Trends and fads can be very lucrative to anyone looking to make money, especially if you get in front of them before the masses catch on. Yet so many people miss the opportunities to capitalize, and once missed people often find themselves at the starting point looking for the next “great opportunity” all over again. Usually the time to buy into that good company with a great product, is way before CNBC reports it!

The whole world is in search of the next big trend. People are constantly following the wagon, instead of driving their own. Build your confidence and become the next sought after trend everyone including yourself is in search of! Become the commodity, new invention, hot stock pick, and huge payday, you greatly desire.

When you hear of the success of another person, it’s not a green light for you to follow them and abandon your ship. What are your visions? Your visions aren’t for anyone else, just as someone’s vision is not for you. Just because you know of someone who is having a lot of success in a particular field it doesn’t mean you will perform the same. We all love the idea of working a business with other people sharing in the same vision, but it rarely happens that way. People rarely pioneer, yet love to follow. You have to look inside, belief in yourself, then people will follow you.

If I have friends that are very successful in real estate does that mean the same will happen for me? It could be a great indicator that I will get some insight on how to get things done, yet it doesn’t mean I will perform the same as my peers. Everything is not meant for you! You weren’t made to become the second person to reach the top of Mt.Everest, you were made the to be the first person who __________________ (fill in your blank). Even if the closest people to you don’t support your vision, forget them. Look inside, build your confidence, and set off on your journey.

Everything worth having is worth working for! The journey to success starts with one step at a time. There will be a lot of endless nights and stressful days. Hunger pains and headaches. Days of doubt and nights of frustration. But continue to push forward until you get a breakthrough. The road isn’t easier, yet its much more fulfilling!

Action: Stay away from get rich quick ideas. Your big break is within you!

Are you listening to that small voice inside, or are you conforming to what the world believes you should be? Do you come up with excuses or results? Are you reading this as something to read, or are you looking for the seed of change within it’s message?
We all get signs, instructions and directions along the highways of life, are you using them? There is a course that has already been predestined for your life, are you following your plan? People try to dress up their exterior, join social clubs, abuse alcohol and drugs, all to avoid themselves. Are you one of them? We live in a world where people take on an identity instead of discovering their own identity!

People are wearing uniforms! Conforming, blending in, without any unique distinction. Your next door neighbors were to afraid to explore themselves, afraid to step out on faith, afraid to follow his/her directions, afraid to live… so they settled!!! Settled for what… one vacation a year with a 30 year fixed mortgage and bills until their number is called? That’s not life! No wonder there are so many diseases, and miserable people. The life as a conformist is unfulfillable!

Hoping their kids will do better. All to have the cycle repeated. Change starts with you! Stop trying to pass the baton without you running your leg first! Most parents live in the fairly tale world “Hopefully my kids won’t have to struggle the way I did”. Well it first starts with you, it’s what you live that is instilled in a child, not what you say! Don’t hope your child will do better, become your child’s greatest example. Live a life of confidence, take risk, speak up, live by faith, don’t socialize with the naysayers, take action, make goals for your kids to see, live by integrity, persist, persevere, strive, and grow. Encourage your child to pick his/her own clothes, by you removing your uniform.

Your uniform isn’t in the clothes, it’s in the mind!

Action: Discover your identity! YES! It takes a lot of energy and time, aren’t you worth it?