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Analyze yourself… do you want some help from a professional with regards to investment property? Are you afraid of loosing money in your property investments? Do you need some guidance in the real estate business? You should probably attend an investment property seminar especially if you said yes to one or more of those questions.

Information on investment property seminars

The only difference between an investment property seminar and other seminars is the fact that investment property seminars are about property investments. The advantages of attending an investment property seminar are numerous. The first one and the most important would be the fact that you learn reliable and precious information on property investments. And more, it is all with no fee. An investment property seminar will also provide you with information on the real estate market, property investments, tax laws, property appreciation or depreciation. This will be a great chance for you to learn more about the process: how you get pre-approved, what type of low-down loan product to choose, and finding the home. Also, one of the many advantages of an investment property seminar is that this is the best place to find new business associates or even possible clients for your rental properties.

Professionals involved in investment property seminars

There are specialized university teachers, or property investment managers that will lead the seminars and share with you their experience. Also, sometimes, there are very popular persons that have experience in this domain and who come to teach others some of their secrets. So, an investment property seminar will be held by specialists in real estate, and you will have plenty to learn.

The property investment ladder hierarchy

You can advance in property investment by attending these seminars. You will find potential clients property investment company managers and real estate investors who themselves are looking to network and create new business deals. Among the advantages of attending an investment property seminar there is the fact that you don’t have to attend a seminar each time one takes place. Nobody has to pay a fee to attend these seminars.

Things to watch out for

Be careful to research the property investment seminar before buying tickets, many times these “educational” events turn out to be simply selling events for investment properties in far away places and the worst part is consumers have no idea of the true market value of the property. Doing your research on the seminar company or speakers will also help you weed out poor quality presenters and many times you’ll discover that the promoters have relationships with property development firms. Also make sure the seminar has a clear refund policy if you are not happy with the content.

“This being human is a guest-house
Every morning a new arrival.”

– From: Say I Am You, Poems of Rumi
Translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks

I turned around in my kitchen and walked into the open dishwasher, cracking my shin on the edge of the door. Ouch!#@%*! Pain went through my body, and my anger barometer zoomed from zero to one hundred in about two seconds. It was all I could do to keep from kicking the door. Good thing – the pent up energy in my body would have torn the door off its hinges. But I caught myself and made some better choices. I quickly put ice and arnica on my shin, drank a glass of water, and took a few deep breaths. The barometer began to drop. I still hurt, but I hadn’t done any damage.

Practicing aikido on the mat, I learn to first manage myself so that I can better manage the attacker. I center and extend ki (energy, life force) in order to blend with the attacker’s power and direct it toward a positive outcome. Off the mat, I can do the same. In the face-off with my dishwasher, a huge emotional attack threatened. How could I blend with that?

Emotional Intelligence (EI) – a phrase made famous by Daniel Goleman, author of many books on the subject – begins with self-awareness and self-management. Goleman writes that in high emotional states, we often get “hijacked” by the power of our feelings, but we can learn to catch ourselves and direct our emotions before they direct us. Research shows that EI can be learned and that those with high EI receive higher salaries and manage teams that regularly exceed their objectives.

When you are intentional with your emotional energy, you increase your EI, improve interpersonal interactions, and lead a happier life. Here are some thoughts that might help:

Notice, acknowledge, and honor your emotions. “Wow! I’m pretty upset. Where is this upset coming from, and what do I want to do about it?”

Breathe and Center yourself. Put a moment of awareness between the event and your action. Give yourself time to notice your emotional energy and decide what to do with it.

Act Purposefully. Putting ice and arnica on my wound aligned with my purpose. Kicking the dishwasher did not.

Emotions happen. And we can make choices about how we manage them. By gaining awareness in the heat of the moment, you will become more practiced at managing all of your emotional energy with intention and purpose.

You’d have to brain dead to “listen up,” when the human brain retains less than 5% of what a person hears in any talk. It’s true. Lectures actually work against your brain. Yet in every lecture hall, and in every hard seat, you find people sitting up bolt straight, feigning interest for the sake of some speaker. Wait a minute … how then have lectures and talks stuck around since Plato, if they work against a person’s brain? Good question, and the answer is finally here.

