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Remember the Good
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I’m very thankful that I have managed to cultivate a generally positive outlook on life. I am sure some of it came from my parents but I have also worked on myself to do the things that help me stay positive and motivated.
I don’t harbour grudges, I try and operate honestly, I remind myself of the reasons to be thankful for life and I try to look after myself spiritually and emotionally. In the last 12 months I have needed every ounce of that previous work to stay focused and try and navigate not only myself but many of my friends and clients through uncertain and torrid waters. I would like to say it’s over but for me and many others but it ain’t yet. I will let you know when it is, you can take that to the bank jack 
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But what has happened is that we are at a point where there are opportunities and we should be looking to move forward, safely and cautiously sure, but forward none the less.
I find that many people have withdrawn in to their caves and forgotten a lot of basics and lost their “why” and their courage.
I know how they feel, I could live there too but I have found that getting drunk, eating too much, pretending things are OK or checking out do NOTHING to fix my issues or move me forward.
The only one who can check you out of this game permanently is YOU, and the only one who can dictate the decision to succeed in life is, you guessed it, YOU!
It’s been on my heart for some time to find a way to get people thinking positively about investing because it is GREAT and NOW is a GREAT time to be doing it. Events are to expensive, ringing everybody would take years so……………
I’ve put together a “recap of the basics” video series for any of you who might want to revist your head space and start to reconnect the property investing dots.
It’s free and you can get it at http://massiveaction.tv/free
You can check out my new webinar series AND FREE new DVD while you’re at it if you like.
I am working with people right now who are broke, bankrupt and suffering but there is always a way forward. One now good friend of mine has not just had life throw the book at him but he has suffered under an entire library. In spite of bankruptcy, bent business partners, you name it, he has just purchased his own home and negotiated some fabulous property deals. He has a fire in his eyes and is doing whatever it takes to succeed.
If my mate can create nearly 100k in equity into 1 deal while he’s bankrupt and unemployed, what can you achieve??
Do your head a favour now and check it out at http://massiveaction.tv/free
Stay Inspired and Stay Safe ~ Dean Letfus @ www.MassiveAction.tv
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Finding banana bones in your icecream
Posted by: | CommentsMaybe it’s just me but I find some supposedly helpful cliché’s to be anything but, well helpful.
For example we are often taught that there is no “I” in team. Now I understand the concept of course is that teams need to work together and the good of the whole is more important than the needs of the one, (bring on the Borg ).
However the truth is that this is patent nonsense IMHO.
A good team must be made up of individuals with a strong sense of both calling and self, in other words “I”, or the team is doomed to failure. In fact I would go so far as to say that the reason some normally top sports teams are not performing very well is that they have a high percentage of young new players who are trying to live out the mantra of selflessness and failing.
It is the “characters” and big personalities that invariably inspire and capture the hearts of great teams.
We have sold our young business and sports people a lie by telling them they must put the team first. Sadly we have even worse started to indoctrinate an entire generation with 100% proof Cr*p like “It’s not whether you win or lose but participating is what it’s all about”.
That might work in some left wing bubble but those kids are in for a total thrashing if they ever step foot in the real world of competitive sport, business or relationships.
Where did we get this silly idea about having a self and having needs being bad??
Great teams, businesses and relationships become great when the individuals in it are getting their own personal needs met and therefore they can choose to co-operate for a greater good but it is always in the context of “This serves me personally first”
You can be sure than any All Black who first dons a jersey takes picture of himself and feels ten foot tall because he has made it as a player. The media sound bites are all about the great team but get them behind closed doors and it is all about them. And why shouldn’t it be!! They have achieved the pinnacle of rugby playing greatness on their own. It wasn’t their team’s ability that got them into the All Blacks and it certainly won’t be the team’s ability that will keep them there. If that was the case they’d all be sacked currently.
No it was their individual ability, often when playing for a bad team that got them noticed wasn’t it?
So as you go out to work with your team today remember this: YOU are important to your team because of what YOU bring to it. Denying yourself makes you less effective as a team member and in fact you must get your personal needs met to be able to contribute fully to any team.
There is an “I” in team, every team is full of them!
Stay Inspired and Stay Safe ~ Dean Letfus @ www.MassiveAction.tv
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Let the deals commence
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I have a large number of property finders who have me on their mailing lists. Some of them are former students of mine and some are just people I find in my travels. Anyway this week has just been child in a candy store material. I’ve seen deals at 40% of registered valuation, yields as high as 12 % and everything in between.
My guess is that we are starting to see the fruit of what I have been saying for some time that the worst is yet to come. As people simply run out of juice and the banks start really leaning on them, suddenly the “we’ll sell if we have to” turns into “we need to sell today”.
Now the important thing for you to remember is that you didn’t cause the vendors problem and your low offer may actually be their best and only solution. “Buying equity” will never be easier than it is now so make sure you get yours!!
I was thinking about this guilt we often feel at “taking advantage” of vendors in this climate and it is actually quite illogical if you think about it.
