I’m still at my sales job where I have been selling advertising to about 120 different industries. It’s a fun job that pays well and I love the people I work with. It is also rewarding in non social and monetary ways because I love selling; however it is still a job. It is still an employee role that I play. It is still a part of the “rat race” that kiosaki refers to.

In reference to my financial freedom, I have still been adding money to my savings and financial freedom account on a daily basis. My cash reserves are growing, but have yet to produce even 1 dollar of passive or portfolio income.

I have been sporadiclly looking at potential real estate deals and making offers. Many of the properties are REO (real estate owned) by the bank. In our current market I have found that alot if these foreclosed properties wil recieve numerous offers and alot of he strongest competition comes from first time home buyers who are willing to offer more than a cash investor at wholesale prices.

I need to implement a new strategy for aquiring real estate and bargain prices. I know that the current condition of the market is an excelent time to invest and something that many sophisticated Investors have been waiting a long time for.

I have a mind to put together a marketing campaign and focus on specific targets to attract motivated sellers to call me with the properties that they need to sell. Already, I have created a rough outline of a marketing plan for the next few months, but the first step is to come up with a catchy name and memorable logo that I can brand the market with.

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.