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The Great Land Grab!
I am almost starting to feel like I am living in the time of early history of our country. Back in those days, people would leave established and safe environments in the eastern part of the country to come out west and stake their claim to their own land. They would uproot their families and go somewhere, often a place they had never seen before, and start a new life. They were so willing to take these risks because owning property was an inherent part of being a citizen of this great country.
One of the reasons the United States of America came to be was because of the citizen’s ability here to own their own property. Other traditional powers didn’t let everyone own property. Back then there were massive land grabs were people would go out and and stake their claim to the land that they wanted to own.
Things are a little bit different these days, but I still see an opportunity for a land grab like we haven’t seen in years. Unlike the early days, there aren’t a lot of people racing around to find the best deals. Many investors have simply given up and stopped investing.
Unfortunately for them, this is one of the best times to buy in the history of our country. I am at the airport getting ready to fly to Chicago for a camp on finding amazing deals in this market and I am excited because well over 130 people have signed up to attend my camp tomorrow.
These attendees will be people that are excited to grow, learn, expand and do everything they can to be a success. I love being around people like that. Come to think of it, I don’t know one single person out there who has an amazing attitude that isn’t successful. I know a lot of people with bad attitudes that are very unsuccessful.
Stop and think for a minute. Do you know anyone with an amazing attitude that isn’t successful or on their way to being successful? Me neither! Don’t forget that the people that founded this great country were a lot more willing than we seem to be to get ahead in life.
There are only two ingredients that all successful people have in common. One of them is education and the other is a fantastic attitude. Get in the game and start investing. Go to my website right now to find out how!
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Independence
I had such a wonderful Fourth of July last week. This time of year brings out such gratitude in me for all of the blessings that we have in this wonderful country. I went with my family to a parade the morning of July 4th. As six Air Force jets screamed over our heads as a display of patriotism I really took a minute to reflect on life.
As I marveled about the freedoms, blessings and abundance that we live in here in the USA, a painful thought crossed my mind. We live in the greatest country in the history of the world. There has never been a better place or time to live. We truly have the choice and means to do what we want and become what we choose.
People from all over the earth from other nations do anything they can at great risk to come to this country. I met a student of mine in the Seattle area that came to this country from Vietnam. He escaped his situation there and lived for a long time in a concentration camp just to get to this country.
I let him get up in front of a group of students of mine and he railed on us for our lack of vision. He railed on us for living in this land of opportunity and not living our dreams and playing full out. He told us we didn’t even realize how good we had it. We were letting our lives slip away without giving our best and developing ourselves and our talents.
As I reflected at this parade on the Fourth of July I asked myself why we live in personal servitude in this land of freedom. Why do we live in fear? Why are we paralyzed by our dreams? Why do we choose to be bound by “perceived” limitations? When are we going to realize that what we achieve directly correlates with what we believe? Why are people so quick to give up when things look hard? Why don’t we spend time and effort fighting for what we know we can do instead of spending that same time and energy whining?
I would like to challenge each of you to take a moment and reflect on your life right now. Have you lived life as if you were in a land of freedom and abundance? Or are you living your life in bondage to fear, doubt, self-imposed limitations and others’ negative opinions?
I would recommend that you get your mind and attitude in line with the principles that govern this great country. You can accomplish anything you put your mind to. MAKE IT HAPPEN! Take action, and attend one of my upcoming MWI events!
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Who’s the Coward?
I recently had an experience with a group of investors that I regret now. I was talking to some people and while most were very positive, some in the group were extremely negative. So negative in fact that I almost became overcome with their extremely poor attitudes. As a teacher I made the mistake of letting a few negative people control a very positive situation.
I had finally had enough and I got quite upset and questioned the negative people why they had to think so negatively and always focus on the worst things that they could think of. I was hard on them and on one person in particular. I’ll tell you, the negativity is about to kill me. I can handle a lot of things, but I can’t handle wimps, crybabies, quitters or naysayers.
Looking back I wish I would have been more positive in the way I handled the situation. That goes to show you even the people most positive about investing and success can be pulled down by all the negativity. I let myself get sucked in to all the whining and negativity.
Anyway, today at the office we got a phone call from a coward. This coward called our phone staff and asked them if I was stable, planning to stay in business and regretted the way I handled myself in the aforementioned situation. I immediately thought to myself, “What a coward!”
This was a larger group of people that it happened in front of and I apologized several times afterword for my part in it. I apologized to the others present that I let the negativity overwhelm all the positive things that we have to talk about.
Well, just to answer the coward’s, I am usually stable : ), I will be in business longer than investors who have bad attitudes and I am human and regret any errors that I make, not just that one. I wish the coward phone caller had enough courage to say who they were. I am pretty sure that I know who it was. I don’t understand people who snipe from the bushes and hide in the shadows.
The sad thing is that coward probably spent enough time thinking about the call, making the call and thinking about the call after it was made to find a really good real estate deal. I find it so sad that people have time to complain in anonymity, but not to do positive uplifting things in their own life.
Stand up for what you believe in. I try my best to. I make mistakes like everyone, but at least I am not a coward. Stand up for what you believe in and never let the negativity overcome what you know to be true. Down with the cowards!
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Attitudes and Belief Systems
I am in Phoenix right now and I just got done teaching my 2-day investing seminar. Phoenix has been one of the hardest hit cities in America by foreclosures and personal bankruptcies. As a result, people are really down on real estate here. Honestly, I can deal with foreclosures, but I can’t deal with poor attitudes.
I had to spend a good portion of my seminar talking about all the fantastic angles savvy investors can and will be taking in the market place that I delineated in my last blog post. Amazingly, the room really came out of their liberal media induced funk and got excited about investing again. The more excited they became, the more excited I became for them.
I was really overcome with enthusiasm. One lady even had to leave the room because I got so loud and pumped up. We had a blast. I enjoyed watching the attendees in my seminar go from down and defeated to ready to invest again and passionate.
I really wonder sometimes why people don’t ever make the realization in life that the results they get (even in alleged bad markets) are simply a product of their attitudes and belief systems. The fact is, I have 3 great real estate projects under contract as a seller in this market right now for combined profits totalling over $500,000. How can one investor be successful in a market when it is perceived so poorly? How can others in that same market not even want to try?
I would really like to challenge everyone to look at their attitudes and belief systems. This is crucial right now because of what perceptions exist in the real estate market place. Now is a great time to invest. Over the next while I would really like to focus in my blog on great techniques to use in our current market place. Please make sure before you invest your time in learning that you invest time in improving your attitudes and belief systems!
Intelligent and learned people with bad attitudes rarely succeed. People with great attitudes and little else always succeed!
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