This is the Better Life podcast where we talk about real estate investing, building wealth,

and all in all living a better life.

My name is Brandon Turner, and I've spent my life investing in real estate to achieve financial freedom.

And alongside my co-host, Mr. Cam Cathcart, we want to help you do the same.

On the show, you're going to hear from world-class guests who have been handpicked to help you level up your investing, your leadership,

your goals, your habits, and more to become the very best version of yourself.

So join us as we explore the habits, the actions, the beliefs that it takes to build wealth through real estate investing without losing your soul.

Hey, have you ever said you were going to wake up early and then hit the snooze button

and not actually gotten up?

Of course. Have you ever said, hey, I'm going to go to the gym tomorrow and then tomorrow

comes and you don't actually go to the gym? Probably. Have you ever said, I'm going to launch a

business or I'm going to go and visit that friend or call my mom and then you didn't actually do it?

Even though you know that's the right thing for you. Of course. See, we all do that. In fact, humans have struggled with this forever. Thousands of years ago, there were guys like Plato and Socrates, we're writing about this

same concept.

Why do we as humans say we want to do something?

We define what it is that we want to accomplish, and we know that is the right thing for us,

and yet we don't get it done.

They call that the Accragia effect.

Accragia, I don't even know if I'm saying that right. The idea was like we're acting against

our better judgment. We're acting against our ideal self. We're acting in opposition to our future

self, the person that we've defined that we want to become. Even though we know what to do,

we don't do this stuff. Heck, even the Apostle Paul in the Bible says, like,

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