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Alright Ladies and Gentlemen, here is a blog topic that I have wanted to go into detail on for quite some time.  Did I write before about the topic of lucid dreaming?  Well, this blog is about the potential of lucid living and is the idea that I have and is why I am going to be a wealthy man.  Why wealthy?  Because this is the topic that you are going to be willing to pay a lot of money for.  This is what Tony Robbins and Rhonda Byrne are both missing.  I dont mean any disrespect as those are two of the people that I idolize.  This is just my theory and what I believe I will be willing to spend my life researching and developing.

Lucid dreaming is coming awake in your dream.  Being that you are dreaming you really can do anything.  The movie “The Matrix” would be the best comparison to what you are able to do in your dreams.  This awakening in your dreams helps you to beat challenges in your life by taking chances in your dreams and not having to face repurcussions.  It allows you to have fantasies under your control, bond mentally with yourself, get to know yourself, figure out fears – pleasures, everything really.  Obviously, in your dreams if you can think it you can do it.

This ability to awaken in your dreams and philosophy of how it will affect your life can be traced back since the beginning of time Im sure and in Eastern communities such as the dream yogis in Tibetan monasteries.  Now, I am not 100% sure of where they are from but I do know that they are monks called the dream yogis.  The ability is trained and I believe that the lucidity of your dream has a lot to do with lucidity in life.  Let me talk a bit more about lucid dreaming and then I will get into our main topic lucid living.  I have only had a few truly lucid dreams.  In fact, I had the ability and through lack of rest I kind of lost it for a while and am working on getting it back now.  To become lucid or wake up in your dream you need to constantly ask yourself if you are awake.  All day long, say at least 20 times in the day ask yourself if you are awake.  This trend will follow into your sleep until you finally say, wow Im not awake, I must be dreaming.  If you are not sure, look at a digital number and try to change it with your mind or look away and look back to see if it has changed.  This may help and you have to keep a dream journal by your bed.  The average person has 5-6 dreams per night and tell yourself you are going to remember your dreams and when you wake up, immediately write them down.  The first couple of times that I found that I was dreaming I awoke due to my excitement.  I have only had one or two lucid dreams where I managed to stay asleep and began to control my dream.  In fact, even though I was lucid and knew what I was doing, I still went with the flow of the dream and didnt for lack of better words “superman it like NEO in the Matrix”.

The next step for me is to confront things that I dont want, things that dont bring happiness to my dreams and figure out why they are in my dreams.  This will allow me to help grow in my mental and emotional state of my life.  To become a truly whole person and begin living a lucid life, one needs to be at peak performance mind, body, and spirit.  Eventually you will be able to enjoy your dreams to the point of no repercussions, you  are the alpha, if you dream it you can do it and all of that.  You actually gain 2-4 hours of your life back everyday until you die.  As fast as time flies, lucid dreaming is worth just that.  Your awake life will be easier because you will be happier all the time I promise.  Even if you live the worst possible, in jail, or feels like in jail life – you will be happy everyday because at night you are free with what I have just taught you.  No physical, social, emotional, economical, Hell- no boundaries at all.  Do you and your wife need a vacation?  Go rent a documentary on the Louvre and  go vacation to Paris in your lucid dream, all except have Da Vinci himself explain Mona Lisa’s smile.  Amazing possibilities arent there?

Once you grasp this concept and, if you try it you will, move into my blog on Lucid Living – awakening in your awake life.  This stuff is all true.  When you see negative people, try to appreciate that they are unable to see what you are able to see and this will allow you to not give out that energy and allowing them to force you back into your mundane meaningless lifestyle. 

