So Many Gurus, So Little Time
There are so many people claiming the ability to help you become a real estate success story it can be dizzying to try and make sense of what they are teaching and which one is best for you.
Or maybe you will just go to all of them and try to make it into some sort of conglomerated order once you stop going to all these courses..
..
or maybe you will just keep reading and attending courses and never actually do a deal.
How do you go from being in a course to actually implementing what you have learned once you get home and have to do so in your real life, out of the dreamland of the seminar room.
You know how it goes.
You leave all rah, rah in a flush of excitement.
You get home and everything is behind.
Your email, your snail mail, your phone messages,your food pantry, your refrigerator, your kids, spouse, pets and worst of all, your job that you are going to the seminar to learn how to get away from..
..
So you start through the pile, ticking off the tasks as you go along, and in a week or two you are caught up to where you were before you left if you are lucky.
By this time you have forgotten huge portions of the seminar despite being sure that you would rewrite your notes the minute you got home when all was fresh and you could decipher them and add to them..
etc.
By now you could not do this if you tried.
So back in the bookshelf everything goes: the course, the notes(so you can review them later),..
and your dreams.
32 out of 33 people will do exactly what I have just described.
Only 1 out of 33 will actually go home and do something.
And then there is the email equivalent of this scenario.
These people never even get to a seminar.
They will read email after email, and attend webinar after webinar, trying to glean that last bit of free information, and decide who will be the perfect guru for them...
without ever picking one.
(Probably the same statistics, but I have not checked that) So what do you do to get off the carousel and onto a path that leads out of the forest? It's a new decade.
Here is my answer: Just pick one.
It does not have to be the perfect choice.
Just pick one and go for it 100%.
I'm not saying don't research.
Research is good.
But at some point you have to dive off the board.
Here is my hint for deciding: The thing about real estate is that there is always a way to work the market to your advantage.
Always! Right now the market has produced a glut of foreclosures and preforclosures the likes of which you may not see again in your lifetime.
So pick a course that deals with this reality and get going.
The short sale market is in bloom, so grab the fruit! And if you are one of the people who actually get to the seminar, or the course, decide to be one of the 3 per 100 that actually implement what they learned.
Instead of going from guru to guru, just work the strategy.
When you get home, allow a some time in every day to start working that plan.
Don't wait till you catch up on life.
Just start working.
Or maybe you will just go to all of them and try to make it into some sort of conglomerated order once you stop going to all these courses..
..
or maybe you will just keep reading and attending courses and never actually do a deal.
How do you go from being in a course to actually implementing what you have learned once you get home and have to do so in your real life, out of the dreamland of the seminar room.
You know how it goes.
You leave all rah, rah in a flush of excitement.
You get home and everything is behind.
Your email, your snail mail, your phone messages,your food pantry, your refrigerator, your kids, spouse, pets and worst of all, your job that you are going to the seminar to learn how to get away from..
..
So you start through the pile, ticking off the tasks as you go along, and in a week or two you are caught up to where you were before you left if you are lucky.
By this time you have forgotten huge portions of the seminar despite being sure that you would rewrite your notes the minute you got home when all was fresh and you could decipher them and add to them..
etc.
By now you could not do this if you tried.
So back in the bookshelf everything goes: the course, the notes(so you can review them later),..
and your dreams.
32 out of 33 people will do exactly what I have just described.
Only 1 out of 33 will actually go home and do something.
And then there is the email equivalent of this scenario.
These people never even get to a seminar.
They will read email after email, and attend webinar after webinar, trying to glean that last bit of free information, and decide who will be the perfect guru for them...
without ever picking one.
(Probably the same statistics, but I have not checked that) So what do you do to get off the carousel and onto a path that leads out of the forest? It's a new decade.
Here is my answer: Just pick one.
It does not have to be the perfect choice.
Just pick one and go for it 100%.
I'm not saying don't research.
Research is good.
But at some point you have to dive off the board.
Here is my hint for deciding: The thing about real estate is that there is always a way to work the market to your advantage.
Always! Right now the market has produced a glut of foreclosures and preforclosures the likes of which you may not see again in your lifetime.
So pick a course that deals with this reality and get going.
The short sale market is in bloom, so grab the fruit! And if you are one of the people who actually get to the seminar, or the course, decide to be one of the 3 per 100 that actually implement what they learned.
Instead of going from guru to guru, just work the strategy.
When you get home, allow a some time in every day to start working that plan.
Don't wait till you catch up on life.
Just start working.