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What Motivation is the Key to Success in Real Estate?

March 10, 2010 by Scott Costello 25 Comments
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A blog post by Nick Johnson a few weeks ago (Nick if you read this could you help me find it?) spurred me into thinking about what is my motivation for wanting to become a real estate investor.   Nick talked about his life and the hardships he had gone through which motivated him to make [...]

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Lessons Learned: Get More Out of your Day With Daily Deadlines

February 23, 2010 by Scott Costello 9 Comments

After last weeks lesson about doing The Wrong Kind of Busy I started really analyzing how I spend my weekday nights (my real estate investing time).  It was a very good exercise to try and identify what are the money making activities and which are not and cross those off my list.  Then I thought [...]

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Lessons Learned: The Wrong Kind of Busy

February 12, 2010 by Scott Costello 14 Comments

In last week’s Lessons Learned I talked about how important it is to stop hiding behind technology and actually use the phone to communicate with people.  For some using the phone is natural but for others like myself it is going to be a challenge because we have to overcome habit and fear. This past [...]

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Lessons Learned: What I did Wrong This Week

February 5, 2010 by Scott Costello 12 Comments
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One of the best ways to improve habits and continuing on a positive path is to look back and analyze your actions.  I’m going to start a new post series called Failure Friday Lessons Learned that I will attempt to identify something I did wrong or could have done better over the past week.  The [...]

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Have a REI Blog? Get the Word Out

February 4, 2010 by Scott Costello 18 Comments
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I had this thought last night while I couldn’t sleep.  I’m not sure if this will work out the way I hope it does but it’s worth a shot. I invite everyone who has a real estate related blog to advertise it below in the comments.  If the blog is brand new or you’ve been [...]

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