Are you aware of the fact that the human mind only uses around 10% of its capacity.  Its a fact, everything that I write has something to back it up.  The other 90% of the mind is the lucidity.  How are some people able to “know” when something bad is about to happen?  How about the people that  are able to move things with their minds?  Lucidity?  If I am lucid in my dreams, I can do anything.  If I can use lucidity in my life or awaken, I can do anything!  Easy Algebra.  How often have you felt like there has to be more than life than this?  You made more money this year and bought more things.  You had heartache and happiness, but is that it?  No, it isnt!  Did you get the feeling that everything is right?  Do you even know that feeling that I am talking about?  There has only been a handful of times when I knew that I was in the right place at the right time.  Completely in tune with God or the Universe, just that higher power.  I am offering you that answer right now.  I understand that this must be hard to wrap your head around but think about manifestation and how it works.  Read some of my previous blogs on me getting $10k in unexpected checks.  Making $25k with less than a week’s worth of work for signing a piece of paper.  It is not just some type of phenomenon as it keeps happening.  I’ll tell you right now, my wife and I never worry about bills and the money is always there.  We dont worry at all and are never late.  If we want something we buy it with the firm belief that the money will be there and it always is.  Those example are it and I want to capture it and stay in that feeling of completeness forever.

I still have a lot of learn about living a lucid lifestyle but I have tapped in to it.  As I learn more, you will learn more and please comment, we should learn together.

Thanks and I truly feel this is one of the strongest topics I have ever written on.

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Here is another great post by me or at least I hope it will be.  If not a great post, it is definitely a great topic and hopefully one that you will comment on.

I read a book the other day “The Law of Spirit” by Dan Millman, and this book is great.  It was the first time I had ever read a book cover to cover in one sitting.  It may be a very small book but still a great read.  It is what they call an adventure parable in which a story tells much about life.  I personally have been learning so much about myself over the past couple of years and now that I have a beautiful baby girl, everything that I thought was correct, of course was not.

So in this book, a man meets a sage in the woods and they go on a mystical journey.  My half Indian wife ( feather no dot) would call this some type of nature quest or something.  Though I cant remember all of the law, I do remember some stuff that sticks out to me particularly.  The first part of the law deals in balance.  Balance not meaning standing on one leg but balance in your life.  Are you working more than you should be?  Playing too much?  Is it time to get out and start your life?  Move out of Dad’s basement?  How does your wife or spouse feel, are you giving enough emotionally?  That kind of balance.

This part of the law says that it is easy to identify what is off balance in your life but hard to correct.  You are so used to being off balanced that it is hard to change.  The book says to try to act completely opposite of yourself to find the corrections needed.  If you have been told you are very aggressive, try for a day to be very passive and see how it feels.  This will help you guage where you need to be.  Overcorrecting is what Mr. Millman calls it.  It is easier to understand if you think of throwing a baseball.  Throw a baseball at a picture 10 ft away.  Try to hit it dead center.  Did you miss?  Well, odds are you missed dead center.  Now overcorrect to the opposite of how you missed.  If you missed high left, throw low right and purposely miss.  Now that you have purposely missed you can appropriately gauge where to throw.  Well, howd you do?  Hit it didnt you?  Even if you still didnt keep throwing and it will happen.

That is balance.

The next two posts are going to be about my lucid dreaming and what it is doing for me, Aikido and Jiu-jitsu, and the cycles or seasons of life.

I am going to try to consistently write more and I hope you intend on reading more.

This blog is also changing from a real estate investing blog into a “real” person blog.  It is changing with me.  I am understanding more about life and am sharing it all with you.

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Well, Charleston Real Estate Entrepreneurs, if you dont believe, you are stupid!  I dont know how it works, I just know that it is cool and you can really have anything you want by believing in it.

I cant tell you how many times over the past couple of years that something has happened out of the blue to save my tail.  I know this has happened to you.  Have you ever believed in something so much, like your small business, and right at the brink of destruction, you get an unexpected check in the mail?  How about you get a big sale, just big enough to keep those lights on or to buy that new product.

Believe it or not, that was the tip of manifestation.  I got $11+k in checks last month completely unexpected because I wanted it.  The military owed me like $4k and my mortgage company overcharged my $8k over how long and they decided to send me a check out of the blue.  Hmmm, sound like coincidence, not quite.

There was one time, when we were starting out that had I not received about $3k, I wasnt going to be able to make the bills.  The next mortgage was due the next day, what do you think happened.  That day, I received a check for $3300 from the IRS over an amendment to taxes I filed almost a year prior.  Come on people, you should see that was when I first tapped into it.

I know that these things have happened to you time and time again.  Wouldnt you like me to tell you how to control those things, do you want me to tell you how to be magic? 

