Raising my foot to the first step

[Eddie Litalien]

I'm seeking any and all advice from anyone with real estate investing experience. I'm a driven and hungry individual looking to increase my income. I understand that my journey is going to be a long one, and that there will be times where I will fall. This will not stop me. If you could take the time to give me the slightest bit of advice, id more than appreciate it. I will remind you, im not a person who is fooled into thinking ill make it to the top overnight. Im willing to spend more time and energry on this than a person with that. Im goal orientated. Advice will not be taken lightly nor wasted. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Eddie.

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@Eddie Litalien

"Don't be afraid to fail" is advice that is given very often. "Be prepared to be humiliated, scorned, treated with disrespect, tricked, lied to successfully, cheated, betrayed, and beaten down to the point where you wonder in the night if God is personally out to make a mockery and a warning of you and your efforts," is not given often enough. Be prepared for your friends to laugh at you, for your family to pity you, for your spouse to turn from you in disgust and certainty that you are not going to succeed. Be prepared to lose faith in yourself. For months, years, decades.

Be prepared to fail miserably.
Contemptibly.
Laughably.
Pathetically.

Be prepared to be the joke of your family. Be prepared to be the laughingstock of your neighborhood. Be prepared to be dismissed as the village idiot. To be cast out as diseased, to be spit on as unclean, to be rejected as inhuman, to be rubbed out like a mistake.

You will be broken, in the hideously impersonal way that the world breaks things. And you will not recover from the breaking. Ever. You will always be a sad, broken, wreck of a man, no matter how well you learn to pretend and how loudly you protest otherwise.

It will happen to the point that you will know in your bones that you are a habitual failure, that no matter what you do, you will never be good enough to erase the stain of the shame of what you've been through. You will fail yourself, your friends, your family, and everyone who means and has ever meant anything to you.

What I'm getting at is that if the reasons you want to do this are internal, your efforts won't survive the first flaying, the first evisceration, the first castration. And there will be many. Your good opinion of yourself will be the first casualty of this struggle.