Elevate with Tyler Chesser - The Real Estate Podcast for Investing, Mindset and Personal Development E288 Jeffrey Holst - How to Live Your Last Life Ever with No Bad Days and Achieve Your Most Ideal Lifestyle through Real Estate Investing
Would you like to live a life with no bad days? Is that even possible? Today’s episode offers a refreshing perspective on how to live a happy, fulfilling, “no bad days” life. Our guest Jeffrey Holst, a real estate investor who has a passion for life shares how changing one's perspective can lead to a life without bad days. He now shares the secret to making every day great, leveraging the power of mindset, and designing an ideal lifestyle of adventure and fulfillment while uncovering investment opportunities in real estate.
Living and loving what he coined as his “last life ever”, Jeff inspires us to live the best version of ourselves every day from his own life experiences. Beset with challenges and a life-threatening condition, Jeff shares how he crafted the life that he wanted through a complete change in his mindset and by building his real estate business. If you’re ready to learn valuable insights on living a full, happy life and looking to gain time and financial freedom toward your ideal lifestyle through real estate investments, this episode is for you!
Key Points from This Episode:
- Why does Jeff hasn't had a bad day in 25 years?
- How can one live a life of “no bad days”?
- Jeff shares his backstory zeroing in on a life-changing and life-threatening experience and the search for life purpose.
- How did Jeff alter the direction of his life in pursuit of a more fulfilling one?
- What type of mindset shift did Jeff go through to craft a more fulfilling life?
- What prompted Jeff to get into the real estate business?
- What types of asset classes did Jeff invest in and how did he build his real estate portfolio?
- How does Jeff interpret the current real estate market cycle and what opportunities does he see as an investor today?
- How can investors grow their portfolios and design their life given the opportunities presented by the current market cycle?
- What is Jeff’s philosophy behind the “last life ever” tenet that compelled him to launch a similarly named podcast?
- How does Jeff live out the “last life ever” philosophy?
- Jeff’s advice on how to design a life based on his philosophies, embracing openness and vulnerability and welcoming challenges.
- Jeff launches his book “No Bad Days: How to Make Every Day Great”
- Jeff answers the Rare Air Questionnaire.
Tweetables:
“One of my life goals is to live to the energy death of the universe because I love being alive so much.”
“However I perceive the day for me is how my day is.”
“Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.” - Henry Ford
“It is how we perceive the world that matters. If we think it's good, it is good. If we think it's bad, it's bad.”
“The moment that you accept full responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life.” - Hal Elrod
“If you focus on the positive, you win.”
“You have to recognize that you don't actually have to change the world to change the world.”
“This amazing purpose that I get to live now is to share this story about how mindset is the only thing that matters.”
“Timing the market is actually really easy. If you bought in 2006 and you sold in 2010, you got crushed. If you bought in 2006, you sell now, you did fine. You bought at the top of the last market, sell some other times. So, my strategy is, buy whenever you buy, sell when it's high.”
“The great part about real estate is it's a levered way to get exposed to inflation.”
“Whatever tragedy happens to us, whatever circumstances we find ourselves in, we're called to respond to that in the best possible way and to live the best possible version of our lives.”
Links Mentioned:
No Bad Days: How to Make Every Day Great by Jeffrey Holst
Old Fashioned Real Estate Advice Blog
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence by Rick Hanson PhD
About Jeffrey HolstJeff is a recovering attorney who spends his time as a podcast host and real estate investor. Jeff graduated early and with honors from Michigan State College of Law where he was the graduating class speaker. He also holds an M.B.A.
At 30 years old, Jeff checked the last item off his personal bucket list by climbing Machu Picchu. He was on top of the world. As he stood looking down at the lost Incan city, he had been living the life of his dreams. He was well traveled, having previously visited the Pyramids in Egypt, climbed to the top of Mt Sinai, swam with sharks in Belize, and backpacked alone around Europe. He married the girl of his dreams. He had a beautiful house in the suburbs and a thriving law practice. Two weeks later, he was in the hospital dying. His business was in disarray, his wife was barely holding it together and he was on his way to bankruptcy.
Today, at 43 years old, just over a decade later, Jeff is back on top. He is a millionaire, with over 250 residential units and multiple commercial properties in his personal portfolio. He is still married and continues to travel extensively. In February of 2020 Jeff climbed Mt Kilimanjaro and stood at the highest point in Africa. He is the co-host and founder of the Last Life Ever Podcast. As the original “Last Lifer,” Jeff is passionate about helping people live the best possible version of their lives. He is also the co-host of the Old Fashioned Real Estate Show where the hosts drink bourbon old-fashioned and talk about real estate investing.