I tell you I am so sick of the attitude of doom and gloom. I have seen it in me and others, that I am fighting mad! You have had it, your friend’s have had it, I have had it and that’s just about enough of it! Enough pessimism, enough down and out in the mouthism. We have to begin to turn this large boat around. One of the leaders of the banking industry said a month ago “real estate is like a large aircraft carrier, slow to start, slow to stop, and slow to turn around.” I agree. But to turn this market or ship around we need to begin now to look and find the right opportunities. Because the market will rise and level out again. Brighter days will come, and easier deals will fall upon us. In the meantime the bright side is we are becoming wiser, stronger, and more knowledgeable of our crafts. We will have had the hard knocks under our belts, have learned from it, and picked ourselves up.

Great ambitions, dreams, hopes, occasionally blood, sweat, and tears are what it takes to change our circumstances. Everything I know that is great, has come with great sacrifice of some kind or another.

I have seen a number of investors flee from the Vegas area, I bet your seeing it in your areas. Those of us hanging in there… trust me will be more wise, seasoned, and learned in our crafts.

I mean really, you tell me does it begin with our attitude or not? I will answer that YES it does. Our mental thoughts have to begin to change, as a individual, a city, a state, a country to see a change in our markets and economies. Some will change more than others, some will change quicker than others but good God man lets give it a run for its money. I know I have had enough.

I am going to start each day with what I CAN do versus what I can’t. I will no longer sit and look at the market as if it dictates my success that day or not. That’s hogwash, and I know it. I happen to be christian so that helps having the “God piece” as well. But even he gives me free choice to sit in my stuff which is brown, warm, and familiar looking, but its still stuff. If you know what I mean. I think we need to be more aggressive or at least more assertive, and not passive. We need to look for reason why things CAN be done versus reasons it cant be done, (I can do this for weeks and not even know I am doing it) jeez, left too my own human nature I can easily find reasons why it cant be done right? Its so much easier to sit back and do nothing.

It takes a new vigor and vim new attitude to change me, shake me up, wake me up do something even if its wrong! I, we are not making any progress or learning if we are not making mistakes. This I know.

So let me know, post some stuff on here, let us know your the level of frustration, you can post anonymously it helps to get it all out and vent, share that frustration like never before, then share the next day what your doing about it! If not keep sharing until its all on the table. It was once said, “when I am transparent with you, then I can see out” Even if it’s the smallest thing, the slightest step of change in the right direction share it here. It’s the tiniest steps that make up the journey of miles.

So I am making a prediction, and i will figure out a way to measure it, but the prediction is that the market will stop declining, stabilize and start to climb by end of next year. I feel it will begin to stop dropping May 2008. What if I am wrong, then I am wrong, we keep pressing on. No we must find a way to fix it to keep our heads up, find ways to keep our businesses going.

Some of you I know have lost houses, businesses, drastically even families with divorce do to the financial pressure. If you need to cut back, grab the reins now and cut back. Get aggressive slow the bleeding and in time those positive mental activities and gymnastics’s will help you to stop the bleeding. What am finding is that I have to change my thinking back to how it use to be. Look at what I can do. Case in point, I remember before i did my first deal as an investor. I was getting lots of calls from folks to sell, I had all the right tools instruments, contracts, etc to close the deal, but i could not, to save my soul i could not.

I did not get it, I would be so damn mad, frustrated, that I got the attitude that I would become an investor if it killed and I meant it, I just got angry and mad with myself and the situation. What was it, why couldn’t I do it? I watched others around me doing it. Finally I realized…I kept looking at the each deal and why it could not work versus why it COULD work. Well hallelujah, the dam broke, and I did many many houses. That was living proof to me that success starts with a positive attitude. Finding out what is good in our morning. What is good about our spouse. What is good about our deal. What is good about our market. What is good about our life. What’s good about yours this hour? If nothing right now, then type that too.

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