Can you really change your life in just
 
three minutes
 
Well, my name is Brandon Turner with Biggerpockets.com
 
and today I want to share
 
with you one of the most profound yet
 
ridiculously simple concepts I've ever
 
heard. Something that could change the
 
next 30 50 or even hundred years of your
 
life in just the next three minutes but
 
first let's try a very brief exercise.
 
Now close your eyes and I know it's
 
gonna get a little bit weird here but
 
trust me it's okay.
 
Close them. Closed? All right, now picture
 
yourself right now today - what are you
 
wearing? Where are you at? How much
 
money is in your bank account? How much
 
freedom do you enjoy? How much time do you
 
spend with family and friends?
 
How many friends do you have? What do you
 
look like? Now that you got that mental
 
picture of who you are in your mind
 
keep your eyes closed, but erase that
 
image and replace it with an image of
 
who you want to become. Imagine the
 
perfect you, perfect future, you think
 
about how you want to look and how you
 
want to feel, how you wan't people to
 
perceive you, how much time you spend
 
traveling, volunteering, hanging out with
 
family, what does your business look like
 
and what about your investments?
 
Okay, now open your eyes and tell me what
 
is the difference between the mental
 
picture of you today and the mental
 
picture of you in the future?
 
Well, ultimately the difference between
 
who you are today and who you want to
 
become comes down to one thing. Your
 
choices. The choices that you make each
 
and every day going forward determines
 
whether you are getting closer or
 
further away from the person that you
 
want to become. Which brings me to the
 
concept that's so simple yet so profound
 
it will change your life, it's this. If
 
you don't like something change it. I'm
 
gonna say that again and then explain
 
what it means in more detail. If you
 
don't like something change it. Now as
 
human beings we have the incredible
 
power to choose almost everything in our
 
life so you don't like where you live
 
you can change that, if you don't like
 
what you look like,
 
you can change that as well. You
 
don't like how much money you have in
 
your bank account or how much time you
 
have to spend at work every week. Well
 
change it now. Of course this is an
 
obvious statement we all know that life
 
can be changed, but do we actually make
 
those changes in our life or do we just
 
complain about it and go back to
 
watching the next episode of our
 
favorite television show?
 
Take for example the guy working 50
 
hours a week at a desk job. He's 40
 
pounds overweight, bored out of his mind,
 
watching the clock slowly tick, tick, tick
 
his life away. He complained about the
 
situation with his wife, but nothing changes
 
in his life to change position. He just
 
shows up day after day after day wishing
 
for more. He sees other people live
 
an incredible life and say,  "boy, they sure
 
are lucky." But then let's talk about the
 
single mother working two jobs to
 
support herself and her three kids, but
 
longing for something more.
 
She spends her time actively changing
 
her situation. She listens to educational
 
audiobooks and podcasts on her drive to
 
work. She stayed up late working on her
 
side business after all the kids go to
 
sleep. She seeks out information that can
 
truly help her change and slowly week
 
after week her life begins to change.
 
Before you know it...
 
She's running a million-dollar a year
 
business changing the financial destiny
 
of her family forever. Now, was the woman
 
in the story more intelligent than the
 
man than in the previous story? Of course
 
not, right? She just made the choice and
 
the choice is to change. Now I'm telling
 
you this is not easy.
 
Of course it's not right - it takes wisdom
 
to accept that where you are today is
 
different from where you want to be. It takes
 
discipline to seek the education rather
 
than entertainment needed to get there and
 
it takes a lot of hard work to change
 
the direction of life, but isn't that
 
better than the alternative?
 
Wouldn't you rather change just a few years
 
of discipline now to become the future
 
better version of yourself that you
 
picture in your mind just a few moments
 
ago. The late great author and speaker
 
Jim Rohn once said, "Life doesn't get
 
better by chance it gets better by
 
change." And the beautiful thing about
 
changes that it happens in an instant.
 
So, will you make the change in your life
 
right now, that's going to transform the
 
next thirty, fifty or hundred years of
 
your life?
 
I hope so. Now, if you believe the words
 
I'm telling you today I'm gonna ask
 
three quick things of you. Number one.
 
Don't keep it to yourself, teach somebody
 
else this stuff today. Very easy way to
 
do that of course, share this video on
 
your Facebook feed, your family and
 
friends can change as well.
 
Secondly, if you guys like this video
 
click the thumbs up button on the video
 
player so the internet knows there's
 
value here in these words. And number
 
three. Go tell your parents, your kids,
 
or your spouse that you love them
 
because remember life is short,
 
precious and deeply rewarding.
 
For BiggerPockets.com my name is
 
Brandon Turner, signing off.
