“Real” Estate Entrepreneur

Tell me what are you doing?  Are you in control of your life in 2010?  Mind, body, and spirit, what are you doing?  My wife and I are working out 5 to 6 days a week for body.  Mind, we are both getting back into school, I am going for my Masters in Leadership Coaching Psychology and she is finishing up her Poli Sci degree for law school yay;) and spiritually we have been going to church a couple of times a month to a non denominational christian church and are looking into maybe going to a buddhist group once a month or so.

So now that you know that I am trying to better myself, what are you doing?

Please comment!!!  We can motivate each other.

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bjjSo here is my latest revelation; first of all I want you to know that I am at a point in my life that I am constantly discovering new things about myself.  I am still training Jiu-jitsu and am pretty determined to make that a regular appearance in my blog.  Today, I want to speak about the mind, body, spirit concept and how a focused mind plays a large role in what I have learned.

I have learned that the mind has somewhere around 60,000 thoughts per day and that 90+% of those thoughts are repeat thoughts recurring in your mind.  You all know that I undoubtedly believe in the magic of thought and if we are able to take control of those thoughts for even a short period of time, we would be in awe at what we are able to do.  How about those thoughts when you are thinking like two and three things at a time.  If you are able to focus all of that energy into one goal, do you think you could accomplish it?

I hope you think yes.  I am trying to become better at controlling my mind and I think in turn it will better every part of my life not to mention my jiu-jitsu game.  I just think the jiu-jitsu will show the strongest results.  Of course there is nothing quite like being in a fight to make you forget the preoccupations of self consciousness and pride so of course a martial arts roll will get you focused.

What I would like to see though is in that other 90% of the mind, you know the part we dont use.  I would like to see myself slowing down time or dramatically increasing reaction speed, I would like to anticipate opponent actions and flowing like water from movement to movement.

Jiu-jitsu can be translated as human chess with the greater players 5 or 6 moves ahead.  Just like all games, I believe it is more mental than anything else.  If anyone has any ideas or places to get ideas, I would love to hear from you.  I am not looking for more techniques rather I am interested in  theory, belief systems, understanding if you can understand what I am asking for.

Right now, I am trying to focus my mind for at least an hour or two per day.  That may be in the gym or in meditation, but I try to at least spend some time clearing my mind of all thoughts and for me I focus on the jiu-jitsu but you can focus on anything.  Try it, try to spend 5 to 1o minutes focused on one thought or the smell of one flower or the light of one candle.  Everytime another thought enters your mind, just excuse it peacefully by saying not now and get back to whatever it is you are focusing on.  You will be surprised at the peace that will over come you.

Please comment

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LucidLiving

Oh yeah the time has come to open up a whole new box of worms.  AyAyAy!  Can you get ready for this?  This is the second blog of the lucidity series, and I just wanted to touch on a couple of topics that I missed in the first blog.  Well, I cant think of them just this second so let us dive into the concept of living a lucid lifestyle.

Lucid in this sense is saying that you are completely aware or filled with awareness.  It is my thought that we can control this lucidity as we can control it in our dreams in our every day life.  Do you grasp that?  From my previous blog in the series, you should know that and be practicing lucid dreaming.  If you are not completely there just yet, please do not worry just continue practicing this art and it will grow.  Lucidity is not an overnight success and I believe it will take me quite some time to master.  How many times have you felt really in the moment?  When did you last feel you were in the perfect place at the perfect time in your life.  I dont mean sitting at coffee at starbucks and they just got your favorite mochachino.  I mean everything was filled with great energy, earth shattering perfection in your life.  You couldnt be more satisfied let alone happier. 

I have noticed in my life that I have felt this on more than a handful of occasions and am working to consistently stay in this delightfully fulfilling feeling.  I am looking to stay in this happiness forever.  I think that it is the other 90%.  I have read books about a forthcoming awareness and it may be true as this is a step in the right direction.  Maybe in a hundred years people will consider me a prophet.  I know that I am much different than most of the people that I encounter.

Your life doesnt have to be mundane, it doesnt have to be meaningless.  You can have all that you dream of.  A great stepping stone is learning how to control your dreams.  After that, we are able to control the manifestation.  It isnt just about asking for something over and over again.  There is a science to manifestation and I am researching and learning more and more everyday.  I need to create a lucidity logbook so that I can track these experiences more in depth.  You should do so as well and send me your research.  Help me teach the world this new age philosophy and create a better less violent more successful happier world.  People that are lucid enjoy their lives more and in turn would not need to terrorize countries.

