How to Use Fear
to Your Advantage in
Real Estate Investng
by Julie Broad
Every single real estate investor out there has fears surrounding real estate investing.
For some folks, it's fear of darn near everything from picking the wrong market to working with a bad property
manager to losing every penny they invest on a bad deal. Others are terrified of a price drop. Other investors find
the thought of rustling up joint venture partners or private lenders more terrifying than running their street
naked and sober.
It doesn't matter what you're afraid of really. What matters is whether you let fear win in your life or
not. What matters is whether the person with big dreams gets to decide what to do or whether the
"little me" inside cripples you with fear.
Little me is what I have recently come to call that voice inside of myself that tries to talk me out
of something I want to do. I like calling it little me because it reminds me that it's little and I
am big. It also reminds me that little me tries to keep me living little when I really want to live
BIG!
Almost every day I have to spend some time battling with little me but over the past couple of years,
I have learned to use some pretty cool techniques to propel me forward instead of letting little
me hold me back.
But it wasn't always this way. At many times in my life, little me was in charge. When I entered
college, little me kept me from trying out for the volleyball team because I was afraid of being cut
from the team. I just let myself assume I wasn't tall enough and went to swim club instead - where there were no
cuts the first year.
Little me kept me from leaving my job for quite some time. I had all these reasons why it wasn't time
or I wasn't ready. I was scared because there was no guaranteed income if I left.
My little me kept me from creating a website for Rev N You for two full years after we started
writing the newsletter. I didn't know how to create a website. I was worried nobody but our friends and family
would ever read it because we wanted to talk about the good and the bad ... not just the good of investing in real
estate. And I was definitely concerned about being judged.
Hindsight has taught me an important lesson though - and that is the lesson I want to share with you today. It's
the lesson that has made me stronger and more confident than ever before and I hope it will help you make the same
change.
Looking back, I see that the very things that my big self was lying awake at night dreaming about, but that
my little me was fighting hard to keep me from doing, have been the very things that have made the
biggest and most positive impacts on my life.
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