Real Estate Investing Guide: Are You Here or Are You There?

When you are not living your life in the present moment you are living in either fear or regret. Fear of what might come in the future, regret about what happened in the past or a bit of both. Something that you might find very interesting, yet frustrating as well, is the way we use our present moments. In many cases you use your present moments fearing something in the future, but when you arrive in that future you were fearing, you live in regret of not being present in the past moment that you spent fearing the moment that you are currently in. Is your head spinning yet? To clear things up a bit I will give you a real life example.

Present Moment: A new mother is sitting at home worrying about going back to work in 6 weeks and leaving her precious child with daycare.

Body: Sitting with her new born child in the living room breast feeding.

Mind: Projecting into the future 6 weeks when she has to go back to work and needs to leave her child at daycare.

This cycle of picturing that sad day occurs daily up until the moment that the new mother needs to go back to work. Then it goes like this.

Present Moment: Sitting in her office getting ready to work on a new project.

Body: At the office, behind her desk.

Mind: Looking back over the past 6 weeks regretting that it went too quick and she doesn't remember much of the time spent with her newborn.

Can you see the problem with not being present? By not being present the new mother spent her time with her newborn worrying going back to work. When the new mother finally had to go back to work she spent her time regretting not being mentally present with her child because she was mentally already working. Now that she is actually working she is spending her mental time back with her child. Her body and her mind were never merging into the same space.

Are you guilty of the same thing? Is your body at home with the family, while your mind is at work? Once at work is your mind back at home with the family?

One of the easiest ways to merge the body and mind is through gratitude. In order to be grateful for the things that surround you, you must be present to enjoy them. To practice gratitude simply stop for a moment and look around you, I am sure you can find something you are grateful for.

If your at home with your family look at your wife and kids, what could you love about them?

If your at the office what could you be thankful for?

If your out fishing what could you enjoy about the moment?

Notice that I don't use the word should. The word should can lead to feelings of regret because you are saying that you don't enjoy something, yet you know that you should. I don't use the word are because it is way to easy to answer with nothing if you happen to be in a foul mood. The word could is a possibility word. You can't get regret from could, you can only get the feelings of hope or choice. So the next time you find yourself not merging the mind and body together in the present simply ask, “What could I enjoy about this moment and the people or places in it?”.

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Eric Medemar is a real estate investor from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

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Real Estate Investing Courses: What Seems To Be Missing?

Every year Americans spend millions of dollars on real estate investing courses. Sadly, most people who purchase these courses never end up using any of the valuable knowledge that these courses contain. Instead of using real estate investing courses as a means to an end, with the end being becoming a successful real estate investor. Many people unknowingly use real estate investing courses as the end itself.

People who buy real estate investing courses truly believe that they want to become real estate investors. The problem is that once they purchase the investing course, they create a shortcut in their mind that essentially says “One more goal has been achieved”. By investing in the course, they fulfill the short term need to be considered a real estate investor and then quickly move onto something else.

Another problem that arises shortly after purchasing a real estate investing course, is the need to know more information. Perhaps the course left a few unanswered questions or maybe spurred on some new thoughts about the direction of their new found investing career. So then they buy another course which creates more questions and ideas that can only be answered by more courses. In a short period of time, the wannabe real estate investor becomes much like an overweight dietitian. They know all about eating right, but they just don't do it.

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Eric Medemar is a real estate investor from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Directing Your Inner Publicist (Part 1)

Do you have a publicists? For most of you I am sure that your immediate answer is no. If you have ever seen a celebrity in a bind, it should come as no surprise the way they send their publicists out to put a spin on bad deeds that they have done. The job of the publicists is to spin bad stories to the public in order to preserve a celebrities reputation.

We all have our own inner publicists, except our publicists don't put a spin on the just bad things we have done. Our inner publicists put a spin on everything that we do including the good things. Without proper direction our inner publicists will far to often put a negative spin on things that are not negative at all. The problem with our inner publicists is that they rely only on our past experiences to give our current stories a new spin.

For instance maybe you just found out that you missed out on a promotion at work. Immediately after learning of this, you subconsciously turn things over to your inner publicist. Instead of spinning the story in a good way back to your conscious mind, your inner publicist informs your conscious mind that you have always been a slow learner and you really didn't deserve a promotion anyway. Can you see the problem here? Without proper awareness of thought your inner publicist will always base your current happenings on past experience, even though the two things have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

Eric Medemar is a real estate investor and internet marketer from Grand Rapids, MI. Be sure to get your Free Guide To Real Estate Wholesaling. You can also view Erics real estate investing guide here. Eric is also a contributing member to The Real Estate Investing Forums at www.themillionaireuniversity.com

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Real Estate Investing Guide: Pulling Your Investing Trigger

With Hunting Season Right around the corner I thought this would be appropriate. Somewhat of a metaphoric story for those of you interested in Wholesaling Real Estate, Bird Dogging Real Estate, or Any other type of real estate investing

Joe was positive that he would be shooting a deer this year. After all, Joe had been learning about hunting his whole life. His dad had taught him how to track deer, his uncle taught him how to build the best deer blinds known to man. This year Joe was finally going to do it, he would get his big buck, if it was the last thing he ever did.

He had just purchased the super guru rifle 2000 and from what he had heard this gun was the best. People had told him that this gun would practically shoot itself, man this was one heck of a gun. Oh and the four wheeler that Joe would be riding out to his blind was the so quiet and so fast he didnt have a chance of spooking any deer.

It was opening morning of deer season and Joe was ready, boy oh boy Joe was ready. Joe barely slept a wink the night before just thinking about the big buck that he was gonna get. Joe packed up his stuff, grabbed the super guru rifle 2000 and headed off to his blind (riding the best 4 wheeler known to man).

Joe arrived at his blind, and got everything in place. This was Joes day, the big buck would be his. Joe sat for about an hour when he noticed this giant rack coming up over the hill. This was the Buck to end all Bucks. Joe was quivering at the chance just to see a deer like this.

The buck approached, Joe peered through his scope, "Boy this is the one, this is the day" he quietly said to himself". Joe slowly pulled the trigger.......To be continued

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Joes buddy Nate had never hunted a day in his life, when it came to hunting "Nate didnt know his butt from a whole in the ground". Nate had spent alot of time shooting guns with his dad, but had never hunted. Nate decided since his buddy Joe was going hunting that he would too. So Nate asked his dad, who had killed 100's of deer in his day, if he could take him hunting. Nates dad was more than happy to show him.

It was opening morning, Nates dad had set him a great spot where he had shot dozens of bucks. Out of the corner of his eye Nate saw a huge buck coming up over the ridge. Nate looked at the buck through his scope. "This is the one" he thought to himself as he slowly sqeezed the trigger. The rifle let out a huge boom, and not 10 minutes later Nate was proudly posing for a picture next to his prized buck.

back to Joe.............Joe slowly pulled the trigger, and nothing happened. The buck was gone...............Joe had it all, the super guru 2000 gun, the best 4 wheeler known to man, and the hunting skills of a puma. "How could I have failed" Joe thought to himself, it was then he realized that in all of his time getting ready for the hunt, nobody ever taught him how to pull the trigger.

Thats the funny part about guns, you can have the best gun in the world, but if you don't know how to pull the trigger, you'll never get the deer.

Later Nate and Joe were talking about Nates huge buck and Joe said to him "Nate I thought you have never hunted before, how on earth did you shoot that big boy"

Nate replied "I never have hunted, but my dad has, I asked him where to go, then all I had to do was pull the trigger."

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