Weekly Wisdom #252 - Too Far Gone?

Glad to hear from the two most respected guys in this industry.

Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedules.

Valiant

This is true. I work in a place where there are negative people all around me and this is like a constant fight that I have to deal every day. My strategy is just stay focus and look at the end result.

Thank you for the information. Another push out of the rut. It's not to late for me. I can do this. Desire will not come true until I do something about it. Thanks Dean and Matt.

I'm a huge victim of negative ppl I think. I'm just so afraid of failing that any sign of this not bein able to work or if I hear negative feed back I really get discouraged and back off. It's good to know that you two have been there and I'm not alone.

Thank you for sharing this Matt and Dean! We have been in this 9 months now and I just quit my full time job and my husband still works but we are on our way to making this happen. We have learned so much and we are fully invested in this and will make this happen. I have made negative people in my life rapidly be removed because I can't let any of the outside chatter be apart of my decisions. My daughters, husband and I pray every night thanking God what he has brought to us and for the guidance and wisdom how to move forward. Thank you so much for sharing and being a huge part of my family!

Great weekly wisdom Dean and Matt. It is very encouraging and empowering to all of us. Kudos to both of you for always having positive thoughts for us to learn from

hi dean and matt I lake to be positive not negative just I need a boost ( Im a mechanic) my income is not good, but I need help in realstate what is matt and dean best opinion please,thanks

hello dean and matt,I was a negative person but I lake to be positive, I lake the weekly wisdom #252 help me to much not to be negative person , I need a boost please what is your opinion and matt let me know please,thanks

Let me just start by saying Dean has good thing going. I watch his weekly wisdom and he is a good motivator and has done a lot of great things for himself and other less-fortunate people. Mat Larson has also accomplished great feats, however when asked by Dean to pick out two things that set him apart with how he changed his life by investing in real-estate was like listening to Dean in a past weekly wisdom. Come on Mat you couldn't come up with nothing else. If that wasn't a pre -planned question I don't know what was. Dean if you want to drive home a point for the week don't use mat to try and pretend like that was the key to his success, that may have truly been a part of his success but to say those two things is what set him apart, I'm not buying it. Mat one person like me posting something negative does not constitute what you and Dean call negative media. Mat you need to get your nose out of Deans you know what. You could be influenced by someone in life and still lead your own life your like Deans mini me. Its sick already be your own person. I'm not afraid to be a little negative from time to time and I'll assume this post wont last long on the blog cause God fobid we have negativity on the site. Its a natural part of life as long as you don't let it control you it is fine. But lets be real on this site from time to time and let people post there true feelings cause life is not a bed of roses ,is it? Hopefully someone gets a chance to read this before it gets deleted like I know it will, cause instead of letting Dean make the choice, one of his little admin people will delete it like the robot that they have been programed to be. Forward it to Dean and let him personally respond to this, I'll be waiting Dean get the guts and call or email me personally!!

Congratulations Donna Doo on the GREAT pay check and thanks for sharing the Postlets.com info. Keep posting. Continued Success!

This was great wisdom as always. Getting away from negative people is essential. Its not easy though, because often the most negative people are the ones we are the closest to and whom we spend the most time with like family and friends. Most people will stay around negative people out of fear of being lonely, and to be honest those who stay around negative people just to keep a friend really don't want to reach their goals bad enough. And about the media, not listening to them is definitely one of the most mind-freeing things you can do. I watch the local news just to see whats happening in the community, but national news outlets that preach doom and gloom 24 hours a day I never watch. I know people who watch that crap for hours and hours then act like its a mystery as to why their lives aren't progressing. Its quite sad. But anyway, thanks for this wisdom, looking forward to next week's blog!

Keep the positive info coming to us.

I have been looking at properties ,I have made some offers but not gotten any deals yet. In fact I am still going through more Real Estate Agents. My Bandit signs haven't worked for me yet . I have been going around looking through the MSL from Realtors .Newspaper,Craigslist.My problem right now is finding the financing .I still am looking for Motivated Buyers, Sellers.
Thank you Dean,Matt

It's so good to hear some positive people right now! I'm still trying to get my first deal! I know I am really close too!! I really need this bad. I am new student of yours and very excited to get my first deal under my belt. Thanks for the encouragement!! I love watching you Dean every week too!! Have a GREAT WEEK and I'll be tuning in next week!

Thanks for the extra encouragement matt and dean.Continue to teach us how to be sucessful in real estate.

Money! I signed up for the Success Academy because I was told I would be able to borrow money even though I don't have of my own to invest. I continue to lose out on deals because I can't get a proof of funds letter. I don't have any wealthy friends who I can just call and ask for money. No one wants to loan money to a 69 year old woman who is living on Social Security and a part-time job. I have found a house in a $250-275K neighborhood that is owned by the US Marshall. My realtor tells me I could probably buy it for $40-50K. It needs a lot of work--$80-100K. That would leave a good profit even after paying fees for money. I just can't figure out the money
This is not the first good deal I have found...Suggestions?ss

It's great to hear its not to late, I have taken Dean's course and paid a lot money for it, but my concern is the negative people in my life ( my family, co-workers,)I hate to get a divorce, I can get excited when I watch your articles and videos, I have read some books, listen to CD's, but I haven't done my first deal yet, I am not going to give up, but need some help and maybe a push. I just don't want to miss the boat.

Good to see you both together sharing good things for all to hear,becaues I need it myself. Thanks

Thanks Dean & Matt
I will take your advice and cut off the negative people and negative media, focusing on my economy. Thanks again.

