Brandon Turner, a seasoned real estate investor and former host of the BiggerPockets podcast, shares how he skyrocketed his real estate portfolio from $50 million to $300 million in just three years. He reveals the crucial role of time audits and the power of a 'not to do' list. Brandon highlights the importance of habit tracking, both personally and professionally, and offers practical strategies for setting goals with your partner. He emphasizes turning goal-setting into a game, making progress not just achievable, but enjoyable.
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Selling Tools to Delegate
Brandon Turner sold all his tools to stop doing repairs himself and focus on business growth.
Delegating tasks raised his leadership level and transformed his real estate investing life.
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Time Audit to Delegate
Conduct a time audit by tracking tasks in 15-minute blocks to identify low-value activities.
Use this insight to eliminate or delegate unnecessary work that doesn't serve your main goals.
volunteer_activism ADVICE
Hire an Assistant Early
Hire an executive assistant early to offload low-value admin tasks and increase your productivity.
Entrepreneurs always find enough work for a good assistant, so never hesitate to delegate.
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The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Jay Papasan
Gary Keller
The book discusses the benefits of prioritizing a single task and provides strategies for overcoming distractions, building productive habits, and maintaining focus. It challenges common productivity myths such as multitasking and the idea of a balanced life, and introduces the 'Focusing Question': 'What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?' The authors also discuss time blocking, habit-building, and aligning short-term actions with long-term goals to achieve success in various aspects of life[1][3][5].
Vivid Vision
Cameron Herold
When The ONE Thing first came out, Brandon Turner didn’t just read it—he made it his only book for an entire year, reading it cover to cover more than 20 times. The result? He didn’t just hit his audacious goal of acquiring $50 million in real estate in three years—he soared past it, buying $300 million worth.
In this episode, Brandon pulls back the curtain on exactly how he did it. We talk about how to audit your time, create a “not to do” list, and get ruthless about delegating anything that isn’t your highest-value work. Brandon shares the keystone habits that unlock everything else, the difference between setting a vision and just dreaming, and why tracking your personal life is just as important as any business KPI.
We also dive into practical strategies for goal setting with your spouse, the importance of supporting each other’s dreams (even if they’re wildly different), and how habit tracking can turn your goals into a game you actually want to play.
Challenge of the Week:
Pick one habit you want to build. Make yourself a simple tracker—just a piece of paper and a pen will do. Track it every day this week. At the end of the week, look at your score. Did you hit your target? If not, what got in the way? Gamify it, and see how much progress you can make, one small step at a time.
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We talk about:
How to reverse engineer your vision down to a single next step
Why your “not to do” list is just as important as your to-do list
How gamifying your habits can make growth inevitable
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