Hey, what’s going on fellow investors. This is John coming back at you this week to talk about the fourth secret with the ten secrets and that is make a to-do list. We started out with the big why, understanding the fundamental reason that motivates you, that drives you and myself to be able to do the thing that we need to do. Then we went into accomplishing goals as our second secret and setting huge, big goals, but ones in a smart method. Ones that still stretch us and get us outside of our comfort zone and we talked about who we become during that process. We’ll get in a little bit more of that here, but we especially talked about having a long term goal with a time line far out in the future and then walking that back to what we need to do today. A little bit of what we talk about today will go into that as well.
Then the third one, we talked about it’s finding a mentor to hold you accountable, to give you insight, making sure that you’re learning from someone else’s mistakes. That way you don’t have to create the same mistakes, you can make new mistakes and yourself even further, faster, by using a mentor. Today we’re talking about making a to-do list and why it’s important. We’ll talk a little bit about tools you can use. First out we’ll talk about the tools. There’s a couple different apps you could use, there’s plenty of things that are out there. If you already have a calendar, if you already have a planner that you use I suggest either stay with what you know and if you’re willing to learn a few more things that’s great too.
I know Kieth here at REI Wealth Academy uses Toodeldo. T-O-O-D-E-L-D-O.com. Toodeldo.com is what he uses for it and it’s very similar to the one thing that he teaches quite a bit and that’s what I’m gonna give you is the now, the soon and the later list. So you take a piece of paper, separate it into three columns, label it now, soon and later for those three columns.
What you’re gonna do in a … It’s gonna be simple, it won’t blow your minds, I promise, but you’re gonna focus on all the things that you need to do, make a list. Then you’re gonna put a category in there of something that you can do today or within the next 24 hours in the now category. For the things that are in the soon category you’re gonna put those for things that you can do within the next week that are outside of the now. Then you’re also gonna put other tasks that you need to do for the later category as a week beyond.
So every day that you’re coming to this you’re moving things from the soon list into the now list as you’re accomplishing it and then you’re moving things from the later list into the soon list every week. That way you’re on track with keeping all those things as you’re taking them off. The thing is, the reason why this is important step is this is where the rubber meets the road. We’ve talked about the big ideas of your why, we’ve talked about the big ideas of setting your goals and chucking them all the way down, but this is the discipline that helps you get there. Checking off those steps are what is going to take you to the next step. That’s a real quick video to talk about it. We got two more coming up, make sure you stay tuned for those.
This is John, signing off, make sure you follow us at REIWealthAcademy.com, at the blog that we have there also find us on Facebook Real Estate Investor Wealth Academy, and also make sure you check out if you’re a part of the Roanoke group the Real Estate Education group as well. With that, this is John signing off; I’ll see you next time.