What Are You Willing to Sacrifice

I think that my first blog should tell a lot about me, what I believe, and what my goals are. The title of this blog will open up memories for a lot of you because many of you have sacrificed a lot to get where you are in your business.

I Believe
I believe that every human being on planet Earth has control of his or her life if they know how to tap into their inner potential. I believe that your thoughts are what define you. My thoughts are always geared towards creating generational wealth for me and my family. My goal is to be put myself in a position to help and educate key family members so that we can build a system that can perpetuate itself for the next 300 years. Is this possible? It is happening all around us, it is called creating generational wealth which starts with the proper education. By proper education I am not referring to a PHD or a Masters degree in a particular subject. I am referring to educating ourselves on the dynamics of loving ourselves and each other as human beings. The next part is learning to steer our thoughts in a positive direction. This is not easy because of all of the negative forces in the world and in our immediate areas. I believe that is why it is important to monitor what comes into our sight and minds. I do not watch much T.V. because of the negative images and the News is the worst of all. I believe that bombarding our minds with such negative imagery effects us in a way that prevents us from tapping into our greatest assets, which are our ideas and capacity to reason. Why am I writing about this and what does it have to do with real estate? If we are serious about becoming extremely successful in real estate or any other endeavor these things or the lack of will play an important role in our growth. These are principles that many of the super successful people tell us about all of the time. The question is how closely are we listening.

What am I trying to accomplish with this?
What do I achieve by revealing my beliefs and goals? Probably nothing, but then my words may inspire readers that are not familiar with some of these principles to explore further and discover something wonderful. Have I reached rich status yet? The answer is a resounding NO. But I as I have said, I am so confident that I will succeed I am documenting my rise to success with this blog and YouTube videos. As matter of fact the thing that is going to make this blog more interesting is the fact that I am homeless at the time of writing this blog. Yes, I'm homeless in Atlanta at this moment. Revealing this information in this forum my be a grave mistake for my business or a great advantage, time will tell. Many gurus tell us that they were homeless before they reached success; what if they had enough confidence to document it with video. But lets look at what I am accomplishing or have accomplished while being homeless. I have a list of 16 verified buyers, a birddogger feeding me deals weekly, a top producing real estate agent and others trying to work with me, wholesalers looking to work with me, 4 real estate websites, internet systems in the works, veteran real estate professionals calling to work with me, and a mentor. Oh yeah...my revised business plan is almost complete. So you my ask, “if you have all of that why are you still homeless”. The answer is that when I implemented my tactic to grow my business I did not realize it would be this effective this quickly. I am very serious about who is on my power team, so it is taking time to meet and evaluate the people that are calling to work with me. As I have said “I am building generational wealth through real estate” so who I let in my immediate circle is vital to my success, so I am willing to sacrifice more time on the street to build the right team. I am also constantly educating myself about real estate, so being without home has forced me to organize and and create a strict daily schedule that I am sticking to, because I have no choice. I have been trying to organize my life like this for years.



Strong Desire vs Fear
The question that we need to ask ourselves is “How hungry are we to achieve our dream”? The fear of failure is the biggest defeater of success potential. I faced this fear many years ago and realize how strong that fear can be for a new business owner. To combat this fear I amerced myself in educating myself about the business that I want to go into. I have found that confidence in your ability is a great defeater of fear. I learned this first hand when I invested I a course to help me become better with women. I realized that everything I learned about women had to be unlearned because it was all wrong. After amercing myself in the information, studying the methods, and taking action I met the most amazing woman in the world at my job. She had been there all along but I could not approach her because I was not ready until I took the course. Today she is my wife and is behind what I am doing almost 100%. I know she has doubts but she still support me greatly. Yes, I have a “ride or die chick”. So I have to succeed to give her the life she deserves for believing in me. Having your spouse support you in something like this is astronomical, I know all of the men reading this can attest to this.

We know that all of my family and hers are totally against me doing this so I have not told my mother because she will worry. Her family is really doubting my ability to run my house and she is staying with them while I do this so I know what she is going through. My two partners say that I am going at this too hard; I said that I am not wealthy yet so I am not going after it hard enough. I poised a question to my partners - I said that I want to retire with a $600 million dollar real estate portfolio and 2 million dollars liquid, can you give me a game plan for doing that? No answer.

I embrace fear because it means I am about to embark on another problem solving venture that will put me that much closer to my goal and make me that much more wiser.

                          -Bill Cosby-