Make money off of cash that you don’t even have. Leverage is this wonderful ability to borrow a percentage of your investment purchase. You obviously can’t take out a bank loan to buy stock… but real estate is a banger leverage opportunity.

You can buy a $100,000 home with as little as $5,000; the bank finances the other 95% for you in exchange for a specific rate of interest. So you’re making money off of the bank’s cash that you never even had. For this reason, real estate makes a great investment–it usually appreciates over time.

Therefore if you have little money, a real estate investment could be a fantastic way to increase your net worth.

Last night, we saw the legendary EVEL KNIEVEL. He’s a 60-some-year-old man infamous for his motorcycle jumps, crazy stunts, and daredevil ambition. Evel isn’t the kind of man that we ever connected to Aridni. But why not?

He’s an icon for risky achievements. No, the man doesn’t have any outstanding world records. He can barely walk now, and every jump and dare he’s ever dared to do has multiplied by three by younger generations that follow his footsteps. Nonetheless, this guy is gonna live in history. Evel did something that was very new in his day. The people following him won’t know such success, even though they do more daring motorcycle stunts today because they aren’t the first; Evel was the first. If you do the same in your ideas, you might find success, too.

This week’s guest writing team is… Todd’s family. Todd was notorious for finding niches to hit it big as a vendor. This motorcycle event was always one of them. The family checked the party out since Todd couldn’t do his regular sales.

Right now where I work there are a lot of extra steps in order to check someone out. The system was not built with usability in mind at all.

Let me take you through the steps to help someone with the register. For this example we’ll say they are buying a bottle of perfume for $37.50.

The Keys you would press would be as follows

F1
-enter your user number-
enter
enter
-enter where they are from-
enter
-enter the customer’s name-
enter
Scan barcode on perfume – or type in product number
Enter
Esc
F3
1
enter
-perfume seller’s user number
enter
enter
37.50
enter
PR
enter
A
Esc
US
40.
enter
F5

Now I have seen systems before that take extra steps to make a sale before, but never twenty seven of them.

Checking someone out should be as simple as scanning a product and entering the cash amount. Granted because of where I work I have to take the customer’s information and name, but that should not entail a huge plethora of steps.

So you’re homework for this weekend to identify the places where your business could benefit from a streamlined operation.

What is the number one thing that is stopping you from reaching your goals right now? Is it the environment? Or is it your attitude?

Keep in mind that you are smart enough to find a way to accomplish your dreams. Even if it means that you have to ask for help, or even go back to school. Perhaps you need to focus your ideas and business, or perhaps you need to expand it to a wider audience and demographic.

Making excuses won’t make you financially secure, and it certainly won’t help those around you. So take your project that you’re on now, and give it 100%. Do you want to look back at a bunch of good ideas that failed because you didn’t pursue them hard enough? Or would you like to see successful projects and a bunch of good ideas that you have yet to try?