“The secret to getting ahead is getting started. The
secret to getting started is breaking your complex,
overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and
then starting on the first one.”

Mark Twain

Many times our biggest life goals seem overwhelming.
However, if you can step back for a moment and look at
the big picture, you can begin to see that a series
of smaller goals, achieved one at a time, will
eventually get you your larger goal.

Many times I get messages about the key to my
Probate Real Estate strategy. My answer is always
the same.

Start mailing out letters.

You see, I knew from the beginning that the idea
of a Real Estate investing career would be too
big for many to get their arms around.

If you have had a series of failures and losses or if
you have $327 in your checking account, it’s pretty hard
for you to see yourself purchasing a home for say
$150,000 and later selling it for a $5,000 to $15,000
profit.

“Yeah, well maybe Ron can do that but not me!” I
hear you saying.

However, if I ask you to take step one which is
to begin mailing out 15 or 20 letters each week to
folks who have inherited homes, I’ll bet you can
easily see yourself doing that.

Mail out some letters this week, mail out some
letters next week…..pretty easy stuff.

And I make it even easier for you….I write the
letter and give you permission to use it.

http://BuyProbateProperty.com/special-dvd

So if you are looking to begin to change your
financial fortune, decide what you need to
accomplish and then break down your task into
bite size chunks.

Start with task number one and get it done before
you even consider going onto task number two.

And if you decide that Probate Real Estate is how
you’d like to do it, check out my DVD training
guide.

http://BuyProbateProperty.com/special-dvd

Oh yeah, here’s a secret I forgot to tell you.

Copy someone else who has already been successful
at what you are trying to do.

I see the new fancy word for this is “modeling”.

I call it copying!

Whatever!

The Darling Bride and I just celebrated our anniversary a
few months back.

Our 5th year anniversary to be exact.

Five years…….who’d a thunk it????

Oh yea, it’s probably not what you’re thinking…
not our wedding anniversary but our anniversary of the
birth of our newest little baby……

our teaching business!!!!

You see, it was in late 2004 that a young lady came into
my office wanting to know about Probate Real Estate.

She had heard about me from a mutual friend and while she
had some experience in real estate investing, she didn’t
know a thing about Probate real estate.

So after listening to me talk for about 3 hours,
she said

WOW!

“You certainly have a very unique way of making a living
and if you’d write a book about it and put it online,
you could really help a lot of other people.”

OK????? I said.

You see I had two major issues with her idea.

Number 1, I had never written a book.

Number 2, While I thought I knew how to check email,
I wouldn’t bet any large sums of money on it! In other
words, I knew nothing about computers or the Internet.

But it did sound like another great adventure in my life
and I DO like adventures.

So I set off in late 2004 to write my first book “31 Days to
Profits in Probate Real Estate” and by the early summer
of 2005 I actually had a finished book and a functioning web
site and in May, I had my first sale, $14.95.

Yahoo!

Boy did that feel good! Six months work to make $15.

Not so fast with that Mercedes order, Ronbo!

Then FOUR STRAIGHT DAYS WITH NO SALES AT ALL.

The Darling Bride told me I could have made more money
picking up pop bottles and retuning them for the deposit.

Yeah, real funny!

Now she didn’t mind the lack of money coming in on my
web site as we were still making money from our Probate
investing but what she did point out to me was how much
money we were spending on learning about how to operate
my new online business.

That first year it was close to $20,000 and a lot of that
was mistakes because I kept changing the game plan.

I’d buy one guy’s strategy (a sure fire winner, of course)
and then I would find out some glitches so I would buy
another and change direction.

But all the time I was learning, good stuff and bad stuff!

Then after about a year, I finally caught on and things
started picking up. We actually had some positive cash flow
months……surprise, surprise!

But here’s what I found out, the more I learned about
our new venture, the more I found out what I didn’t know.

But I also found out the cheapest way to learn was to
find someone else who had done what I wanted to do
and pay them to teach me.

So I decided that I was willing to spend around $10,000
each year to learn how to be better at my job…. books,
e-books, seminars, coaching, online universities, more
seminars….you name it, I’ve bought it……and lots
of it.

