Successfully achieving financial freedom is all about building momentum. It will take awhile to build up, but once it catches on, momentum can take you places beyond your wildest dreams. You will struggle to gain traction for quite some time before you build any momentum. This is normal and allows you to test yourself and your desire to be great. Failure is a parallel of success in the sense that you can’t have success without first overcoming failure. Overcoming failure is what leads to building momentum and momentum is what carries you to success. You will have to adjust, adapt, correct, and change many times as you learn and grow, however, this is all part of the process.
Starting slow
In the beginning of my financial freedom journey, I didn’t fully understand what to expect and what it would really take. I tried a few things including Amazon selling, this very blog, and eventually real estate. My blog over time morphed both intentionally and unintentionally into documentation following me along my financial freedom journey and reciting all the lessons I’ve learned along the way. It is also a stream of income I sought out to develop. For Amazon and my blog, the journey has been slow and full of failure. I have launched products that have failed, I’ve tried a million methods of advertisement, I’ve hired and fired people to help, and I’m continuing to learn and grow from these experiences. After two years, I have the ability to look back and see how far I have come even though the process has been tough and long. The momentum I’ve been able to generate from my failures and the lessons I’ve been able to take away from every experience have been life-altering. After all this time, my blog is finally beginning to reach a good amount of people every day on social media, in my emails, and from other traffic sources. I am able to generate a little revenue as well from ads and affiliate links which feels good since I’ve put so much money into the blog. For Amazon, I’ve hired a team and we are fine-tuning the process of launching a product catalog that will be successful due to the lessons I’ve learned and my ability to delegate as much as I can.
In my real estate business, I started out as an agent and did a few deals with a partner. I made good money for a kid in college at the time, but my passion was, is, and always has been investing in real estate. In December of 2021, I made the decision to go full-time into real estate investing and it has been a mountain of struggle for the better part of 8 months. However, through my struggles, I’ve been able to close a deal or two to keep myself afloat, and now I have found a team, system, and processes to catapult my investing business into the highest levels of success possible. Within the last 30 days, my team and I now have 82 doors under contract which will begin to build my net worth and generate me significant monthly passive cash flow. This has been my dream from day one and to see it finally begin to come to fruition has been something of a weight off my shoulders. This process has been all about building momentum. I have failed so many times. I’ve tried so many methods, worked with so many people, and gone through so many deals. I know that if most people had been in my position for as long as I was they would have given up. This is because they fail to see the bigger picture.
Momentum hits like a waterfall
When momentum hits it’s like a waterfall. This has been especially true for my real estate investing business where we have been able to do so much in such a short period of time. By simply doing what needs to be done every single day and fine-tuning our processes to function as a well-oiled machine, we have been able to pour on the deals in a relatively short period of time. We will continue to add people to our team as we grow and already have plans in place for how we will move forward as we expand. I understand and accept there will be much more failure along the way as we get bigger and tackle new projects, however I know that this will help me grow as not only an investor but as a person. Sooner or later the steam built up by the momentum you have built will work its way into reality. When that happens, things will begin to move fast and you will finally see what all the work, the heartache, and the sacrifice was really for. Every journey worth experiencing endures hardships. It’s how we handle those hardships and use them to build momentum that ultimately makes us successful.