Property Hub - Investment Insights & Inspiration - Get Invested: Bushy Martin on the brutal truth about building real wealth

Starting point is 00:00:00 Here's the hard truth, my friend. When it comes to achieving lasting financial freedom through property investing, motivations are myth. Success doesn't show up for the most talented, the most inspired, or even the most well-resourced. It shows up for those who are- Welcome to Get Invested on the Property Hub podcast channel, the leading weekly show for Australians

Starting point is 00:00:23 who want to learn how to unlock their full self, health, and wealth potential. I'm your host, Bushy Martin, and each week I go deep with the best investors, experts, leaders and founders to find out what it takes to break free from the grind, discover freedom and to live by design. Subscribe now and join me and get invested in the life that you really want. Let's get started. Hi Friend Fighters, are you relying on motivation to build your investment success? Are you waiting for the right time the right market the right mood before you take your next step or are you training

Starting point is 00:01:01 yourself to act even when every bone in your body and every instinct says stop because here's the hard truth my friend when it comes to achieving lasting financial freedom through property investing motivations a myth success doesn't show up for the most talented the most inspired or even the most well-resourced, it shows up for those who are relentlessly consistent, even, especially, when they don't feel like it. Following on from Eddie the Frenchman on the Run's awesome inspiration in last week's episode, today we're diving into a powerful truth backed by neuroscience, reinforced by real-life investing results, and forged in the fire of discomfort. Supported by scientific facts that I've drawn

Starting point is 00:01:51 from Dr. Andrew Huberman, and in the spirit of my strong belief that sustainable success lies at the intersection of the three L's, of self, health, and wealth, where self is capturing your mindset, health enshrines your habits, which combine to allow you to achieve your version of wealth. We're going to unpack why motivation is overrated, why your nervous system doesn't care about your goals, but it absolutely responds to your actions. And most importantly, we'll explore how building the habit of forced consistency is the one superpower that separates those who dabble in property from those who achieve genuine passive income for life. Now, if your eyes are already glazing over or your ears are shutting down because you're just not interested in all of this mindset nonsense and you're just after hot property tips, tricks and tactics, then you're the one who actually needs to listen to this episode the most. because if you action what I'm about to share,

Starting point is 00:02:56 it will absolutely transform your investing and your life. So listen up or ignore my message at your peril. Now, exploring why most investors fail, let me start with a story. Years ago, I sat down with a high-income earner, let's call him Dave. He earned north of $300,000 a year. He was smart, analytical, and a spreadsheet samurai. He'd read all the books, attended every seminar, and had plans for a 10-property portfolio in a decade.

Starting point is 00:03:32 Fast forward five years, and he still hadn't secured a single property. Why? He was always waiting for the right time, waiting for motivation, waiting for certainty, waiting for the dopamine hit of excitement to match his spreadsheet goals. But here's what neuroscience now confirms. Motivation is a neurochemical illusion. It rises with novelty and fades whenever it becomes routine.

Starting point is 00:04:02 When dopamine drops, so does your drive. And if you're relying on it to move, you'll stop at the very moment that you need to push the hardest. You see, your brain doesn't change because you wish it to. It doesn't care about your goals. It doesn't wake you up at the vision board. It rewires based on what you do repeatedly, consistently. We're talking about patterns, repetition, behaviour.

Starting point is 00:04:31 Because your nervous system is shaped by action, not intention, not emotion, but action. Do you want to know how elite performers get ahead? they build a relationship with boredom with fatigue with discomfort they don't run from the hard days they anticipate them because they understand the brain's plasticity window the idea that what you do when it's hardest is what actually gets carved deepest into your neural architecture so what i mean by this it means that you need to force yourself force yourself to be consistent. Not once, not twice, but every single time. And here's what most people miss. Forcing yourself doesn't make you rigid. It makes you resilient. It doesn't limit your

Starting point is 00:05:21 freedom. It builds it. Because if you can do the hard thing when it doesn't feel good, when no one's clapping, when everything in your biology says stop, then you become untouchable. You become unbreakable. Your goals don't care how you feel. Your neurochemistry doesn't care about your excuses. You either show up or you don't. And when you do it over and over and over without permission from your emotions, you begin to change neurobiologically, psychologically and physically. You become the kind of person who finishes what they start. So stop waiting for a perfect condition, stop hoping it's going to get easier, force it again and again and again because consistency under duress is where real transformation lives and your brain is listening every single time. Many of us are still chasing motivation like it's a resource that we can summon on demand.

