Writing in this blog has been a true process of self-discovery for me. I’m finding out that the things I thought that I knew, I don’t know them at all. So many times (more often than not) the answers to our questions are hidden in close proximity to us. Let me give you an example.
I recently placed a property on the market. I sent a blast to my list and quite a few people responded to the email. As the calls begin to roll in I became frustrated by the calls that I was receiving. They went a little something like this;
Call #1 A guy calls me and tells me that he’s living in Frisco renting a town home. He then proceeds to tell me that he wants to remain in Frisco but he’s calling about a home that I am owner financing in Little Elm.
Call #2 A guy calls me and says that he drove by the property the night before and he’d like to see the inside of the house today. I instruct him to drive to the property and when he’s in front of the property to call me on my cell phone and I will give him the code so he can gain access. He calls me an hour later and I tell him how to get into the house and ask him to call me when he’s done viewing the property to give me his feedback. He calls me back about 20 minutes later and informs me of the location of his current residence and tells me how nice my property is. He then relates to me that my property is too far from his current residence and that he doesn’t want to have his children change schools.
Call #3 A lady emails me and tells me she really wants the property and asks me what the next step is in the process. She informs me that she gets social security and works for a day care center that pays her under the table. I reluctantly send her a buyer information form. She completes it and sends it back to me. She makes a total of $2,071 per month, single with three kids and has absolutely no money to put down. There’s nothing wrong with being single, making a couple grand a month and having three kids. However, my add stated that the monthly payment is $1,875 per month, the down payment for owner financing is $9,495 plus closing costs.
There were more but I will stop here. What’s the point you say? The point is that I could not figure out what was going on. I didn’t understand how I was attracting so many people who were not aligned with what I desired which was a buyer with the full down payment and closing costs and that could afford the down payment. This really bothered me and I was becoming agitated and frustrated.
Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m not sure what brought this into my awareness but it was quite illuminating. I realized that I was not getting what I desired, I was getting the ideas I held about others. I was uttering things such as the”dumbing down of America.” I was thinking about how ignorant and stupid people were. I just couldn’t believe that someone could read a simple ad and interpret it the way that I wanted them to. I was seeing in my mind the very people that I was attracting without ever realizing that I was doing so. In hindsight it makes perfect sense because it can be no other way.
Gary Zukav says in his book Seat of The Soul that “If you attend to the negative aspects of life, if you choose to focus your attention on the weaknesses of others, on their faults and shortcomings, you draw to yourself the lower-frequency energy currents of disdain, anger and hatred. You put yourself between yourself and others.”
Essentially because of my thoughts I was drawing to myself other low energy currents. Yes, thoughts do become things.
The movie Stand and Deliver is a good example of when you see and believe the best in others they will rise up to meet you there.
I’m changing how I see others and I will keep you updated on the progress and whether I sell the house.
That’s my spin on it.
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