The Executive Property Summary January 2025 Edition
Reaching your property goals in 2025 by
Building Life-Changing Habits
Dear Chanell
Happy New Year everyone!
Now that we are all rested and relaxed we can get our heads back in the game and get stuck into 2025.
I did just that and achieved my first New Year's goal on 1 January. My first ever 5km open water swim
Even a year or 2 ago I never thought I could do it, but I always had the dream of swimming to Robben Island.
You might be thinking, that's easy a 10-year-old girl swam to Robben Island. (Well done Karli, you're a legend)
OR
"It's easy for you, you are a natural athlete".
That would be false, I was a very inactive, unfit, overweight kid and not sporty at all.
I've never been very good at endurance sports, in particular, and I was always quite unfit, even when I was doing sports and weight training.
The big change for me was when I started building winning habits many years ago.
Setting goals is very important and we always set SMARTER goals for both business and personal growth every year. However, over the last 10 years, I have established many good habits that helped me stay strong, healthy and balanced while I keep progressing in life and business.
If you want the best chance of making 2025 your best year yet, why not start by critically assessing your habits?
James Clear outlines the scientific approach to building winning habits in his best-selling book Atomic Habits.
Grab a copy here, it will change your life. https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits.
He outlines 5 steps in building a new habit.
1. Focus on systems, not goals.
2. Make it obvious.
3. Make it attractive.
4. Make habits easy.
5. Make habits satisfying.
To stop bad habits he advises you to do the reverse.
Everything starts with identity. If you want to lose 20kg of body fat and go from the 80kg you, to the 60kg you, what does the healthy 60kg version of your decisions, habits and actions look like daily? Without understanding where you are going, you will most likely get distracted or discouraged and never get there.
He also has various techniques to make good habits stick such as:
- Habit stacking
- Implementation intentions
- The 2-minute rule
- Understanding your habits
- Changing your environment
What are your goals for 2025?
More importantly what system of winning habits will be supporting these goals?
What actions will you take in 2025 to improve your system, which good habits will add that will help you grow and improve and which bad habits will you reduce that are actually holding you back?
He also talks about the law of marginal gain. Aiming to improve 1% every day rather than wanting all the results at once, then being disappointed when it doesn't happen and quitting. Those small improvements add up to permanent changes in mindset, and habits and then real sustainable results, and suddenly breakthroughs start happening.
The world is changing rapidly and as we start this new year let each one of us reflect on our own role in building a better future through property and our everyday actions.
May 2025 be your best year ever as we use the disappointments and struggles of 2024 as fuel to take things to the next level in 2025!
Yours in property?
Jacques Grove
Principal and Dreamer
ECONOMIC NEWS
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PROPERTY INVESTMENT NEWS
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PROPERTY INDUSTRY NEWS
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