The Power of the Hang-Up or Who’s Keeping You In Line ?

OH MY GOODNESS!! JANUARY 2007 is almost gone! Are you nervous? Have you started?? I have a whole lot of goals in place for 2007 and if I can stay on track, this will turn out to be one heck of a year for me. I am so excited and ready to go and already taking action, but sometimes not soon enough. Last week, I procrastinated and didn’t meet a deadline and my coach actually hung-up on me. I couldn’t believe it!! He actually hung-up on me! And oddly enough, I knew he did that for me and it motivated me to get busy. And the truth is that is the trick. Let me give you another little trick…find yourself an “Accountability Coach.”

An Accountability Coach is someone like minded and positive who is on a mission just like yourself to finally make some good powerful changes in their life. I’m not talking about just anybody or your best friend or shopping buddy. I am talking about whoever you know who is determined and straight forward and will give it to you honestly. This is the person that you should sit down with and exchange your personal goals, action plans, and timelines. Come up with intervals in which the two of you will meet over the phone or in person and ask the other where they are at on completing a project or goal that is important to them for 2007. If you are REALLY serious, how about putting some money in the pot? Have a third party person hold a couple hundred dollars for the both of you, and whoever falls off track of reaching their goals, loses their money to the other person. It’s pretty simple if you are serious about making some positive strives in your life this year. Putting up the money shouldn’t be a thing if you KNOW you are going to stick to your goals come heck or high water!

I am putting my money where my mouth is this year. My Real Estate investing partners and my realtors are all participating in this whole Accountability Coaching exercise. We have each put up $5,000 that is being held by a third party person who has all of our goals and action plans safely stored on their computer. We have pre-determined dates set for our conference calls to report out to each other if we have made our deadlines or not. NO excuses allowed, simple yes or no answers will be the ONLY thing that is accepted. And I am NOT scared! Are you?

If you too are looking for a challenge and want to be around positive like-minded people who will hold you accountable and help drive you to success, do yourself a favor and attend my next seminar on FEBRUARY 22ND. Sign up at: www.COLORADOREALESTATESECRETS.com Get “Rich-N- Fit” with the Queen! Can you really afford not to?

To your prosperity and success.

Diana

DON’T BE A GOOSE

WERE YOU THERE? If you missed the January 2007 Seminar on Real Estate Investing last night, then I am so sorry for you! We started the new year off right, with people anxious and enthusiastic about making positive changes in their lives. My husband was a huge inspiration and his passion for helping people resonated throughout the room.

Let’s talk about the ability to change for a moment. Sometimes our lives lead us down a path that isn’t quite where we want to be. But the unique and amazing thing is that we as humans do indeed have the ability to switch directions and change. Unlike geese who fly south for the winter, each and every year because they are governed by instinct and the genetic code, we have the ability to change course and change direction by act of will. People often send me emails saying they have reached a point they just don’t want to be anymore and they don’t know what to do. And my answer is always the same….Make a change. You are able to do that. It begins with the inner voice inside of you. YOU have got to believe in you before anyone else will. And when you realize you are worthy of everything you desire, slowly and surely the transformation will take place. Don’t be a goose!”

I would love to stay and chat with you some more, but I have got to begin setting up interviews with all of the people who applied to come into my program last night. Those people who decided to fill out an application took what we call DECISIVE ACTION and I am proud of them. Over analyzing decisions in life paralyze you and when you look up, you haven’t done a darn thing. Don’t become of a victim of this, as you will look up and years will have passed you by. Remember, NO REGRETS in 2007. Life is too short and too precious to ever regret the things you didn’t do. Use your time well.

If you are looking for a change and you are ready to answer the inner voice inside of you that is urging you to leap forward, do yourself a favor and attend my next FREE seminar February 22, 2007. Stay tuned, you have GOT to Get “Rich-N- Fit” with the Queen! Can you really afford not to????

Until next time,

Diana

BEWARE!!!! The Dream Stealers Are Everywhere

Hi Everyone,

I had an opportunity this week to visit with my friend Lloyd Irvin, who lives in Maryland, and found we were hearing some of the same things from our respective real estate groups. They are being fed information that may be detrimental to their goals. The sad thing here is they are being fed this negative information from the people who are closest to them and who have their best interests at heart.

I am very lucky. My husband has one of the lowest tolerances for negativity that I have ever witnessed. So does Lloyd. This has had a tremendous effect on my behavior and my entire outlook on life. Where once, in the face of a new idea or change, I was hesitant and threw up every objection I could come up with why that change or that new idea would not work! Today, however, as a direct result of their influence, I am much happier to embrace change and new ideas.

