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Follow Schwarzenegger’s Advice to Put Fuel on the Fire

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

“Adversity causes some people to break, and other people to break records.” — Anon

The Governator

I think one of the most powerful motivations in my life is when someone tells me that I can’t do something.

In his autobiography, Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger puts it this way:

Sometimes you have to appreciate the very people and circumstances that traumatized you. Today I hail the strictness of my father, and my whole upbringing, and the fact that I didn’t have anything that I wanted in Austria, because those were the very factors that made me hungry.

Every time he hit me. Every time he said my weight training was garbage, that I should do something useful and go out and chop wood. Every time he disapproved of me or embarrassed me, it put fuel on the fire in my belly. It drove me and motivated me.

What strikes me, is that it wasn’t the fact that Arnold was tormented that made him into the over-achieving force of nature that he became (warts and all), it was the the way that he used that ordeal as motivation to reach his goals.

Arnold’s motivational story:

 

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The Secret to Success (video)

Friday, January 21st, 2011

The secret to success in life and business (even the fixer upper house business), according to Napoleon Hll and Ralph Waldo Emerson, is to be persistant and to follow your intuition.

 

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Masters of Our Fate (video)

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

We are masters of our own fate and captains of our own soul because we have the power to control our thoughts.

Bob Morgan was a stuntman on the film How the West Was Won. He was run over by a train during the filming but made a miraculous recovery with the help of a strong positive mental attitude.

Control Your Thoughts and Reach Your Dreams

Do you take time away from the stress of real estate investing? (video)

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Even real estate investors (especially those who fix em up and rent em out) need to get away from the stresses of life once in awhile. Maybe it’s time for you to take a walk in the country, and get back in touch with that inner place where you can be yourself.

Control Your Thoughts & Reach Your Dreams

Monday, October 25th, 2010

What things do you actually have control over in your life?

When you think about it, there are actually very few things that we can control.

For example, I was forced to give up my dream of boxing. I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

We are required to buy insurance for our cars and houses. The kids must go to school and have supplies and clothes. We choose food, cars and most consumer goods based on the advertisements we see on television. Different levels of government and social pressures decide many things for us, or leave us with limited options to choose from.

And, it doesn’t get any better as time moves on. It seems the older we get, the fewer choices that we have. Men still chase women when they get older, but only downhill.

The One Thing We Control

Napoleon Hill says that we have control over but one thing, the ability to control our own thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all human traits. It is part of our divine nature. This divine tool is the sole way to control your own destiny.

Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control it or it controls you. The most effective way to control your mind is by keeping it busy with a definite purpose, supported by a clear plan.

The Ultimate Question

A lot of people I know have read Think and Grow Rich, and they say that they think it is a great book. But, very few know the answer to the following question.

What does Napoleon Hill say that you must do twice daily in order to make your desires become reality?

On page 36 of my copy of Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill says that you should have:

1.) written a concise statement of what you want,

2.) how you plan to get it, and

3.) when you will get it,

then you should read your written statement aloud twice daily, once before retiring at night and once after arising in the morning.

What Does This Have to Do With Real Estate?

In the early 2000’s, I thought my job was going to be cut and I that would be unemployed. I decided I needed a steady second income so I wouldn’t have to rely on my 8:00 to 5:00 job to bring home the bacon .

After I concluded that buying fixer upper houses and renting them out was the best second income for me, I wrote down my desire on a piece of paper and carried it around in my wallet.

I wrote, ” I will find and buy a fixer-upper house in the next 60 days.” In less than a month, I found and bought my first fixer upper house, and that was my start in this business.

That was the first time I experienced the power of this technique. I have had many subsequent successes with the technique as well.

Like most of us. you have ideas and dreams. But, if you go beyond just identifying them and you write them down, and put your passion into them, they are more likely to come true.

Confessions of a Fixer-upper-holic

Interview with Mark Maxon Wednesday

Monday, August 10th, 2009

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In his book, Achieving Excellence in Life, author and radio host Mark Maxon states that a foreign-born individual relocating in the United States is four times more likely to acquire a net worth of one million dollars in his working lifetime than a natural born citizen. He identifies the reason for that as conditioning. Growing up in the US, we are taught “Money doesn’t grow on trees; “We can’t afford that, we’re broke;” and “The streets aren’t paved with gold.” While in other countries, people say, “The streets are paved with gold,” and “In America anything is possible.” I find that pretty interesting.

Wednesday, I will have the pleasure of being interviewed by Mark Maxon about my book Fix em Up Rent em Out. I invite you to join us. You can listen to us live at http://themaxonshow.com/, and selecting “click to listen live”.

Details for upcoming radio interviews:

August 12, Mark Maxon, KTALK AM 630, Salt Lake City, Utah, 10:00 am Mountain Time

August 14, Gillian Sutton, KRSN AM 1490, Los Alamos, NM, 7:30 am Mountain Time

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