My friend Manish compiled this from his viewing of “The Secret” and I thought it might be a good reminder for everyone:

• The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction.

• The law of attraction says like attracts like, so when you think a
  thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.

• Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you
  think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, an they
  magnetically attract all the like things that are on the same
  frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source – you.

• Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think
  about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life.

• Life can be absolutely phenomenal and it should be, and it
  will be, when you start using The Secret.

• The 1st step is to ASK. Make a command to the Universe. Let the
  Universe know what you want. The Universe responds to your thoughts.

• The 2nd step is to BELIEVE. Believe that it’s already yours.
  have unwavering faith. Believing in the unseen.

• The 3rd and final step in the process, is to RECEIVE.
  Begin to feel wonderful about it. Feel the way you will feel
  once it arrives. Feel it now.

• If you see it in your mind,
  you’re going to hold it in your hand.

• See yourself living in abundance and you will
  attract it. It works every time, with every person.

• Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life.

• Energy flows where your attention goes.

• You are the designer of your destiny and the
  outcome is what ever you choose it to be.

• You are the creator of your destiny.

• Whether you think you can or you can’t, either way you are right!

• The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits
  by which your wealth will come to you.

• Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.

• Here’s the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don’t
  want, and they’re wondering why it shows up over and over again.

• The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial as the law
  Of gravity.

• Nothing can come into your experience unless you
  summon it through persistent thoughts.

• You don’t need to know how it’s going to come about. You don’t
  need to know how the Universe will rearrange itself.

• It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts.

• Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it
  to go, and you will create your life intentionally.

• All that we are is a result of what we have thought.

• Expect the things you want, and don’t expect the things you don’t want.

• Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.

• Giving thanks for what you want in advance turbo-charges your desires and sends a more powerful signal out into the Universe.

• To attract money, focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you focus on the lack ot it.

• Feeling happy now is the fastest way to bring money into your life.

• Tip the balance of your thoughts to wealth. Think wealth.

• Focus on the qualities you love about yourself and the law of
  attraction will show you more great things about you.

• I always say that “incurable” means “curable from within.”

• Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity and leads to miraculous cures.

• When the voice and the vision on the inside become more profound, clear and loud than the opinions on the outside, you’ve mastered your life.

• Praise and bless everything in the World, and you will dissolve negativity and Discord and align yourself with the highest frequency – love!

• When you follow your bliss you live in a constant space of joy. You open yourself to the abundance of the Universe. You’re excited to share your life with those you love and your excitement, your passion, your bliss becomes contagious.

• The more you use the power within you, the more
  power you will draw through you.

• The time to embrace your magnificence is now!

• Secret Shifters, such as pleasant memories, nature or your favorite
  music can change your feelings and shift your frequency in an instant.

• The Universe likes speed. Don’t delay. Don’t second guess.
  Don’t doubt. When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there, When the intuitive nudge from within is there, act.
  That’s your job. And that’s all you have to do.

• You can start with nothing, and out of nothing and out of
  no way, a way will be made.

• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

• Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you
  want and don’t expect the things you don’t want.

• To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual
  way of being, not just a one-time event.

• Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve.

• When it comes to creating wealth, wealth is a mindset.
  It’s all about how you think.

The 11 Forgotten Laws

My goal that I had set for nearly two years has finally manifested itself!

I work in a sale & marketing company who partners with various associations to create the Industry Buyer’s Guides for over 100 different industries. My particular responsibility is to sell the top global banner positions on the Buyer’s Guides Website to relevant vendors in each industry.

The day that I walked in for my first day at that company, I noticed the coveted $50,000 dollar wall. It is a wall that was lined with the pictures of the top 12 sales people in the company who sold over $50k in a single month.

That very day I made up my mind that I would be on that wall, whatever it took. Obviously to achieve this, I would have to become an above average salesperson.

So, how did I do it?

There is no one thing; however I can share with you a number of the practices that went into making this goal a reality.