People working to constantly better themselves emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually, etc will definitely create a better environment for everyone else.  It is as simple as taking a walk instead of eating junkfood.  The junkfood manufacturer burns less fuel in creating one less bag of junk and you feel better about yourself.  You may say thank you to someone and that brightens their day just enough to smile at work which helps the boss to realize that he is able to keep that one other employee and the greed of the board is not as important as a young child eating.  That employee doesnt know it but you just saved his family from starving and embarrassment and that entire office survived a bomb threat or worse.  Thanks for putting down that junk food and going for a walk.  That walk helped you to notice the beauty right there in your back yard and makes it just a bit easier to sleep at night, helping you to become lucid for an extra couple of minutes.  Amazing how it all works, right?

You know the old saying,” Every journey begins with a single footstep.” and we are at the beginning steps of our journey.  Walk with me?

I will write more when I know more and hopefully wont be too long from now.  Thanks again for reading, you are the best, hey smile and go kiss your spouse, they deserve it.  Tell them thank you, they deserve it.  Im going to do the same because she deserves it.

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Religion!?!

Okay, here is a sticky topic.  I may lose some readers over this topic and hope that you can keep an open mind.  First of all, let me tell you that I believe in some type of higher power.  Personally, I say in tuned with the Universe and the Universe is God.  In this blog, the name God and Universe are interchangeable.  I will never claim that I am going to heaven over a man who changes the name of God, whether it be to Universe, Buddha, Allah, or any other name.  To me it is the understanding and belief in a higher power that matters.  I apologize to you if that offends you but please try to realize that this is where my mind is at this time as I will appreciate where your mind is at this time and our levels of understanding our different.  You will never be mad, if you can understand that people operate under their levels of understanding and you try to appreciate every circumstance and learn from everything.  We are truly just student and teacher at all times.  Nothing more and nothing less.  Right now you are learning my understanding and when I read your comments you will be my teacher.

So I have been reading a great book about all the different religions.  The book is called,” God’s Breath” and it touches base on about six books of religion.  At this time, I have only read the book of Genesis and am currently reading the Tao te Ching.  The book of Genesis is different.  I am not saying that the book is any type of outrageous but I didnt really understand why certain events happened.  I understood being mad at man and drowning everything so we needed the Arc.  I understand that Eve was the cause, man was dumb and happy with doing what he is told. (Ha, Ha)  I understand jealousy and Cain and Abel.  I understand faith but did not understand circumsizing everybody or being willing to kill my child in faith of God or the Universe.  I may be killed for this blog but I would die and spend an eternity in Hell before I would kill my child.  Im sorry but that is how I feel.  I feel that God as a gracious being would not ask someone to do that.  I understand that it was just a test but I think he tests in other ways.  What is up with the circumsizing?  So is that the reason why we are all circumsized?  Really, because King James may have misinterpreted something, we have all been circumsized?  Why would God want us to do that?  I mean no disrespect to the higher power.  I have utmost respect for God or the Universe or whoever built it all. 

In my mind, there has to be some higher power as even if you believe in the big bang theory something had to create the gases and the matter to blow up.  There had to be a beginning.  There has to be the Alpha.  I feel bad for people that arent open minded enough to at least explore the possibility of there being a God or higher power.  I know you are going to be mad at me for this one, but I also feel bad for the people who are not open minded enough to believe that their religion may not be the only correct answer.  Religion also to me is not going to church.  There are Pastors who are evil and bad people just like in every other part of the world.  Some are worse because they use the church as their excuse.  When I evicted my last tenant due to non-payment, she told me that it was because she was working at the church for free during the day.  I told her to get another job and she told me that it would work out.  Real christian lady that drove a Jaguar but refused to pay her bills.  I had to get rid of her.  To spite me, she drove her car through my yard, nearly missing my baby’s room, poured bleach on the carpets, and destroyed the house.  Just because you go to church doesnt mean you are a good person.  I am glad for this experience as I have learned a lot about punishing myself and my family at the benefit of other people.  That condo was brand new and she destroyed it.  I will never hurt my family to help someone out again.  I have learned a lot about myself, my values and my priorities since the birth of my baby Sophie.

Next in the book is the Tao te Ching.  This book is an Eastern religion meaning the way or the spiritual way.  Its a bit confusing but what I take from it are sayings like; if you have to ask, you will never know.  To me that means many things; patience and the answers will come, you already know the answer, balance in everything, everything is correct in its own way, and so much more.

Well, that is what I have for now but expect more as I learn more.

Thank you for reading and please comment.

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Today is Joey’s 25th Birthday and unfortunately, he is off flying with the Air Force~

Sophie and I Miss you so very much and are counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until your arrival!! 

ok, not really edible…..but I thought it was kinda funny…..I couldn’t find any with lil cage fighters….

We will have a delicious ice cream cake waiting for you!!!