Not everyone is as lucky as I am. So it is very important to identify these individuals who are trying to steal your dreams. Beware, they may look like the people who love you and to tell the truth, they really are trying to protect you. But they are telling you all the reasons why what you want can’t be had. Why what you want to do can’t be done–at least not by you. That, for instance, real estate is too complicated. That it is too risky. That their brother lost a fortune. And they can be subtle. Quietly and systematically undermining your ambition and confidence.

It is critical, in my opinion, to search out people who are encouraging of your dreams and ambitions. Let me ask you, if you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that your child was hanging out with 9 other children who were doing drugs and were up to no good, would you let your child continue hanging out with them? If you knew your child was hanging out with 9 other kids who were out stealing cars, would you allow that to happen? Of course not. Well, listening to the negative thoughts is every bit as deadly or paralyzing as those drug using, car stealing thieves. You’ve heard that saying, ‘You are what you eat.’ Well, I think you are who you listen to. So the question is, who are you listening to? Who are you hanging with? What are you being fed?

I am living proof that when I made the decision to choose who I would listen to, to actively choose my teachers, to listen to people who knew I could anything I wanted, my life was changed. And I know that making the choices of who you listen to will change your life too. It kind of goes back to that old saying, ‘Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.’

I will close today with this thought that I heard in high school, when you’re out there wondering who to listen to and how to reach those goals, keep your eye on the doughnut and not on the hole.

With your prosperity and success in mind,

Bye for now,

Diana

What Makes You So Special

Hi Everyone,
We just had our one-day seminar on Systems—How To Work On Your Business, Not In Your Business last Saturday. I am certain that everyone there enjoyed the presentations and came away with several ideas on how they could quickly implement the ideas and strategies that separate the successful business owners from the others.
As I was listening to my husband Terry, I was again struck by realization that although being an educator myself, the education and knowledge I received throughout my academic career did not prepare me in the least to take charge of my life much less my finances. What I learned there was how to be an excellent employee and how to plan my life around someone else’s calendar.
In Napoleon Hill’s

Think And Grow Rich

it states that one of the common traits amongst the richest and most successful people in the world is “SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE.”
What “SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE” do you have that can make you money? If you don’t have any, then your solution is simple, go out and gain “Specialized Knowledge” in something that can make you money.
I’ve become a self made multi millionaire through my “Specialized Knowledge” in Real Estate. It’s something that I learned just in the last five years. Before that, for all intents and purposes, I was essentially broke, no assets, no money, and no true freedom. Nope, it was just me, my teaching job, and my college degree. ANYONE can do this. But they don’t teach it in colleges, in schools or where we are forced to get our education in America. You basically have to know someone that will walk you by the hand and teach you. I was lucky, Terry taught me. The good news is, he can teach you too.
It wasn’t my parents fault, it’s not your parents fault and if you’re a parent it’s not your fault either. You just don’t know any better. As a parent you just do the best that you can with what you know. There’s no fault in that. Heck, most of the parents I know including mine are/were “Employees”, either waiting for their retirement to come or trying to find a way out of the current job situation. Dreaming of the day they can stop going to work!
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not against college. I am against what college is setting you up for, but understand that college is VERY necessary. And ANYONE around me that asks me if they should attend college I tell them “YES.” I have hundreds of kids at my karate school that look at me as a college graduate as an example to make it to college.
You see, only about 3% of the entire population will ever gain the type of “Specialized Knowledge” that I’m talking about. It’s not because that it’s hard to learn, but it’s like a cosmic universal law or something that only 3% of the people in the population are serious enough to actually follow through with their desire to not be in the other 97% of the population that WILL RETIRE UNHAPPY AND BROKE!!!
Having “Specialized Knowledge” kind of makes you “Cocky.” Don’t get me wrong. I’m not talking about being “Arrogant,” but still “Cocky.” I like knowing that with my “Specialized Knowledge” if we were to lose all of my assets that we own today. In 12 to 18 months I would make it all back. And although I would never want that to happen I have “NO” doubt that we would quickly make it “ALL” back. That’s a great feeling.
If you lost everything you owned, are you confident that you could make it all back without a doubt? You see, someone could take away all of my assets, but they can never take away my knowledge. And the knowledge is PRICELESS where as MONEY is well…… JUST MONEY, It comes and goes.
How would you like to gain “Specialized Knowledge” in something that can help you make money? Something that NO ONE can take away from you. Something that you can predictably do day in and day out to generate cash. Well in our Real Estate Investing Boot Camps we are teaching “Specialized Knowledge”. Knowledge that is allowing average people just like you make money as Real Estate Investors.
People are always trying to figure out what we are doing and how we are doing it. No one in the area can produce the results that we have because they are lacking in one of the key areas of “Specialized Knowledge” that we have access to. It’s not in our books, our training manual or in our power point presentation. It’s not something that you can get your hands on and read and learn it. It’s something that has to be passed on to you. Like life lessons, like the way we pass on the gift of karate to our students that deserve it.
You can read all the books and read all of the courses in the World and you will NEVER get what I’m talking about without a mentor to take you through the process of learning it. And it doesn’t happen overnight.
The answer is we have several “Specialized Knowledge” factors happening at the same time. “Specialized Knowledge” in Real Estate Investing, Wholesaling (Very few understand), Short Sales (Almost No one Understands, and those that do, don’t have the resources to make it happen), Lease Options (No Secret Here), Foreclosures (Almost every small investor is doing this wrong, we go through the back door, a back door that only “we” have the key to in this area) etc. (There are a few people that know how to do some aspects of these in our area, but it’s basically book knowledge)
Another one of the common traits amongst the richest and most successful people in the World as listed in “Think And Grow Rich” is The Power Of The Mastermind.
In one of my Mastermind Groups that we pay $25,000 a year to belong to has 6 of the most successful Real Estate Investors/ Marketers in the Country. 4-5 times a year I’m in a room networking with people that are making obscene amounts of money in Real Estate Investing.
This is PRICELESS. You won’t get access to this information in any books, manuals or in these so called real estate investing meetings popping up all over the place, where a bunch of people that aren’t rich from Real Estate Investing are running meetings about becoming Rich in Real Estate Investing. Seems backwards to me, doesn’t it?
I know of a sure fire way to get the type of Specialized Knowledge that I’m talking about and that’s getting plugged into our program. Our next FREE Real Estate Investing seminar is January 25, 2007. You can register at www.ColoradoRealEstateSecrets.com
Also if you’re a business owner/self employed or sales professional I want to help you learn “Specialized Knowledge” that can help you also. I would highly recommend that you visit my site at www.CS-GKIC.com
Lastly, lets make 2007 our best year yet. Let’s reach all of our GOALS!
If you’re overweight, get your butt in the gym and workout. Stop talking about it. Stop eating so much, eat healthier and make it happen this time.
If you’re tired of your job, go out and get some “Specialized Knowledge” in something that can make you money.
No matter what you want to do, I believe that you can do it; you just have to have a “Burning Desire” to accomplish it.
Let’s Make 2007 Our Best Year Yet!
Diana Bryan

