Real Estate Investors: Overcoming Fear (Beginning With A Vision)

Typically I write "how to" articles about real estate investing - particularly flipping homes.

Today is a little different. I have something important on my heart to share with you, and I hope you'll take a few moments to take it in.

For years I've wanted to write something about overcoming fear. And for years, I haven't had a clue what to write.

But today, as I was doing my daily devotion, it hit me like a brick on the side of the head. The Lord put it on my heart to immediately stop and begin writing - right then and there!

Fear. It's a big word. Fear is about control, or lack thereof. Fear can motivate you. It can drive you, distract you, petrify you, and ultimately completely control you, if you allow it to.

There are more than a few interesting facts about fear. I believe one of them is that FEAR is the number one reason most people walking the face of this earth will choose to settle for a life of mediocrity.

For many, it is an insurmountable obstacle, with too many risks to even try to escape. The masses of society live through each day-to-day voluntarily bound up by the fear that enslaves them.

My experience in this life so far has taught me that most people are secretly disappointed with the lives that they live, but rarely, if ever, will admit it.

They measure themselves up against others and, in doing so, sink lower and lower into a dangerous pit. They look around and find someone not doing as well as they are (or not seeming to), and somehow, seeing them makes their own situation seem all right, even though they're still living in fear. The dominating vision I see so many people having created is to be just a little better than someone else.