I don't know about you but this entire year has been chalked off as a total waste of time so far. I feel like I've been walking in mud, not accomplishing a lot and everything taking 100x more the effort than usual to complete...and this is on days where I actually have clarity and focus (which is far and few between these days).
Have you been feeling the same way?
Chances are that you have been feeling this way and you don't know why.
Now humor me for a minute if you don't believe in this stuff. And if you do, this will make some sense as to why this year (so far) hasn't been working out at all for most of us.
If you study the earliest societies, you'll notice that many of them believed in what the stars and planets could tell them when it came to predicting the future. Most civilizations who built pyramids had done so in alignment of certain important celestial bodies. They did this for a reason. They believed that these bodies could help tell them about the present and the future of what's to come. And many knew, unfortunately, exactly when their demise would transpire because of this. I'm not sure what's worse. Knowing the future...or not. Especially if you're "told" that the end is near. Then what do you do?
My mom was an amateur astrologer, although she did get pretty good at it by her life's end. She knew secrets about the planets and how it would affect people when they did (or didn't) do certain things. I took much of what she said with a grain of salt. As a kid, well...who freaking cares about the planets and which houses they are in your life, right?
But as I got older, like many of us, I wanted to know what I could control and figure out to better enhance my life experience here. I think all of us (who have any brain to speak of, that is) would take advantage of ANY tool that could give us an upper hand in helping us along in the positive in life. Only a fool would take the philosophy of "taking it as it comes without warning" if there are tools in place to help circumvent some of these problems and issues.
However, what I've learned in astrology so far is that there really isn't much you can do. Issues and problems will come when they're supposed to. Life changes will happen when they're meant to happen. And when the freight train comes barreling through with no brakes, much of the time there's really nothing you can do about it except cope and deal.
So...no magical solution here. Not with astrology anyway. It just makes us understand the "whys" behind how we're feeling and what is transpiring on a national and global level sometimes.
But back to you and me, because that's all that's important for this short moment here.
Last year (in the last weekend of September) I mentioned something about the second of three very powerful eclipses that took place in a rare trio-eclipse happening that takes place once in a long while. Lunar eclipses are good for "cleaning out the house" or getting rid of things that no longer service you in your life anymore. It could be that sucky job or lover or something else that's just getting in the way of you being the best you can be. On top of that, it was a blood mood. I was boarding a flight at JFK in New York and I saw the blood moon eclipsing. It was at 50% right before I took off. Between that and being with the Pope in New York City that weekend, I felt...different. I can't explain it. But I felt like some major (good) changes were about to sweep through my life.
Back up to a month prior when the first of this trio of eclipses hit. Lea, my long-time right-hand gal, suddenly left my employ to take a much better position elsewhere. While I was overjoyed that she found a position that was much better for her (in commercial banking) that gave her all of the benefits she's wanted, I felt a little "lost" for awhile. Days later I got a killer kick-ass business idea that I began to implement in the first days of September.
During this time in my life, I made this rather sudden decision to close down a multi-million-dollar business because I didn't believe in it. In fact, right after I got back from New York, I started closing it all down. But to end a business of that size doesn't happen overnight. In fact, I just sewed up some loose ends of it just this past week and there's one thing left I have to do: close the merchant and bank accounts. And that's pretty much it.
Eclipses will remove what's not working while giving you something new to work with. At least that's the theory.
But let's get to the part as to why we've been feeling like we're in a cloud, walking through mud, and feeling a little disconnected for this entire year so far...
We've had a very unusual mix of once-in-a-lifetime planetary mix that has been a big part in feeling the way we have. But forget about the specifics since I'm pretty sure you don't care. The big one for me was when a little planet called Mars went retrograde and this is the planet I rely heavily on for my energy, aggression, passion, and enthusiasm. So, essentially, all of that was gone...until Mars just "woke up" on June 29th and is now getting back on track (rather quickly, I might add) in giving me back all of those things that I need to be...me!
What's the point in all of this?
From now through the rest of this year, all of our projects will work out well as long as they are in alignment with what we're supposed to be doing. (And for those of you who have been starting new businesses and enterprises but haven't made much progress, you'll either see the progress OR you'll realize that you'll have to shift to another type of business/project that's more in alignment with what you're supposed to be doing.)
