The Millionaire Trap: Why Chasing More Money Won't Make You Happy

Yeah.

Uh, That's the right way to phrase the question.

I hope your listeners captured that.

Because real estate for me included, and also by extension, traditional employment, they were never the goal.

The goal was to use them as a tool to build the life that I now occupy.

And I'm very grateful for that.

I'm grateful to the 23 year old me who found real estate as a mechanism to create streams of income.

And my interest back then in creating streams of income was simply to capture the time that we've been given by the nature of being alive to go live however you want to live.

So I started in single family in my early 20s through my mid to late 30s, flipped to multifamily, not because I wanted to be bigger, faster, better, but because it was just a natural progression.

I had hit kind of I stalled out like I was doing the same thing for a long time with single family and then switched to multifamily.

In all of it, I oriented myself around what I call five freedoms, time, financial, geographic, purpose, relationships.

Everything in my real estate business, and early on it was unconscious, but now it's extremely conscious.

is set up to be automated, or I outsource things, or I just eliminate things altogether.

So my entire life is virtual.

My business life is virtual.

Yes, I have property managers.

Yes, I got up to 2,500 units or 3,000 units or something.

but none of it impacts me day to day where I have a brick and mortar thing that will hold me in one location.

And I always designed that way, although it took me some time to iterate it and get it right.

But I can be anywhere in the world and manage my kids, my parents, my real estate business, my own life.

And that's by design.

So hence Bronson said, I'm in lifestyle design.

And I can articulate it better now in my early 50s than I could in my 20s.

But in my 20s, I had this thought process going

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