PowerGoals / Foreword.

PowerGoals?

How to Set and Achieve Goals / That Turn Your Dreams into Reality

by Dr. Hannes Dreyer (Ph.D.) with Elzet Blaauw

Foreword;

I first met Hannes at one of his famous live (and free) property workshops in South Africa.

I was amazed at this tall and wiry man with a mop of grey hair jumping around at the front of the room. My now-husband, then-new- boyfriend was sitting next to me in the front row, and we were both taking notes eagerly.

We were young, in our twenties, but we had a shared interest in property investment. So far, it had been interesting only. For me, it was probably not even an interest yet. I knew that I should be interested in property investments. In fact, my dad had retired as a farmer at the age of 50, mostly because of his property investments. I knew, but I did not really feel it yet.

That day in August 2014, my feelings changed. And it was not mainly because of the information that Hannes shared, good that it was. My dad had been teaching me many of the same things for years – or trying to, at least.

My feelings changed that day because Hannes called forth a dream that had been hidden in my heart until then. It is a simple dream maybe, but it is a powerful one for me – to live a life of freedom with my family. To have the financial freedom, time freedom, and purpose freedom to be, do, and have all that I want for my family.

What? Family? I did not even have my own at that stage.

Petri had only been my boyfriend for about two months. I did not even know yet whether I wanted him to become my spouse one day. (He knew right from the start, apparently.) I did know that he had the potential to possibly be someone with whom I could spend my life, and that was enough.

In that workshop, listening to Hannes speak about a property and hearing about the life he had lived with his family since he retired at the age of 37, I knew – I want that.

I do not merely want that – it is my dream. It ignited a level of motivation and purpose in me that I had never experienced.

After that workshop, Petri and I worked through Hannes’ material on debt, property, mindsets, goals, and purpose. Petri paid off his debt in record time (using the principles in this book, although we did not realize it at the time). We got married nine months later – debt-free. We bought our first investment property less than a year later. (If you are a property student of Hannes already, it had an IRR of close to 80%. And, yes, it exceeded our financial freedom growth rate.)

We have been going ever since.

As I am writing this, Petri and I are in the last months of a year-long mentoring program with Hannes. We have had major breakthroughs.

At the beginning of the mentoring, I was a stay-at-home mom who was facing (and dreading) having to go back to a full-time job. Within days of starting the mentoring, I realized that I do not have to do that. I set a new PowerGoal?, and I started the journey of being a business owner. But not the type with no time and no energy left for their family. One who worked for time freedom.

As part of the mentoring, I did Hannes’ Powermorphing? course. It teaches many of the principles in this book on a practical level. It gave me the skills to start smashing through my goals.

And then Hannes phoned me one day out of the blue and started talking about the editing and writing services that I offer. The conversation ended where he asked whether I would like to write a book with him.

He did not know at the time that, since long ago, even as a little girl not yet in school, one of my dreams has been to write books. I have taken steps to realize that dream. I had even self-published a little children’s book just before starting the mentoring with Hannes.

But that time, like all the other times, I had put the book writing dream aside because it seemed to conflict with my other dreams, like family and financial freedom, and time freedom. It was not true. As Hannes says in this book, we have the dreams that we have for a reason. We won’t have a dream unless we have it in us to realize that dream.

Co-writing this book with Hannes drove home that point for me very powerfully.

I am living my dream in ways that many people do not even allow themselves to dream of. And there are so many more dreams to realize still.

It is a great journey.

This book can open the door to this same journey for you too.

Or, it can help you recommit to this journey with greater knowledge, motivation, and purpose than ever before.

Do not discount the power of this journey and of this book.

Elzet.

April 2020

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