·         Ongoing Visualization Both Morning & Nights

Although I must admit that it wasn’t necessarily an everyday occurrence, I cannot tell you how many mornings I consistently sat in a quiet place, went into a deep (often not) meditation and began to visualize the achievement of the goal. I pictured the exact sale that took me over the 50k, the great feeling within me, the positive reactions of my peers; and even imagined getting my picture taken to go up on the wall.

          I played this movie again and again until it was real to me. I created these movies in my mind, countless times in contemplation and as I lay in bed at night before falling asleep.

·         Continual Imagining

Beyond the visualization process in  formal meditation sessions, I also continually pictured my picture upon that wall every time I passed it numerous times throughout the day, and accompanying this imagining were the same joyful feelings…

·         Cultivating the Feelings of Having Already Achieved It

(Through Prayer, Visualization, and Inner Cultivation)

·         Ongoing Forward Motion Through Making Sales Calls

This means that every morning I got into to work and got in front of the right customers, and stayed consistent in making sales calls, and Asking for the sale.

·         Training My Mind to Remain Persistent and Optimistic Even When Results Were Not Showing and Horizons Looked Dismal

There were numerous times that were extremely challenging where I would barely make any sales during specific weeks. There were times where I wanted to quit, where I wanted to throw in the towel and move on. But I am glad to say that I stuck with this goal.

·         Prayer

Not only did I fervently ask God for this to be answered in the words of my tongue, I also fervently Thanked God In Advance for answering me. This thanks and gratefulness ahead of time, created a very real and joyful feeling within me, as if I had already achieved the goal.

To quote Stuart Wilde “Prayer has to be a feeling to work. You have to feel that the thing you are asking for is feasible and that it already exists in your soul as a reality.”

·         “The Three Insulators “

o   Having Faith in God

o   Having Faith in Myself

o   Having Faith in Others

 I set this goal to achieve in 2008. So from February until December I worked diligently to ensure, but was unsuccessful. In 2009, I set the same goal, and I am grateful to say that all of these forces have come together to make this goal a reality.

Although, it will take most of the weekend, my gut tells me that the information I will gain, and the contacts I will meet will be priceless down the road.

I have a good feeling about it, so I am going to go and register right now.

• Be patient.
• Be persistent, persist & learn from failure.
• Don’t ever give up, continue to make offers.
• Rehab A & B Type properties to the max.
• Mindset is key, one of the biggest ingredients to success.
• Create systems for yourself & your business & stick to them.
• Network with people who have the experience.
• Don’t listen to people who are negative, pessimistic, or have less experience than you.

There seemed to be a consensus around the table stating that if you are going to do anything in multi-family real estate, do 50 units or above for a number of reasons.

To begin with, apparently, the underwriting process is much smoother with bigger deals. The smaller deals (4-49 units) look too much like residential to commercial lenders, and they look too much like commercial to residential lenders. Apparently the “bigger money” (above 5-10 million dollars) is easier to get, and it is much looser.

Also, on another note, it’s going to be essentially as easy to hire a great property manager on a 36 unit building as it would to hire one one a 1000 unit property. It is better to overpay a great property manager, than to underpay a bad one.

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe.” -Abraham Lincoln

Work on your business, not in it. Meaning spend more times working on the systems and hiring the people who will implement them, than doing the actual work yourself (i.e. hire a competent RE CPA instead of trying to do all the bills and taxes on your own). It’s too easy to get sucked into the day to day details of the operation, so learn how to delegate properly (property management, bookkeeping, etc).

“Business and investing are team sports.”- Robert Kiyosaki

Since Real Estate Investing is a team sport, surround yourself with the best people in their respective areas…Realtors, engineers, attorneys, tax advisers, lenders, etc… The goal is to be the “dumbest guy” on your team. If you are the smartest guy on your investment team, than something is wrong.

Books that were recommended during this meeting: