About eight years ago, I was 27 years old and I was working a job selling websites. I was going business to business in my local area talking to small business owners, trying to sell them a website that the guys back at the shop I worked at would build for them. I was making about $40,000 a year, living in a two-bedroom apartment. I should have been happy - I WAS THE AVERAGE AMERICAN, but I wasn't. I wasn’t happy.

The reason was because earlier on in my life, when I was 20 - 21, I said to myself, "You know what? When I'm 30 I want to be a millionaire. By the time I'm 35, I'm going to make a million dollars in a calendar year." And here I was, 27 years old, much closer chronologically to the goal than I was financially. I was having a hard time with that. So I got kind of nervous and I started looking around my industry; I looked at the top sales guy in my industry, he was making $150,000. That's good money, but the problem was, if that's where I set my ceiling, I'd never hit my goal.

I thought, well maybe the answer isn’t in sales, maybe it's in management. I looked at my manager, he was making $250,000 a year. That's great, I don't care what industry you're in, that's good money... That's a really good job. But if that's where I set my ceiling, I still would never hit my goal.

So what I decided to do, was to look at people who had actually done it. I bought every book I could find, every biography that I could find on wealthy individuals. I watched TED talks, I wanted to get inside of these guys' heads. I wanted to know what time they woke up in the morning, what they ate for breakfast and what their agenda looked like. What'd they do during the day, etc. I wanted to copy every step of what they did so that I could be one of them too.

I bought seven composition notebooks from the local superstore, and I filled every one of them full of notes. I had so many notes that I had to organize them, so I organized them into a paper, and then my paper eventually became a book. It's called "Mindset to Millionaire", a 4-times #1 best-seller on Amazon.

I’ve been involved in real estate investing for about 6 years, and in that amount of time, I’ve flipped over 100 properties. I like to work on five to seven flips at a time. I’ve picked up rental properties in multiple different states. I’ve been able to be a best-selling author, been featured on a TV show because of the success that I’ve had in the investing world. Above all that, what I’m most proud of is how many people he has helped get their start in real estate investing.

Mitch Nelson

Real Estate Investor

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