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If you do nothing else please take a few seconds to read all the
way to the bottom of this letter… it is that important!
Ever watch a show that just makes you sit back and think? One
that draws
you in no matter what you are doing something about this show
just Grabs
you?
I have 2 of them… one is Donald Trump's The Apprentice and the
other Boston
Legal… Yeah… Yeah … you may not like them but I am one of the
guys that
really listens… to what is being said. Not just the mindless
blather that
goes on and on and on but I listen and try to take back a lesson
that may
just make me better.
The last episode there was an exchange between Denny and Alan
that went like
this:
Denny:
Alan, Ya know one thing we all sometime forget…
no matter
how hard your day…
how tough
your choices have been…
how
complex your ethical decisions…
you always get to choose what you want for lunch!
Alan:
Daily I am amazed at your
inexhaustible ability to Just Live…
Denny:
It's either that or die… (said with a smile)
Now… I know that a lot of people who did not see the prelude to
the conversation are going… Huh? What does that mean. To me it
is the main line of Just Live. If the little worries tear you
down what will the big worries do to you? If the Boss is
driving you nuts find a way to
get into
your “secret place” and lock the word out…
even if only for a while. And Live…
Jim McCann of 800-Flowers gave a very enjoyable speech about how
he grew
from a childhood where
most people
would have given up
and never
even tried
to poke their head up for fear of getting it knocked off…
Of being a role
model and teacher to children living in an orphanage and
learning that one
of the best ways top teach them was to make them think the ideas
were their
own… like Tom Sawyer.
Mr. McCann said:
"When the student is ready the Teacher will appear." We have all
heard that
before… what he added was:
"Will
the student recognize the truth and take advantage of it?"
I have heard over and over for the last four years from one of
my mentors that
he does not
have a cell phone, internet connection or email.
Any calls to him go on a schedule and if the people don’t like
it there are others who don’t mind the wait. No cell phone… he
doesn’t even give out his office number. You call his secretary
in Phoenix and she makes an appointment for you. He lives in
Cleveland!
I could not imagine life without my cell phone but I will
confess that I changed my number recently. I know that the guy
who received my old number is hating life right now and that’s
OK… he can find his own “space.”
By taking my
number off the market I have put an additional 75 hours back
into my month.
Well… maybe 40 anyway. I put over 4,500 minutes on a cell phone
in one month!But now if anyone wants to talk to me they call the
office or send an email and I get back to them. If it is an
emergency I always try and get back as soon as possible
but now I
get to dictate my life a little better.
Who knows I may get to throw the cell phone away when all is
said and done. Sometimes it takes a while for the message to
sink in…
One of the people that always has a lot of drive going is my
student Lorraine… I only have to
give her an
example once and she is off and running.
She is the famous person that took a badly distressed couple to
a pastor for three and a half hours to secure the deal. Since
then she has closed one other deal and now that put a good bit
of money in the bank and now is working on another short sale
that she should sign up today. The big difference in her short
sales are that she
gets the deals pushed through the bank due to hard work
and does not quit.
I was able to work with another student… walking her through the
paperwork of a sub to deal that, on the surface, had only Five
Thousand Dollars in equity when all was said and done. But we
talked and I was able to guide her through the deal that will
NET
her Eleven Thousand Dollars when I had her look at the deal in
another way...
That is with just a few suggestions on a topic I will be
discussing coming up in May. Anyway… we spent the morning going
through the paperwork to make sure it was taken care of right
and she received a $10,000.00 down payment
by selling
the house on the same day she bought it…
It was a great day when all was said and done to know she was
doing her first deal and I was able to help guide her through
the steps…
I had lunch with Janet to discuss some great examples of deals
that she is working on… you remember Janet, she
is my student who has made over $85.000.00 in Net Profits since
October working on Sub To deals and Wholesaling properties…
We were also discussing how I get more back from my students
when they succeed than I give them and, though I am not sure she
understood, she at least listened.
Well as I settled into the day I finally was able to return a
call that I had not gotten to. Phone tag and all. Well... to
say that it made an impact would be an understatement. You see
I had sent a message out a few days ago with a testimonial about
one of the guys who went to the Sub To event in November.
He
got his first deal recently, a $5,000.00 profit.
I received another email about his second deal in a matter
of days where he is receiving $3,000 in a flip fee…
Now, this may not sound like a lot to you but when I heard his
story and
where he was
and
what he has faced
and
how hard he Worked to make this start to happen…
$8,000.00 in a few weeks… a life threatening illness… bills to
choke a horse… truly Having To Make It Happen… not just wanting
to… well I was floored.
If I could have had a recorder on I would have. I know
the passion
and the commitment
would have driven everyone of you to do a deal as fast as
possible by shear determination alone. But I didn’t have a
recorder.
So I have invited him to come and speak about his success… Not
for long but enough to share his story and no he isn’t selling
anything… but I guarantee this… if you are not motivated after
hearing his conversation with me then you are not meant for this
business.
If he tells you the same way he told me what he did and what he
faced and if it does not motivate you to jump up and shake his
hand and then get out and Do Something!, Anything, to get a
deal… ask for your money back because it means you are not ready
for this business.
Yes, I do believe that strongly in the message of survival that
he will bring to the event. It makes my whining about a little
phone time pale in comparison… trust me…
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