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In balancing life, I just wanted to talk a bit about how I have been balancing my life.  I work, man I have made over $40k in a month on multiple occasions.  Until recently, I managed to consistently make between $10k and $15k per month.  I would work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  It was all for the business.  Well, due to the birth of my new baby I have realized that I couldnt care less.  The more money I would make, the more I would spend and I have just as much in savings as I would if I worked the bare minimum that I am able to.

I used to work to build my business, BSO, I wanted to build a legacy and wanted it now.  I am a guy that built a million dollar plus portfolio out of pennies and thought I was completely in the right.  It was completely near sighted, patience is a virtue and all of that.  I guess right now I am overcorrecting as I dont care to acquire another listing and sure dont want to deal with another property right now.  It is good though as I am now hiring people to do all of the work that I dont want to do and hopefully the company is growing without me.

In fact, I have decided to sell one of my half finished renovations at a huge loss and another property that I dont care to deal with anymore.  I am going to lose in the short term but the happiness that I am able to bring to my family pales in comparison.

This brings on two more of the laws of spirit.  The cycles law and the law of nonresistance.  These two laws definitely deserve their own blog posts each and I hope to give them to them but for now I will just touch on them.  The law of nonresistance is what I practice in my martial arts training and involves never forcing anything.  You may call it going with the flow or plainly nonresistance.  In Jiu-jitsu I try to be like water flowing around my training partner and moving with his every push or pull.  If he pushes I pull, if he resists I change position, I constantly am moving away from what he doesnt want me to do and using my energy or ki as the Japanese say it to control what he wants.

Can you understand that?  It is just the same in life.  I have referred to this process before as being in the flow of the universe.  I have even written about it in this blog http://investingrocks.com/?p=255 - Manifesting. 

The cycles of life are also very important.  Look at your life, when your baby was born – how did your life change, how about high school or college, can you remember these cycles.  The laws of spirit teach us to recognize these cycles, good or bad appreciate them, and move forward.  Have you lost a loved one, discovered the negativity of family members and had to part ways with them?  Im sorry for your loss and try to appreciate the reason for it, as hard as it may seem, there are reasons for your pain.  As far as parting from family, can you appreciate that member of your family is unable to be more open or is trapped in his way of thinking. 

That would bring me to a whole different topic, the topic of lucid living but we will get into that in another post.

Thanks for reading.

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You know I have ran the road of success for quite some time now and have had a great level of it.  Through manifestation and plenty of hard work and perserverance we are doing great and only see levels of accomplishment and success to increase.

I watched the movie Funny People with Adam Sandler and Ill tell you, you should watch it – hilarious, but it made me think about what I am working toward. 

Let me tell you; I have my own island, nothing outrageous just a few houses of family some land and a lot of beach.  A very big home, big enough to get lost in and enough funds to give any and everything away.  Real happiness in traveling the world and spending time with great minds.  I am talking about people on the same level as some of these superstars in the media, when I think of the type of person that is my friend, I think of Tyler Perry.  My best friend is of course my wife and like in Funny People we are good friends with these successful people.  People like Tony Robbins calls to keep us motivated, I mean why not?

Tony Robbins went from making less than $30k in one year to over 1 million just through manifestation.  He is no better than me and I am no better than you.  I have realized that I am a great mind and we all have the same ability.  Wow, just writing that brought a tear to my eye.

What do you think the truth is?  Is it your 9-5, your dissappointed child or your second guessing wife?  For me and Tony Robbins, thats not it at all.  For people that believe, we are able to eliminate that negativity and prosper through the positive.

So, right now I am building the road map to these Big, Hairy, Audacious, Goals and I have been thinking about all that I need to do to ensure the future that I will have.  First thing I was thinking of was a radio show.  I help people one person at a time right now and I need to reach more people because we all need to think like this.  We need to be in control.  We are the smartest specie in the world yet in masses we act like cattle.  What is the old saying, ”A person is smart, people are stupid.”  Why?  Well, Im not sure but I want to have a stronger influence on a better way of life for everyone.

We should all lead a life of peak performance – mind, body, and soul.  A life without fear or hatred, a life where we are honestly happy.  Are you honestly happy?

Well, I am looking into the radio show now and hopefully you will listen in and please comment on this post.  I owe my success to my way of life and I couldnt be any happier.  Even in the worst recession ever, you dont have to accept the bad you are able to manifest the greatest life you could ever imagine.  Stick with me and I will show you how to honestly bring this life to fruition.

This blog used to be all about investing in real estate, it has quickly become about the ultimate investment, investing in yourself.

Thanks for reading and comment.

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Well, Real Estate Entrepreneurs, there are a couple of things I would like to talk about today.  First, I would like to talk about my wife’s scary dream the other day.  It is surprising how accurate interpretations can be.

