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Sooooo, how did everyone do on their 30 day challenge?

I know I’m supposed to be setting a good example here, but I have to be honest and tell you that I failed miserably.  My challenge was to run 4 miles every day during the week, and also to make 100 offers.

So, yeah.  Not so much.

The running part was out of my control, though.  My back has been messed up since the beginning of the month, and it’s still not back to normal (no pun intended), so I didn’t really have a choice unless I wanted to torture myself, which I actually tried to do last week and was only able to run for 3 minutes before I had to stop.

As far as the offer-making part of the challenge goes- I ended up only making 24, which is pretty pathetic.  This was mostly due to me just having too much other stuff going on, and then there was a little bit of laziness sprinkled in for good measure…I’m not gonna lie.

So how did the rest of you guys do?

I heard from Matt and Art and Steph already, and they seem to be calling for a do-over….

I guess I wasn’t the only one who had an off month.

I think a do-over is a good idea, what do you say?  A chance to redeem ourselves….

My challenge for the next 30 days is to be up at 6am and swim 20 laps every morning (since running is temporarily out of the question), make 30 offers on MLS properties (I’m being more realistic this time around), and to come up with an outline for a new eBook/course that I’ve been putting off writing for about 6 months now.

If you want to participate in the do-over, just write a comment below and let us all know what you plan to accomplish in the next 30 days (and also, if you were a part of the last challenge, let us know how you did!).

We’ll all meet back here on the 1st of October to talk about how much ass we kicked….

Later Alligators!

P.S.
Speaking of kicking ass, did you guys see the unfreakingbelievable shot that my boyfriend R-Fed made at the U.S. Open Monday?

He’s such a bad ass.

P.P.S.
No, that was not his wife in the stands.
Shut up.

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I had an awesome time on my road trip and I took a bunch of pictures that I want to show you, but WordPress is being very difficult right now and I’m about to tear my hair out of my head, so I’ll have to post them at a later date.

Warning: This post has absolutely nothing to do with real estate.  If you’re looking for a post about real estate, please come back in a few days.

So, I’m in the middle of packing right now (which I was supposed to do last night, but instead got sidetracked downloading free music from Limewire), but I wanted to write a quick post before I head out the door on a road trip out to the middle of nowhere.  Which is going to be awesome.

My friend Shawn and I rented a cabin on the river for a few days at this cool place where they have cave diving and canoeing, and all that kind of fun stuff.  I would post a link to the place we’re staying at, but you never know if there’s any axe murderers reading my blog, and this place is seriously out in the middle of nowhere, and that would totally suck to have some dude show up at the cabin door at 1am wearing a hockey mask and brandishing a machete.  Ya know?

Plus, I’m already a little bit freaked out because the last time Shawn and I rented a cabin (this was about a year ago at a different place), it was totally haunted.  I’m not even kidding.  When we got there, there was this guest book on the dining room table where you can write about all the cool things you did while you were there, and we read through the whole book (it went back about 7 years), and a bunch of people kept writing in there that the cabin was haunted.

We didn’t really think too much of it until the first night when I woke up at like 4am and noticed that the bathroom door was shut and the light was on.  I just figured it was Shawn, so I went back to sleep and then it was morning, and Shawn came into my room asking me why I left the light on in the bathroom and shut the door in the middle of the night.

He said he didn’t do it, and I know I didn’t do it.  Then he tried to say I probably just had too many glasses of wine and got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and forgot. Which was totally not the case.  Well, maybe I did have a few too many glasses of wine, but I never just get up in the middle of the night. Once I’m out, I’m out.

So anyway, the next night we had dinner and some drinks and then went to sleep, and I shit you not, the stereo that we brought (that was in the kitchen), turned on by itself at about 2am and started BLASTING Maroon 5.  I’m not even making this up.  I still remember the song and the exact verse that was playing…..

