ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CRAIG SHAWN WILLIAMSON has been involved in the vacation home industry since 2003. Today, he is the Managing Partner of VRP Equity, Income Producing Vacation Homes. Prior to this, Williamson led the complete sellout—in under 24 months—of the industry-leading Residential Communities at The Bear’s Den, a Jack Nicklaus-inspired brand in Reunion, Florida as well as the Four Seasons Peninsula Papagayo development. His VRP Developer Plan sells out projects in under two years at market price or higher.

Williamson has developed over 6,000 condominiums and apartments as well as several resorts and their vacation residential components. With an international real estate career spanning 30 years, he has trained and managed thousands of staff members and overseen countless transactions in locations around the United States and the world. He has lived and worked in 14 countries, handled hundreds of individual transactions, and has spoken in front of thousands of buyers in groups and individual sessions.

A former executive in the real estate division of the Four Seasons, Williamson has acted as the international real estate investment adviser for many institutional real estate investment fi rms, governmental agencies, major corporations, and high net worth private

WEALTH AS A VACATION

investors. He has literally lived and worked for most of his professional life, as a vacation.

Prior to beginning his real estate development and luxury vacation home journey, Williamson served as an Intelligence and Operations specialist in the U.S. Army. A military trained strategist, he served in Western Europe, assigned to the 1st Armored Division Intelligence and Security unit in Germany. His team was tasked with the protection of the area closest to the then East/West German border.

Today, Williamson is an avid golfer and athlete who devotes much of his spare time helping others enter their Life as a Vacation. An advocate for the environment, he is a Founding Board Member of the Costa Rica Green Building Council and has worked closely with the World Green Building Council.

To learn more about everything in this book, please visit lifeasa vacation.com and VRPequity.com.

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A DEADLY COMMITMENT

ON THE ROAD TO CREATING WEALTH AND ABUNDANCE, there are a million small decisions you must make—and actions you must take—daily. Whether the action is: set up a website, follow up with a potential investor, check in with your CPA, pitch yourself for a newspaper story . . . the list is endless. Nothing on the list looks too exciting. In fact, most of the “to do’s” look downright boring. Tedious. There’s an old Thomas Edison quote: “Recognizing opportunity is so difficult for most people because it goes around disguised as overalls, looking like hard work.”

It’s all too easy to get sidetracked—to think: “This can wait. Right now, I want to relax.” But when that thought creeps in, I’ve learned to follow it with another: “What if this were a life-or-death situation? What if my life . . . or my family’s life . . . even my dog’s life depended on me taking this one action?”

Suddenly, doing the task and doing it exceptionally well becomes the most important thing. I expend a small amount of energy on the task, which yields a massive impact. This mindset has become secondnature to me. I’ve used it to make seismic changes in my life with seemingly zero effort. After all, if the alternative is death . . . there is only one choice to make.

I want to share with you my method for achieving goals with a 100% chance of success. Do you want a net worth of $10 million? To stop drinking alcohol? To achieve peak physical condition? To learn a language or musical instrument?

If you have a deadly commitment, there is a 100% chance you will achieve whatever goal you set your mind to. I’ll show you how to get there.