Reading an interview with the Sloan Brothers, the two guys from Birmingham who run a nifty website about starting your business, becoming an entrepreneur. They said that every January, their website traffic spikes up, come March, it is back to normal.
People become ambitious about a fresh start, starting their own business in January, make a New Year resolution to do so and then typically do nothing but just sniff around the idea. Come March, the same people are back to their 9-5 routine, waiting for December to show up so they do this routine all over again.
Here is a remedy to March blues: plunge yourself heads first into starting a business, starting in real estate investing NOW in this week. Immerse yourself in the world of entrepreneurs and real estate investing and you will have no choice pretty soon to start looking at the world with different set of eyes.
Here are 7 Tips for building momentum In Michigan Real Estate Investing:
1. What books are you reading right now? If you are reading books about starting a business, real estate investing, biographies of successful entrepreneurs - you are on the right track.
2. What magazines do you read? If you are reading Inc., Entrepreneur, Millionaire Blueprints Magazine - you are on the right track.
3. What kind of videos do you watch on the Internet every day at work? Dancing dogs, exploding teenagers? How about doing a search on Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, Tony Robbins, Seth Godin and yours truly Mark Ijlal?
4. What kind of forums do you go and read / participate? If you go to the dozens of real estate investing forums and read what other people are doing - you are on the right track.
5. What kind of blogs do you read? Michigan Foreclosure Report is a good place to bookmark and visit on a regular basis. What else are you reading?
6. Who do you hang out with? Do you have any friends who are interested in real estate investing or starting a business? If NOT - hey 11,000,000 people live in Michigan - find some new people to befriend.
7. Go and meet the whales that swim in the world of Michigan foreclosures - your local REO broker, a local loan officer, a local hard money guy in your Michigan city, a local property inspector, a local appraiser - take them out to a cup of coffee and ask them "so how are things in the world of foreclosures - what are you seeing?" Write notes.
Money loves speed. I say it all the time. Money also loves momentum. When you start doing all the above you are going to attract the right kind of people toward you. Sitting with your head down, in your own little universe rarely makes anybody rich.
If you are not doing any of the above and you don't really need any money to do the above, do you? Just a commitment to put away some time every day and DO IT, then don't kid your self.
You are not serious about this and probably never will be.
Back in the day, I used to work 12 hard hours, standing on my feet every day, come home, have dinner, watch T.V. for an hour and then spend at least 2 hours on the Internet researching different ways of making money, starting a business, investing in real estate.
My actions matched what I said I wanted out of my life.
I am excited about 2008. It is a new year. Everything and anything is possible.
Get excited. Get moving.
You will be chirpy come February, March, April, May...