“THIS LOVE HAS TAKEN IT’S TOLL, ON ME, SHE SAID GOODBYE, TOO MANY TIMES BEFOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRE……”

I think I may have crapped my pants. (and not in a good way, Julie.)

Shawn tried to pretend like he wasn’t as freaked out as I was (because he’s kind of a Mr. Tough Guy kind of guy), and also I think he knew I was about to have a freaking heart attack and he didn’t want to scare me any more than I already was.

So anyway, we ended up staying the rest of night (if it was up to me we would have left right then and there), and then we got the hell out of there bright and early the next morning.

The End.

And the reason why I’m telling you this story is because crazy shit like this always happens to me and Shawn, so if you don’t hear back from me in a few days, please SEND HELP.  Although, I didn’t tell you where I was staying, so I guess that will be kind of hard.

My Mom, knows where I’m staying.

Speaking of my Mom, she tells me that I shouldn’t tell people when I’m going out of town because then they might break into my house and steal all of my valuables (even though I don’t really have any valuables except my laptop, which I’m taking with me so I can listen to all the songs I downloaded from Limewire last night).  And also, you’d have to pretty much be Spider-Man to break into my condo, but even so, just to make my Mom happy, I hired a professional Ninja to house sit for me for the next couple of days.  So, if you’re planning on breaking in, you better bring your A game.

Alright, I gotta run!

Have a great rest of the week, everybody!

P.S.
Now that I think about it, I bet Spider-Man could probably kick a Ninja’s ass.

Crap.

P.P.S.
Change of plans. I just cancelled the Ninja and called Chuck Norris instead.

P.P.P.S.
One time, at band camp, Chuck Norris ate a percussionist.

P.P.P.P.S.
Chuck Norris caught the Karate Kid in mid air with chopsticks.

P to the 5th power S.
Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool Chuck Norris once and he’ll roundhouse you in the face.

So, I’ve totally spent this entire week in bed all hopped up on pain pills.  Aleve, actually.  I think they make your stomach bleed or something like that if you take too many of them though, so I just started drinking wine instead to dull the pain.  Because there’s nothing better than drinking a glass of merlot at 1pm on a Wednesday afternoon. In bed. (I’m just kidding, Mom).

Anyway, the good news is that my back is finally feeling better, but the bad news is that I haven’t really gotten anything important accomplished this week, unless you consider surfing the net important. In which case, I got all kinds of important stuff done this week.

Anyhoodle, it’s time for another Flip This Book Club Review, brought to you by my dear friend Shae Bynes from GoodFaithInvesting.com.  This month’s book was Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill- I hope you guys enjoyed it!

Take it away, Shae….

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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is a best-selling business classic.  I’m sure many of you read this book months or even years ago, but this was actually my very first time reading it. For those who didn’t know, Think and Grow Rich was initially published in 1937 during the Great Depression and, according to Hill, is a result of 20 years of research and analysis of hundreds of well-known high achieving men who had accumulated vast fortunes using businessman Andrew Carnegie’s “secret for success.”

If you’ve already read numerous books on success and personal development, many (but likely not all) of the 13 Success Principles presented by Napoleon Hill will be familiar to you because Think and Grow Rich served as the inspiration and foundational text for many of those other books you’ve read and enjoyed!  Here are the 13 Success Principles along with some of the quotes that really stuck out to me from the respective chapter on the topic.

