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Slowing Down: How to Live More Deliberately in a Fast-Paced World

By Chad Carson 13 Comments Filed Under: Personal Productivity & Growth, Travel & Life

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Updated March 25, 2019   “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden Have you noticed that modern life is a drummer playing at breakneck speed?  From [Continue Reading]

Tagged With: Rolf Potts, Thoreau

3 Helpful Self-Reflection Exercises For the New Year

By Chad Carson 3 Comments Filed Under: Personal Productivity & Growth

3 New Year Self-Reflection Exercises

It’s nearly time to say goodbye to the old year and to say hello to a new one.  Soon you will jump into the hustle and bustle of another 12 months of your life.  But before you do, why not take a little time to slow down and reflect? Writer Carl Sandburg made a strong [Continue Reading]

Tagged With: life, Michael Gerber, Stephen Covey, Tal Ben Shahar

P/PC Balance: How to Be Effective Over the Short & Long-Run

By Chad Carson 7 Comments Filed Under: Personal Productivity & Growth

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Do you remember Aesop’s fable of the goose and the golden egg? One morning a farmer finds a glittering, golden-colored egg sitting beneath his goose. At first he thinks it is a prank, but he decides to have the egg appraised just in case. To the farmer’s amazement, the egg is pure gold! And each [Continue Reading]

Tagged With: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, effectiveness, P/PC Balance, Stephen Covey

How a 38-Year-Old Replaced His Job Income With Rentals (After Almost Giving Up)

By Chad Carson 16 Comments Filed Under: Getting Started, Investor Profiles, Personal Productivity & Growth

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In my Investor Profile Series, I use a question & answer format to share the stories of actual real estate investors at different stages of their investing careers. Today’s investor profile is about Anthony Petz, a real estate investor from Bellingham, Washington.  I have gotten to know Anthony very well through a multi-year real estate mastermind group.  [Continue Reading]

The Stoic Real Estate Investor – Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Economy

By Chad Carson 24 Comments Filed Under: Personal Productivity & Growth

The Stoic Real Estate Investor - Ancient Wisdom For the Modern Economy

Stoicism – have you heard of it? It was an ancient philosophy of life very popular for hundreds of years in ancient Greece and Rome. But its wisdom applies to us in the modern world. Stoicism can help you to become a better investor and a happier, more fulfilled person.  And relevant to the mission [Continue Reading]

Hustle – The Entrepreneur’s Secret Superpower

By Chad Carson 14 Comments Filed Under: Entrepreneurship & Business, Personal Productivity & Growth

Hustle - The Entrepreneur's Secret Superpower

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or gazelle. When the sun [Continue Reading]

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