Okay, here goes, first go tell your kids that you are learning magic right now!  That was step one, trust me, if you listen to me you are in for a magical experience.  Next, stand up – say out loud what you want but say that you already have it.  Instead of saying, ” I would like to have $20,000.00 in the bank.” Say, ” I have $20,000.00 in the bank, how can I help you?”  Once you believe yourself, you will have that money in the bank.  Now, spin around in a circle, jump up twice, say,” Joey is Awesome and Audrey is the coolest and Sophie is the prettiest.”  Poof!  Your wish is not my command but you can command the universe.  Do this everyday and do whatever you have to do to believe yourself.

Oops, I almost forgot about the most important step, you have to help someone everyday.  Even if that person is you, pass on McDonalds and have a salad, go for a walk, sign up for Jiu-Jitsu, or help a kid solve a school problem.  I guess we would potentially have no problems if everyone helped just one other person with one of their problems.  Karma comes around people.

I guess thats enough for today and start reading about manifestation.  Read books not just my blog, but also read all of my blog because my wife and I have amazing thoughts.  Poof! you are now smarter for reading this and you now enjoy life more.

If I can help you let me know how and I will try to

Write me a thank you, when you are on your way.

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Well, Real Estate Entrepreneurs, what do you think this blog is going to be about. It is about how I feel today and how I feel about life. I have been writing a book for years about real estate investment and entrepreneurship and today I realize that there are no shortcuts. I was offered a position as BIC for a franchise and it just wasnt something that I was interested in. Why, because it wasnt for me, I am an entrepreneur not an employee. Same “E” different life.

I believe wholeheartedly in manifestation and we are manifesting a great life ahead.

I believe that entrepreneurship is like breathing. Not like unconscious breathing but like conscious sport breathing. We all know how to breathe, well we hope so. When you are able to breathe consciously you are able to give yourself so much more in life. You can work harder, longer and have more energy for everything that you are doing. In entrepreneurship, when you are on a role, doesnt everything come easier to you? How do you stay in that universal flow? By practicing over and over? Much like your conscious breathing?

Well, that is my two cents for today and hopefully you consider what I have to say. Also, try this, only breathe out of your nose for the next couple of days. If you cant do it, come back and donate a dollar to the blog. If you can do it, comment on if you were able to do more with more oxygen in your blood and if you feel better than you did before you were consciously breathing.

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So, I am sitting here watching Extreme Resorts on TV and watching all of these wealthy people have as much fun as they possibly can.  I sit and grind my teeth in awe and in anger as I am sure that these people dont try harder than I do.  Then I changed the channel and this dumb blonde is talking about her 8000 sq ft house and the bathroom bigger than one of my condos.  I am happy for these people because someone in their line had to put in the work for them to be able to live this life.  Great job to that person. 

 I hate these people, I constantly try to acknowledge that behind all of these rich people that someone had to put in the work for them but I can not stand these people.  I rack my brain everyday about trying to give my family a better life and all these people worry about is if their lap dogs are going to have enough space in their 8000 sq ft mansions.

I was watching the news this morning and the lady said that the recession has started to recover and what that means to people with money is that they need to be finding ways to capitalize and what it means to people without money “working people” is nothing.  Just by the way she said it, you can tell that she was handed that position because her Dad knows someone.  Well, okay I am not sure that was the case but if I had to bet, I would. 

I love capitalism and i love that I am able to run my own business, but I just wish I had a bit of backing.  I wish I could have just a hand every once in a while.  Not a handout that these silver spoon brats believe they are entitled to, just a ” hey, let me watch the kids and here’s a couple of bucks so you can take the wife out, you deserve it!”  Instead, I fired my Dad and made him move out of my house!

Well, enough of the pity party, I just wish that these people that think they are entitled to something realized how much of a benefit their parents are to them. 

I just want everyone to know that we realize the pains of running your own business and we understand why you subject yourself to it.  We understand that you could live a mediocre life with a mediocre job and be ok, but ok isnt good enough for us.  One day we will be those wealthy bastards at the worlds largest resorts or sleeping in snow igloos (you know you are rich when you pay to sleep in a snow igloo resort).  Our children will have the stupid lap dogs, and they will have the same feelings of self entitlement.  We will be able to look at how much they are given and know that we made that possible.  We will know that we broke the mold of low and middle class, and we will look at each other and we will know who made it and who it was given too.  We will carry an insurmountable level of respect for entrepreneurs.  When we make it, if I see you and we will know each other, Ill buy you a beer! 

