Meet Daniel Bell

We recently connected with Daniel Bell and have shared our conversation below.

Daniel, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

When I was in high school I could not for the life of me get on the varsity soccer program and so I would run track and cross country every season and tell myself the followng year I would join the soccer team with the added speed and endurance because that was what the coaches were saying I needed the most on the soccer field. Long story short, I ran track and field all 4 years of high school and senior year it all started to pay off. Running is not a sport you see results fast. Everyone has their starting point, but in order to become better you have to trust the process for years at a time. My senior year I finally was seeing the investment I had put down the last 4 years and the return on investment was a Varsity Letter, School record holder (in a relay with other teammates), state qualifier in two events, and got the opportunity to run track and field at the NCAA DII Level.

From that point on I realized that if you keep your head down and just keep trying things, something will work out. It might not be what you thought it was when you started, but if you continue in the process and find reasons that provide true value, you will not only end at a greater destination, but you will also grow along the way.

This philosophy has given me the opportunities to coach at the NCAA DII level, Military Contracting in the Special Operations Community, specifically in training/development, and eventually into the world of Business.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

Right now I am focusing in the service of property management in East TN. I noticed that there is not a good choice for local and national investors that own real estate in East TN, making me truly hyper focused at the moment in building a better service in the local market. In the next half decade I will be pivoting to focus more on my own personal real estate portfolio and building out plans of scaling my local property management business into different markets around the country by building a network of property managers following me on my youtube channel where I give advice and document the daily life of property management. I think that the previous statements will put me on the right road no matter if these specific goals come to existance or not. As said before, as long as you have good intentions on your plans and they are something you believe can be of value, you will end up somewhere you will not be dissapointed in. Tell me if I am wrong, but I highly doubt the pilgrims that landed on Plymouth Rock were aiming for that boulder when they set sail half way around the world. They just knew to head west and the rest would be up to the winds. I focus on very specific goals in order to end up in a general direction and I purposely make sure it is always a 5-10 year concept, because I think longer goals will always have bigger payouts.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

I think the ability to understand 80% of a subject quickly is better than being good at understanding 100% of a subject over time. The person that can get to 80% faster will be able to hire someone that understands 100% of it right this second. Get your 120 hours of learning in as soon as possible and move onto the next subject until your skills can provide enough revenue in order to hire back the person that understands the subject at 100% and move onto your next problem in business.

Secondarily, I believe every entrepreneur must be able to keep consistent with their input of work without a direct output of any reward for long periods of time. I do not have children yet, but I assume when I do that they will not be able to walk, talk, and make responsible decisions on day 40 of their existence. In business, there can be days, weeks, months, and even years without a return, and the larger the dream or goal, the longer it will take for positive reinforcement to arrive.

Finally, the ability to sell others on a vision. Because you are the person that can see the finish line from further out than others, you are now responsible for providing others this vision. Customers, employees, and investors will all need this from you. It truly is that simple.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

Buy back your time – Dan Martell

Typically as the leader of the business you have the ability to sell, making you the biggest revenue producer for your business. In order to grow the business you will need to delegate tasks to other team members as every business is providing a product/service that comes with delivering value to the customer. The quicker you can empower team members to guard your time by being independent thinkers, the faster you will have 40 or more hours a week to produce more revenue and ultimately grow the business. This will make it possible to give team members raises, promotions, and a more fullfilling work environment where you will also be rewarded with retention of staff, hiring more team members, and producing a work culture that cares about performance.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://stonebrookmgmt.com
• Instagram: Propmanagerdan
• Facebook: Propmanagerdan
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEtSy9xLFfo4V7Cq1a1Tolw