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08
Oct

Naked Truth Real Estate: Money! What a great idea!

By • October 8, 2009 • Naked Truth Real Estate Blog • Leave a comment

Have you heard the saying that money is just an idea backed by confidence? When I first heard it, I wasn’t really quite sure what was meant by it until I heard a simple explanation. What’s the difference between a $5 note and a $50 note? Colour! Because the notes are only a piece of paper that we call money. The fact that we can use them as $50 or $5 is simply because we all agree in confidence on the idea. Apart from that, it’s just a piece of paper.

 Now using my old mate Richard Branson as an example, if Richard said to us all who wants to invest $50 in my new company?  Would anyone hesitate for too long before saying YES?  I know I wouldn’t. I don’t even know what the company is yet, so why would I be willing to throw my hard earned cash into something I know very little about? Because I can have confidence in whatever the idea is that this very successful businessman has to offer is a pretty safe bet. Can you see how the money would just flow to that idea?

 Can you also see how important it is to build confidence in yourself and your ideas? That’s when the money starts flowing to you. The hardest part is getting started.  Why? Because we allow fear to rob us of all that we are meant to be.

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08
Oct

Naked Truth Real Estate: Sir Richard Branson and Fran Blake have a D & M

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Well, I don’t want to brag……. Oh yes I do! For many years I have been an admirer of Sir Richard Branson and the way that he has gone about doing business. So on my list of goals is an item which reads: Meet and have a conversation with Richard Branson.

 Recently, I began following him on Twitter and he happened to mention that anyone could ask him any question they liked and the ones he liked he would answer. So I asked and he answered! I was stoked! It was a real confidence booster and confidence my friend is very powerful. Why? Because confident people don’t let anything stop them from achieving what they have set out to do. My mate Richard is living proof of that!

 Sometimes, the going gets very tough and the easy way out is to stop having confidence in yourself to achieve what you set out to achieve. I’m here to encourage you to not let anything stop you from being confident enough in yourself because there is always a way. Don’t let anything stop you, just keep on searching for a way.

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08
Oct

Naked Truth Real Estate: Persistence is all about eating a plane.

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Everyone knows how to eat an elephant don’t they? It’s easy, you just eat one bite at a time. But have you ever thought of how you’d go about eating a plane? No, me either but some guy who is now in the Guiness Book of Records for doing so obviously did.  It took him 17 years by the way and he did it by shaving bits of the plane over his cereal each morning. Does the guy not know that there is such a thing as bran?

 I have to say that I really admire his persistence. It may sound ridiculous to take up such a cause but the bottom line is the guy achieved his goal! How are you going with yours? Are you dedicated enough to see it through for 17 years? If you knew that it would take you that long to achieve, name a goal or two that you would be happy to persist at for that long.

 It’s only been the last few years that I’ve realized the importance of persistence. It’s critical to our success, so persist at getting good at persistence and you’ll reap the rewards over and over again. Persistence is wanting something badly enough that you’re prepared to keep committing to it over and over again to see it materialize in your life. We hear it every day, don’t we? You know the one about the overnight success story that was 20 years in the making.

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08
Oct

Naked Truth Real Estate: Living the life of your dreams!

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Welcome to Naked Truth Real Estate,

I’m Fran Blake and I’m pleased to be able to share with you all that I know regarding investing in real estate for profit.  Have you ever been in an unhappy situation that you felt you couldn’t get out of?  Perhaps you were in a tough work situation or a relationship or marriage that wasn’t working out and in the process of coping you just didn’t even realize how unhappy you were.  I’ve been in that situation too and when I realized how unhappy I was and just how miserable my life had become I began taking some action to create the life that I wanted to live.

 First, there was a process of awakening to the full ramifications of where I was at and then exactly what I was going to do about it.  I was scared too and constantly questioned whether I was doing the right thing or whether I was ‘just being selfish’. However, I knew that I had to start taking responsibility for my own happiness and peace of mind.

 One day I just had a light bulb moment while walking across a car park after work, where I decided to make some positive changes to the way I would live my life from then on. I changed the conversations I had with myself and I realized that I deserved to live a great life not just a mediocre one!  From there, it was a real change in my mindset.  I knew that I was capable of taking care of myself and my children and creating the life that I wanted, which was not the life that I was currently experiencing.

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