Originally posted by @Frank Patalano :
@Mike Dymski
Fears a tough one overcome. I will tell you that everyone has fear even if they don't admit it. Robert Kiyosaki says that he still shakes a little bit at the closing table when he buys a property. One way to help overcome fears for knowledge. Another way is through experience. It's easier to buy property number 6 than to buy property number one.
I lost money on my first deal and I'm still doing it. Remember that risks are what make life memorable. Do you really want to play it safe your entire life? Think of the regrets.
You have to commit yourself to goals. Pick one goal even if it's fearful in each section of your life. I'm not saying to go skydiving or anything but perhaps just to go to a monthly real estate meaning. Look at one property a week. Make an offer on one property a month. It doesn't matter how low the offer is. If you get accepted than you were not low enough.
At the beginning of the year I set out with six goals and so far I've been pretty successful at five of them.
Incidentally, I was afraid of heights...still am a little. So, I went skydiving...50 times.
"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." -Neale Donald Walsch