So I’ve only got 20 days left in Champaign and I’m changing my focus a bit (actually it would’ve been 10 days left, but my apt complex doesn’t pro-rate. So I’m here until the end of month).  I’m going to focus more on getting my property scouts in place and setting up training videos for them to review.  I need to focus more and more on WORKING SMART.  It’s become more and more clear to me since I left my 9-5 that i hate working!  At first I thought I just hated working for someone else….WRONG.  I hate working even for myself!  I didn’t get into real estate to create a job for myself.  I’m in this to make money work for me.  And real estate is just the beginning.  There is so much other stuff regarding internet marketing that I haven’t even exploited yet, it’s ridiculous.  But I have to tackle one thing at a time right.  So right now it’s real estate and I’m in the process of putting together training videos for my property scouts so that I don’t have to indefinitely be a broken record when recruiting new scouts.  I’ll just say, “Watch the videos. If this is up your alley, cool.  If not, peace out.”

So I’m on the way to the courthouse to create a training video for my scouts to pull probate records.  Funny thing is, I’m going to try and get my Flip Mino inside.  All of the notices outside the courthouse only say that you can’t bring in a cell-phone.  They say nothing about cameras, video cameras, etc.  Plus I already asked about taking my laptop inside and they said that was ok.  So…I’m thinking what’s the difference between my laptop cam and my flip cam…there shouldn’t be.

Yesterday, I took a spontaneous road-trip to Chicago to use the road time to chill-out and brain-storm and listen to my “4-hour work week” audiobook.  This was a great decision.  This book comes highly recommended by many entrepreneurs and I now know why.  In this short month, that I’ve been full-time, I’ve been doing a few things wrong.  One of the main things is letting little things leech my time.  For instance, up until this morning, I had Yahoo.com set as my browser homepage.  Almost 4 times a day, I would get distracted by reading some unnecessary article as a result of just opening a new browser window, this probably eats at least 10 minutes per hour. I now set Google as my homepage.  Next, I’ll have to work on not checking my email so often.  I already don’t watch the news, so I’m good there.  The part I like most so far, is avoiding phone calls and meetings.  Because half of the time, they’re absolutely unnecessary, as an email will suffice and be more to the point.  Those of you who’ve read the book know what I’m talking about.  I’m only half-through and it’s already opened my eyes to some of the pointless tasks that I consume myself with daily.  Such as numerous phone calls with people that aren’t adding to the bottom line (I literally just had a phone call with an end-buyer insurance agent, while typing this, concerning his access to a property.  I have no idea why he called me about this as he should correspond with the seller directly. I gave him her contact information weeks ago. He just murdered 5 minutes of my life.)   Same with email.  I’m going to start trimming the fat.  You don’t get my time if I don’t like you and/or you’re not talking about putting money in my pocket.

So a quick synopsis of my current situation:

2 closings tied-up with a bankruptcy
1 closing scheduled for end of this week (I have a feeling this isn’t going to happen)
3 new properties under-contract, no end-buyer yet

Welp….off to the courthouse.

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As I mentioned a this morning, I planned to create a quick tutorial on Windows Movie Maker.  Since, I was bored and didn’t have enough time to work on my offers, I threw it together this morning.  It is an extremely quick run-through, but I hope at least one person finds it helpful.  I actually learned something, I actually like the wipe-away transition, I may start using it.

The tutorial was made up of some random footage that I took with my Flip Mino HD.  I didn’t preview the whole clip prior to publishing it, I have to admit I was cracking up after hearing some of my in-car footage.  Anyway, here is the tutorial:

Okay, so I lied.  I realized the video was already 13 minutes long, so I didn’t feel the need to comeback and continue the video.  So I posted the end result to YouTube as well so here it is:

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