Here's the key though: you can't sit on your ass and expect checks to come floating down from the clouds and into your mailbox. You have to start something and work on it. And this "thing" that you start, it MUST be something you REALLY want to do. It can't be something just for the money otherwise you'll find yourself banging your head up against the wall because it's not working. Or, as in my case, taking 9 months to close down a million-dollar-annual enterprise because the thought of continuing makes you want to barf on yourself. As it did with me.
Now here's the tricky part: TRUST. To let go of what's not working means that you have to trust that something new and awesome and profitable is right around the corner. You just have to trust that it'll show up. And it'll be there.
Here's what I have to offer to you: a means of finding that profitable enterprise that will change everything that your life is now and turn it into a dream in the years to come. But that's only if you do the work. I'll show you HOW to do it. But YOU have to actually DO it. And no, it's not hard. Especially if you're working with a product that you really love. It's not work at all. In fact, you won't work another day in your life!
Last month my one-time-only Money Funnel Mentorship Group ended and I got an email yesterday from one of my students in the group who has just cleared $7,000 in the past 2 weeks, putting him on track to make $14,000 for his first month with his newly completed money funnel business. So when I say this stuff works...and fast, I'm not kidding!!
But...sadly, I decided that I will ONLY be doing ONE of these Money Funnel Mentorship Groups. And it ended last month. They're too intensive and time-consuming for me so if you missed my only group, I'm sorry. But...
There is good news, however, and that is: I have the "modules" of the group ready to go for you. This means that I have all 8 training videos with all 8 PowerPoint presentations (in PDF format) and all 8 Action Sheets with ALL of the needed materials for the group. And this also means that you don't have to wait an entire 8 weeks to go through the group with everyone else. You can now take these modules and go through all of them in half the time...or less, launching your successful money funnel business in record time! (Now THAT is a good use of a summer vacation. Instead of lounging around all day, why not build a multi-million-dollar business instead?)
I've had so many emails and phone calls from students over the past few weeks asking about these Money Funnel Modules and when they're going to be released/ready. They're actually a week overdue. They were supposed to be ready last week but I feel like I got hit with a bus with this flu that seemingly will never go away so...that threw a week delay in things. So, the Money Funnel Modules are being released today and I'm offering a killer kick-ass deal on them for Father's Day.
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I thought about it over the last couple of days and realized that there are really only 3 ways to get money for real estate deals, especially when you're first starting out as a real estate investor.
Here they are:
1) Find an investor-partner who can fund your deal including the down payment as well as any rehab (if necessary or required).
2) Flip property for cash using "wet funds" to get the 100% cash needed to initially pay for (before reselling) the property.
3) Being a highly-paid bird-dog to earn a "referral fee" between 1% and 5% of the final purchase price of the deal after closing.
What's really awesome is that in my latest Bird-Dog Bonanza System for 2016, I cover ALL 3 of these methods in getting money which you can use as income or use to fund your own passive income real estate deals.
For those of you who started with my bird-dog teachings years ago, I can tell you that A LOT has changed in recent years. Since inventory is hard to find and you have to scour a little deeper to find deals, you have to understand what has changed and how to make a fortune in TODAY'S day and age with bird-dogging, otherwise you won't make a dime.
I have some students who are super successful bird dogs. In fact, they wouldn't do anything else including investing in real estate themselves (which is a mistake). Instead they just profit from deal after deal and have a solid income ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 and sometimes more per year in pure profits. (One of my students made roughly $800,000 in 2015 as a bird-dog! That's more than what many of my students are making as passive income real estate investors!!
Yes, if you want to enter the world of real estate investing but you need to start slow, you need to gain access to the funds for your own deals, you want the experience and confidence of investor without being one yet, and you want to learn the ropes of the business without any risk then bird-dogging is where you need to start.
My most recent deal was one that was sent over to my investor partners that just closed escrow late last month. It was for an apartment building in Texas with a final purchase price of $4,300,000. My student who was bird-dogging the deal got a 2.5% bird-dogging fee for it. And he told me later that it took him less than 5 days to put the entire deal together. Total payout for this student was $107,500 for his bird-dog referral fee.
