E236: The Key to Creating Certainty in Life with Matt Aitchison

This guy right here remembers walking away from the kitchen table and out into the fresh air, fist pumping as he got into his car because he locked up a $75,000 contract to flip a house with ZERO money. How did that happen? At that point, Matt Aitchison realized you don't necessarily have to have the resources. You've just got to be resourceful enough, surround yourself with the right people, and create certainty by taking action every single day.

In this conversation, Erik Cabral speaks with Matt Aitchison, the CEO and the president of Vault Investment Properties. Matt is a business coach, speaker, and the host of a ridiculously successful podcast called The Millionaire Mindcast, a top 100 Business and Lifestyle podcast that focuses on all things Mindset, Money, and Investment Markets to help you unlock a more rich and fulfilling life.

As a real estate investor and syndicator, Matt is not new to the real estate industry, having flipped hundreds of houses and built a Top 1000 real estate team in the U.S. His current focus is on raising capital for syndications and scaling his passive income portfolio, which consists of commercial strip centers, hospitality assets, and single-family rentals.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• You don’t have to be the smartest guy in the room!
• His first house-flipping experience
• Being resourceful over having the resources
• How to create certainty in your life
• How to hone your superpower to connect people together
• The power of tapping into your awareness and feedback
• Ways to educate yourself about finance
• About the Millionaire Mindcast
• Embracing humility and checking in with your ego

Episode Highlights:

[03:29] Right People & Right Conversations

When you can tap into other individuals’ experiences, their wisdom, their networks, and their strategies, these can accelerate your life, your business, and your success in terms of becoming a better man. This also gives you the permission to not be good at everything.

Surround yourself with people that allow you to be vulnerable, to be open to, to ask questions, whether you feel insecure about them or not. You don’t need to know all these things. Find the right people that complement your weaknesses or can fill the gaps. You just need to be around the right people, get in the right circles, right conversations, and right environments, and you will grow into those things.

[07:34] How to Create Certainty in Your Life

When you don't necessarily have all of the stepping stones and all of the clear paths and points that you feel like you need, when you're uncertain, the best way to create that certainty is just to keep taking action every single day. Even if it's small, over an extended period of time, and you look up and you start to see you've covered a lot of ground.

[15:12] Embracing Humility and Letting Go of the Ego

Exercise humility over and over every single day. Look for those areas where you can improve. For Matt, most of his failures came from his ego, which he could have avoided. He believes in the power of the pause. There is power in not responding to somebody who’s talking trash to you right away and taking five minutes before you send off that email. There's power in taking an extra day or a week or a month to map out a business plan and to do it right.

Resources Mentioned:

https://mattaitchison.com/blogcast/

Books:

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

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