It’s been a week since VISION, and Danny wants to share his favorite piece of the show. Danny sat down with Gary Acosta, the co-founder and CEO of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP®) to talk about how to take your vision from an idea to reality.

Tactics + Takeaways

• Take action
• Forget all of the external negative influences in your life
• Find your motivators

In order for you to be successful in pursuing your vision, it’s important for you to believe that you can do anything. Surround yourself with people will be supportive of your work and your success. Unfortunately, there are many out there who don’t want to see you doing better than they are. Find what motivates you, remain focused, and do what it takes to fulfill your vision.

Guest Bio

Gary Acosta is the co-founder and CEO of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP®) and a 25-year veteran of the housing industry. NAHREP is the nation’s largest minority real estate trade association with over 20,000 members and 40 local chapters. In his capacity as CEO of NAHREP, he created the Hispanic Wealth Project, a new 501c3 non-profit organization with a strategic plan to triple Hispanic household wealth by 2024.

The excitement of the new year is gone. What happens to a lot of us when reality hits? What techniques can you put in place to make sure you’re building momentum from the beginning of the year? Why are 90-day cycles so critical to the inner workings of your business? On this episode, we talk about the categories you should be tracking and working on in bite-sized chunks.

Success doesn’t happen right away, it happens in increments of 90-day cycles. -Danny Morel

Tactics + Takeaways

• The game of success is not in the outer world-- it’s in your inner world.
• Even though you are an independent contractor, you have to treat this like a real job.
• For every hour you prospect, you should be talking to 10 people.
• You work with buyers to pay the bills. You work with listings to create a career.

At the start of the show, I talked about what happens when the excitement of the new year fizzles out, and why your business actions have to be driven by data and not emotion. Next, I talked about how focus on the smaller chunks of your goals helps you avoid distractions. I also shared on the importance of showing up to work everyday, even if you’re an independent contractor. Towards the end, I talked about the importance of having an accountability partner.

I also spoke about:

• The importance and necessity of prospecting
• Why it’s so important to role-play and learn scripts
• The key to the whole 90-day cycle

Our business goals have to be fact-driven, not emotion-driven. Even though our minds feed off of energy and positive belief, we need something guiding us, keeping us from losing momentum and getting demoralized. This is why breaking your year into 4 bite-sized pieces works. Your mind can see 90 days away, it can feel it, believe it and taste it. This allows you to push harder without distractions. Don’t just work off of the need for money. Work off of things that will drive results later. You will get everything you want and deserve on the back end, by focusing on the things you need and want on the front end.

There are two ways to think. You can think big, or you can think small. You can’t think medium. Your brain isn’t wired that way. The reality is that most of us are conditioned to think small, to think negative, to think limits. How do you handle this so your own thoughts don’t sabotage your dreams? In this short episode we share the first steps to take control of your thinking.

Understand that sometimes in life, you have to eliminate the gray, and make things either black or white. - Danny Morel

Tactics + Takeaways

• Eliminate all gray areas in your thinking.
• You don’t have to allow your mind to run unchecked.
• When you think big, you get big. And everyone can CHOOSE to think big.

The challenge we face is not a money challenge, it’s a mind challenge. It’s easy to get excited about new years, new dreams, new goals. The difficult thing is understanding how it actually happens. Start by taking note of your thoughts. Don’t judge yourself, don’t get depressed or get down on yourself. Become aware of the way you think about things and react to things. That allows you set yourself up for the next level.