“Apparently Everyone Started at the Finish Line… 🤔”
OK guys, I have something I wanna get off my chest.
Some people will have something wrong with what I’m going to say. Apparently, it’s because they are triggered and feel like they are being called out — and I’m OK with that.
I can sleep with myself. If the shoe fits, then wear it.
Now, to the rest of us humble beings, safe to say we all have to start from somewhere, correct?
No one is untouchable when it comes to having shortcomings or if tragedy hits, which brings me to my last point.
If you are a person who believed that since you are a big-time investor or super fluent in wholesaling, have all these resources and people, maybe even money you could borrow, loans, whatever you wanna call it — you have a great house, nice car, different real estate investments that you can sell, with all the things that you can pretty much say, “If God forbid anything hits, I’ll be okay.”
If something happens to where you lose everything, some friends won’t even extend a hand because they know you’re rich or they know you well. They don’t know you down. They look at you just the way you once looked at everyone else, like they’re not much of anything.
The ones that do stick around, you’d be grateful and more humbled because you’d have to see things through someone else’s lens for maybe the first time in your life if it’s not familiar to you at all.
Be the person you’d want someone else to be to you, your relatives, or your children.
Do not be stuck up, insensitive, and in it for the dollar. It is an awful way of presenting yourself.
I’ve heard insensitive, ridiculous things in my life, but there is one in particular that really stressed me out just because what I wanted to say, I needed to keep it pretty cute for what it’s worth.
There is a special place for people who feel that life cannot happen to them and they can’t lose everything in one shot. Sometimes I feel like people actually need to be put in a position to see what having humility looks like.
I am in a great position and I live comfortable, but I do a lot of charity work, a lot of philanthropy because I too had nothing at one point.
I came from a mid-class background and I was adopted, and they’ve done the best they can. I got an education. I didn’t have a big old house, but I had a house with people who loved me, showed me the way, and for that — the way I was raised, the family who chose to adopt me and care for me — I chose and choose to educate as much of the youth as possible, to lend a hand whenever I can without always expecting money in return.
To assist people of all colors, races, cultures, and religions.
To choose understanding and empathy over assumption and insensitivity.
Not because it’s businesslike, but specifically because I am human like everyone else, and so are the people that some of us look down on.
I hope and pray that some of you here remember this when you encounter people who are new in any field or any part of real estate.
You did not jump into this field knowing everything.
Just like real estate, there are a lot of other things that you are not knowledgeable of. It could be how to clean your pool, electrical work, plumbing, or something as simple as grooming a dog, which is also not simple to some other people.
You have to be new before you are experienced.
Remember exactly what that felt like.
But don’t forget — those same investment properties or assets you feel protect you can abruptly turn into the money you owe someone else. The property you thought you could sell could become the property you’re trying to save. The money you thought you had could become money you need to give back to a bank, lender, or someone else.
Instead of walking into what you thought was a sweet deal, life can change and you could find yourself walking into a homeless shelter.
I wish this on absolutely no one, but these are facts. Life can humble anyone.
Being insensitive or treating people who may not know as much as you, don’t have the same resources, connections, or financial benefits as you, like peasants can become your own karma.
The same position you look down on someone for being in today could be the same position you find yourself in tomorrow.