Do you ever think about and wonder how “other” people manage to create these dream lifestyles of wealth, travel and happiness? Have you ever found yourself asking what his/her secret is, or worse, chalking it all up to luck? If so, you are not alone.
As human beings, we all have a tendency to compare ourselves to others in a survival of the fittest sort of way. When we fall short, rather than see what action steps we can take to create change, we say other people have it better or are just plain lucky.
Did you know that there are ways to create your own dream lifestyle that have little to do with luck and a lot to do with creating a wealthy mindset first?
Living the life of your dreams is not only for a”chosen few”. It’s everyone’s birthright. How many times have you heard stories of people pulling themselves up from nothing to create mass success and fortune? It can happen for you too.
You’re probably asking yourself how or even shaking your head while thinking, this is for “other” people and not for me. That’s a great place to start – with your thoughts.
Change your thoughts, change your mindset, and change your life.
You don’t simply wake up one morning and declare you will be more mindful of your desired lifestyle or poof, hold out your hands and there is an unexplained pile of money. Sorry, it’s not that easy. It takes practice. It also takes deliberate intention and action.
You need to want this so much in your life that you focus on it daily and willingly move forward taking the steps to make it a reality.
Any goal worth achieving requires action on your part. As a human being, especially Americans, you are conditioned for instant gratification. We want things now.
You do not intentionally take small steps and allow them to add up as you go. So, what do you do? You avoid taking any steps. You remain inactive. You don’t even bother to try. Or worse, you do busy work to fool yourself into thinking you’re taking action, but it’s the WRONG action.
No one ever created a great real estate investing business by spending 3 months figuring out which website to use and creating the “perfect” logo.
Sometimes you set goals too high, there is no place to go but down. You fall short, become overzealous too quickly, and don’t follow any guidance. Therefore, setting yourself up for failure.
Consider this, we are all given 24 hours in a day. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that your 24 hours each day are being used up? In other words, you don’t have some savings account where you’re banking “extra time,” right?
Therefore, in order to start something new and make a change in your life . . . something has to give!
Keys to Success in Real Estate Investing with a Wealthy Mindset
A good idea is only as good as its action plan. If you want to be free and enjoy financial freedom, you need to have a prosperity-mindset action plan. For some, setting a goal means taking out pen and paper, creating lists and making graphs. All those things are well and good. However, you need to start with what’s in your mind first.
Since your thoughts drive your actions and your actions take you to your destination, it’s important to make sure that your thoughts steer you down the right road – the road to financial and time freedom .
Get your thoughts down on paper before creating any type of to-do list or action plan. It all begins with your mind. Learn how to train your mind with these 9 key steps.
- Focus on your “what” and your “why” first – focus on what you are creating and why you are you creating it. Have this show up first and foremost, before you move on to the “how” part of it. Those who are focused on the end goal tend to leave out the big picture, which is what you are creating and why you are creating it. An example would be “create a real estate investing business that helps people going through a divorce get on with their lives by making their house a non concern.” While it may sound like part of an elevator speech, it is more of a declaration to yourself and to others. Don’t lose sight of your “what” and your “why.” You can tackle the “how” to-do list later.
- Attach emotion to it – if you have created your business plan and focus daily on your “what” and your “why,” attach emotion to all that you are doing. Yes, associate emotion to even the mundane stuff. Get excited about creating that to-do list, feel exhilarated about the scary unknown, and get inspired so you can inspire others.
- Change your perception – don’t look at a to-do list as a boring, mundane chore. View it as a piece of your vision. Look upon it as a step closer to creating a life that you love where all your dreams come true.
- Take on key words – the same way you would use key words for SEO purposes on your blog or website, apply keywords to yourself too. Choose a few words and create yourself as those words. Be energized be vibrant, be inspiring, and create momentum, etc.
- Reward Yourself – if you want to have a mindset of prosperity, set up a reward system for every time you use a positive word. Deduce points for when you use terms such as, “I can’t, I don’t know, I’m not…” Once you make a conscious effort to keep these self-sabotaging words out of your thoughts, you will begin to notice a shift.
- Play the game of opposites – you get to choose your thoughts daily. If you have a negative thought, turn it into an opposite. If you are mad, turn that into a positive by acknowledging that feeling as a call to action.
- Pay attention to your thoughts. Chances are you have some old dialogue running in the background telling you something is impossible, or it doesn’t work, or you don’t have time. When you hear that old dialogue, recreate it to I’m possible, It can work and I have time for what’s important to me.
- Pay attention to your words. The words you speak could dictate your life. If you spend too much time speaking about woe is me subjects, chances are you will energetically attract more of that into your life. When you catch yourself falling into this negative mindset – STOP!
- Don’t go it alone. The most successful people have other people holding them accountable for their thoughts and actions. They are not afraid to be authentic and surround themselves with positive people. Look at your people and decide whom you need to distance from and whom you need to keep closer to you.
Retraining your mindset doesn’t come easy and it does NOT happen overnight. These thoughts have likely been being programmed into your sub-conscience for decades.
Give yourself time, practice and grace to make mistakes and then gently remind yourself that IT ALL STARTS WITH YOU and YOUR THOUGHTS! So, be kind to yourself!
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