If a company is going bust and has a “liquidation sale” or a “receivership sale” we don’t bat an eytelid about rushing off to buy stuff we don’t need simply because it is cheap right?
And in reality the sale may represent a bankrupt company owner and anything from a dozen to several hundred unemployed staff, many of whom will also end up bankrupt. But that doesn’t bother us at all.
However when it is is a property vendor in trouble and our low offer may actually save them from bankruptcy we have a guilt and shame attack!! Fascinating isn’t it?
What it means is that our culture has welded “discount property” and “mortgagee” and “desperate vendor” to an enormous amount of emotional pain, negativity and angst. A weld that is quite false in fact. Where as a failed clothing company for example is simply a bargain time to get a wardrobe even though it will without doubt involve far more heartache and pain for a much larger number of people.
We are weird aren’t we us humans. Feel terrible about nothing and feel nothing over real issues. Next thing you know we’ll be justifying killing the elderly and saving animals over people……………………..
Stay inspired and STAY SAFE!! Dean
Everybody wants to go to heaven……
Posted by: | Commentsbut nobody wants to die.
And in a similar vein (almost) everybody wants success in their lives, but (almost) nobody wants to put the required effort in.
I believe that opportunity usually comes dressed in overalls, cleverly disguised as hard work and no amount of super abundance overnight print money “manifesting” is going to change that.
And even when you put the effort in sometimes the results are slow or different to what you expected.
You see the point of taking “massive action” is of course to succeed but more importantly it is to start to break your attitudes and world view. Because this journey is about deciding that I will pursue my life and my dreams and enjoying the journey.
If we wait till we arrive at the destination we may be very old.
For example I love keeping track of Brad Sugars on Facebook because he is so loaded that he does exactly what he wants anywhere in the world. I think it is fantastic what he has achieved. But I also know that he is not really any happier now than when he started. He loves business and businesses so he would be happy whether he had his own jet or not. And I don’t aspire to Brad’s material wealth because I only want money to give away, I have no need of a jet and I would rather be in a Fijian slum with my friends than in the Carribean.
For myself I enjoyed buying 50 properties and 20 million dollars worth of property from nothing as much as I do owning them. (In fact buying them was more fun than owning them in this current environment).
I have 50 times more headaches than people who own 1 property and I will pay for my mistakes in bigger doses too.
But my point is this:
Through pursuing my dreams of helping the poor in Fiji through making money out of investing I now think differently. When things are difficult it doesn’t phase me. If I failed big time I would treat that as learning and get right back up again.
So it is mental and emotional stability and “toughness” we create through pursuing our dreams and taking action.
Of course we want the results but that isn’t “it”. The journey is more important. In my local paper there are probably over 100 mortgagee sales appearing a week at the moment. The majority of those will have a story of redundancy, business failure or bankruptcy behind them. What use is it for those people to measure themselves by their current level of success?? It would only make them more depressed.
What will empower them, and you and I, is to know that trying and failing is called learning. And although I can’t do exactly what I want to yet I am going to get there and in the mean time I am becoming a better person, a smarter operator and I am learning that my family/dog/house/friend/(fill in the blank) is way more important than my bank balance.
So do it today, get up and go again. As I have said many times
“The journey IS the destination”
Stay Inspired and Stay Safe ~ Dean Letfus @ www.MassiveAction.tv
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Paradigm shifts
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I am embroiled in a vigorous debate on one of my favourite forums over Internet marketing. It is fascinating to me to see some people attack it based entirely on their assumptions and biases. They wouldn’t say that but it is in fact what was happening.
I am a good example of this. I always associated “Internet marketing” with “spam”, “porn” and “affiliate cr*p”.
Then this last weekend I met someone who had sold an internet marketing business to a public company for 15 million dollars and then retired. And he was 22 years old!!
And when I heard him speak he talked of how much he hated things like “spam”, “porn” and “affiliate cr*p”. So I had a problem. In my world this couldn’t happen that a legitimate corporate could build an online honest sustainable business out of the internet. Surely not!!
It amazed me to discover that the most expensive advertising in terms of companies that will pay for people to click on a link to get traffic to their website is the legal profession.
So lawyers see more value in internet marketing than any other business based on $$.
So my paradigm was largely false. Yes there are issues with internet marketing just like there are issues with driving a car, cooking dinner or raising a child.
I have now changed my attitude and that enables me to begin to process new information and make intelligent decisions for my life and business that may include the internet, where as before I instantly discounted it.
Now your issue may be dealing with a relative or buying a new watch but the principle is the same. Is there a view locked in to your world that actually prevents you from seeing the benefits in something?
And how do we cultivate paradigm shift thinking so that we can become early adopters or at least early processors??
People who can do this excel in business and other areas because they choose to not find fault but look for the “stuff under the fluff” to see if there is a genuine opportunity being presented.
