Invest in Sqft Matt Shields

In this episode, we delve deep into the treacherous terrain of entrepreneur burnout. Join us as we explore the subtle yet powerful warning signs that often go unnoticed, leading to the demise of even the most passionate and driven individuals. From relentless workaholism to deteriorating mental and physical health, we leave no stone unturned in uncovering the silent saboteurs that lurk beneath the surface.
But fear not! We don't stop at mere identification; we equip you with a toolbox of strategies and insights to combat and conquer burnout. James shares his personal experiences and battle-tested advice on how to regain control, rekindle your passion, and build resilience in the face of adversity.
Tune in to discover the transformative power of self-care, boundary-setting, and purpose-driven decision-making. We'll guide you through practical steps and mindset shifts to not only survive but thrive in the entrepreneurial world. Don't let burnout extinguish your dreams—ignite a new flame of balance, fulfillment, and sustainable success. Join us on this empowering journey toward reclaiming your entrepreneurial fire. #highperformance #burnout #selfcare #health 
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This is just a reminder. This is something that I've come across a number of times in my career as an entrepreneur, but it absolutely is true. If you know that you don't have the right people in the right seats, you should really look into changing that and getting the right people in the right seats.
We've had. A lot of turnover in some of our companies in the last six months or so, and a lot of it had to do with underperformance and me wanting to give people the opportunity to be able to quote unquote, grow into the position since we've replaced them and found other people to be able to be in those positions.
Those. Opportunities, those areas has have absolutely flourished. So don't be afraid to make that change when you see things not happening, uh, no matter how much you might want to keep kicking the can down the road. So,
 On invest in square feet, we unlock the secrets of wealthy entrepreneurship. I'm Matt Shields and my mission is to help business owners just like you, protect your wealth so that you can invest passively into multifamily real estate. And speaking of investing passively in multifamily real estate, if you are looking to learn more about that, head over to invest in square feet and sign up for our monthly trainings where we walk.
Are potential investors through some of the knowledge that you need to have as a passive investor. In the multifamily industry today we're gonna talk about a topic that does not get covered nearly, nearly enough, and it's something that pretty well all entrepreneurs are going to face at one time or another, and they may not even realize that they're facing this.
The questions that we're going to answer today is, are you pushing yourself toward burnouts? We're gonna learn the hidden signs that high achievers normally will start portraying when they are on their path to toward burnout. And we're, we're gonna learn how to identify them and what to do when you are in those situations, or even have your loved ones listen to this episode so that they can understand whether or not.
You might be going through a burnout situation and they can help identify those particular situations. So with that, let's get onto the show. max@podcastboutique.com
  Well, the interesting thing about high performers like yourself is that high performers, you know, naturally can actually. Like go through burnout whilst not knowing

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Today, I'm afraid I don't have very much insightful wisdom for you. I've been covering a property management position at a large property, 275 units here in Shaker Heights during a transition period between our property managers. So essentially we have our own property management company, but the.
Person, the individual who is managing this particular property decided to move on. A few weeks ago we found a replacement and he's gonna be starting in about a week and a half, and I'm covering during that period. So it's been a little bit busy and haven't had too much time to learn that much, but I hope you enjoy today's episode nonetheless.
 Invest in square feet, we unlock the secrets of wealthy entrepreneurship. I'm Matt Shields and my mission is to help business owners just like you, protect your wealth so that you can invest passively in multi-family real estate. Today we're gonna learn all about short-term rental units. And why? One of the biggest misconceptions about short-term rental units is that you have to be in a vacation area in order to make it work.
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 Yeah. Uh, so I think there's probably two main things that I can point to back then. Number one was I was not clear on the outcome that I was after. So I, I got out of the military and I sort of, Envision just business success is making a bunch of money. And I started self-educating, going to a lot of different conferences and stuff, and you'd see the, the gurus on stage and they'd have, you know, uh, all the flashy things that they'd, they'd point to as success.
And that was kind of like, I guess my, my. Version of success at that time. And I, I was sort of chasing this, this idealistic version of success. And then it wasn't until till years later that I got really specific on what's my version of success. And I realized none of that material stuff even matters to me.
Um, and it was really, freedom is what I was after and cre and to get there, I needed to create cash flow. And so, So what I was doing in the beginning wasn't matching with the outcome that I really wanted, and so I, I could never get there because I wasn't very specific on, on what that outcome looked like for me.
Once I got real specific, then I could backwards plan and create the steps and then just follow the steps. Mm-hmm. Um, and then the other thing was I wasn't, um, I, I don't know if it's realistic or just I, I wasn't educated enough to understand the numbers and what it would take. To create a business and where to spend the money in the right place, that's actually gonna matter in the beginning, you know, and everyone telling you you need to do all these different things.
There's a million things you can spend your money on, and 90% of it is just bs. It, it doesn't, it doesn't matter. It's you. If

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Roger shares invaluable insights, proven strategies, and real-life stories of triumphs and challenges from his own remarkable career. With a passion for teaching and a knack for breaking down complex concepts into actionable steps, he empowers aspiring house flippers with the knowledge and tools they need to succeed.
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I made some ribs recently and I get asked this all the time for my rib recipe, so I figured I would go ahead and share it here.  Basically, all I do is smear.
Yellow mustard all over the ribs. You tried to trim up the ribs, ribs a little bit. You know, think of the ribs as needing to be aerodynamic so that the smoke flows over those ribs. So trim them up a little bit. And then yellow mustard. And then I do a mixture of, uh, two parts, pepper. Uh, it's a black crushed pepper, and I, I crush up my own, uh, fresh pepper.
Uh, and then the third part is salt. Uh, you. Push, uh, uh, sprinkle that all over the top, give it a good coating, and then go ahead and place that on the smoker. Uh, and then once an hour, I will spray it with apple cider vinegar. And then, um, about three hours. So, so every, every hour you're spraying these things.
And then in about three hours or so, go ahead and wrap them in foil. When you wrap them in foil. Um, take your favorite barbecue sauce and dilute it with. Apple cider vinegar and then spray that on top. And what ends up happening is that bubbles and creates this great, wonderful. Uh, um, you know, juice inside of the foil.
So you hook that for maybe about another two hours or so on the grill, on the smoker. Uh, and what I like to do is I like to smoke them with hickory wood, so that's pretty well about it. These ribs are gonna be fall off the bone tender. Uh, so, so good. They create a great juice, a great, uh, a great sauce right inside of there.
Uh, you don't even need barbecue sauce with them. Hope you enjoy.
 On invest in square feet, we unlock the secrets of wealthy entrepreneurship. I'm Matt Shields and my mission is to help business owners just like you, protect your wealth so that you can invest passively into multi-family real estate. Today we're going to be talking to Roger Blankenship, who has a long history of real estate investment.
Roger also hosts a very, very popular podcast called Flipping America on Flipping Real Estate. The one thing that I learned from this episode that I think is really interesting is Rogers. Thoughts on entrepreneurial success and what it takes to be able to get there. So we are gonna get right into things and start learning from Roger.
 I. Did pretty well as an investor for many years.
And, uh, then I know this, you're gonna find this hard to believe. I got cocky and I, uh, felt I was feeling bulletproof. Everything we had done had worked out well, and so I decided, uh, I either gotta decided to retire or go large and we decided to go large and I went out and got a big line of credit and I started buying properties all over the southeast.
Long story short, bad hiring decisions and uh, mainly it was just bad hiring decisions. We followed a thoughtful process that I got from my coach, but uh, that business imploded and we lost everything 2014, not in the crash, years after

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Today on Invest in Square Feet, we have a special episode. We've received many comments, wanting to know more about my background and how I got to where I am today. So today I have Troy, who is a recent guest on the Invest in Square Feet Podcast, interview me about some of my upbringings and the way that I look at certain situations.
We all have events that shape and mold our responses and our reactions to things, and I get pretty deep into some of the personal experiences that I've gone through, some of the hardships that I've gone through in my life. My goal with all of this is to be more open and more transparent with all of our listeners so that you guys can know me a little bit better and understand where I might be coming from, from specific events or happenings that I might have gone through in my own life.
 On Invest in Square Feet, we unlock the secrets of wealthy entrepreneurship. I'm Matt Shields and my mission is to help business owners protect and grow their business so that they can invest. Passively into multi-family real estate. So today's gonna be a little bit different as the intro had described before.
I'm going to be interviewed today and tell a little bit about my story and the reason why I wanted to do this. So that everyone can understand that we all go through setbacks and struggles. I reveal some of the things that I've gone through, some of the low points in my life to where I am today, how I sprung back from those situations, and literally today I own multimillion dollars worth of real estate.
I hope this inspires you and I hope that it connects you a little bit more with my story. And what I've been able to accomplish, and I look forward to having you reach out, and I'd love to be able to help you take your business to the next level so that you can also do the same thing, and also invest in multi-million dollars worth of real estate.
 I love, the mindset of referring to these ebbs and flows of life, as,  seasons right? So many people get so bogged down into my life is falling apart. Things aren't going well. And, that's not the way that life is always going to be. You know, you're going through a season, maybe it lasts six months, four months, a year, you know, things will get better and you have to recognize that it's a learning opportunity and it's a learning opportunity to be able to really spring yourself forward because now you know what not to do, right?
You've already, you've already made it to that part, part where you feel like you failed or what have you. So, um, we all go through it and you just have to, to have