Thanks Dean and Matt:
These Weekly Wisdoms encourage me, but today I see encouragement from Diana Nyada, the first person to swim from Cuba to American soil, Key West, and with out a shark cage. And this at age 64, her 5th attempt. Her first was at 29 yrs old, and then she didn't try again for 33 years in 2011, and just 3 more trys till success.
Imagin if she had just kept at it, I bet it would have been easier at 34 than 64 years old.
What perseverance, focus, dedication drove her to it finaly? Or did she just stop listening to negativaty? It only took three more tries.

It is never too late! we can make money in any housing market, we just have to know which strategy to use that's all, now it is fixing & flipping & wholesaling, when the market is at the top just wholesaling, when it is at the bottom buying n holding and wholesaling, we can do this cmon dg'ers! Let's go faster do more! GFDM

PS thanks Matt & Dean love listening to you guys! see you at next yrs Edge!

Dean and Matt - Thanks for such a good reminder that today is what we have to work with. There will always be speculation that tomorrow will be better, or that yesterday was the golden moment. With that kind of thinking, tomorrow will only be another today of missed opportunities. Thanks to all of you that are here and participating - keeping my mindset focused on today.

I understand your point of view, and I can relate to it.
However, I do have someone in my life(husband) who tends to see the "down side" of things. Therefore I have not shared anything with him about Dean and what I have done and spent so far! I do of course intend to share with him after my first deal. I have said nothing as I know I can "lose energy" over my own "great" ideas, if I hear how foolish, rash, or misinformed I really am~! This no doubt has held me back in the past.
I now resolve to forge ahead no matter what. I am however, a little stuck, just right now. I have returned from my first daughter's wedding. I have some debt over this. The reason for that? I spent the money I had put aside for wedding costs on DG coaching, via PMI! This was expensive for me, but I felt it would be well worth it. I still feel that way.
I told myself in May/June when I started that by the time the wedding comes: August 31/13, I would already have my first deal done, and could put back at least part of the money I spent! This has not yet come to be.
I do find myself wondering about my decision, somewhat as you are. I just now checked my email and have reviewed a few of Dean's Weekly Wisdom videos!
Each time I do this, I am filled with enthusiasm and hope! Lets keep this up and we could give each other some support here.

I really like your comment: Won't give up, as opposed to: "Don't give up" which I think we are all more familiar with. "Won't" certainly gives the responsibility back to the "self" , as giving up is a personal choice. We need to remember this.
I would like to wish you well, I sense your deal is coming very close now. I urge you to please post it up and share it when it happens! I for one, will be looking for it with a sense of excitement! Thank you for this post~

The negative is the push we need to stay away from .. My biggest obstetrical for me was to find work, I Worked part time but not even 10 hours a week so i been still looking for full time. Than This morning i sit down on my chair having my coffee and said a prayer,
I said lord i need to find work with out money you struggle to live.. I will keep my faith and believe that i will find something..amen
This afternoon i received a call for a job offer to start on Monday.. Its good i'm excited i have something even though i work 5.5 days i have something coming in for now and i also put in for another position that is close where i live .. wish me luck.. than i can sign up for your elite program..
What i have to say to all is don't ever give up, i could have.. things don't happen as we want them to.. were put through these tests to see what were made of and sometime we do get challenged.. stay as positive and tell your self you can do it.. cause if you say you cant, than you made up your mind to not do the effort.. which will effect everything and worse your time once that's gone you cant get that back? Believe in your self and I will believe in you..
Don Jr

Matt hit the nail right on the head......while I don't listen to any media (except what I choose to) and don't really listen to any naysayers around me (it does make me wonder for a moment though), I think
what's holding me back from going full force is that think I'm too far behind......and scared to let go of the few hundred dollars I earn spending way too much time doing it and not pushing forward 150%.
If I let go of the few dollars I make and then not succeed I'll have nothing or less. But I'm making mistakes and wasting time (that's money) on my deals. I have my 1st flip in escrow (taking a loss) and struggling on the second one.
My commercial building is not selling either.
So, THANK YOU for this kick in the skirt !!!!!!!!!
Looking forward to the event in San Bernardino!!!

You guys are great.You definitely keep me inspired to keep going. Thanks Guys.

I do and don't believe in 'your' economy and the counties economy being separate. For this reason, if your are a buy/hold investor and rent out you properties, what if your tenants become unemployed?? They aren't going to be paying rent! Which in turn will make 'your' economy in the crapper as well!

So, us landlords rely in the countries economy a lot more than you think!!

P.s when you coming to visit, Matt? We can hang and play some darts..

Thanks
Darren

Hi Dean and Matt!
No negativity in my life these days! Too busy trying different things to get my RE Business off the ground. I have a shoe-string budget, 4 14hour days to "work" around, leaving me with 3 days to work on my strategies and efforts towards my REI business. I have not made my first deal yet, but I do have a contract on the table, in review with the homeowner. Hope I will be assigning this property soon! My 20th wedding anniversary is in 3 weeks, hoping to have my first deal done here to help celebrate! Either way, I am blessed in my life in many ways except financially, working through REI educations and applications to make that one necessary change FULFILLED!
Talk to you all soon...Ever Forward!!!!

Thank you Matt and Dean for that video.
It is so true as Matt said to disconnect from negative people, because even if you are not having a negative conversation with the person about real estate, believe me the conversation that you are having with that person at the time will go negative about anything and will pull you down like a cement weight! if you get sucked in to the negative conversation and! it will ruin your day or week. PLEASE if you MUST succeed in real estate or anything else disconnect from the Nay Sayers and you will blossom.