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Breakthrough to Become a First-Time Investment Real Estate Investor 6 Must-Have Qualities For over 15 years I have been mentoring, advising, and coaching first-time investment real estate investors and there are six distinct qualities I have found in my most successful investment real estate investors. Some of these must-have qualities taught and some you are born…

If I had a dollar for every time I have heard the saying; “ People who can’t do; teach”; my pockets would be full of Fool’s Gold. I have many friends who are teachers, and a universal quality I have noticed about my friends who are teachers is they are “World Class” parents and grandparents.…

My entire childhood spent as a tenant in someone else’s home. My Dad was a proud member of the Armed Forces, and for all of my infancy, childhood and most of my teenage years my parents rented.  We were good tenants respectful of the landlord’s property. I remember a trip my Dad, and I made…

Protecting Yourself with Changing Seasons I am sure most of us have noticed when mother nature changes seasons the weather transition between seasons creates havoc with our health; physical or mental. The heating and cooling trends back and forth take its toll on our physical health and the change from light to darkness or even darkness to…

It is often said; “Follow your passion, and it will never feel like work.” Today we find thousands of people worldwide buying a franchise. There are many great franchises; most tier one franchises require you to be a millionaire or a multi-millionaire before you can join the select club of franchise owners. Recently in his blog post; DON…

If You Were a Bank Account; What Would You Look Like? Would you be short on funds and only enjoy receiving revenue a couple of times a month. Would you as these funds tend to cover your outgoing payments and monthly expenditures with not much left over?  At the beginning of the next month would your…

You can’t out train a bad diet. This time of year we are all making New Year’s Resolutions, and one of the most popular resolution is losing weight; try and go to a gym in the first two weeks of the new year.  With the gyms and fitness clubs full,  everyone is pushing their bodies hard…

Stepping Up Your Investment Goals As a 1/2 Marathon Runner, I am always looking at how to get an edge in my training. There are many straightforward pieces of fitness monitoring equipment.  Whether you use a Polar Loop, a Fitbit, a Garmin or one of many other personal fitness monitors you can wear and track your…

Unearthing One of Life’s Most Valuable Assets When you get immersed in your career as an employee, you tend to overlook one of your life’s most valuable assets. Most North Americans work for someone else as their way to a life of financial and benefit security. Historically from 1989 to the present day, the number…

The Loss of The Great One On April 18, 1999, Wayne Gretzky played his last game in the NHL (National Hockey League) an NHL career that spanned 20 years. (1979 to 1999) In a previous blog post, I described my meeting and a conversation with Wayne’s Dad Walter Gretzky. (click on the link to read this post; Challenge;…