Earlier this year I had the privilege of hosting Heroic Event.  One of the speakers there Kene Iloenyosi discussed Finding Your Sweet Spot, based on the book he wrote with the same name.   My question was, can you lead others when you aren’t in your sweet spot.

The short answer is of course yes, people teach others when they haven’t fully mastered it yet.  In fact, the road to mastery is often found in teaching, oddly enough.  It’s only through teaching that people will put themselves in another’s shoes to see the entire picture of the subject being taught.  If leadership is influence and influence has to do with relationships, then having clarity is more important then just being Passionate, Interested and Talented.  However, when combined with the sweet spot, Leadership can take people to new heights.  John Maxwell is a great example.  A talented, passionate and interested leader was made better when he dived into teaching leadership and actually leading others through leadership.

If you haven’t seen Kene’s Video or talk about “Finding Your Sweet Spot” it’s below, worth the 8 minutes.  If you like his talk, you’ll love his book! 

I recently took a class on Luxury Home Marketing and they spent a great deal covering the clientele that purchases luxury homes (in Atlanta that’s anything over $500K).

What struck me was the interesting facts that was reminiscent of a Dave Ramsey episode or “The Millionaire Next Door.”

The Average Millionaire falls has the following

• Has a Household income of roughly $145,000
• Saves around 20%
• Married for most of their adult life to the same spouse
• Has 2 children.

After learning this, it hit me.  We should all have a millionaire mindset.  Sure we might not be able to have that kind of income but we can strive to save 20%, stay married and have or adopt children.  When you look at God’s plan for most of our lives, these 3 characteristics are very Godly, they represent being good stewards and the relationship with your spouse and children teach you so much about God’s love for us and our relationship that, hey! Now I want everyone to act like a Millionaire.

I’d say it’s the story of my life if it weren’t so cliche’ but the honest truth is that I’ve spent a good bit of my adulthood rushing into ideas to get them started.  Sometimes I credited God with the idea especially lately, but it seems that the lesson of “wait on Me” is certainly one that will take a lot of time to learn.

What happens so often is I get an “inkling” of an idea.  I feel like God is leading me here, then I take off and run headfirst into the idea, usually without a plan.   It really wasn’t until Heroic Event that I really waited on Him.   I figure, He says, go and conquer, so I must go and conquer.  Can you imagine if my namesake (Joshua) did this in the battle of Jericho?  What if they only marched once?  Disastrous!  If you know anything about the story of the battle of Jericho, then you know that the walls were so high and thick that it was basically a road around the top of the city.

As we do at the end of the year it’s time to review the year and from my perspective I’ve learned quite a bit about real estate in general, here’s my year in review for real estate.

Real Estate is Always Mostly A Good Investment with the Right Mindset

Well not always, but if you buy with the investor mindset it’s really hard to do something wrong in real estate.  This basically applies to homes that in the median or below price points (not luxury).

This year has been one of many changes for LinkedIn, but this latest one is a good one in my opinion.   You now have the ability to “endorse” others and to add a bunch of other information to your profile that you couldn’t otherwise.  However, for the longest time the only way to put a video on your profile was through a “hack” by using the slideshare plugin.

Now you can add your videos pretty simply.  There is no trick to Adding Videos To Your LinkedIn Profile, in fact, adding youtube videos is very easy.

You simply need to login into Linkedin.

Click on your Profile

Click on Edit

Then click the square with the plus sign

You’ll have an option to: “Add a link to a video, image, document, presentation..”

Paste your Youtube Video Link or other link.

That’s It!

Once done you’ll see your video like the image above.

When you only have one simple key to sales success it’s really hard to tease it up, so here it is.