I have so many students asking me where to get started in business, especially with investing. Yes, it's getting tough to compete in our current real estate market. Inventory is tight. You're competing with the biggest and most financially secure investors who can plop down 25% cash (or more) on a deal to make sure they get it. They can pay top dollar. They can over-bid. These are all things you can't (and shouldn't) do as a new investor.
But there is an opportunity that you should be aware of. It's called being a bird-dog or a property scout. And there are a couple of ways that this works that can give you huge profits in the process:
Option #1: Getting a "referral fee" between 1% and 5% for finding a deal that they wouldn't have otherwise found on their own. To legally do this without a brokerage license (which you don't need) is that you are given a 1099 having provided a "consultant service" to your investor for finding this property deal. Yes, this is 100% legal. And yes, this is done ALL THE TIME!
Option #2: Flipping the property to an investor after purchasing it with "wet" funds. You can get money for a deal. Yes, 100% cash. And you don't need good (or any) credit and you don't need any money to use what we call "wet funding" in this business. These funds are for flipping. But this type of deal is done differently. You preliminary "sell" the deal to an investor first before buying the property. You'll buy the property for a price and flip it to your investor for a higher dollar amount in what we call an A-to-B-to-C deal.
And then there's MY favorite option in all of this: finding investors to fund MY deals that I want to either flip or buy and hold (for up to 5 years). I love finding new investors to want to do deals with me. This gives me the option of getting a much higher percentage of a flip or buy-and-hold deal (as low as 25% and as high as 75%).
I've just released my 2016 version of the Bird-Dog Bonanza System that outlines all of the massive changes that have occurred with bird-dogging. You'll discover how to do all 3 things listed above in today's real estate market and beyond!
What I love about recommending bird-dogging for new students is that it allows you to get involved in real estate investing without the risk, without cash, and without credit. It allows you to get your "feet wet" in the business of real estate without actually investing. And it allows you to learn the ropes of the business by giving you confidence so that when it's time to do your own profitable real estate deals, not only will you have the money to do these deals but you'll also have the know-how and confidence.
For those of you who have been on the fence about real estate investing and have been wanting to get involved but didn't feel that you were "adequate" enough to enter into this business, you can enter in as a bird-dog and make a huge amount of money doing this!
Oh, and one more thing. You can choose between finding your own investors (which is very easy to do and is clearly outlined in the course materials) OR use our investors to bird dog deals to. It's your choice. This way you don't have to worry about finding investors because we already have the investors!
Finding good help these days is becoming the impossible Holy Grail feat.
Not but 30 minutes ago I fired someone for -- get this level of stupidity -- for filing for Unemployment Benefits WHILE she was working here. Yes, you read that correctly. She filed for unemployment with EDD after she got the job here, trying to double-dip the system or something.
Of course, she didn't know that all employers are INSTANTLY NOTIFIED of such filings since, after all, it has to come out of my banked unemployment funds that I've paid into over the years. So, as soon as I received the notice, I couldn't believe the freaking audacity of this bitch to do something so brazen. And yes, it does fall into the category of embezzlement. She's taking a paycheck from me and, at the same time, taking an unemployment paycheck that ultimately comes from me as well is considered THEFT as far as I'm concerned.
As many associates of mine have asked over the years..."Where do you find these people?"
My short answer: Who the f*** knows?!
So, long story short, she's gone now. This is when I realized something quite interesting that you MUST take note of if you're going to be successful doing anything in life: one small shift in energy, even that of another person entering your life, will start to screw up everything for you. Yes, that's right. Other people who don't contribute positively to your vision while dragging others in your posse down do to their negative attitudes will start to sink your entire ship. And it happens pretty fast too. You have to pay VERY CLOSE ATTENTION to these types of energy, time and money vampires in your life otherwise, before you know it, you wake up and you find yourself in bankruptcy court.
Of course, it didn't get to that point with me because I saw what I was happening and quickly nipped the problem in the bud. But this is why fairly successful people quickly find themselves in an off-balance situation or circumstances. We call this a "reversal of fortune" for some. A "bad apple" comes along -- whether it's in their personal or business life -- and, like an aggressive cancer, destroys all the good around it.
Here's my advice: DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN!!
