One of the things you need as a real estate professional to help you to figure out how to go from where you are to where you want to be is a vision board. Don’t laugh at it. You see people posting their vision boards all the time on social media. You probably thought, “that’s a lot of mumbo-jumbo and a lot of silliness.” It’s actually not and I can speak to this from my own experience.
I put my pie in the sky goal on my vision board for 3 years
Years ago, I decided that, pie in the sky, if I could have any car I wanted, I wanted it to be a shiny matador red Lexus RX350. I had not driven a brand-new car since the year 2000. I had just started in lending and was making more money than I ever had and bought myself my first new car. That is since I was 16 years old, but I did not buy that car. My dad bought it for me.
So, I thought, “pie in the sky, I want this read Lexus RX 350. I put it on my vision board. That was 3 years ago. It took me 3 years of having that vision board be in front of my face on my bathroom mirror every single day for 2 years. It was also in my cubical at work every day for 2 years. Then I switched it and I did not put it on my vision board for 2018. But in my head its still burned into my—I can tell you exactly where it was—in the upper left-hand corner. It took until April of that year before I was able to go down to that Lexus dealership and walk in and pay cash for that red—matador red RX 350 2018, brand new with 35 miles on it.
Putting things on a vision board helps you visualize your goals and keeps them in front of you
Putting things down on a vision board gives you the visual that you need to visualize your goals so that you can bring them to life. It’s not good enough to save it on a dream board and keep it on your iPad. You have to put it in front of your adorable face every single day—preferably in two different places.
I know some people who make their goals their screen saver on their computer, on their phone, on their iPads, so they see them all day every day. They’re constantly in front of your face.
So, one of my major tips for you in my book Burn the Hamster Wheel is, you need a vision board of at least 3, preferably 5 or 6 things that you really, really, want “pie in the sky”, “Oh my gosh! I’d be so excited if that happened” things that are going to get you out of bed, make you feel excited to go to work every day. Believe it or not, even if it takes 3 years or even longer—like it did for me. It will come true. But you’ve got to make it happen.