Thanks and good luck real estate entrepreneurs!

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REAL ESTATE ENTREPREURS HELLO!

Well, first of all if you havent watched my new baby please watch the video blog below as she is the cutest.

I just wanted to hit on a couple key points today.  I wanted to tell you how great of a job you are doing and how proud I am to have you read my thoughts.  Just by reading this, I know that you are just like me in the fact that we want more out of life and we are willing to work for it.  If that isnt a description of you, PLEASE STOP READING THIS!!!

I have an appreciation like no other for people like us.  I just hope you realize that we are in the worst economy since the GREAT DEPRESSION right now and if you are still standing tall with your own business, keep it going!  When the market and economy turns we will be an unstoppable force.  Here in Charleston, In 2007, there was around 7000 Realtors in the area and now we are under 2000 with a bunch of inactives.  What does that tell you?  That those of us that are left are willing to put in the work!  Stop a second, give yourself a pat on the back!  Congratulations! 

Well, with that being said, if you know of anyone that wants to buy or sell here in Charleston or wants a renter or anything, let me know, we can all use a bit more business.

Keep working hard and believe in abundance!  Believe in the universe and believe in yourself.  Love everything and everyone!  Be kind, rewind and all of that too!

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Hello fellow Real Estate Entrepreneurs and Happy Friday to you all!!
Today, I wanted to dive into that dirty word “Procrastination”.  We are all so very guilty of the urge, but take comfort in the fact that most entrepreneurs embrace challenges and therefore avoid procrastination.   (most of the time)

I am going to list some helpful tips to try. (I am just FULL of tips and tricks, yes?) Try them all or try just one at a time and let me know if you notice a difference in your motivation levels.      p.s. ’tis much easier to stay motivated when you schedule your tasks and actually (yes actually) stick to the schedule.  You will accomplish soooo much in way less time. 

Here we go:

1. Do NOT, I repeat Do NOT put mundane tasks on your daily to-do list.  Yes, we all must check our mail/email, and we all have to do laundry, dishes etc.  By putting these tasks on your list, you are creating an escape from the important things that are more of a priority.  Like, shall I say….. make money today…..Check!
2. Simplify tasks that can be.  For example, if you must send out information about a property to other investors or clients; how about email blasts or posting this information where it can be easily accessed by large numbers of people.  One post=more free time, know what I mean?
3. Prioritize your list.  Some may disagree, but I like to place the most important tasks at the very top of my list.  You will sometimes find that these may be the most time consuming and/or difficult ones.  That’s precisely the point; when you have completed the one you were contemplating procrastination on, you will feel great and motivated to complete the remainder of the list. 
4. Check your email only when you have plenty of time to reply to important ones.  If you are in a rush, you will end up having to read them again= waste of precious money making time.
5. Don’t take personal calls while you are working on business related tasks.  This is what voicemail is for. 
6. Lastly…….Just Do It!  Once you get started, you will start a momentum that will last until your list is done for the day.  Admit it, You feel awesome when you cross something off, don’t you?

I hope these easy tips will help you free up some time!! 

Because we all know that TIME=$$$$$$$.

Good Luck to you all!

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Well, here we go again Charleston Real Estate Investors.  This is the real estate entrepreneur, and I am going to give you just a short tidbit on a fun and easy way to save some money.  At my house we have an allowance account.  Just like you give your kids or you remember getting we put a bit of money in our account every week separate from all of our money and we build up the excess very quickly.  We like to spend a good bit and we put $300 in our account every week.  That is not saying that we couldnt easily live off of $200-$250 per week.  Even dropping to $250 per week would save another $200 per month.

For us $300 allows us to spend $75 on gas between both vehicles, $100 on groceries, and $125 on miscellaneous.  We can go to the movies at $20 a bunch of times, or go to the movies and buy a couple or really do whatever we want.  It also aids us in not buying big stupid purchases that are caused by spontaneity.  You know the things that you buy because the box looks cool.  Well, check out our website at www.charlestonrealestateinvesting.com

Go out, make mistakes, and make some money!!!  Thats what Im doing!

