REI Guy's Success Journal

DG Family,

I've been sitting on the fence for about two and half years now. I know!!! Well, TODAY I made the decision to jump off the fence on one side or the other. Either to opt to go a completely different direction and forget about starting a real estate investing company ... or to opt to commit 110% to being a successful real estate investor (wholesaler) and put the last two and a half years spent studying to good use. Well, I decided to go for it!

This might not be the best possible time to start my Real Estate Wholesale business because of the winter storm here in Texas that has almost shutdown the entire metroplex (Most Texans aren't used to or well prepared for ice storms since they are rare here). But I’m not going to use that as yet another excuse to delay taking action, so I'm still going to forge ahead and get this party started. I've done enough learning and watching and waiting for a life time. I just have to get moving and get my momentum going. Some of the things I've learned are already obsolete because I didn't put them into taken when I learned them and now things are starting to change. I've learned that we don’t need to learn everything … just enough to get started.

So, I've decided to dust off the Rock Bottom Blue Print course I purchased several years ago and to get started with the "30 Days To Real Estate Cash" section as Dean suggests. That will actually be perfect since I'm mainly interested in wholesaling for now.

I will journal my progress here for all to see, but mainly in an effort to inspire other fellow Fence-Sitters to stop watching and waiting and start taking action. Even if only baby steps at least the steps will be in the right direction. If not now, when?

I already know that I will have failures because success is made up of failures, so that no longer frightens me. I’m planning on using my failures (by learning from them) as a foundation to build my staircase to success.

I hope you will follow my journal for the next 30 days. I've read many journals chronicling the successes of fellow DGers, so I already know it CAN be done. I just want to prove to myself that I can do it simply by setting my mind to it and taking massive action. Perhaps some of you might even jump off the fence with me and we can take this journey together. If so, I hope you’ll post here to let me know.

Now that I've started this journal and posted my journal introduction I will start making daily posts (labeled Day 1, Day 2, etc.) for the next 30 days. I will start with my first daily post this evening detailing what I've accomplished today.

Sincerely,
Samuel
Real Estate Investor

My favorite quotes:
- Your limits are only what you imagine them to be.
- If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying very hard.
- Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
- Successful people think and talk about what they want and unsuccessful people think and talk about what they don’t want.
- Give up on yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.
- Only 3% of adults have written goals and everyone else works for them.