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Why Some Goals Require Group Effort for Faster Success:
The Ultimate Advantage of Group Effort:
Clint Cora
I recently acquired a
property that is over 100 years old and was a former stately mansion
turned into a triplex. My
intention was to use this as one of my rental properties
in my real estate investment
portfolio. Like many houses of this age, it required a lot of repair although
there were still signs of former elegance including original wooden floors,
stained glass, bay windows
and an Italian marble fireplace (that no longer works).
In fact, the property was
elegant enough for film producers to do a movie shoot
inside one of the rooms where
Christian Slater was the leading star.
One of the apartment units
was already tenanted and two were vacant
by the time I took ownership.
Repair issues included many cracks in the walls and ceilings,
plumbing that needed fixing,
lighting fixtures that needed replacing, broken windows
and screens as well as
a full repainting of the walls. I personally don’t have the expertise
to do most of these
renovations so I hired contractors to do what I cannot do.
Why Achieving Goals Alone
is Not Always Effective
In order to save some money,
I initially tried to do as much of the renovations work myself
and this included most of the
painting, since I had already painted my own house before.
I could also do other simple
tasks like replace broken window screens since again,
I already did that at my own
residence. I was thinking that doing as much as I can on my own
would be shortcuts to success in
the overall renovations.
When the renovations crew
came onsite, the plan was for them to repair the major cracks
on the walls so I could do
the painting. However, things did not turn out that way.
They told me that my painting
skills were quite poor being slow and messy.
As a result, they would have
to clean up after my mistakes.
Ultimately, I got ‘fired’ by
my own contractors,
in a nice way of course since
I was the guy paying them.
So I was effectively demoted
by my own crew to being the clean up man
since that was the only thing
I could not mess up.
You’ll Achieve Faster
Success in Goals with the Advantage of Group
I could take the time to
learn how to do many of the renovating tasks on my own
because new skills just take
an effort to learn. However, such skills in repairing houses
would have taken me so long,
that there would have been much delays
in achieving the overall
goal, which was to get all of the vacant apartments rented out.
Each week that a unit is
vacant costs a property owner money.
So I gave in and decided upon
the advice of my contractors to let them do most of the work, including
painting. In many ways, getting fired by my own renovations crew was very
helpful.
The renovations would be
completed much faster with the professionals handling these tasks. Meanwhile,
this freed up my own time to focus on the things that I did well,
which included marketing the
vacant units to potential tenants.
In fact, the marketing
campaign was so effective with my total focus,
I was able to get new tenants
signed up on leases before all of the renovations actually finished. This of
course resulted in minimal financial loss due to vacancies.
My example here with my real
estate rental property shows that some of our goals in life
are not meant to be achieved
alone or in isolation. Instead, success will come easier
and faster if such goals were
worked on with the help from other people.
Such teamwork with others also
occurs in nature as many animals including wolves
and killer whales hunt
together in numbers. It is much safer for these animals
to bring down certain prey,
especially larger and dangerous ones, if teamwork is utilized.
The assistance of the right
people involved with your goals can result in major success
that you would not otherwise
have achieved by yourself.
So it is important to determine which of your goals should be
attempted on your own
and which ones are best with group effort.
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