Is your ego holding you back? I have been reading Barbara Stanny’s book Sacred Success and that is one of the first questions asked in the book.
Stanny talks about four core principles of wealth and power that are vital to sacred success.
They are:
- Financial well-being is essential to achieving greatness
- Our financial foundation is only as strong as our individual integrity
- Power demands responsibility
- Our power comes from one of two sources–Love or Fear
All of these are pretty intense, I am going to focus on number one.
GREATNESS is a scary word. In order to come close to achieving the greatness that we are meant for, the distractions of financial instability need to be reduced. We hate to admit it, in this world money and power are linked.
How do you get power?
The first step is to break a “rule”. I don’t know what your rules are. Mine has to do with going to school, a lot of school and getting a good, high paying job. That’s why I became a doctor. The implication is that following the rules leads to security.
What is security?
Back when I was following the rules, it meant that I would be respected and always have a high income. There have been times in medicine when I did not have a high income, my security was lost.
How did I get my security back?
I broke a rule, I have gone outside of medicine to make money. What I do with Money With Mission does not require a medical degree. I have learned much of what I know from other people who invest in real estate.
Breaking this rule has not been easy. Other doctors have negative things to say, my parents were worried-and they did not worry silently. My own ego told me to stop and stay safe in the folds of what I went to school for.
I have now been a real estate investor for over 15 years. I didn’t go to real estate investor college. I have learned from real estate investors. I have learned from my own mistakes. It is challenging, but I love the security that I have in knowing that I am the one that I count on for my income. It is my creativity that gets me where I want to go. Yes, I still have income from medicine, but I am getting more and more comfortable with the thought of letting it go completely.
Founding Money with Mission, feels like I have arrived. It feels like the right place for me to be, investing in communities, leveraging dollars to have a positive impact on neighborhoods and my investors bottom line.
My investors trust me to put their money to work, to watch over the investment, and do my best to bring financial returns and make sure the project has a positive impact.
That trust is of the utmost importance to me. I cherish it and guard it. Having that trust makes me feel great. It took breaking some rules to get here.
What rules will you break to reach your greatness?
