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| Develop Yourself Before You Develop Your Business |
I took a leap of faith and confidence when I quit my job to pursue a career in real estate. I knew I could succeed because I knew I could do anything I set my mind to.
But I wasn’t making as much money as I knew I was capable of making. And I was working too hard to not see the kind of results I wanted.
With my confidence dwindling and my doubt rising, I knew something needed to change. I didn’t have as many deals and houses as I wanted because I was afraid to talk to sellers.
Where did this fear come from? And how could I get rid of it?
By attending a personal development seminar.
One of the activities we did at the seminar that weekend involved eating fire. The idea of eating fire scared me and most of the 150 attendees. We had lots of excuses why we shouldn’t try to eat fire. We could miss our mouths. |
Or burn our hair. Or incinerate our own tongues.
But it was the idea that scared us. Once we learned what to do and what not to do, we all accomplished the goal.
Then we were instructed to break boards with our bare hands. More excuses. More doubts. More fears. Until we learned what to do and what not to do. Until we had a plan and followed through with that plan.
I still have the broken boards to remind myself that anything is possible if I have a plan and follow through with it.
As if fire-eating and board-breaking weren’t enough of a personal power boost, I also walked barefoot on broken glass. And I did it without cutting my feet. Because I learned what to do and what not to do. I had a plan and implemented it.
So the seminar taught me I needed a plan, faith in that plan and the ability to follow through |
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with the plan.
I didn’t know how to eat fire until I had a plan.
I didn’t know how to break boards with my hands until I had a plan.
I didn’t know how to walk on glass without cutting my feet until I had a plan.
That’s when it hit me: I wasn’t successful in my real estate business because I didn’t have a plan.
I realized I needed to take the time to write a Business Plan. To figure out what I want to accomplish in business. To determine how much money I want to make. To set a deadline for my accomplishments.
And the plan has made all the difference.
About the Author:
Deb McMillan, OPHP, CMI, is a real estate investor and writer, living in Hamilton, Ohio, and has written a home study course on |
Short Sale Success Systems detailing how to get deep discounts from the bank when buying pre-foreclosures. She has been investing in real estate since 1986 and buying, selling, and teaching short sale strategies since 2000. She teaches how to talk to sellers to get them to do what is necessary to save their credit and reveals strategies to negotiate with the banks to get deep discounts when you buy the real estate. She also teaches about bankruptcy and what you can and can’t do once a homeowner files. Log on to http://www.shortsalesqueen.com for more information on how to make your deals close.
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