Focus on your game.

That's the most important advice that I can give.

It's, you know, focus on your mission, your game,

and compare yourself to your earlier versions of yourself.

And, you know, tune out everything else,

and you will be amazed what will happen to you in two to three years if you do that. Welcome to the real estate and financial independence podcast. My name is Chad

Carson. You can also call me coach, and this is a show all about investing in real estate,

achieving financial independence, and doing more of what matters.. Hey everyone, great to have you here,

whether you're a new listener or a long-term listener. If you are new and you haven't done it yet,

be sure to hit that subscribe button on your podcast player. I have new episodes that come out every

Monday, and if you're subscribed, it'll let you know as they come out. Today's episode is titled

How to Adapt Your Financial Independence Plans to 2021. I have the pleasure

of speaking today with my friend Arian Shihai. He is a real estate investor. He is a real estate agent.

He represents people who sell houses, buy houses and also invest in properties in Houston,

Texas and also other parts of Texas.

But he's also just one of the smarter people I've ever met and it's just an interesting

person and get along with him. He immigrated from Albania in southern Europe when he was in

high school as an exchange student, stuck around, got a, it was a magna cum laude, which is like the

highest level of degree from University of Houston and finance. And I'll let him talk more about his story when I interview him. But we're going to talk about today's market. And he's the, he's a person I really enjoy debating ideas with and discussing them and sharpening kind of the ideas that we have about what we should be doing as investors. How do we adjust to a market without

trying to predict? You've probably heard me talk about that in past episodes, not necessarily saying,

I know what's going to happen six months from now, but acknowledging the reality of markets as

they change, both the economic market overall, but also your local real estate market,

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