Do You Need A Property Mentor or Coach To Be Successful?

[arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoWJv8mHrH8" mode="lazyload" align="center" /] Do you need a property mentor or property coach in order to be successful in property investing? If you don't have a coach what can you do to improve your chances of success? Book Your Free Strategy Session - https://onproperty.com.au/session/ 0:00 - Introduction 0:40 - Did Ben have a property mentor in the beginning of his investment journey? 1:14 - You can't just wait around for a mentor to magically appear 3:22 - Is it vital to have a mentor? 4:14 - Having online mentors that you never actually meet 6:09 - Personal development expands your mind, and that ultimately impacts your life 7:07 - There is so much online mentorship out there 8:21 - Tiny concepts that come out of online mentoring can make a major difference 9:44 - You don't need physical people in your life for you to be able to achieve your goals 11:40 - Some people can benefit from one-on-one help from a buyer's agent 13:27 - Why I prefer buyer's agents over seminars or courses 14:31 - Don't let tomorrow look the same as today 18:08 - What to do when all the dots aren't connected 19:42 - You'll never get it perfect first time around Transcription: Dean need a property mentor or a property coach in order to be successful in property. Both me and Ben have had contact with people this week that have mentioned that they feel isolated, that they don't have mentors in their life and want to know how they can be successful without a mentor, how they can find one. And so we want us to talk today about whether or not you actually need one. And if you do want one, how to go about finding it. So, Hey, I'm Ryan from on-property, helping you achieve financial freedom. Today I'm joined by Ben Everingham buyer's agent from pumped on property. How's it going, Ben? Awesome, man. Hey, doing. Yeah. Good. Now you're kind of in the unique position where I guess you do mentor a lot of people through your buyer's agency, but what about you in the beginning? Did you have a property mentor in your life when you were getting started? I didn't. I kind of wish I did. Um, just because I wouldn't have made as many of the mistakes that I've made now. Like, yeah, looking back, it would've been super helpful to have someone in my life that was exactly where I wanted to be, that had this strategy that I felt comfortable with and had, you know, that 10 15 years of experience that I didn't have. Just the bounce ideas off and to help keep me focused. Yeah. I think in an ideal world, having a mentor is Great, but I think the problem that people have is you can't just wait around for a mentor to magically appear. Like, we're not Cinderella here waiting for a fairy godmother to come in and save the day. I personally have never really had a mentor in my life, whether it be in property or be in online business. There's not really one person who has kind of taken to me and helped me along the way. I've really had to find the way myself. And you said something really awesome off camera, which is something that you said to someone, which is they spent multiple years, I think it was five years procrastinating and not investing in property that because they didn't take action that's five years longer than they're going to have to work before they achieve financial freedom. And so I guess to like kind of set up the frame for this conversation is having a mentor is Great, but if you're just waiting around for a mentor and you're waiting around for someone to tell you what to do, it's very unlikely that you're going to get anything done and achieve any level of success. Yeah, like finding a mentor is actually quite an overwhelming thing to do. Um, which is why the same issue. I've never really had a direct mentor that I took everything from and just followed. What I've done is read lots of books, listened to lots of podcasts, gone to a lot of live events, a lot of different coaching and talk to a lot of different people. And then from that pulled little fragments out of it all. So that I had a clear strategy for myself. And then what I do have around me now, he's kind of sounding boards or accountability partners that when I share an id, I'm not just vetting it on my own is one of their clients said like he felt like he was on his own and because he didn't have that partner, it was almost like a cocoon of silence. Like it was his thoughts with his thoughts, with his thoughts. Um, and so I always have those people like yourself and a few others that I can vet ideas that are going to tell me to tell me straight that it's a bad idea or that are looking at things more three 60 and you know, picking up the things that I'm missing. Yeah. So do think it is vital to have a mentor. I don't think it's vital to have a mentor in my position now or yours, but I think it is really, really helpful to have somebody to bounce ideas off if you're just getting started. Sort of anyone before property three. Um, you know, you can cut your teeth the hard way. Like I didn't just sort of figure it out as you go and make mistakes or you can, you know, rapidly speed that up by looking at someone who's already in that position and learning from them. So if I were starting again, man, I'd be definitely listened to people like us as well as some of the other great people online, but, and I might be treating them as my mentor because we're sharing so much information these days where that wasn't available 10 15 years ago. Um, I don't think it's necessary to take action, but I think it's really, really important to have that sounding board and somebody to help you with strategy before you get started. Yeah, and I think something interesting that you brought up, just the, is the idea of having online mentors. When people think of mentors, I think of one on one. You take someone out for coffee and you have to have a conversation with them, but you can have people that mentor you and your life that never actually meet you. They're just mentor you through the content that you put out online. So we may be mentoring you through these videos that we put out. I definitely know in my life, a lot of the things that I try and do is kind of breaking new ground. There's not many people that do the things that I do. So finding someone locally that is further ahead, that is where I want to be is just not really going to happen. And so what I like to do is to find people online who are where I'm at or who are doing things that I want to do. And then I basically binge watch their content and the idea is not that I take everything from them, but I take what I need that's going to help me get to where I need to go. So at the moment I'm looking at building up my business. Part of that is going to be hiring writers and things like that for a bunch of my website. So there's one person I'm following online who teaches a lot about that particular thing. So I'm currently binge watching his content, pulling out ideas, taking notes and things like that, and then I'm getting enough from that that I'm then able to take action myself, able to implement it myself and to start growing myself so I don't need to hire him to do one on one mentoring like I know he offers that so I could do that. That's not the sort of mentor that I need or that I think people necessarily need. Yeah, you don't need someone to hold your hand and tell you that it's going to be okay. I feel you need to have the gumption to be able to do it yourself, but having mentors who have done it or have no who know more about it than you do and learning from them is definitely key. I remember like 10 years ago saying to my wife at that time, because this was when I was, you know, my journey probably like a lot of people that are in business or investing doesn't actually start with business or investing. It starts on the discovery that if I work on myself through personal development and those new ideas enter your brain that you don't grow up with or the people that you're not, that you're hanging out with aren't talking about, all of a sudden your mind starts to expand. And over time that expansion can't not result in like physical results in your life. So I remember saying to my wife like 10 years ago that I felt like the five closest people to me and my world. Like literally I was believing this cause I was consuming so much of their content. We're like literally the Tony Robbins, it like the Robert Kiyosaki's, the Richard Bransons cause they were the people that always just digesting nonstop and spending 90% of my social time listening to it was crazy man. And then use the bay for us. When we were coming into property, you would just have books and that would be your only way of really consuming property content would be books and the magazines, which were kind of like fluff articles. There was rarely any core substance to it compared to the podcast. And the videos that people put out today. And so I feel like there's so much more out there today in terms of online mentorship than we ever had in the past. And people should be looking for that should be consuming, that should be finding moments in their day to learn from that sort of stuff and then just consume it via osmosis. I think that's the wrong word, but just when I, when I attached myself to someone and to their content, I listen to so much of it that they'll often repeat similar things over and over and over again. And they're the things that really stick and the other things that are really important, and if people were to go back and binge watch the last 300 episodes there were, see we say the same things over and over and over again. And they are the most important things that you might not pull out from one piece of content. You might not pull it out from too, but you'll pull it out over the course of those hundreds of episodes. Yeah, me and that's an interesting thing, man.