Let me tell you a story.

You get used to how many miles you can put on a tank of gas, don’t you?

The thing is that sometimes the terrain or the effort it takes to get there is more strenuous or more difficult than normal, and when that happens, you can burn through your fuel faster than you think.

That’s exactly what happened to me on our giant coast-to-coast road trip when we went through Death Valley.

Now, it’s Death Valley, so I knew to be quite a bit extra careful of what the fuel consumption was going to be. It’s not like there’s a gas station every mile.

I was conscious of that, therefore when you saw a gas station, you don’t hesitate to fill up, you just fill up because you never know.

What was interesting though, is even with this in mind, as it was getting late at the end of the day, and dark, and we came out the back end of the park, and that’s when there wound up being all the vertical gain.

And then vertical loss.

And then more vertical gain and more vertical loss.

You went up a mountain and down the other side, and then up and down again, and again…

All that altitude gain is quite difficult on the engine and causes a lot more fuel consumption than normal.

And certainly more than planned.

And what you wind up having happen, is that you burn through your fuel faster than normal because it was a more difficult than normal ride.

You start to worry that you won’t actually make it to the next station. That’ll the car will quit and give up on you and leave you stranded.

Now doesn’t that exact same thing happen a lot of times in real estate investing?
Or when building your entrepreneurial business?

Sometimes it just takes a little more effort, and that same tank of gas won’t get you quite as far.

You have to pay attention to that, because what you don’t want to have happen is that you don’t want to run out of fuel, particularly before you’ve managed to get to the end of your first deal.

I see that happen a lot of times with new investors.

They want it to all happen so fast.
They want it to happen overnight.
They want it to happen like magic.
They want it to happen with “push button” simplicity like they’re told by all the people online and all the fake so-called gurus on Facebook.

They just want it to happen absolutely quick — and absurdly easy.

But, quite frankly, it just never works out that way.

Sometimes it’s just gonna take a little more effort than you had planned.

And you need to be really patient with your burn rate on that first tank.

There’s a BIG lesson in that.

(yes, go over that section again about patience)

* It’s a lesson about perseverance.
* A lesson about planning ahead
* A lesson about accepting that you’re gonna have to put in some effort and things might be more strenuous at the beginning than they are later on.

But you gotta push through that strenuous period to be able to get to the easier part.

Yes, everyone wants the toys, and the lifestyle, and the money, and the awesomeness up-front, but what they always fail to miss is that it’s NOT an overnight success for successful people.

They always fail to miss that it takes time, and that you have to get through that difficult period of driving up and down through the peaks and valleys of your business “Death Valley”, which is going to burn a lot more fuel (your energy) than you think, and you need to be prepared for that going in when you get started.

This is exactly what I prepare my students for in my Total Traction program.

I’m opening up the next round of enrollment for this training.

It just might get you all the way though to that needed fuel stop.

If you want in, click reply and say “Tell me more”.

Tom Zeeb
Traction Real Estate Mentors