She continuosly dreamt of the number seven.  Everything that happened was seven times, seven of the same words, seven of the same actions, etc. 

Here is the scary part, there were no other people in the dream but she died in her dream seven times.  Scary huh, what do you think that could mean.  Well, we consulted one of our favorite people, who is also a dream consultant www.CharlestonHypnotherapy.com as well as did our own interpretation through dream moods a google searched dream dictionary.

We did not know how to feel so I started by researching the number seven.  The number seven is the number that defines spiritual perfection.  Seven is how long it took to create a perfect world, and seven is the day of rest.   So now I am really concerned.  My wife and the perfect death?

Not quite, in dreams, dying symbolizes a new beginning.  Dying shows that you are leaving your old ways and recreating a new future with all new paths.  In this case, one could only assume that the number seven shows that my wife has left her old paths of uncertainty and she has ascertained spiritual perfection or is at least on that new path.  It is overwhelmingly amazing to me.  This happened about a week ago and I was so overcome by joy for her that I am still thinking about it now.

We have really reached the level of universal love and everything happens to us the way we want it to.  We were running a bit tight on money the other day and my wife said we need some more money, she looked at my reserve pay website and I am getting a check tomorrow for an additional $3600.  We had no idea this money was coming we just wanted it.  It is so amazing.  I guess when we got married I never got paid for a dependent and now a year later we get a bunch of back pay.

It is amazing how it works.  The mind is the most amazing thing on earth and there is just so much that we do not know about it.  If you are not drawing from the universe consciously, you need to be.  I have never been this happy, and I will only continue to be more fortunate and to live an even greater life.

Join me, email me, and please comment.

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This is probably going to be a two or three part blog.  I have been very enthusiastic over the past couple of months as to training jiu jitsu and how it interacts with my life.  Today, I am considering how this art compares to business.

I have been studying the combinations and I will write them below.  Please let me know how you think they relate to business.

Closed Guard

- Arm wrap, to triangle, to triangle arm bar, to arm bar, to scissor sweep, to foot sweep, back to closed guard, to armlock bridge sweep, to mounted arm bar

- Behind neck grip, to lapel choke, to gi choke, to behind neck choke, to behind neck posture sweep, to scissor sweep, to foot sweep, to mounted position of back to closed guard

- Closed guard, to kimura, to guillotine choke, to guillotine sweep, to mount or closed guard

- Opponent is breaking guard, to spider guard, to triangle, to triangle arm bar, to arm bar, to scissor sweep, to foot sweep, to closed guard or mounted position 

- Opponent is in half guard, hipscape to closed guard, to half guard sweep to mount

- Side mount, to kimura, to full mount

- Full mount, to position, to kimura, to arm bar, to opposite arm bar

- Full mount, to position, to lapel choke, to gi choke, to behind neck choke, to kimura, to arm bar

- Back mount, to hooks in, to rear naked choke, to knee in back, to lapel choke, to gi choke, to arm triangle

- Escapes

- Turtle – no space for hooks, roll into closed guard,

- Neutral – no space for for hooks, roll into closed guard

- Closed Guard Pass – biceps control, knee under tailbone, transition to belt, knee down, hook in, back leg pass, into side mount,

- Arm bar – Roll out of arm bar

- Triangle – Elbow in knee to ground

- Open guard, control legs, spin opponent, or 180 degree spin pass 

So please with what you have read, how can you relate those combinations to being a real estate entrepreneur?

Thanks

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Hello Real Estate Entrepreneurs!!!!!

Today, I just wanted to talk a bit about how active my wife and I have been. She has just started at the gym and I am in my third month of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Being active like this is a huge part of your life. If you are not out being active these days, you’re wrong. It is just as everyone says, you have more energy and to tell you the truth, I am most excited to keep working out.

Here is a you tube video of my instructor. ( the guy is super nice, I didnt realize how much of a badass he is)

I cant believe I am learning how to do this stuff! Ha, Maybe in 10-15 years! Anyways, you need to be out and moving. Sitting on a computer does nothing but hurt you and we are becoming more and more successful everyday. Audrey is doing pilates, working out, kickboxing, and yoga. We are having a blast!

We are both more exciting, more confident and much happier! How long has it been since you and your spouse have been happy about life! Especially in this recession, do some working out, get a cheap gym membership, or go for a walk. There is so much to be thankful for and most of it is free.

Right now I want you to make a promise to me, say this, ” Joey, I will make a commitment to be more active everyday. I will make an effort to be a better spouse. I will enjoy everyday of my life.” You never know what day will be your last.

On an exit note, check out Renato submit this guy with a rear naked choke in the cage! Good Luck entrepreneurs

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