Talking benefits and motivates the speaker, not the listener!

How so? Whenever speakers talk to teach anything, those speakers fire up many intelligences for aha moments. Here’s the clincher though – speakers retain 90% of what they teach. Compare that high-stake return with the less than 5% retention for the poor schmuck bolt upright in a hard seat. Do the math and answer becomes clear. Talking sticks around because it benefits talkers everywhere, and speaker motivation for the lecture is more than enough to keep words flying in your direction and mine.

Still feeling the need to lecture? If so, why not tell your speech to the cat, and still get the 90% retention benefit. Kitty loves the attention, you get the spike to your brain, and unsuspecting listeners get spared a bunch more wasted words.

So how then do we teach anything without talking?

Tomorrow I am invited to give a breakfast talk to a Rotary group. The Title of my talk is … “How could a brain ever benefit from a talk like this?” And I’ll engage many of their multiple intelligences in this way.

1. I’ll offer a brief introduction for under two minutes and throw in a joke to release enzymes for learning. Then I’ll ask my question … “What was the best talk you’ve ever heard and why?” Since there are too many to hear all the answers, I’ll have them swap stories with the person to their right, and then hear a few after 3 minutes.

2. Next I’ll play the song, “I believe I can fly,” and ask Rotarians to come up with one question each about how their brains could reboot to help them fly in a new way? I’ll invite them to reflect on one thing that holds them back, and to jot their question down on a piece of paper, during the song.

3. Then my PowerPoint will generate interactive discussion. With each of five slides, I will motivate participants to apply brain based ideas to their day, in ways that answer a few of their questions… Remaining questions that come in, I will answer in future blogs here at Brain Boomer. That way we can all enjoy the great questions and interactions, I suspect will emerge.

a. Nightly your brain rewires based on questions you ask and things you do that day
b. Target a new adventure for the day and you strengthen your working memory
c. Expect serotonin not cortisol to move your day forward
d. Move multiple intelligences into action to grow neuron pathways for your brain
e. Reflect on new solutions to a problem, laugh at yourself, and play with ideas

Nuff said. My time is up … the breakfast meeting is over … I talked less … and hopefully my audience will feel inspired by the many intelligences they engaged, to try out a few brain based ideas, in ways that benefit their day. I that happens, because Rotarians are the best and they deserve the best! Any ideas to make my talk better

When I moved into a management position in the male-dominated construction industry, some so-called friends asked me, “Doesn’t it feel weird being the only woman in management?” Other asked such questions like, “Do you have to dress butch?” or “What happens if they don’t agree with you?” and “Are you tough enough to put up with the crap that comes with the position?”

Yikes! And these people called themselves my friends! It’s true, their comments could have taken me out of the game, or made me question myself and my capabilities. But I knew a Secret. I knew how to take control of my own thoughts and feelings and remain unaffected by their small thinking. And I know these techniques work. I was able to cut away the thoughts and feelings that were of no benefit to me or my growing success. I focused on what works. These techniques were instrumental in my reaching the position of owner of a $20 million construction company.

And, I didn’t get there because of my education or experience or “connections.” I arrived there because I know something that you don’t. I know when to stop believing, thinking, doing and feeling what isn’t true!

Are Your Friends Lame?

You say you want to achieve great things, accomplish more, and be #1 in your field. Let me ask you a question. What is holding you back? Take a look around. What do you see in your friends and in the people who surround you? Are they successful or struggling, divorced or married, happy or unhappy?
Now take a good look at yourself. I’m willing to bet there are some similarities. Chances are, you are surrounded by people who are just like you. Am I right?

Well, it’s true. When you surround yourself with people who are living beneath their potential, are unhappy and unsuccessful, chances are… you will be, too. Imagine what you could accomplish if you were surrounded by people you admire, friends who support your goals and are mentors to your success.
What Kind of B.S. Are Your Friends Feeding You?

I’m not advising you to cut all ties with your lifelong friends or disown your family members. I’m just telling you to recognize the B.S. when you see it, and guard yourself against negative associations. The point is for you to seek out individuals who you can trust to advise you in the right way, and cut away the rest (with a smile, of course!).

