Success in Real Estate Investing Means Getting over Your Fears
FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real…so you must get rid of the false evidence! There will always be something you are afraid of staring you down, intimidating you, and preventing you from taking your business success to a higher level! Don’t let those imagined fears stop you!
Successful real estate investors learn an important lesson very early on in their careers. Failing does not make you a failure…it makes you stronger and you learn from it! You become a failure when you fail, and refuse to move on and try again. You have to learn to fall properly before you can walk. Likewise, failure is just a lesson about how to succeed by not repeating the same behavior again. You cannot seriously expect to deal with other real estate agents, homeowners, and mortgage companies like an expert the first time you talk with them and that is o.k.!
So the first call you make doesn’t go well. Perhaps, in fact, it goes terribly. So What? What did you lose? Nothing…what did you gain? Tons! Does that mean you will not pick up the phone and try again? You have to be willing to muster up the courage to pick up the phone and keep calling. The first call may have been a bust; perhaps even the first 50 calls were a total disaster. Learn from each one. Remember what went wrong. Then dial another number and keep talking as you are really ‘dialing for dollars’.
Eventually, the call will go your way and you will get into your own groove. You will know exactly how to handle the call from the things you have learned in the past. Only when you face your fears, stare them down, and persevere in spite of them can you succeed in the real estate business. So what are you waiting for? Pick up the phone; dial the number you have been afraid to call! Eventually, things will go your way, and you will make thousands, gain incredible confidence, start enjoying your life better - because you faced your fears and made that next phone call!
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