Is Your Big But Keeping You From Becoming a Real Estate Investor?
Are you making excuses about why you aren’t investing in real estate? Do any of these sound familiar?
"But I am just waiting until I’ve read your program a few more times before I make my first offer.""But I don’t know anybody with money to partner with."
"But it’s not a good time to buy right now."
"But I just haven’t found the right deal."
I wish I had just made those up but those are quotes from actual people that want to start investing in real estate but have found dozens of things that are stopping them. And they aren’t alone!
There are so many people out there that want to start investing in real estate but can’t even get themselves to put in a single offer.
And real estate investing CAN be scary. Some people have lost a lot of money investing in real estate.
But there are just as many (or more) that have made a lot of money.
If you take the time to educate yourself on the fundamentals of real estate investing. Learn from people that are show you how to avoid the mistakes they have made made and then execute according to what you learn then you’re so much more likely to succeed. Let’s face it, many of the folks that have lost money weren’t careful. They didn’t learn the basics. Many of them heard on the news that real estate was making everyone money and then rushed out to buy the first 3 houses they could find.
But if you’re are educating yourself and learning from people succeeding doing what you want to do and you are still not making offers, then you MUST read this book by Sean Stephenson called Get Off Your But. Sean says, "our BUTS are huge. And the longer we sit on them, the more they continue to grow!"
It’s ok. We all do it! We all have a ‘but’ we’re sitting on that is holding us back from something we really want. But you have to know that YOUR BUT IS THE ONLY THING HOLDING YOU BACK from what you want.
Besides being a fascinating and inspiring tale of the life of this three foot tall giant of a man who has never been able to stand on his own two feet due to having brittle bones (the non medical term for his condition), it’s a book full of resources and tools to help you overcome those fears, excuses and insecurities that are giving you the biggest buts.
Sean provides a great exercise in the book to demonstrate this. Essentially he gets you to ask a friend to spend 60 seconds finding everything that is blue coloured in a room. Then, after they have told you everything that is blue, ask the person to tell you a few things that were yellow or red.
It’s going to be nearly impossible for them to name anything that is a different colour because they have been so focused on the blue things.
The same thing happens to would-be real estate investors… they get so hung up on the financing challenges, the fact they can’t find good partners or the lack of good deals that they never actually get going and get off their big but.
So… get off your but! Stop making excuses and start making offers… or just stop letting your big but hold you back from whatever it is you want in your life.
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