Stop drinking the Kool-Aid that others are handing out! The first step is to become the boss of YOU. Even though everyone else thinks it is their job to be your boss, I’ve got news for you… it’s not! Take control, stop giving it away! You are the director of your life.

This means taking control of your thoughts, beliefs and feelings about your money, relationships, career, etc. Every self-sabotaging belief, every well-meaning (but crappy) piece of advice, every dream-squashing experience has to go.

Live YOUR Truth and No One Else’s

I teach my clients to harness the power of the unconscious mind. That’s because the logical mind, when teamed up with your creative mind, can accelerate your innovation and success big time. When you learn (and believe) that anything is possible that any goal is achievable. You dramatically shift your beliefs from ordinary to extraordinary. You no longer want to be “Top 10 good.” You want that #1 spot. You begin to recognize greatness in others and crave their company and influence. You have a clean slate to re-write how you live your life.

Try these simple steps;

1. Seek out people you admire and who can support your goals and be mentors to your success.
2. Stop believing, thinking, doing and feeling what isn’t true.
3. Adopt this mantra: “Anything is possible and any goal achievable.”

Now is the time to start chipping away what’s weighing you down and dulling your progress, whether it’s a well-meaning friend or a negative self-belief. With the weight lifted, will have the confidence, clarity and focus to accelerate your success.

It’s an unfortunate fact of life (and business). Out of the blue you get a nasty email from someone. Sometimes it’s about an article you’ve written. Sometimes it’s accompanied by a refund request. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like it’s tied to anything at all.

Or maybe you discover someone writing malicious things about you on a blog or a forum. Or maybe some other negative things suddenly start getting tweeted or posted to Facebook about you, your products or your business.

Stuff happens. As a business owner and entrepreneur, the more successful you become, the more you open yourself up to criticism, negative feedback or just plain being attacked.

As someone who is both a writer AND a business owner, I know all about what happens when you’re dealing with unwelcome criticism. (I write fiction so yes, I’ve dealt with my share of negative feedback.) But if this is something new for you, or even if it’s not new but you’re feeling like you’ve just been sucker-punched by something out of the blue, I thought I’d share a few insights to help you get through it.

1. Know you’re not alone. We’ve ALL been there. And I mean exactly that. It doesn’t matter how small or big your business is, stuff like this is going to happen. So know that no matter what just happened to you, there are a lot of entrepreneurs and business owners out there who will both sympathize and emphasize.

2. See it for what it is. All criticism is not created equally. Sometimes what someone is saying has absolutely nothing to do with you and everything to do with their own issues. Sometimes they have a legitimate complaint but the person is so unhappy with their own life they blow it completely out of portion because they just want to strike out at someone and you’re the one they picked.

And sometimes they have a legitimate beef AND they handled it fine, but you just didn’t want to hear it. An example of this is some of the criticism I’ve gotten from some of my stories. The people were thoughtful and absolutely right. And I hated them. (Until I got over myself and slunk back to the keyboard to make the edits.)

Now the third option doesn’t happen too often (unless you’re a fiction writer) but the first two do. You just have to see it for what it is. If there’s something buried in the anger and name-calling you can use to improve your products,business services or , by all means use it. But know the rest of it has absolutely nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

(And you’ll know when the criticism is right. Trust me. Your gut will tell you.)

3. Be kind to yourself. When these things happen, it can hurt. And that’s okay. Call a friend. Or better yet, your mother (if you can). Write about it in your journal. Take a walk. Don’t bury your feelings, let yourself feel bad and then let it go. Don’t tell yourself it doesn’t matter and let it fester inside you, deal with it. Get it out of you. And then let it go.

4. Let someone else deal with these things. Whenever possible, have someone else in your business be a filter for stuff like this. Let other people take care of refund requests or just read the nasty emails and they can decide if there’s a legitimate complaint buried in there or not. Protect yourself, there’s no need for you to see everything or deal with everything. Yes you’ll have to step in if something big happens, but let other people take care of the small stuff. The small stuff is what wears you down anyway. Save yourself for the big things and don’t worry about the rest.