When I first looked at property investing I had no issues with it because property was “acceptable” to me. I grabbed it an ran and whilst it’s a bit of a ride right now it has changed my life completely. So as I have observed my reaction to the net I wonder how many other opportunities prior to property I may have missed because they didn’t fit into my little paradigm. I remember being offered a wonderful opportunity to join the insurance industry just after leaving school. I remember my revulsion at the time because insurance agents were second class citizens in my mind. I have no idea where I got that from, just that it was there.
So the next time you hear something that really gets your blood pressure going maybe stop and ask yourself:
- “Why am I reacting to this so quickly?
- Do I know what I really think about this?
- Is there an assumption I’ve made about this without the facts
Your next opportunity could be found in answering those questions
Tell you what, why don’t we agree together to explore at least 2 new ideas this week that we would normally ignore and see what we find under the fluff. Our filters will argue but we’ll tell them to pipe down and let us think without our usual lemon tinted spectacles on.
Stay inspired and stay safe ~ Dean Letfus @ www.MassiveAction.tv
Do you like learning?
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I spent the weekend at a course learning about something I knew almost nothing about. And it made me realise how much I like learning. If my parents did me one favour it was teaching me to read when I was very young and subsequently cultivating a desire to learn new stuff.
It only really struck me this morning how much fun it was getting overloaded with information and stimulating those parts of my brain that go “What?”
The other thing that was a little weird, but in a good way, was to be an attendee at an event instead of the presenter. I couldn’t help but think about the things I would have done differently and the food etc. but it wasn’t my problem, which was wonderful.
So I went to this event because a good friend of mine had gotten me tickets, not because I was busting to go. And I expected it to be OK, bit of fun, get to say hello to a few people and maybe learn something.
But instead I learned a lot. It was total paradigm shift in terms of understanding opportunity and opened up a completely new industry to me. It was like “Wow”. I wake up today feeling different, better, more empowered.
(More on the course and Shaun Stenning HERE)
And that was all from 1 course.
So I share this with you today to highlight the power of new information to shift us towards our dreams.
Or we can sit on the couch and watch another episode of The days of our lives
Stay Safe ~ Dean Letfus @ www.MassiveAction.co.nz
Would you like more unbearable with that?
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Unbearable feelings!! Like parents, you’ve got at least one most likely.
The things we do to avoid them never fix the problem, so if we ever want to really grow up we have to learn how to bear and befriend these feelings. You are not psychotic because you want to avoid these feelings, the problem is simply that avoiding them is destructive for you and those around you in many cases.
Here is a list of common unbearable feelings
- Disappointment, despair of grief of any kind
- Feeling unfairly treated; the victim of injustice
- Feeling humiliated, exposed, embarrassed, laughed at or ridiculed
- Feeling cruel, hard, unfeeling or unsympathetic
- Feeling controlled, bullied or restrained
- Feeling used, taken for granted, obligated or trapped
- Feeling unheard, distrusted, doubted, misunderstood, disbelieved, misjudged
- Feeling of futility, (it’s all for nothing)
- Feeling bored or depressed
- Feeling ill-equipped, unprepared or caught out
- Feeling uprooted or dislocated
- Feeling unwanted, rejected, excluded, abandoned, shut out or left behind
- Feeling shouted at or abused, especially by one particular sex
- Feeling powerless, helpless, out of control, uncertain or in danger
- Feeling lost or disoriented
- Feeling disobeyed, despised or disrespected
- Feeling around being in debt or unable to pay
- Feeling overloaded or swamped by “must-do’s”
- Feeling lied to, sucked in, cheated, betrayed or deceived
- Being held up, running late or left behind
- Feeling dumb, inadequate, stupid, a loser, incompetent
- Feeling interrogated, nagged or lectured
- Feeling interrupted, prevented from completing a task etc.
- Feeling exhausted or lying awake alone at night
- Feeling to cold or too hot
- Cold, grey, bleak or windy weather
- Being around drunk people, smell of alcohol
- Forgetting or losing something
- Feeling like you have disappointed others or let them down in some way
- Anticipation of fear and dread
- Forgetting or losing something
- Feeling of regret or missing out on something better
- Being a nuisance, a bludger or a burden
- Silence or silent tension
- Feeling full of food or bloated
- Feeling guilty, ashamed or condemned
- Following through
- Deep water, the beach and the sharks
If you seriously want to identify your unbearable feeling then start by printing this list off and mark off any on the list that you feel regularly.
Because we are looking for your unbearable feeling, which you NEVER FEEL, the ones you have marked are definitely not your feeling.
So lok at what are left, do any of them trigger anything in you. For example if you are anorexic or bulimic your unbearbale feeling may well be feeling full.
What about feeling to hot or too cold. It sounds silly but I know destroyed marriages because one partner would go ballistic over a room or a bed or a conference being at the wrong temperature. You see if this is unbearable it is unbearable.
People who can’t bear to be late either go everywhere 2 hours early or they avoid appointments to the point of reclusion.
Tomorrow we’ll look at this from one more angle to help you identify if you have an issue here. But you should be getting an inkling by now if this is maybe something you need to work on!!
Stay Safe ~ Dean Letfus @ www.MassiveAction.tv
