During the wealth intelligence Academy conference last weekend, one of the speakers was Kevin Green an old friend of mine and a very successful property investor who has built a multi-million pound portfolio from nothing over a period of seven years. The reason I am sharing this is because I thought that the subject that he chose was particularly pertinent in the current climate. Kevin talked about investing mindset and addressed this from a completely different perspective than most people were expecting. He talked about using your intuition, using your gut instinct, and more specifically following your heart when making your final decisions as a property investor. For many this may seem like an alien approach to investing particularly as much of our teaching is about identifying the opportunity, crunching the numbers and treating it as a business rather than an emotional decision. However the point that Kevin made was that simply chasing the money is not the right approach to making a decision when reviewing, for example, a property investment. He talked about how many of his big financial decisions are based from an inner feeling, which many people may call intuition. As most of you know this is something I am very passionate about and it was fantastic to see Kevin explaining this approach in a number of contexts. For example when viewing a property, he talked about how important it is to walk into the property and pick up on your initial reaction to the feeling you have about that property. If you have a sense that something is not quite right, you must reflect on that feeling and before making a final decision check in to see if that feeling is still strong. In some cases their can be events that happen in a property and the negative energy that is associated with that event can remain in and around the property for years to come. Kevin also eluded to this, and I have personally experienced this when viewing some properties. In fact, I've experienced in property that once lived in. This may all sound a little outside of the normal box of thinking, however most successful people when asked about decisions that they make referr to the gut intuitive instincts that they have. Do not ignore this and if it is strong and the message is to not make the investment, then it may be better to walk away.
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