To A New Way Of Life!

This is my very first blog post on this site. In September of last year I ended up getting tickets in the mail addressed to me to go to a Real Estate Investing Seminar. Because my husband, who is in the Canadian Military, had been talking about Real Estate Investing for a couple of months I thought he signed me up so that we could go and learn about this together. Long story short we have no idea to this day why or how I got these tickets, but because my husband found us a free babysitter within 5 minutes of me saying I would go if he found a babysitter we started our Real Estate Investing Education on the night that Seminar began. It is amazing how life works out since I have never once in my life thought that real estate investing was something that I could even do, let alone want to.

Before moving on I must say that for the last 6 months prior to this both my husband and I started getting a strange feeling that our family was not to be a military family for much longer. We both blamed in on the fact that we have been posted away from family for 7 years and perhaps we were just home sick. We started praying regularly to figure out why we were having these feelings and wondering if it actually meant something. I knew that with my husband going to Afghanistan twice and coming home the second time not himself, which almost tore our family apart, my life was far from easy, even growing up, and I just had to learn to apply the saying "come what may and learn to love it." I think the problem a lot of us face is that good things, the really good things in life, only happen to others but never us.

Well, for lack of a better description or analysis when we went to this Seminar and listened to the different speakers talk about the various programs they offered and how they wanted to show us how Scott McGillivary and others made their success I was ready to allow my mind to wonder so that my husband and the speakers would at least think they had my full support. Yet, I don't know what was said because I started thinking about what could this actually do for our young family. While thinking about this I had a peaceful feeling come over me and a sense of reassurance that this was the answer to our prayers. If you have had this type of experience before you know that in your heart and mind it just feels right despite everything else that seems logical. During one of the breaks my husband felt the same way as I did, and even told me that he did not want to pass this up knowing that we had a chance to do something different that could change our lives in a positive way and answer so many of the things we have been seeking and wondering about. So that night, we put everything on credit and were literally blown away at how things came together for us. Dates were changed unexpectedly for events, which worked out perfectly with our schedules, and many other countless things that confirmed we made the right choice. I have never been in this much debt in all of my life, and that is even after going to University for 3 years. Yet, I know that anyone else learning a new career would go into this much debt or even greater with far less return on their investment (see I am already talking like an investor...lol). The strange thing about being in this debt is that I know it is an investment into making my family's life better. It really is good debt and is temporary because of what I am determined to do.

My husband and I have been in Dean's Inner Circle for the past 10 weeks and we have been making great progress. Being Canadian's working within the US, MO for right now, has proven to be very challenging especially when starting out from ground zero. I promise you that I knew NOTHING about real estate except for picking out a house to live in. When we bought our home I was the blind sheep that just signed my name beside my husbands because I didn't want to live in military housing anymore. Yet, through it all we have persevered and kept going. I will not stop until I make this work! Every day I am doing something to progress in this business as I learned the principle necessary to build this business.

So far I have now networked with some great people that I have on my Cash Buyers list, made clear goals in all aspects of my life, have qualified my 3rd Realtor who I am testing out to see if she'll be the one that can be on my Power team, narrowed down my area to 4 locations within Jackson County, MO that I want to start out in, and have started to put out ads to test among many other things. I really believe that the little things that I do on a consistent basis will add up to the big things my husband and I are setting out to do.

If I had to pick one favorite part about this whole journey I would have to say was doing the 7 Level's Deep Questionnaire I was told to do when I first started pursing this. For those of you who have not done this, it is when you ask yourself why you want to do something 7 times. On the 7th time you will actually come to the real reason why you are pursing it. That 7th reason is your driving force that will help you to get through all the major challenges and set backs you face. When I got to my 7th level for why I was pursuing Real Estate Investing (which again was never even something I thought about before all this) I was shocked and couldn't believe what my reason was for doing this! The core reason why I am pursing this career is because...I want to leave a legacy for all of those that lay within my sphere of influence (especially my family) to know that one person can and should remain moral, ethical, virtuous, kind, sincere, compassionate, charitable and all the other good and honorable things in life because they can not only prosper with materialistic things, but more importantly can change hearts and lives for the better! In other words, good things should and do happen to good people too.

So, with this new year I am going to put my "house in order" and choose to be grateful for all the experiences I gain from Real Estate Investing (both bad and good) because I know this is the beginning of a new way of life for myself and my precious family. If anyone ever actually reads this, then I wish you enjoyment of the best things in life and join you in taking action!

Sarah Meyer