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Do you play sports? How about run marathons?
In football there is an extreme strategy. The best team is not always the biggest and strongest. Nor may it be the fastest... It is usually the smartest or the one that makes the right strategic moves at the right moment. But, sometimes taking chances pays off while other times a conservative approach wins.
It just all depends.
But one thing about football is that there are winners and losers. All in all, most people are going to win in the real estate game over time. But your initial assessment may be correct in that making it fastlane will be the result of luck or skill.
I like to think that all businesses have strong parallels to marathon training. If you want good results, there is a large amount of dedication that needs to be applied. Some people can train and make it through but if you want to stand out, you need to train and plan at a very high level.
You might plan and train for six months to run the race. Many will drop out of the training program either due to time commitments, lack of discipline, or from injuries.
Once you make it through to race day, you must strategize your race. These races are 26.2 miles long. Pace too slow and you will not have the results you want. Too fast and you will likely be forced to drop out. It takes time and practice to fine tune it all.
Ultimately, an injury could force you to stop your effort to achieve your goal.
Nothing in the world comes easy. Real estate has a lot of competition. There are many in the business that would run you over and leave you for dead in order to make a dollar. There are cycles that one must learn to read in order to accelerate. And, it takes a lot of time and effort to be fastlane.
In football there is an extreme strategy. The best team is not always the biggest and strongest. Nor may it be the fastest... It is usually the smartest or the one that makes the right strategic moves at the right moment. But, sometimes taking chances pays off while other times a conservative approach wins.
It just all depends.
But one thing about football is that there are winners and losers. All in all, most people are going to win in the real estate game over time. But your initial assessment may be correct in that making it fastlane will be the result of luck or skill.
I like to think that all businesses have strong parallels to marathon training. If you want good results, there is a large amount of dedication that needs to be applied. Some people can train and make it through but if you want to stand out, you need to train and plan at a very high level.
You might plan and train for six months to run the race. Many will drop out of the training program either due to time commitments, lack of discipline, or from injuries.
Once you make it through to race day, you must strategize your race. These races are 26.2 miles long. Pace too slow and you will not have the results you want. Too fast and you will likely be forced to drop out. It takes time and practice to fine tune it all.
Ultimately, an injury could force you to stop your effort to achieve your goal.
Nothing in the world comes easy. Real estate has a lot of competition. There are many in the business that would run you over and leave you for dead in order to make a dollar. There are cycles that one must learn to read in order to accelerate. And, it takes a lot of time and effort to be fastlane.
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