You had masses of success in your past corporate life. Have learnt an abundance of skills all of which were transferable into real estate. You took the plunge and went out alone as a new real estate agent. Applied those skills and began to see success follow you into this industry. Yet for some reason, you have this nagging sense that you’re not as successful as you could be. You can’t quite put your finger on it. Yet you know something is stopping you from taking it to the next level.
Have you ever stopped to think. Perhaps the habits you have created for your success to date could be the exact same habits that are now holding you back from taking your real estate business to that next level?
Previous Success Can Shape Your Future (but not as you hoped)
Are you feeling a little stuck?
Have you began to look back over 2020 and feel like your not where you had really hoped to be?
Do you find yourself comparing your success from a previous career to your success in real estate? Does feel it comes up lacks?
Achieving success is great for your self esteem. It helps create more confidence in your abilities. Yet as those successes mount, the positive effects of that success gives way. You begin to shape the belief that you hold more credit than you may have done in achieving these.
Applying value to your actions much higher than is true in reality. Thus you change your behaviour in a lot of ways. Which can ultimately set you up for failure instead of success.
It is this change in your behaviour that fuels the habits. Habits that once served you well in obtaining the success. Now stand in your way from taking it to the next level.
In short You Risk Becoming Over Confident.
The strange thing with success is that while it creates a positive experience initially. Over time you alter your behaviour in order to protect it.
Winning at all costs becomes the focus. You spend time planning long term goals and lose sight of the here and now. When in truth, the present moment is the best place for you to start. By begin obsessed with achieving those big goals. You are in fact feeding the bad habits. Habits that will lead you further and further away from taking it to the next level.
To understand if your past successes are having a negative effect on your real estate success. You must begin to uncover some of those underlying beliefs. Once undercover, you can make the changes needed to free you so that you can move on.
To use the phrase coined by Daniel Goldsmith. “ what got you here, won’t get you there”
Whilst you may have a strategy that has proven successful in the past. It is possible that that same strategy is what is now standing in your way.
Through altering your behaviour in order to protect your success. You begin to take the view that you need to win at all costs regardless of the situation. In a sense, to prove not only to others but also yourself that you are still successful. Showing you have what it takes to continue growing that success going forwards.
The first thing in correcting your course so that you experience real success in your real estate business. Is to create self awareness around the destructive habit patterns you have created.
Begin recognising. How these play out for you and how they are holding you back from where you really want to be.
Only then will it become possible. To create and take the conscious actions that will release you from the past successes that are holding you back. Freeing you and setting you on the path to finding the true success you deserve in real estate.
