have the responsibilities that I have that I could trust to be able to make it happen. Yeah. That\u2019s, as you were talking, that\u2019s what was sort of like rising itself to the surface.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. Because either direction that you two go, it\u2019s unknown, you need to figure it out. Whether you\u2019re going to do one property a month or 15 properties a month, either way, you have to figure out how to do it. So in this situation, you can continue the frame shift exercise, like, okay, what\u2019s more exciting now? Is it 15 or one? So let me ask you the question, can you get a sense of the version of you that knows which target you should aim at next?<\/p>\n

David:
Yeah, I think I can.<\/p>\n

Rob:
I think so too. I mean, we\u2019ve got our goal now. Maybe we are thinking smaller. I think David and I can have a chat about this later today and say, Hey, let\u2019s recalibrate and what\u2019s a bigger goal that\u2019s a little scarier than what we\u2019ve laid out in front of us? It doesn\u2019t have to be 10 or for 15, maybe it\u2019s three to five, but that\u2019s still scary, but achievable, I think.<\/p>\n

Jason:
And that\u2019s awesome awareness, right? And what I would also advise you and all the listeners is like, when we start to go, I had this thought process myself. I\u2019m like, okay, how am I going to do 10 million this year? I\u2019m like, okay, well, oh no, I\u2019ll get my executive assistant who\u2019s detail oriented, because I\u2019m not, and she\u2019s going to sit down and we\u2019ll do two hours of weekly planning every Monday and we\u2019ll plan this out. And I was like, wait a second, wait a second. I don\u2019t want to do that. I don\u2019t want it to be that way. I want it to be 10 million and fun and easy. And then I asked myself, well, how do I hit 10 million this year? And my brain told me you need to increase your impact. How do you increase your impact? You increase your impact with more focus. How do you become more focused? You put more space around the action you\u2019re taking.
And then I started to realize I\u2019m in a leveraged model, so the more space I create around myself and build my team up, the more power I get, the more impact for things to really explode. So when you start to say, hey, I\u2019m going to go after something big, let\u2019s play with that idea for a little bit. Your brain\u2019s going to give you its old perspective on how to do it, and like David said, I don\u2019t want do it that way. And I\u2019m saying don\u2019t. Find the other way. What is the way? Get curious about that because you just don\u2019t know what it is yet. It\u2019s a new frame and you can every day just say, hey, can I get a sense of the me that knows how to do it? Yeah. And do that for like 30 seconds. And literally you\u2019ll start shifting your thoughts, just like that.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Well, thank you, Jay. Thank you. I feel I got new perspective on how to approach this project specifically. I\u2019m sure David does too. We\u2019ll have some chats behind closed doors that\u2019s like, we\u2019ve been thinking about it all wrong. But I wanted to ask you just from your side of things, do you have any final thoughts or any final words of wisdom that we can impart on our audience here at home before we wrap up here? I mean, we\u2019ve already said a lot, so no pressure, but anything that comes to mind for you, man?<\/p>\n

Jason:
You know, I would say go after what you want and give it all you got, because what I\u2019ve learned along the way is that the most satisfaction I\u2019ve ever had in my life is giving it all I\u2019ve got. It\u2019s far more satisfying than actually getting the prize because I knew I left everything on the court, everything I could. So don\u2019t hold back. There\u2019s no reason not to.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Jason, thank you so much. We appreciate your time, my friend. How can people at home, where can people find you on Instagram? Give us the finals on that too, the final details there.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Yeah. If you\u2019re interested in what I\u2019m doing and you\u2019d like to know more, I do group coaching, we do one on one coaching. You can go to jasondreescoaching.com. You can also check out my Instagram page. I have lots of free coaching content there as well. And I do launch a mindset academy group coaching program with a foundational six week program that kind of puts this in place. And one book that I\u2019m going to give you, it\u2019s not a business book, but it is a business book, it\u2019s called The Alchemist by Palo Coelho, and it\u2019s about the journey of life. And when you start to approach your career from the perspective of the journey of life, it all starts to make more sense and it gets much more fulfilling, and that book is an amazing example of that.<\/p>\n

