Slow and Hard!!!

Well, it is the end of another week and I am once again trying to figure out what has happened on the commercial investing side of my life..I plan on doing a video blog of things I want to "account for" and show my growth in, but I HAVE YET to make up my "accountability list". This is LOL!!! I want to be more effective, yet, I procrastinate on the things that will make it more effective..This is a life lesson of slow and hard.

I understand that success does not necessarily have to be HARD..it is based on your belief system. If you believe that you MUST have HARD WORK and blood sweat and tears all the time to achieve success, then that is how your success will come to fruition. BUT..if you believe that success can come "easy and plentiful" then that is how your success will come..

NEEDLESS to say, I want to be on the "easy and plentiful side"

I will say this though..I am learning key components to achieving success in any area:

The First is: Modeling or imitation. Modeling was emphasized in one of the success books(No BS series) by one of our wildly affluent gurus, Dan Kennedy, as a "must" for those who are seeking success.

As I find successful people, I need to "model" what they do..this concept is as old as time. In fact, even in the Bible, the Apostle Paul urged his ardent followers to "Imitate me as I imitate Christ" which basically stated to those who wanted to know Paul's "secret" to growing in God, they did not have to ask him, or read anything, they just had to IMITATE. So as I see others who are extremely successful, I HAVE TO LOOK to imitate them, with the distinction of not wanting to "be" them or "compete" with them, just imitate, do what they do (within reason of course) and the more I do what they do, think like they think, I will BE HOW THEY ARE…

Now I SEE, this is the direct purpose of coaching and mentoring, because it opens up an arena of success for anyone who wants to learn it from someone who is "doing it"..

Here comes the problem:

How many times have you(or someone you know) sought a coach, a mentor, or someone to help you out in an area that you are weak and then argued with them or discarded their advice?

Isn't that just "dumb"!

Who says to someone that they need help, then reject it? That fact makes me realize that many of us at our very core may be selfish beings who just want to hear what is pleasing to us, and we would rather be validated by what is false, than to be pruned by what is true..

Which brings me back to my point..that type of self-pleasing thinking brings us further from success, than toward it.

The lack of adhering to the imitation principle makes success in an area "slow and hard"..

I know that in order to get moving on my millions in commercial real estate I need to find more properties, talk to more sellers, get more offers, but instead I am sitting here wondering why I haven't got my millions yet..

Of course, I haven't got my millions BECAUSE I have not found more properties, talked to more sellers and sent out more offers..You see my point? I need to go faster and I will start with:

Finding "easily and plentifully" more property and do my video..Target dates Monday..talk to you soon.