I have been deep in thought this week and realised that my biggest successes in life, property investing and business have come from being, and I heard this term last week which promoted said deep thinking, aggressively patient.
Being aggressively patient to me is playing the long game, strategically and intentionally and not worrying that I’m doing ALL of the THINGS.
And maybe this is what we need to do going into and coming out of Covid related lockdowns and restrictions.
In the last lockdown I went into it thinking that I was going to spend time on building my blog content and possibly acting on my mission to allow women to drop the guilt and shame around wanting success, wealth and a property income stream.
I did do a bit of that, but as it turned out that my property business was still really busy. It wasn’t the quiet reflective lockdown I’d thought it was going to be. I’m definitely not moaning about that, having business and income during the Covid lockdown felt like a blessing, even though having to shut the pubs was devastating.
This lockdown was the same, absolutely flat out in the business with people wanting to buy, sell and invest in properties, tenants moving, arguing, locking themselves out and pubs opening, being a general nightmare to run and then shutting again.
But the answer came to me this week about being aggressively patient. The heart lead content and community building isn’t something that I should try and shove into a lockdown, I need to be strategic and intentional about growing it with my other businesses, as much a part of my day to day life as my other businesses.
Being aggressively patient means not waiting to start
But to let it tick along imperfectly
Quietly
Maybe even unseen and tiny at first
But to get going and invest anyway
And I think that goes for any investment in life and business 🙂
Don’t worry about having to keep the momentum when the decision is made, just make the decision and then surrender to it!
Take tiny actions and don’t worry about them being too tiny!
I thought it would take me 20 years to build a property portfolio. I just put it off and put it off because it just seems too much like hard work to even bloody try! It was when I’d had a gutsful of slogging in my business that I made the decision to “just find out” and that lead me to creating a portfolio and a good income from property in just 6 years. The decision to “just find out” combined with sort of consistent action, existential crisis every 6 months, together with a load of my own blend of aggressive patience did the trick 🙂
no huge disasters (just plenty of little ones)
no huge successes (just lots of little ones)
no huge fanfare (just a pat on my own back sometimes)
no breakdowns (that ones a fib)
Just things getting incrementally better, more profitable, growing in value and opportunities
Uncomfortable comfort
Aggressive Patience
Silent Successes
And that suits me down to the ground 🙂
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I want to ask you…
What are you putting off starting or doing because you’re afraid it will be unseen, unsuccessful, too tiny to even put the effort in at first?
Are you ready to create a property income stream, or not ready to do it imperfectly to start?
Are you ready to make a change in your life? But worried about what other people will think, or say or do?
Are you investing in Property, or not investing yet? Have you dabbled? Or have you washed your hands with the “property thing” all together? I hear you, I’ve met lots of people that have done the same, got their fingers burned, taken action with no results, been put off by lack of trust in a strategy, or strategies that sounds too good to be true.
The TRUTH is that you HAVE to find a way to invest in property that suits you, otherwise it’ll never feel like the right thing to do and it’ll never be the right time for you.
Let me know what that looks like.
Telling me this might be all you need to “just find out”
xx
