Finance Roll

The first time you rode a bicycle successfully, you most likely really had to think about it. No doubt you have to concentrate totally on just exactly what you were doing. Maybe you had to do that again the second time, and the third, fourth, and fifth time, and maybe even for several weeks thereafter. One fine day, though, you got to the point where you could hop on the bike and pedal away without thinking about it at all. You may even still be able to do that now. They say, "Once you've learned how to ride a bicycle, you never forget." It becomes "automatic."

This is exactly what your, perhaps, most realistic goal should be when you've mastered the course "100% Financing When Buying Real Estate" and become a successful real estate investor. You want the lessons you have learned to be incorporated into your daily life almost automatically. At first, you will have to think very consciously about everything. Putting these suggestions into practice is going to take considerable effort on your part. But, as in the case of bike riding, you should take some comfort in the fact that it gets easier as you go along.

One theory suggests that "inertia" is the real culprit. According to this theory, bodies at rest tend to stay that way, and bodies in motion tend to stay that way too. In the case of learning real estate investing, when you start you're barely moving at all. Inertia sets in. It is much less difficult to keep sitting and not doing anything than it is to start picking up the telephone, answering classified ads, and traipsing around your neighborhood looking at "for sale" signs. It's a huge mountain to climb over, that's for sure. But once you get "up there," you'll be surprised how rapidly everything starts coming together. You'll really start rolling! Then the other half of inertia kicks in. Now you're moving and will stay moving. Making telephone calls becomes "automatic." You're in the habit of reading the newspaper advertisements. You can't imagine a day going by without rereading your written goals. You canvas not only your own but all your friends' neighborhoods too. You meet people and develop business relationships constantly. You hand out your business cards to everyone. And pretty soon not a month goes by without you making an offer to purchase property with amazing profit potential. This is what you want to have happen. This is "riding your bicycle" down the parhway to real estate investment riches. This is success in the making. You really want to do this. Don't you?

What you really want to do is make the lessons you have learned "automatic." Some scientific studies have shown that almost any act can move from consciious to unconscious activity in less than three weeks with constant repetition. So, if you begin by "forcing yourself" to read the real estate classified advertisements each and every single day for one-half hour, for example, the evidence suggests that this will be your daily habit in less than three weeks. You'll do it uncounsciously. You'll do it "automatically." But you will do it! And this is exactly what you want to do. isn't it?

This is what you want to have happen with your written goals, too. You want to reread them twice daily for the rest of your investing life. Or, certainly until you've attained them all. (And by then you will probably have "automatically" set more new ones!) If you do read then over faithfully like this, pretty soon they become "automatic." Then they're your habit. They are then a part of your subconscious mine, and you want this. Something becoming subconscious like this is tantamount to achieving it already. It's like as if it becomes a driving force. It becomes your "fourth basic need" (food, shelter, clothing and going after "those darned written goals"). When this happens, you will see how easy it becomes not only to go after them, but to achieve them.

Why not plan on keeping a weekly log, and recording all the time you spend going after your goals? That is, record everything you do, every day, each and every week, involving activities related to real estate investing. Jot down the periods of time you spend researching income properties, checking our neighborhoods, talking to people, and actually making offers to purchase. Record what happens afterward. Jot down your follow-up activities. Write all this down at first, and after a few months you may find you don't need it anymore.

It could become "automatic" that you do these things without having to write them down. Or, writing your log could become a habit, and that all by itself would be indicative of the conscious (and subconscious) effort you are making to become a real success as an investor in income producing real estate.