MILLIONAIRE SUCCESS HABITS
engaged in—from online activities to phone conversations to meetings to paperwork to lunches to picking up the laundry at the cleaners, et cetera. After you have completed your list for the week, use binary questioning and ask yourself, “Should I be do- ing this? Or is it a waste of my time?” “Are these things moving me forward toward my goals or keeping me stuck?” Once you’ve completed this exercise, I promise that you’ll look at your supposedly busy, crazy life and say, “Wow, what the heck am I wasting time on these things for?” Suddenly, you’ll find that a block of time will open. This is time you can use to take action toward your bigger future! Another thing that truly slows people down is the idea that “everything has to be perfect.” We all think we’re being per- fectionists, but our obsession with dotting every “i” and cross- ing every “t” prevents us from focusing on what truly matters to move the needle forward. It causes us to overanalyze to the point of paralysis. Let’s say you’re contemplating starting a real estate–investing business, but you’re on the fence. You say to yourself, “Well, let me think about that. Is this the right time? Could it really work for me? Am I going to have to figure out every contract and every deal before I start? And then what if the regulations in my state don’t allow me to invest in real estate this way? I’ll just decide next week.” It’s official: you have overanalyzed, and you probably will never take action on the steps you’d need to take to make a real estate–investing business a reality. Whether you have ever thought about real estate or not, I hope you see how clear this can be in any business or venture in your life. Let’s take it a step further for the sake of a deeper example. In real estate investing, here are some of the tasks that new investors engage in: Surfing online, asking friends advice about it, browsing social media to see what other people in the field are doing, driving around looking at properties, visiting The Home Depot or Lowe’s to purchase equipment and mate- rials, getting logos and business cards made, and overstudying contracts.
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