Starting point is 00:06:23 Like if you just read the right quote, you listen to the right podcast or you feel the right burst of energy. You suddenly become unstoppable, apparently. But here's what neuroscience actually tells us, and it's critical. Motivation is unreliable. It's what Hugh Cubanman describes as neuromodular dependent, which means it fluctuates based on internal states. Our sleep, nutrition, social connection, hormonal cycles, and external cues. That means it's volatile.

Starting point is 00:06:57 it's not something that you can build a high performing life on what is reliable what actually reshapes the neural circuitry of your brain is consistency specifically forced consistency that means showing up and doing the thing even when motivation is at zero because here's the biology every time you act without the chemical incentive without dopamine pushing you you're training your prefrontal cortex to take control. That's executive function. That's top-down regulation. That's what separates people who wish from people who execute.

Starting point is 00:07:41 And the beauty of this is that over time, this act of forcing consistency creates its own feedback loop. You show up even when you don't want to, and eventually your brain starts to anticipate the reward, not from the result, but from the process. You become chemically reinforced by the habit of discipline itself. That's when the nervous system really starts to shift. That's when it's no longer about whether you feel like it, it's about who you are.

Starting point is 00:08:12 Your brain doesn't change just because you want it to. It changes when you give it evidence, repeatedly. The nervous system is governed by principles of adaptation, and it's incredibly efficient. it doesn't remodel itself based on potential it rewires itself based on patterns on what you do again and again and again now every single behavior you repeat sends a signal through a neural pathway and with each repetition that signal gets stronger faster and more automatic it's what huberman calls long-term potentiation each time you act you strengthen a neural pathway The more often you repeat a behaviour, especially under stress or discomfort, the more automatic it becomes.

Starting point is 00:09:02 Think of it this way, you don't build resilience by reading about it, you build it when you do the hard thing over and over until it becomes your default setting. For property investors, this looks a bit like turning up to research deals when the media is actually screaming doom. sticking to your strategy when others panic saving your surplus even when friends are splashing cash and making your monthly contributions to buffers and offsets by brushing your teeth non-negotiable because it's all about neuroplasticity not intention let me share a quick analogy picture two investors investor a follows through only when he feels like it investor b shows up every day rain, hail or shine. Investor A is driven by emotion. Investor B is driven by identity. And who wins in the long run? Investor B every time. Because she's not waiting for the stars

Starting point is 00:10:02 to align. She becomes the type of person who acts. This is the power of forced consistency. Even when it feels like nothing's actually happening, even when you're grinding with no visible result, you're casting votes for your future self. You're becoming someone that your nervous system recognizes as, I'm a finisher. I do what I said I'd do, no matter what. Now, that's not woo-woo, that's biology. It's the compound effect of consistency in action. Now, let's get honest. Sustainable success in property investing just isn't sexy. It's like watching grass grow. It's not flashy and it's not fast. It's boring, uninspiring routine. But that's exactly where the magic happens. When you feel like nothing's actually working,

Starting point is 00:10:54 when it's repetitive, hard or slow, your brain is entering what neuroscientists call a plasticity window. That's when your nervous system is most receptive to change. So when you stay the course through that grind, you're actually building mental calluses. And just like an elite athlete trains their body to perform under pain, just like Eddie the Frenchman on the run demonstrated last week, you're training your brain to execute under pressure. That's what separates investors who thrive long-term from those who burn out after one hot cycle. They get comfortable being very uncomfortable. So you need to reframe resistance as a signal. I want you to remember this. Discomfort's not a sign to stop. It's a signal to go deeper. When you hit the wall,