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear

I spent a week last month in Phoenix and I found myself trying to explain what we do as real estate investors and how we do it to people (who I love very much–my family) and during the course of some of the conversations thought it might be less painful to just bang my head against the wall. Then I realized that the problem was me. I was trying to teach people who are not ready and may never be. Real estate investing is definitely not for everyone. And I need to practise what I teach more and wait until people are ready to learn. I guess I am just excited by the opportunities this life style has afforded me and I want to share them. Still I know that out of hundred people we talk to about the opportunities and how to take advantage of them, only ten will take action. Only ten will want to learn. Only ten. I need to wait for those who truly want to learn because it is those with whom I can make a positive difference. I know what a mastermind group and a mentor has done for me and what it has done for our students, but just like I had to be ready, they also must be ready. I do not mean to suggest that my only contribution to other people has to be through business as I know I matter in other ways, but I must learn to wait for those individuals who really want success in their investing and their business to tell me before I just assume they want to know. When they do, I know it will be a journey we both want to take.

Ready, Set—ACTION

Hello everyone,

I want to take a minute to thank everyone who braved the slushy wet roads to get to the free seminar last night! I am always amazed by the number of people we talk to on a weekly basis who “say” they would like to learn what we do but never so much as lift their hand to make a phone call or register for a FREE seminar to find out how!

I know those people. You know those people. They are the “I wishers”. The ones who are always talking about how they wish they had time to do this or that. Kind of like Jiminy Cricket and I mean no disrespect to Jiminy, but come on. Wishing for something and going out and getting it are two entirely different things. It is now 2007 and the truth is 2008 will be here before you know it. So if you want to make a change, take control of the things you do during the day and the people you spend time with, it will require action. The information is out there, but chances are if you are waiting for something to beam down, you’ll still be waiting when 2008 gets here. It will never happen. My husband says, “In five years you will have arrived. But where is the question.” I can almost promise you that those people who do not take action will be very close to where they are now and the people who do take take action will have transformed their lives.

So when I see people who brave the cold and snow, take time out of their evenings to come out and learn how it is possible to take charge of their lives, then I applaud them. These are the people taking action. These are the people actively looking for information to improve their lives. These are not the “I wishers”. These are the doers and they are the kind of people I choose to spend my time with.

I’ve had some lessons in the past few years and the point that life is short and fragile has been been made to me in very clear and certain terms. It is even more important now for me to spend time doing what I like with people who have the same positive energy and thirst for knowledge. I simply do not have the time for the “I wishers”.

That said, I do wish everyone reading the very best in the coming year. But more specifically I wish for you the satisfaction that comes from doing and the contentment that comes from knowing you are out there learning everything you can.

Bye for now.
Diana