3 Keys to a First Class Life

Are you achieving everything you want in life?

If you’re struggling with turning your goals into reality, you could be struggling with limiting beliefs that are holding you back from getting what you want.

In nautical terms, our internal motivation is like wind in our sails, while our limiting beliefs are like anchors. It doesn’t matter how much wind is filling our sails, the anchor of our limiting beliefs can prevent us from moving forward. So people spend a lot of time trying to get more motivation but they never do anything about the anchors holding them back.

So in this email I want to share 3 of the biggest limiting beliefs that are anchoring you in place…

Limiting Belief #1: The belief that you don’t know how to do something.

Real estate investing seems complicated. It seems like there are many different ways to invest and every guru and expert has his or her own way of doing something. And so investors end up chasing one strategy after another, and one guru after another, as if they are education junkies.

Although education is good, it’s only good if you take action on it. Too many investors mistake learning with action (instead, you should learn and then apply that learning, then learn some more and apply that new learning). So if you’ve spent a ton of money on education and you don’t have a lot of deals to show for it, what you probably need is a mentor help you talk through all of your learning to formulate a strategy, then help you lay out an action plan that you can work with, and then hold you accountable to get stuff done.

Limiting Belief #2: The belief that you don’t deserve something.

This insidious belief is very hard to spot but it’s surprisingly common. Often, people dream of being successful but then they start to achieve their goals and somehow think that they don’t deserve to have the things they’re getting. This might be related to the fact that many people struggle to do deals and never actually get them done so you might believe that you’re not deserving since other good people can’t seem to do what you’re doing.

If you’re feeling this way, my advice is simple: you have a duty, first and foremost, to your family. You need to achieve your financial goals in order to help your family. Do that first. And, if you’re still feeling like you don’t deserve your growing success then start helping other people achieve success in their lives.

Limiting Belief #3: The belief that you can’t afford to do something.

This is a huge limiting belief and it holds more people back than anything else, in my opinion. Here’s the reason: When you say, “I can’t afford it,” you appear to be careful, considerate, and shrewd, as if your due diligence is paying off and helping you wisely afford some things and avoid other things.

However, when you say, “I can’t afford it,” you limit your lifestyle and you hold yourself back from living a first class life. But when you get rid of this limiting belief and you tell yourself that you CAN afford something, it changes how you think.

Joe Evangelisti

Host of The Flip King Real Estate Radio

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