Real Estate Professional Survival Guide - Can You Survive This Market?

Are You Persistent?

One of the keys to being successful in anything
you do is persistence. Once you have determined
exactly what it is you want to accomplish, you
must take massive action on a consistent,
persistent basis in order to succeed.

Think of it like building a muscle.  If you have
never weight trained before, the first time you
walk into a gym, chances are you will not be able
to bench press 250 lbs.  However, if you are
persistent, and you consistently go back to the
gym, you will find yourself getting stronger and
closer to your goal with each and every visit.

One of the things you'll notice on your journey
towards your goal, are roadblocks.  That is, you
will encounter obstacles that seem to jump out
of nowhere in an attempt to halt your progress.
Count on these obstacles. They are a part of life.

Everyone would have every success they ever
wanted if there were no obstacles.  Your job is to
be persistent and work through those obstacles.
If you find little or no obstacles along the
way, chances are you are not really challenging
yourself.  And when you do reach your goal, you
won't experience the feeling of  'sweet success'.
Make your goal a challenging one!

If you take the time to study any successful
person, you will learn that the vast majority of
them have had more 'failures' than they have had
'successes'.  This is because successful people
are persistent; the more they stumble and fall,
the more they get right back up and get going
again.

On the other hand, people that don't get back up
and try again, never reach success.  For example,
Walt Disney was turned down 302 times before he
got financing for his dream of creating the
"Happiest Place on Earth".  Today, due to his
persistence, millions of people have shared
'the joy of Disney'.

Colonel Sanders spent two years driving across the
United States looking for restaurants to buy his
chicken recipe.  He was turned down 1,009 times!
How successful is Kentucky Fried Chicken today?

Having said this, keep in mind that you must
constantly reevaluate your circumstances and the
approach you are using to reach your goal.  There
is no sense in being persistent at something that
you are doing incorrectly! Sometimes you have to
modify your approach along the way.  Every time
you do something you learn from it, and therefore
find a better way to do it the next time.

Today is the day to begin your journey, using
consistency and persistency,towards tomorrow's
successes!

- Glen Hopkins

This article may be reprinted with the following attachment:  Copyright (c) Glen Hopkins

I just love this message... We can all pull some strength from this to remind ourselves why we do what we do!