Rob:
Okay. Adding it to my cart right now.<\/p>\n

Jason:
And the book, Do The Impossible is available on BiggerPockets now.<\/p>\n

David:
Okay. My question, what is the ideal person who should buy this book and what should they expect if they do?<\/p>\n

Jason:
That is a great question. This book is for people that want to learn how to do more and be more. So if you\u2019re looking to expand your career or expand yourself or make more money, it\u2019s applicable to all of those subjects, it really teaches you how to open up and play life at a higher level.<\/p>\n

David:
Rob, any last questions from you?<\/p>\n

Rob:
Yeah, man. I want each of us to buy this book and have our own personal book club meeting to kind of really set the foundation for our business plan moving forward. David, where can people find you if they want your own personal knowledge bombs on the interwebs?<\/p>\n

David:
Every time I hear someone talk about a book club, I remember the office episode where they had the finer things club. They would sit around in like fancy hats and eat [inaudible 01:03:54] and talk about Pride and Prejudice or whatever. It cracks me up every time, I just picture us sitting there saying quite quite with our pinky up drinking a cup of tea. Yeah, you can find me all over social media at David Green 24, LinkedIn, Instagram, there\u2019s a TikTok that we\u2019re making for our team called the David Green Team. We\u2019re going to start making more content with that. I\u2019ve hired a social media company, actually, that\u2019s going to help me put out more content. So thank you for asking that Rob. And then you can also message me through BiggerPockets. So I do my best to try to keep up with all the notifications I get through the BiggerPocket system, but if you\u2019re cruising around a BiggerPockets, find my profile, send me a message on there, let me know what real estate questions you have. We live to serve. How about you Rob? Where can people find you?<\/p>\n

Rob:
You can find me on YouTube at Rob Built, go and smash that subscribe button and the like button, drop me a comment. You can find me on Instagram at Rob Built and on TikTok at Rob Builto, and feel free to hit me up on MySpace too. I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s probably still out there somewhere.<\/p>\n

David:
There it is. Well, thank you very much, Jason, for the free coaching session we got, at least I hope it\u2019s free. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to be getting a bill when we get done with that. We didn\u2019t discuss it, and thank you very much for writing the book as well. I know that\u2019s something, when I first got into educating people about real estate, I assume like most people do that the information, the knowledge is all that\u2019s needed. If you just tell people what to do, that it\u2019ll work and they\u2019ll go do it. And I quickly learned that it\u2019s more nuanced and complicated than that. And how you think the way you look at the world, what you believe about yourself, plays a much bigger role in what you do with that information. So thank you for providing value in that area that people really need. And Rob, thank you for doing a great job as my co-host today as always, and sort of sitting in the seat that Brandon Turner used to sit in, as we talked to his coach himself, is there anything you want to tell us? Jason, do you have like a fun fact about Brandon that you can share that he would not get super mad about you sharing?<\/p>\n

Jason:
That\u2019s not confidential?<\/p>\n

David:
Yes, exactly.<\/p>\n

Jason:
You know, he talks about it, but it\u2019s pretty funny. When he told me he\u2019s not good at raising money. I thought that was one of the funniest things I\u2019ve ever heard.<\/p>\n

David:
I might have to talk to you about that too, because I\u2019m following in his footsteps and I\u2019m going to have to be raising money as well.<\/p>\n

Jason:
Well you know how to reach me. Yeah. It\u2019s been an interesting journey. I remember when he was putting the money for the house in Maui together and I was like, can\u2019t you just do this? So, it\u2019s a continual growth and expansion for all of us.<\/p>\n

David:
All right. Well thank you very much for your time, Jason. Everybody go get the book, do the impossible by Jason Drees, Brandon Turner\u2019s personal success coach. This is David Green for Rob, my partner in crime, Abasolo, signing off.<\/p>\n

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