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These days I'm content though still ambitious. I have a comfortable lifestyle. Another $10 million in the bank wouldn't necessarily change my current lifestyle, because I enjoy what I have. Sure, I'm going to keep investing and saving, but moving forward I want to just keep building security for my family, and I want my financial independence to continue.

So yes, I'm really, really happy with where I am in life and with where things are going. I've got two gorgeous young sons and a beautiful wife and love spending time with them. Certain goals have changed a bit since we started a family: putting the kids through school is part of our goal-setting these days.

When I'm buying investments now, things are different from when I started out in two very big ways. Firstly, I'm investing very much with Riley and Caelen in mind, knowing they will inherit those properties. Secondly, I don't have specific numbers in mind for how many dollars I want in the bank or how many more properties I want to acquire, because I'm already financially comfortable. At the moment, as well as continuing to invest, I'm also paying down debt, which we'll talk about in chapter 11.

I wasn't always so content. I lived in a shoebox of a one-bedroom apartment, then all the way out in Ingleburn. The next home we lived in was on a really busy road, and even though it was an expensive house in a good suburb, we had just one parking spot, so I let Renee park there while I'd park in another street — it was a nightmare.

These experiences drove my passion for that dream home on the water. But I couldn't just snap my fingers and buy it — I didn't have that kind of cash yet. I knew I had to work towards that — and I did.