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Feeling Nothing but Grateful As I’m writing this to you, I am speeding toward Atlanta at a rate of 556 mph. Currently, I’m 27,988 feet in the air and somewhere between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Florida. To my left are my oldest and middle sons. To my right sit Ashley, our youngest son and our daughter. All I know is we are somewhere over the Caribbean, and the monitor on the back of this...
An Offer You Can’t Refuse In Stephen Covey’s well-known book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, he talks about one habit that’s especially important for this time of year. Today, I want to explain why you need to be implementing that habit right now. The habit I’m referring to is known in the book as “Habit 2,” and it simply says, “Begin with the end in mind.” The way I...
A Change in Perspective I hope y’all had a great Thanksgiving. Ours wasn’t so great, and by the end of it, well, let me just tell you about all of it. Earlier in the week we went up to Kentucky to see Ashley’s side of the family. Prior to us going, my 5-year-old came down with some sort of sickness that had a bad headache, high fever and body aches. It was pretty bad, but he...
Time is money? My first experience with a real estate investor came from working for one in Atlanta. His name was Andy, and two of my friends and I were the guys that did almost everything on Andy’s rehabs. The year was 2008, and the way my friends and I found ourselves working on both Andys flip and rental rehabs in the metro area was that we were part of the same construction...
Work to learn, not to earn Last week I told you about me getting invited to teach three classes at a local high school as a guest speaker, and some of the lessons we went over while I was there. Today I would like to expound on one of those lessons because the more I’ve thought about it, the more I realized it changed mine and Ashley’s lives. The lesson is called, “Work to learn, not to...