Real Estate/Work Week #7

Spring is here!

My friends, Spring is in the air! Yay! No more brutal winter blizzards. Just kidding. This is Texas.

Core Classes

Real Estate: 12.5 more hours of real estate in the bag. I took my second big exam today, which feels good to get off my chest. Slow and steady wins the race.

The Art of Investing: Lessons from History’s Greatest Traders: Completed another four lectures in this series. The lectures are engaging and each investor we go over has valuable lessons to learn from, but I can’t help thinking that I am taking an investment course from a professor. I mean, if he really new what he was talking about, wouldn’t he have struck gold long ago and be living on some island paradise? Of course, I can learn so much from these courses (and I am!), but it just seems a bit… backwards. If I really wanted to get a true investing education, I would offer free toilet cleaning to a successful investor, just so I could be around him and catch snippets of his conversation. That’s my two cents.

Work was very manageable and pleasant this week. No craziness, just another week in the life at a home inspection company.

Reading

Continued The Odyssey by Homer. Holy smokes, this is not a PG book. I have audibly gasped many times, but I am enthralled. Courage and honor are of utmost importance to Odysseus and his son, yet mercy is not a word in their vocabulary. I am not proposing a “holier than thou” argument, but it’s just so interesting to encounter the morals and values of this pre-Christian world. They are such heroic men, who are living to the pinnacle of what it means to be a Greek worrier, and there is beauty in that, but ferociously slaughtering promiscuous serving maids is considered right and just. Oof. Don’t sleep with the suitors.

Continued Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. This is by far the best business book I have read. He is an engaging writer, and he has many insightful points. Still, I think the point was across in the first chapter :/ Sorry! I don’t know, it just seems like all the business books are the same. They promise 100% success if you just do these three steps, then tell a couple stories, then reiterate their point with different wording for the rest of the book. This is actually why I loved reading the Preparation so much because it doesn’t tell you it’s going to be easy or if you just say “I can do this” over and over it will happen. No! Get out there and slay the dragon! Get hurt. Get bruised. Get back up, and you won’t recognize yourself.

Not sure what these classify as (but they’re cool!)

Improv class was yet again fun and hilarious. There is one guy in my class that I love doing scenes with because it works every time and gets the rest of the class roaring. I had a different scene that didn’t work quite so well. We just couldn’t really figure out our characters. Oh well. Live and learn.

My friend and I completed Part One of Level One in The Catechism of the Good Shepherd. I loved learning about the lesson when the children finally realize that Jesus is the Good Shepherd and they are the sheep. The instructor said it is one of the most beautiful moments to witness, and some children don’t want to say when they realize it because it just seems to wonderful to be true. It is really. Today, we went and saw the room where we are hoping to teach at my church this Fall.

I continued research for my Second Cycle, and it is really coming together. The doors that have been opening to make this happen are just incredible, and I am so excited. Sorry, not going to reveal yet ;) My Real Estate/Work Cycle is going to be unusually long (about five months), but that is just how things worked out this time. I am so ready for a big adventure!

Exercise

On Saturday, I had my first run since being injured. The plan was 3 miles, but we got a little turned around and it ended up being 5.6 miles. It was great though and no pain, so we might just be okay!

Adventures

I rode Zendaya twice this week. Anyone who has owned a horse will tell you it is a lie to say every ride is magical. My first ride this week was pretty frustrating mainly because I knew it was my fault. I was over anxious to ride and didn’t warm her up enough, so she was super jumpy and flighty. I just need to listen to the signs when I know she isn’t ready for me to get on. The second ride was great! Loping around and around the pasture. Ahhhh, makes it all worth it. In the picture, I was giving her some apple. I get a bite, you get a bite. Gross? Naw.

We went to San Antonio for my dad’s eleventh marathon! I’m trying to catch up, but he just doesn’t stop! Anyway, it was a great time.

Lastly, I had some special time in the garden planting beets, onions, and lettuce. I love getting my hands dirty!

Gotta go to improv. Thank you so much for reading!

Sophia 🤗