Starting point is 00:11:46 whether it's fatigue, boredom, fear, or doubt, that's not failure. That's your cue. That's your brain saying, I'm paying attention. This matters. Let's lock it in. So do you want to be a high performance investor and join the ranks of the 5% who live their ideal lifestyle by achieving their version of sustainable success? Then train your nervous system to interpret stress not as a threat, but as a signpost of growth. That's how you develop friction tolerance, which is the holy grail of sustainable success. Now, let's bring this home to your property portfolio. How do you trained consistency as an investor? Well, firstly, you systemize your strategy. Start with the end in mind, remove emotion, follow a repeatable process through the triad of surplus structure

Starting point is 00:12:40 and strategy always. Secondly, set non-negotiables like reviewing markets, like the daily habits of Reading, saving and securing property every time you can, which all of this needs to be identity-based, not motivation-based. Thirdly, track behaviour, not outcomes. Focus on what you can control, your inputs, your effort, your execution. And lastly, normalise discomfort. Expect delays, downturns, even mistakes. That's not a detour, it's actually the pathway to prosperity. now let's jump into our normal ambush bushfire lightning round with some rapid fire bushfire

Starting point is 00:13:26 takeaways and i'll do it in the normal question format what's the number one mindset for long-term success decide commit repeat and what's the most powerful investment habit daily action not daily excitement what do you say to someone waiting to feel ready start before you're ready because the doing creates the feeling. And lastly, what's the best investing quote that you need to live by? Jim Rohn once said, Motivation gets you going, habit keeps you growing. Now, as I concluded last week,

Starting point is 00:14:05 to go the distance, you've got to fall in love with the grind. Be willing to do what others won't and stay the course when others fall away. In property, in endurance, in life, it's not the fastest who wins, it's the one who starts regardless and who refuses to stop now many of you will have heard all of this before but what have you done about it so take some action right now that will get you started on the road to your version of relentless consistency by clicking the link in the show notes

Starting point is 00:14:36 now to frenchmanontherun.com where eddie's preparing his daily exercise for his mammoth across the country run of 3,900 kilometers covering about 112 kilometers a day for 34 days straight. Now that's the equivalent of two and a half marathons a day for over a month. Now his mission is to push his physical and mental limits to new levels in order to raise funds and awareness for Red Kite who support kids with cancer and their families. So make sure you also make a donation to this life-changing cause and use it as the milestone beginning of your journey to force consistency by clicking the link in the show notes to his website and then share his awesome endeavor with friends and family so they can then spread the word and get motivated to move

Starting point is 00:15:23 mountains one consistent non-negotiable step at a time and to keep your newfound habit of consistency moving click the link in the show notes to join us on the property hub collective Facebook community where we can help each other to reach our lifestyle goals through property and you guessed it, consistently. And if you'd like some personal support to help you overcome any of your very specific property obstacles, feel free to book in with me for a personal solution session. I'll say that again, for a personal solution session by clicking on the show note links. And I look forward to spending some dedicated one-on-one time with you soon. in closing here's your challenge this week don't wait for motivation don't seek permission don't

Starting point is 00:16:06 chase or wait for perfect conditions force yourself to be consistent even when it's hard especially when it's hard because every time you show up you're sculpting a stronger investor one decision at a time one habit at a time one identity at a time and that my friend is how you get invested for life. I'll leave you with this gem from James Clear. You don't rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. So build systems consistently.

Starting point is 00:16:42 Show up consistently. Take action consistently. And stay the course. Yes, you guessed it, consistently. And as always, live by design, not by default. Until next time, get invested, stay consistent and keep climbing. I'll see you next time.

Property Hub - Investment Insights & Inspiration - Get Invested: Bushy Martin on the brutal truth about building real wealth

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