Now, here's the hard part, folks. The hard part sometimes is identifying this destructive individual. Sometimes you just don't know who it is or how it's creating this havoc in your life on other levels. The other difficult part is sometimes you have to let go of someone who seemingly is "stuck" as a permanent part of your life. Now, if it's family, you can always distance yourself from the cancer. Same with everyone else. However, the difficulty comes in when you feel like you need these people (or they need you...or both) and how to untie yourself from them. That's the ridiculously hard part to conquer.
Let me give you some examples of people I've had to disconnect from because they were throwing the balance of my personal and business life:
1) My dad: Every single time I've let him into my company as an employee, he's taken full advantage and began embezzling from me. With that side, his energy levels are so "needy" that he also starts to affect the overall business with his negative belief systems. So, each time when letting him go, I was able to "lighten" the energy and all business procedures and profits would resume back to normal, almost instantly.
2) My brother: Need I say more? He's a walking disaster and I'm really glad there's a lot of physical space between us. The good news is that he's actually realizing that he's been a deadbeat this whole time and he finally got a job. This would be the first job for... who the hell knows how long it's been?! It's just say that it's been longer than a decade since I last remember him working somewhere. He starts this new job on Monday. (I'm proud of him. This is where HIS energy will start to change and his life will only get better from here on out.)
3) My (former) step-son: This 20-year-old kid moved in with me last December. Come to think of it, within days of his arrival, everything started going to hell in a hand-basket. is yet another dependent man (who keeps calling himself a "man" but isn't yet) and part of my lesson in this is to stop being a doormat and to stop "raising" grown men. His lesson will be that he'll have to learn how to survive as an adult because he's getting kicked out in August of this year.
4) The college girl from earlier this year: I had this college chick stay with me (from Michigan) for what was supposed to be 6 weeks. Right when she moved in (on February 29th), she told me she changed the plans and was going to stay through the summer and into the fall. For anyone who knows me, you DON'T change MY plans...EVER!! So, we instantly got off on the wrong foot and I (patiently) waited for her to finish her "Semester in L.A." program (for her B.A. degree) then told her to pack her sh** and get the f*** out. Her leaving alleviated a lot of the "downer" energy that seemed to swirl around her rather uniquely demonic and weirdo personality. (She reminded me of a witch in disguise.)
5) And a SLEW of people who got fired in the past 12 months: Just like this last firing, there have been many others. People sometimes show great charm while lying through their teeth about their job qualifications. Then they turn into a completely different person the second they start. I simply don't have the energy to deal with it anymore.
And I won't put up with it.
You shouldn't either.
Life is getting more and more challenging. You don't need any single individual "rocking the boat" of your life. They can do great damage and rather quickly if you don't throw them overboard as soon as you notice that they're not good for you and that they're causing stress/strain in your life. Out they go. Otherwise YOU will sink with the ship you you don't give them the boot.
The other day I was explaining to my young daughter that things in her generation are vastly different than when I was her age. I explained that "back in the day" we didn't need TSA at airports. In fact, there wasn't much for security and you could basically just walk on a plane...with anything. People didn't ram planes into buildings or blow people up in airports. Things were...different then.
But she said, "But it's good that we have all this security and protection now, right?"
And I replied, "Well, no. It isn't. I'd rather be back in a time when we DIDN'T need these things because back then the world wasn't so violent. I'd rather do without the protection because we don't need it rather than having the protection because everyone wants to kill us."
I don't think she understood. Because unfortunately the world she exists in REQUIRES this protection. It REQUIRES a military. It REQUIRES going to great lengths for safety. And she's already used to it yet she's not even 8 years old.
Those of us who got a short (or longer) introduction from birth into a world that was much more innocent...we know what it was like to NOT have to have all of these "layers" needed to protect us. So, these times are particularly sad for us because we remember what that was like and we can compare it to how things are now. And it's only getting worse and will continue to do so until our life expires on this planet.
With that said, may today be the day that we honor those who signed up to take on this difficult job of protecting us from those who don't have our best interests at heart, against those who live and die to harm us. And gave up their lives in the process. For if it wasn't for these men and women, we wouldn't be able to enjoy our relatively safe, secure, and awesome lives that we have now.
There's always reason that someone would invite me out to lunch. And by now you'd think I'd know better, right?