I just wanted to add a couple of things real quick.  This $300 is just for my spending money.  It includes things like movies, clothes, oil changes, and the like.  It does not include things like business marketing materials, recurring phone bills, utility bills and the like.  Of course this account is a goal oriented account and say we had some emergency we would of course use the money from one of our other accounts.  Comment!

Just wanted to throw in an update.  I think next week we are going to lower our allowance to about $200 and get gas out of our other account.  This is because the more business we are doing the more we are driving and we need to spend the money on gas.  I am believing that gas is too important to have a limit on it.

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This one is something that I have struggled with for years and something that I am finally beginning to understand.  Ill start by saying I was hanging out with a buddy of mine the other day who is much farther in real estate entrepreneurship than I am annd is also a mentor.  check out his website www.woodruffinvesting.com

Well, he was talking to me about my team and how I need to use delegation to create efficiency.  Well I am new to the team concept let alone delegation.  I have always been the type of person that would work twice as hard to make sure something was done correctly.  That often times meant doing it myself.  While that works well in the beginning you will eventually get to the point where you dont want to work from sun up to sun down 7 days a week and you may begin to resent your business, your dream.  Now why on earth would you ever want to resent your dream. 

Well, here is what I have found in delegation.  I now delegate the smaller prospecting and the renovations to our properties so that I am able to focus on the bigger paychecks of listings and the investment management.  I now have buyers out looking for investment property and mobile homes while I am able to keep the big ball rolling and growing. 

My buddy told me to use this delegation as  a tool to manage time and its working.  Right now I am writing this while on the phone negotiating a short sale.  This is something that I am unable to do if I am out putting up bandit signs or answering calls from unqualified leads.  Start thinking of your business as a business and begin to grow.  Dont go wild though, dont over extend.  I like to think of it as taking just a bit bigger than baby steps. 

Well this is a short one, get out and do something!!!

Make Mistakes!!!

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Have you ever asked yourself this question?  As an entrepreneur, a real estate entrepreneur, I used to ask myself this question all of the time.  It wasnt until recently that I finally figured it out.  People have talked to me and given their points of view and countless of people have asked me.  Until I figured it out I was kind of oblivious to the simplicity of this answer.

First of all, lets talk a bit about you and how you are feeling if you still find yourself asking this question a lot.  Well, keep in mind that I used to always have this feeling so I know what you are going through.  Realize how you would feel if you had a boss to answer to as well.  Not going to happen is it?

Do you find yourself prospecting until you are sick of it?  As much as you love your job you should be doing it until you are sick of it. 

Are you caught up in the systems of the business rather than prospecting? 

Have you looked at what you are really doing? 

 Do you get mad at the business and sometimes ask yourself if a regular job would be more enjoyable?  Getting a paycheck week after week and not having to worry about making sales?

Are you a always positive or do you find yourself bouncing from highs to lows like you are on a life rollercoaster? 

Well, if that sounds like you dont get upset and realize that you are in a place where most people have gotten to and quit or have pushed through and made it to that next level.  I dont claim to be any type of guru like so many of my peers but I do claim to do pretty well in this business.

So calm down, relax and take a breath.  I am about to give you the MAGIC ANSWER to all of your problems.

Ready?

Well Here it is…………………..

You are not working hard enough!  If you just want to work 40 hours a week and live a mediocre life, go and get a job.  A buddy of mine that is much farther in life than I am told me that it is the greatest feeling to not have to get up if he  wants to.  If he wants to leave for a week, there is no vacation or anybody to ask, he just leaves.  He told me that he felt bad when he first realized that he doesnt have to wake up in the morning and that he is able to start his days when he feels like it.  He still makes more that the general public in a month than they will make in a year.  I am not to that level but I am on my way and still pretty young.  I am 24 for those of you who are interested.

So there it is, it is no big surprise is it?  Get out and prospect everyday.  Do what you dont like until you like to do it.  STOP, Think about what you just read and get it done!

Good Luck and donate some money to the cause, this is some good information!

Make Mistakes – if you are not making mistakes you are not trying hard enough!

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