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 I was talking with Amanda Holmes about a week ago or so, and if you don't know who Amanda Holmes is, she is the daughter of Chet Holmes who wrote the Ultimate Sales Machine, which is known as the Red Bible in the marketing industry. Unfortunately, Chet passed away a number of years ago, and Amanda has taken over her father's companies.
We were talking about time management, and Amanda made a statement that I feel is so simplistic, but yet we all completely screw it up, right? We make things so much more complicated than what they should be. She said the number one technique for time management, and we've been deploying this ever since.
 
She said This is to only touch the thing once, so don't keep kicking the can down the road. Don't let things keep coming back up again. Talking about things re re. Engaging with things, touch it once, get it done, get it off your plate, and move on to the next thing. What this does is it allows you to keep moving things forward because basically what happens is if you  keep  doing a little bit here, a little bit there, before you know it, your bandwidth is completely.
Taken over, right? You are completely using everything that you can concentrate on just to get all of this stuff done that you have in your life. So by getting rid of it, seeing it once, touching it once, addressing it, accomplishing it, filing it, whatever the thing is, that is the way to be able to properly manage your time 
I was talking with Amanda Holmes about a week ago or so, and if you don't know who Amanda Holmes is, she is the daughter of Chet Holmes who wrote the Ultimate Sales Machine, which is known as the Red Bible in the marketing industry. Unfortunately, Chet passed away a number of years ago, and Amanda has taken over her father's companies.
We were talking about time management, and Amanda made a statement that I feel is so simplistic, but yet we all completely screw it up, right? We make things so much more complicated than what they should be. She said the number one technique for time management, and we've been deploying this ever since.
She said This is to only touch the thing once, so don't keep kicking the can down the road. Don't let things keep coming back up again. Talking about things re re. Engaging with things, touch it once, get it done, get it off your plate, and move on to the next thing. What this does is it allows you to keep moving things

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Troy Aberle Executive Strategy Officer
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The Ultimate Sales Machine - New Edition
The Ultimate Sales Machine - Amazon
I'm curious to learn if anyone has any experiences similar to this. Have you heard of the technique called tapping? It's a way to be able to get over different issues that we may have going on in our psyche. And for me, I learned a few weeks ago that I actually have a phobia, and that phobia is basically.
Me worrying that my blood is going to get damaged. This is something that I've always struggled with my entire life, but I didn't know that it was a phobia until a few weeks ago. So this tapping technique puts us into these different positions where we think about times when we were experiencing whatever the issue is, right?
So for me it was when I was, when my, when I had cuts or when I was trying to give blood, and we quite literally would. Recognize where we were feeling stress in our body. And again, for me, it's right kind of in the middle of the chest and you actually tap on that area and then you do a clearing technique, which I have to tell you as I was doing this, I could definitely feel the tension in my chest, in my.
In right in the middle of my chest and halfway through it did start to clear and I could actually feel myself sort of open up and, and dissipate that feeling. So this is very, very new to me. I've never done anything like this before, but I'm curious if anyone else has any experiences that they were able to clear any type of ailments or blockages that they might have.
So let us know. I wanna learn more about this and dive a little bit more into this topic.
 On invest in square feet, we unlock the secrets of wealthy entrepreneurship. I'm Matt Shields and my mission is to help business owners just like you grow and protect your wealth so that you can invest passively into multi-family real estate. Today we're gonna be talking about some practical techniques that we can use to evaluate.
Our life and how our life is playing out in front of us. The goal with this is to be able to increase your personal relationships and also your business relationships to be able to increase sales. And we're gonna be talking to someone who is done exactly that. As a matter of fact, he's sold more than 40 million in a year, which was I think about five times more than anyone else in the company.
By going through and doing these exact strategies.
 I woke up on December 1st and I said, you know what?
I'm gonna start a new chapter. And I wrote down a, uh, three things on my, on my board, and your audience can do this too, is I've taken a piece of paper out and at the to