Yesterday I was able to find some better resources online. Turns out that for this area there are three good online resources I've found so far. The first one I found a couple days ago--an MLS system called REIN that lets you view listings online and subscribe to get updates when new listings come out. I don't know yet what the deal with it is--if it's the full MLS, how often it's updated etc. etc. Yesterday I also found the "normal" classifieds for the two major newspapers online where FSBO's (for sale by owner) are listed and where realtors advertise. It was kind of a maze to find them online since I kept getting redirected to the REIN system.
I don't plan on posting an update every day on this, but I thought I'd list what I did today:
Today I made the decision to stop over-analyzing and fulfill my goal to buy an investment rental property to generate cashflow and take some action. I plan on documenting the steps I'll take to buy the first property here on Enrichr.com so others who are interested, but haven't taken action can learn from my mistakes, and hopefully success. I'm guessing the process will take about 3 months since I'm pretty deliberate in my decisions.
Much of what success in business is comes down to marketing. This morning I watched a video with David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of an immensely (and very quickly) successful web programming framework. When asked how he became so successful so quickly, he replied:
"[By] making a stir, taking a big target and picking on it... you just have to poke at them a little bit and they'll go bananas and link to you like mad. And if you poke them in the eye, they'll go even better bananas."
One of the conclusions in On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, the scientist and founder of Palm and Handspring, is that creativity happens when the brain mixes and matches patterns from previous experiences. This means that people with more experiences have more potential to be creative.
Practically this means that the more experiences I have, the more patterns my brain can draw from to come up with unique solutions to problems.
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, fabulous, gorgeous, talented? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You're playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that's within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we automatically give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.
-Marrianne Williamson
A Return to Love
Falsely attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 Inaugural Address http://www.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/news/article/deepest_fear_quote_not_mr_mandelas/
Also some claim that W.E.B DuBois is the original source, however, not much evidence exist to substantiate this.
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