Success pundits often point to the TV as the enemy but I don’t buy it. There’s no need to go out and take a baseball bat to the cathode ray tube unless perhaps you are in fact letting the television set get in the way of your success.

If the simple act of removing TV from your life would make you wealthy all by itself more people would probably do it but that’s not how it works. Sure, if you get off your duff and make productive use of the time formerly spent watching TV, you might become wealthy but there’s no guarantee on that and that’s also a BIG IF. We all know most people will just find another unproductive use for their time like useless Internet surfing or something like it.

On the other hand, too much TV can certainly block your road to success. Taking the whole bottle of prescription medicine in one day instead of taking one pill every morning as prescribed can kill you. Watching too much television won’t kill you as far as I know but it can kill your dreams of being successful.

What’s on TV tonight? I neither know nor care. I’ve got better things to do and I happen to be listening to a CD (Led Zeppelin). But if the Final Four was on tonight, what’s the difference between listening to a CD or listening to the TV? I would be doing something else constructive while not paying close attention to the game.

If you have a desire to make money on the Internet or in real estate investing and you spend more time watching television than you do learning how to make money then there are issues you must face. It’s time to ask yourself if you’re really serious or if you’re just saying that to make yourself feel better.

It’s perfectly acceptable to watch some TV from time to time but when you’re watching so much TV you don’t work toward achieving goals you’ve set, it’s time to make a decision. You’re letting the TV be the evil appliance success coaches love to hate. Maybe you should smash your TV and make more productive use of your time. But in the end that’s your choice.

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Years ago, I read “The Richest Man in Babylon.” It shares many great “Babylonian parables” about wealth. It’s a short book you could probably read in an hour or two and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. It’s full of proven wealth creation principles but there’s one in particular that resonated with me and that I always remember. It’s on the bottom of page 56 and it says:

“Men of action are favored by the Goddess of Good Luck.”

Women of action are most certainly favored by the Goddess of Good Luck too…a sexist I’m not. In any event, it’s not the God of Good Luck. It’s the Goddess of Good Luck and those are the words from the book.

The truth is that all the losers in the word will sit on their butts and whine about how unlucky they are. If they would just get of their seat and make an effort to improve their situation, they’d discover how wrong they are.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. And we are surrounded by opportunity…so much opportunity that it’s not possible to even take advantage of all the opportunity. But those who are not prepared to meet opportunity wouldn’t recognize it if it poked them in the eye so it’s not likely they’ll ever get “lucky.” They’ll just complain day after day as they watch others get “lucky” and unless they take action to prepare themselves to recognize opportunity that surrounds them, the cycle repeats itself until they die…probably broke.

All they really need to do is model successful people and they could achieve the same results. They could simply ask a successful person they know or they could read books at the local library about the lives of successful people and notice the commonalities. Both of these methods are free.

According to Woody Allen, half of success if just showing up. I think he’s right. A carpenter named Harrison Ford had a goal to become an actor and many might think his success is a bit “lucky.” The truth is that he is a man of action and as you know the Goddess of Good Luck favors men who take action. He wasn’t lounging around watching TV dreaming. He got off his butt and started hanging out at places where actors get hired. Not surprisingly he found work as an extra. That led to a bit part in American Graffiti which led to a starring role as Han Solo in Star Wars. The rest is history.

If you want to make money online and don’t even have a website, one has to wonder if you’re really serious. There’s no magic pill or potion. Success starts with a simple decision to take action. Sites like blogger.com and wordpress.com allow you to create a blog for free. And if you’d prefer to have your own personalized blog, you’ll be interested in the step-by-step videos at CreateBlog2Day.com

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If you’re using your money and/or your credit by real estate, you might want to reconsider. Ultimately it’s a personal decision. There is no absolute wrong or right but there is a right answer for YOU. But unless you have more money than the US Treasury, you’re eventually going to reach a point where you can’t buy any more real estate.

If you’re using your credit to take out mortgages to buy real estate, all these loans will be on your credit report and eventually lenders will refuse to loan you more money. It could happen after buying a few real estate investments or it could happen after buying dozens of houses but that day will eventually arrive.

Anyone who puts multiple mortgages in their name is risking their credit. What if something happens and you find it difficult to make timely mortgage payments one month? Lots of investors thought they’d never find themselves in that situation only to find a trashed house and missing tenant who obviously isn’t going to pay the rent. Many have earned their Ph. D. from the school of hard knocks and it’s not pretty. Are willing to risk that scenario?

Smart investors favor the practice of buying house “subject to” the existing financing. You’d be wrong if you thought there weren’t plenty of people near where you live who would be willing to have you solve their problem buy taking over the mortgage payments on their loans. Finding them isn’t all that difficult either. “Subject to” financing allows you to bypass the challenges of working with lenders and use the power of leverage using other people’s money (OPM) to build your real estate empire.

Buying houses “subject to” has many advantages but perhaps the best reason is that you’ll never even have to speak to a loan officer or have your credit checked. Learning to use creative real estate financing techniques has its advantages. Ultimately the financing methods you chose to use are a decision for each individual investor to make but if you want to learn how to buy real estate “subject to” along with many other creative techniques to find motivated sellers, make offers that get accepted, and sell the house quickly you’ll be interested in my Real Estate Investing Online Home Study Course.

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