• Desire:  Wishing will not bring riches but desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.  No one is ready for a thing until he believes it.
• Faith: Faith is the head chemist of the mind. It is the “eternal elixir” which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought. Faith is the only antidote for failure!
• Auto-Suggestion: Remember when reading aloud the statement of your desire, that the mere reading of the words is of no consequence – unless you mix emotion, or feeling with your words.
• Specialized Knowledge: Specialized knowledge does not necessarily have to be in possession of the man who accumulates the fortune. Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.
• Imagination: First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
• Organized Planning: Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving.” (Side note: I loved the list of 31 major causes of failure in this chapter)
• Decision: Analysis of several hundred millionaires disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions promptly, and of changing these decisions slowly, if, and when they were changed.
• Persistence: Persistence is a state of mind, therefore it can be cultivated. Persistence is the direct result of habit.  Organized plans, even though they may be weak and entirely impractical, encourage persistence.
• Master Mind: No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to insure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
• Sex Transmutation: Take inventory of those whom you know to be men of great achievement, and see if you can find one among them who is not highly sexed.  Man’s greatest motivating force is his desire to please woman! (Hey, these are Napoleon’s words…not mine! LOL! Gentleman, do you even agree with this? Just curious.)
• Subconscious Mind: Thoughts of fear and poverty and all negative thoughts serve as a stimuli to your subconscious mind,  unless you master these impulses and give it more desirable food upon which it may feed. The subconscious mind will not remain idle! If you fail to plant desires in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of your neglect.
• The Brain: Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought. The subconscious mind is the “sending station” of the brain [and] the creative imagination is the “receiving set” through which the energies of thought are picked up.
• The Sixth Sense: The starting point of all achievement is desire. The finishing point is that brand of knowledge which leads to understanding – understanding of self, understanding of others, understanding of the laws of nature, recognition and understanding of happiness…this comes in its fullness only through familiarity with, and use of the principle of the sixth sense.

At the risk of catching flack for this comment, I’ll share that I personally resonated much more with some of the more contemporary professional development experts and books such as Jim Rohn’s The Five Major Pieces of the Life Puzzle, Brian Tracy’s Maximum Achievement, and Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, and Les Hewitt’s The Power of Focus.  Also, depending on your world view and spiritual beliefs (or even the lack thereof), some of the language and concepts presented in Think and Grow Rich may be a little uncomfortable or simply not jive with you at all. Nevertheless, there is so much wisdom within the pages of this book and, for many people, this is the very book that opened up a world of new possibilities.

So that’s my nickel. What’s yours?

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Thanks for another outstanding review, Shae!

Next month’s book choice is The Power of Focus, by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Les Hewitt. Both Shae and I have already read this one, but it’s definitely worthy of a second time through! We’ll meet here on Monday September 20th-ish at 8pm to discuss!

Later Alligators!

P.S.
Shae is having a contest on Facebook to see who can come up with the tastiest coffee drink recipe. If you win, you get some of her delicious magical mushroom coffee (or tea), which also cures diseases and makes you look 20 years younger. You can learn more about the contest here.

P.P.S.
Sorry if the font is really small in the middle of the book review. I tried to fix it, but as I’ve mentioned before, WordPress is a dirty, dirty, hooker and wouldn’t let me.

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Shae just brought to my attention (in the comments below) that the word “Napoleon” is highlighted several times in this post.  I have no clue how that happened, and no idea how to fix it.  Apparently WordPress is mocking me.

So, I was going to write another post last week letting you all know that I was heading out of town to Kansas City for a mastermind retreat with Steve Cook and the Flip Vips, but then I had too much stuff to do before I left, so I didn’t get a chance to write an update.

So anyway, I left for Kansas City early Wednesday and got back late Friday night, and have been in bed ever since because my back is so screwed up that it hurts to stand up, sit down, laugh, breathe, blink, etc.  Which is totally awesome.

The good news is, I had a great time in Kansas City (minus the part where this guy on the plane told me there were two Kansas Cities- one in Missouri, and one in Kansas, and then for about a half hour after I landed I thought I flew to the wrong state). Turns out there’s only one Kansas City, but half of it is in Missouri and half is in Kansas.

I had no idea.

Anyway, like I said, I had a blast at the retreat, and took lots o’ pictures for your viewing enjoyment…

Dinner and drinks @ Dave and Buster’s
L to R: Mike Ferriss, Brian Meidam, Steve Cavanaugh, Lawrence Roberts, Russ LaBrasca,
Steve Cook, Yours Truly

Craig Fuhr with a yard of beer at the Yard House

After closing down the Yard House, we headed to this place called Danny’s.
That’s Shaun McCloskey riding in the trunk/backseat.

