Articles Of Success
For The Investor
1. Impatience is a virtue: Impatience is a virtue for the investor. Go after what you want when you want it. Make it happen today and do not wait around for things to happen on ther own, by then the otther guy has already landed the deal. The day you decide to do it now and not latter, and be the investor you want to be is the day you can turn your life around and succed at what ever you set your mind to.
2. Do Not Be Affraid To Fail: Do you know what it is all successful people have in common? FAILURE !!! The successful have many more failures than the average person. The successful take more risks than the average person, and therefore learn by trial and error, and failure. A loser tries once or twice and then quites, a quiter never will succed. A winner understands that failure is just a stepping stone to success.
3. Work Smart: We need to work hard, and have a good work ethic, but does that make you a financial success. Is your mechanic or your dilevery man a millionaire. Working hard and having a good work ethic is only two thirds of the solution. You need to work smart enough to put yourself in the place that allows you to reach your goals to financial success.
4. Don't Worry! Be Happy!!!: Make your work something you enjoy doing every day, and work will never be a four letter word. If you do not enjoy you current J-O-B it is time for a change. If you enjoy working with the public, makeing the deal, and all the challenges involved, or if you think you might enjoy these things, then real estate may be the place for you. The important thing is to keep the spark that kidles the flames of joy in what you are doing. If it is real estate, or fishing, cleaning house or what ever it is that you enjoy the most, then find a way to make that your job.
5. Be Bold: Put a sign on your wall that reads: "The greatest risk in life is not taking one". It is easy to become complacent if you accept mediocrity as a norm. Success takes guts, which we define as fortitude, character and integrity. You have to take some reasonable risks. Take care of business, don't worry, if you worry about it you do not want it. Worry is negative, losers are negative. Winners are positive, when worry comes to a winner, he gets busy and puts worry away. It is better to have tried and lost, than to have never tried at all.
6. Be Hungry: You have got to want it badly; so badly that success is what you think about all the time. Remember the first time you fell in love? You couldn't think of anything else but being with that special person. Learn to use the emotional power of hunger. being hungry is a focus, a desire, a passion.
7. Be Teachable: School is never over and learning never stops, be teachable all the time. Knowledge is power, the quickest way to success is to know more than your competition and be willing to use that knowledge. Your knowledge of how people think, your understanding of the feelings of a seller or buyer, your ability to structure a deal into a wn, win, win situation for all parties involved, will pay dividends for years to come.
8. Be Decisive: Make a decision and stay with it. There are many knowing people with all kinds of training, who lack the courage to implement what they know. If you have followed the above (Be Teachable), then make the decision to do something, anything, with the knowledge you have, and are learning. Be Decisive.
9. Be Original: More original ideas and thinkers are what is needed today. How many times have people had a good idea untill someone ridiculed it? Original thought is rare, and being an original thinker is hard. Just look at all of the greats in exploration, scince, entertainment, the arts or any other creative endeaver. Emulate them, study their biographies, and strive to think like they did, original.
10. Attitude: "What ever the mind can concieve and believe, it can achieve." Napolian Hill once said. In other words, if you can think it and believe it, you can do it. The more you can seperate yourself from the crowed, the more success you bring into your life.
11. Be Yourself: "To thine own self be true," wrote Shakespear. You are as good as anyone you have known or wanted to know. Be happy with the person you are, becase "you are what you are and thats all that you are," to paraphase Popeye. Your core being is perfect in and of itself, you can get more money and live in a better neighborhood, you can be more loved and have better friends, you can speak, sing, or be better at a sport or hobby. That is all good, without growth or change we atrophy and fosseilize. But those are all things you can do and have. They are not your core being, who you realy are.