Vision vs Reality | Torey’sThoughts Ep.35
In another personal episode of Torey’sThoughts… Things are not always as they appear.
My name is Torey (some call me “T”) and I help urbanites (like yourself), who are interested in buying and selling real estate, connect the dot’s between the stuff have have already seen online or their past experiences, to what they actually need to know in today’s real estate markets in order to accomplish their goals… I am a businessman too, so my value to you goes well beyond the walls of real estate.
DISCLAIMER: “This post is for the people interested in building a business. This is my real life story.” ~T
Life is a fickle thing. My vision or dreams (which I will call the same thing) almost never come out in reality to be close to what I dreamt about. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, people who know me well always here me talking about “making dreams become a reality”, and to this tune, I am happy I am literally making dreams become reality every day. The other hand I am bitter; bitter that I waited this long… for this? Now the road just got extended another few miles.
Flash back 4 years ago to present. I was involved with my previous endeavors, none of which were strong cash flow positive. The investing company did well, but that was a low yield, long term play and we did not acquire enough assets to cash flow strong enough to make a real “livable income”. The stone biz, under my operation, was running essentially flat. Now I am here. I waited 4 freaking years. No I relentlessly worked 4 (FOUR) freaking years and I am now in the black and going deeper every day.
Many of you may wonder: “How did you last 4 years before seeing some level of success?” To that I reply: “my vision”. A specific vision of mine was picturing how happy and successful I would be making $5,000 in a month, then $10,000 in a month, then $15,000 in a month, and etc. Now, let me tell you something; that $10,000 and $20,000 in a month looked real nice. Practically like a fairytale ending with me on a beach somewhere.
Half of me wants to say luckily, but in all honesty, Ill say finally (This is a result of my work ethic, not dumb luck), I hit some of those milestones in my career. I have hit the $5,000 a month net income goal. Actually I smashed the $10,000 a month income goal for a few months now and am doubling that this month. In spite of these accomplishments, which are long overdue and I can certainly appreciate the magnitude of, my dream was so insanely wrong. How?
Frankly, I still feel broke; My business expenses have increased to accommodate a few key multiplier points in my business, my personal expenses have increased slightly, but not enough to really notice, and now I am preparing for a losing battle with the tax man in April. No matter what I do, I feel like I am paying too much. Right now, without doubt, my biggest pain point is the tax man. At this current point as I write this post, the tax man is taking virtually my entire profit margin.
Now, I know that sucks, but it is what it is. Good news is, my margins will increase next month and I will continue to reinvest into my business an appropriate amount. When all is said and one, this dream of bringing in some big bucks feels nothing like it did in my head the past 4 years.
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