While at Danny’s, we concocted a brilliant scheme to break into JP Mose’s hotel room
and ambush him when we got back to the hotel.
It seemed like a great idea at 2am.

“Be very quiet, we’re acting like high schoolers.”

“Alright, on the count of three, everyone run into the room and jump on JP!”
(Side note: I was laughing so hard at this point that I peed my pants. True story).

Law was the first one in, and I think he overshot the bed and fell off.

Next up: Craig.

Surprise!

Sorry, JP.  I totally tried to talk everyone out of this, but they made me come along.
And take pictures.

We met in the conference room bright and early for 8 hours of brainstorming.  We also watched
some videos on YouTube that had nothing at all to do with real estate.

Be careful what you wish for, JP.  Just sayin.

Bonjour, Yall!
Dinner at Jazz…

Lots o’ crawfish.  I was afraid to eat one because of the whole “pulling the head off” thing.

Shaun, Steve, JP, and Russ

Nate Andree, Ken Holmes, Steve Cavanaugh

Me and the guys

Cheese!

Fried strawberry deliciousness

Nate talked the singer dude into letting Craig sing a song for everyone.
Nice job, Craig!

There was a giant motorcycle outside the restaurant that sits on top of a fountain and spins in a
circle.  Nate and Law got on for a ride, and then security drove up and we all took off running.
It was awesome.

I smoked my first cigar.  It was not awesome.

I love you, man.

Back to Danny’s for a few cocktails and some good old fashioned arm wrestling.
And then we headed back to the hotel to ambush JP for the second night in a row.
Because we are all 12 years old.

The next day we spent another 7 hours brainstorming (I had to lay on the conference room floor the whole time because my back felt like it was going to fall off).  And then our fearless leader capped off the retreat with an arm wrestling match.

THE END.

So that’s what I’ve been up to guys and gals: masterminding with my pals in the Flip VIPs, peeing my pants laughing, ambushing JP Moses (twice), watching arm wrestling competitions, and being crippled.

Good times.

Well, except for the crippled part.  Being crippled sucks the big one.

10-4 over and out.

P.S.
Anybody have a jar of vicodin I can “borrow”?

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Flip This Book Club is meeting here this Thursday @ 8pm EST.  Shae Bynes will be reviewing this month’s book- Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill.  See you then!

So, I have another Reader Mail video for you guys.

This week’s question comes from Jacob, who wants to know if I actually go out and look at every single REO property that I make an offer on… (The short answer, for those who don’t feel like watching the video is: NO.  But most of the time I do).

To get the extended version of my answer, please enjoy the video below…

If you have any questions about the video, feel free to ask away down yonder in the comments.

Oh, and because I know you’ve all been staying up at night wondering how my new retro ‘do turned out (and also because I wanted an excuse to wear a pink boa and pretend like I was auditioning for America’s Next Top Model), I took some pictures for y’all.

Here’s the pic I brought in to my hair cutter lady, in case you forgot:

And here’s a pic of my new ‘do…. (I don’t look this orange-y in real life, btw)…

And the one where I look like I’m about to cut someone. Tyra would be proud, I bet.

Hehe.

OK, that’s all I’ve got for now.

Gotta run- it’s time to make the doughnuts!

10-4, over and out…

P.S.
My attempt at running 88 miles this month has been temporarily thwarted by an unfortunate flip flop related accident that happened over the weekend. My back is a little hurty at the moment, but hopefully it will get better soon.

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For those of you who weren’t able to get in on the Red Pill course when it came out earlier in the year, it’s going to be available again next week. I’m on my 3rd time through the course as of right now, and all I can say is that it totally kicks ass.

How’s that for a product review?

You can get the first 50 minute module for free by clicking here.

Listen to it and let me know what you think.