ACTION
Many of us sit around the barbeques in the summer discussing our next holiday and our next investments, the next car or the next kitchen upgrade, but are we ever going to get round to doing it?
If you really sincerely want to do something then the most important question to ask yourself is WHY? If you can identify for yourself what the real desire is behind the item on your wish list then you stand a better chance of being motivated to take ACTION. When you have worked out WHY then you can start to work on HOW you will achieve it. Breaking your next actions down into small blocks will help you to focus and to achieve (another A word) what you set out to more quickly.
High achievers who take action have no regard for the rules that their friends would like them to follow. They take ACTION for themselves and don’t worry about the consequences. So, this year as you plan the year ahead what is it that you will have achieved by next summer’s barbeque’s. Make this the year that you can move from saying I fancy doing this or that, to I took action this year and did it.
ARCHITECT
Two of the more adventurous ways of developing property are conversion of houses into flats, or multiple occupancy lets, and building your own home from scratch. Both of these development situations benefit from finding a sympathetic and imaginative ARCHITECT.
A significant part of the planning of these types of project are brought to fruition by the ARCHITECT who is able to put on paper the ideas that you have brimming over in your head. They have to be able to effectively write what you are telling them, and to see the whole building in a different perspective to what is currently there. If you are building from scratch then they have to catch your enthusiasm and work with the ideas you have to make a coherent structure and building plan to work from.
If you can spend some time working on your vision and know very succinctly what it is you want to achieve from the development then the ARCHITECT will be quicker at putting into words and drawings what you want to create. The art of communicating to them is with your own drawings, a very clear remit and helping them to know which parts of your project plan are flexible and which you absolutely want to incorporate.
Think through all the basic items, even lighting and heating, windows and movement through the building so that they can work to a very detailed plan from the outset – there’s nothing more frustrating than having to go back to the drawings time and again because you didn’t take the time to imagine it and to plan it in the first place.
