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Wealth is a mindset not a destination.

I just spent 3 fun days with family in Atlantic City. Really enjoying gaming.

Casinos have a brilliant way of messing with people's minds when it comes to gaming/gambling. They quickly remove the real currency we all work so hard to earn and convert currency to chips and slips of paper.

Everyone knows that the house has a clear advantage in every wager we make in every game we play, but we still go.

So I really paid attention to every emotion I was feeling in the potential losing money process and came to the notion that my attitude changed dramatically from day one to the second day.

Day one, I was walking around with the mindset of scarcity. I started out with $400 and I really had a tight leash on whether I was up or down, above or below the $400 mark. But then day 2 I lost track.

I was now focused on how large my bets were and stopped caring about that number.

This is where the magic happened. I was focused on the deal not the number. It was then that I was treating the gambling game as I do my real estate game, focused on the deal.

I was focused on the size of the potential return of each individual bet. Two completely different emotions!

It dawned on me "wealth is a mindset not a destination" playing off of the saying "life is about the journey not the destination"

My terrible analogy Ha!

Have a great Memorial Day Weekend

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