Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa December 14/ January 15 | Page 34

STRATEGIES

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By Brian Walsh

Wealth

Strategies

Get powerful results… Part 3

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ver the last two issues I shared the first strategy,
which was ‘Manage Your Resources’ and
the second strategy, which was ‘Continuous
Education & Self Development’. This week I shall
share the last strategy, which is the key strategy that
I believe took me from struggling for 20 years to
achieving true success.
STRATEGY #3 - Be true to who you are and what
you value
I was traveling 300 kilometers from the City of Cape
Town in South Africa to our family holiday house in
Witsand by the Breede River Mouth. Crazy things
were playing out in my mind. Had my life really shifted
like it felt it had? Had things really changed, or was this
success I was experiencing just a glitch in the system?
For over 20 years I had struggled, no matter what
I did or how much I did it. But now suddenly I was
achieving what seemed to be the elusive financial
success I had been after. I pulled over on the side of
the highway fourteen times to make notes of what was
racing through my head. I had one burning question
that needed to be answered: Why had this changed
now?
I shall never forget that day, because that was when
I documented what I believe had really changed.
That was when I realised it was not what I was doing
differently, but rather who I had become, which had
led to the success. Now more than a year later, I know
it was not through a glitch or a mistake I was suddenly
succeeding, it was a transformational shift that changed
who I was in a subtle, but profound way.
The difference was simply that I knew who I was,
and I was true to who I was.

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Yes, this might sound a bit weird, but it is now what
I call ‘The Secret to Success’. Being true to oneself has
a whole new meaning and an incredible science to it.
You can truly change your destiny and your immediate
outcomes by learning about yourself, and focusing on
what is true to yourself.
How do you find out who you really are and what
drives you?

“The difference was
simply that I knew
who I was, and I was
true to who I was.”
The Solution:
In early 2012, I decided on 19 January I would go to
New York to attend Anthony Robbins’ ‘Unleash the
Power Within’ seminar. The problem was I had no idea
how I could afford it or how to make it a reality. It
was in six weeks time – and I was struggling to save
the money to go to the USA in August, when I had to
visit my seven year old daughter; let alone afford this
spontaneous and rather expensive trip now.
But a miracle seemed to happen. Things fell into
place to ensure I could go. Money materialised where
I least expected it, and I ended up going to New York,
seeing my daughter (then and again in August), and I
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