And I’m happy to say that after five years, I’ve blown
my budget every year.

The best number we can come up with is $58,913 spent
for five years.

So why all the personal information Ron?

Well, it’s to make my point.

If you want to learn how to do something, the easiest,
fastest and cheapest way is to find someone who has
already done it and pay them to teach us how to do it.

This is what I call the “Tony Robbins” model. Find
someone else who’s successfully done it and copy them.

Sometimes a little strain upfront but a far better
value in the long run.

So my suggestion to you is if you want to learn something,
like say piano playing, find a successful piano player teacher
and pay them to teach you.

Please notice I didn’t say find a piano player but a piano
player TEACHER……big difference.

So if you are looking to get started in real estate
investing specifically, Probate Real Estate, I think
I know a pretty good teacher!

http://BuyProbateProperty.com/special-dvd

I also got a call yesterday about my upcoming Probate
Mastery Conference. The guy wanted to know if there were
any seats left and I told him yep, we still had two
available.

Need more info on how you can claim yours?

503.746.5837 and we’ll give you all the benefits!

Price alone doesn’t mean anything unless you know what
your getting, right?

I mean, if someone told me they would sell me a car for
$10,000, I’d need to know a little more about the car
before I could decide. A brand new Porsche for $10K and
I’m first in line, a 15 year old Caravan, not so much.

So that’s why you need to known the features and benefits
before you can make an informed decision.

Make sense?

Give us a call!

“You don’t get what you want, you get what you believe!”

I’m not sure who originally said that but I think I heard
that from Ms. Winfrey…….as in the Big O!

“You don’t get what you want, you get what you believe!”

That’s a mighty powerful statement and the key phrase
is “what you believe”. Not what you think about, not
what you hope for, not what you dream about but what
you BELIEVE!

Why is the word believe so important? Here’s the key.

I like to hold the definition of a belief as “what you
accept as true”.

So if you really believe something, then for you, it’s
got to be true.

Now can you understand why your belief system is so
important to your success in whatever you do whether
it’s long distance running, learning a foreign
language or becoming a Real Estate investor?

You must believe you can do it or you won’t.

This is the reason I devote a full 1/2 day at my
Probate Mastery Conference to showing you how important
your mind set is to your success.

Now in my case its oriented to RE investing as that’s
the reason folks come to my event but frankly what I
teach can apply to anything in your life.

I call that segment “Success is Never Convenient!”and
its been my experience it never is but it sure can be
a lot easier if you know some of the ways others
have achieved it.

If you remember, I’ve often said “Most often you don’t
need more resources, you need more resourcefulness!”

That means you need to know how to think and how to
believe.

And to gather around and share with 9 other like minded
folks is the start.

Heck, that sounds like the start of a Master Mind group
doesn’t it?

Are you beginning to see the method of my madness
to keeping my Conference limited to only 10?

One more thing about the upcoming event.

Yesterday I was able to put the finishing touches
on two extra bonuses that I have been working on for
quite some time and I am going to announce them
in two days, Saturday August 21.

I am going to hold a short Teleconference where you can
just call in and listen and I will explain them.

I’m not going to spill the beans today but I will give you
a hint about one of them.

How would you like to leave on Sunday with a customized
list of Private Money investors that live in your area?

Now if that previous sentence didn’t get your attention,
then I’m the wrong guy for you to be listening to.

That’s HUGE for everyone attending the Conference.

That means if you live in Atlanta, I’m going to provide
you with a list of Private Money investors in Georgia!

So that’s what Patrick Riddle and I will be talking
about on Saturday. Here’s the info for the call:

Date: Sat. Aug 21
Time: 9AM Pacific, Noon Eastern
Ph #: 218.862.1300
Code: 171942

And here the fine print: call will last about 1/2 hour,
I will record for later listening, no registration
is required, just call in and listen.

We still have a couple for seats available for this
Conference so if you would like to reserve yours, just
give us a call. The $1000 airfare credit still applies.

503.746.5837.

Let me anticipate some emails. These two new bonuses
I am offering to the attendees are only available
through the Conference. I emphasize to everyone
how special I take care of everyone who attends and this
is just one more example.