So, earlier this week my attorney asked me to lunch to "catch up" and "chat" about this or that. But, in reality, there was a completely different reason he wanted to "chat" with me. Sure, it started out with small talk. It always does. But very quickly he started picking my brain on Internet marketing and what I thought about an online business opportunity he's been working on for the past 6 months.
You see, a little more than a week ago crowd funding for real estate to allow non-accredited investors to invest just opened up. (I didn't know this but he informed me that this is what has happened.) So, this opens up the playing field for those who have website portals to raise money even faster for real estate deals including buy-and-hold, flips, you name it. Real estate funding and raising capital via these websites has become much easier due to the lightening of SEC regulations because now any "Average Joe" can put up funding for posted real estate deals instead of it being restricted to accredited investors only.
So, my attorney was talking about wanting to compete in this space...having a website portal to be the liaison between money investors and real estate investors, if that makes sense. After he was explaining the layer upon layer upon layer of legal registration and implementation requirements not to mention the ever-changing laws, I started getting a headache and finally told him, "I wouldn't do it if I were you."
"Why not?" he asked.
"Well, having locked horns with the government several times, let me 'school' you on how working with a closely-linked highly-regulating government agency works. And if they want to sink their teeth into you, they will. You'll have no legal recourse except to fight it out in court until you want to jump off a bridge...because their only legal strategy is to wear you down over multiple years in court since many of them really have no legal bearing in which to sue you. When you get big and if they don't like what you're doing, even if you're doing it legally, they'll find something to get you on. Any company with a portal of hundreds of millions of dollars going through it is always going to be on the immediate radar of the SEC."
I hated to be the one to suck all of his enthusiasm out of him within one fell swoop but...he needed to hear the reality of the situation. I continued...
"Making money is too easy selling run-of-the-mill products. Why legally and financially risk everything when you don't have to?"
He explained that he wanted to build something "big" and create a legacy and yada, yada, yada...all ego-driven nonsense. Who cares? He has a young son who just turned 4 and his wife is 2 months pregnant with Baby #2. At some point you have to hang up risky ego-driven goals and find something more suitable for a more balanced risk/reward ratio calculation in your life, if you know what I mean. After all, when you're lying on your death bed, nobody ever wishes they made more money or wasted more time at the office hustling up a legacy to get on the cover of Fortune Magazine. Everyone, undoubtedly, wishes they spent more time watching their kids grow up.
By the time everything was said and done, I had him on track in putting together his own money funnel for lawyers, selling high-priced marketing courses to other attorneys wanting to start a private practice which he seemed really excited about. (Hey, I'm not just a dream-killer. I come up with BETTER options instead!) All within 90 minutes.
Yes, I'm pretty good at what I do otherwise I wouldn't have one of the brightest attorneys I've ever met asking ME for advice on what his next profitable business move should be.
I'm very good at talking with someone who has a solid business idea, breaking it down, analyzing all of the pieces, and then spitting out the best prognosis imaginable, turning a mediocre plan into an exceptionally profitable business empire.
Now it's YOUR turn to get my advice.
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Yesterday I donated all of my suits to a transitional house for women coming out of battered/abusive relationships. I donated every suit...except for one. The last one I wore in Vegas when I did my last seminar event was the lucky keeper. I decided to keep it...for old time's sake. Or in case I need it for court. Or a funeral. Or just to let it collect dust. For now anyway.
During my Vegas event, I had a hard time getting through. I was kind of under the weather and I realized then and there that I don't want to give up any more time with my daughter doing these events out of state. So, that's it. I just completed my last seminar event. And I'm across between freaking out and being thoroughly elated. The final emotion hasn't landed yet. I'll keep you posted when it finally does.
But I went out with a bang. That's for sure. This Vegas Money Funnel Event was truly amazing. Much better than the event in March, hands down. Maybe it's because I perfected it. Or maybe because I added a whole new element for the "advanced" Money Funnel Strategies, never before revealed to anyone until this event. In fact, one specific strategy was so exclusive that I actually kept it from someone who had been hounding me for this one ground-breaking strategy on mass market distribution...for TWO MONTHS since I discovered it. I made him wait until the second day of the event when I revealed it...and he sat there listening intently, jaw agape when I finally revealed it. Yes, it was THAT powerful. So powerful that you could hear a pin drop in the room when I was slowly divulging the details of this mind-blowing strategy.
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