Are you doing 10 deals a year and want to start doing 20, 50, or even 100 deals or more per year.  In this episode we explore how you can make a quantum leap in your real estate career.  Before you start down this path, you need to ask yourself a few questions.

Mike’s Top 7 Real Estate Mindset Changes

Here are seven real estate mindset changes you are going to need to be willing to make if you want to see your sales career explode.

1. How far are you willing to go?
2. Are you willing to practice like a professional?
3. Are you willing to give up the Sunday bar-b-cue?
4. Taking risks is going to be necessary
5. You need to be coachable
6. Are you willing to change your ways
7. Are you willing to put you and your family first?

Practice Makes Perfect

Scripts and dialogues will help you handle rejection.  You need to internalize them.  They become part of your mind, body, and soul.

You can practice in the mirror or in your car.  But to take your game to the next level you’ll need to find a practice partner and roll play.

What Are You Willing To Give Up

Are you willing to give up sleep?  If you want sleep more than you want to succeed, you won’t be successful.

Are you willing to give up expensive hobbies?  You need to be willing to trade your boat (or horses, or whatever) for investing in yourself.  Go on that mindset retreat.  Record those videos.  Place those Facebook ads.  You need to be willing to sacrifice short term satisfaction for long term gains.

Are you willing to leave your company?  If your brokerage isn’t adding value to your business, you need to be willing to move to a brokerage that will add value.

Successful People Are Willing to Take Risk

You need to spend money.  And spend your money on the right things.

Too many agents spend 100% of their commissions on themselves.  If you want to make a quantum leap in your business you need to invest some of those dollars (and maybe even an uncomfortable amount of those dollars) in your business.

Successful People Are Willing to Ignore the Negative

When you make changes in your own life, you shine a light on those around you.  That light can cause jealousy and envy.

People you thought were your friends might turn against you.  Not because they don’t like you.  But because you’re making them see themselves in an uncomfortable light.

Be Honest With Yourself

Do you come home and say, “I’m exhausted!”?  But on reflection you know that you didn’t do half of what you could have, or should have, done today.

If you were going to prospect an hour each day.  And you only got a ½-hour in today.  Then you owe 1½-hours of prospecting tomorrow.

Hold yourself accountable.  Because no one else is going to do it for you.

Get an accountability partner.  They don’t need to be in the same industry.  But they do need to be available to you.  Especially when you are just starting to make a change.

Any of the “Anonymous” groups have daily accountability built in.  And when you’re trying to form a new habitat of success you too need daily accountability.

Be Transparent

Never lie, never blow smoke, never guess, and never hide anything.  From yourself, your family, or your clients.

When you’re making these kinds of changes you need to be upfront and honest with your family.  You may not have the money for vacations or a new car.  You might miss out on family dinner, or a child’s sports game, because you’re committing to exploding your business.

Set those expectations up front.  Because these changes can be life affirming, or life damaging.

Be Accountable

If you lost a deal to a competitor, it wasn’t because the client was “stupid.”  What did you not do, that your competitor did do, that enabled them to close the deal.

Be 100% responsible for each of your outcomes.  Things don’t happen to you, they happen because of you.

Be Willing to Compete All Out

You don’t have to be angry, mean, or vicious.  But if you legitimately care about your clients, and you want them to make the best decision possible, then they deserve to work with you exclusively.

Other agents are not, or will not, do the things necessary to help those clients.  You need to be willing to adopt the mindset that you will do everything in your power to help those clients.

Also Mentioned In This Episode

• Next Level Training
• Toastmasters
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• Shane Pendley
• Lisa Ristow
• Vince Arcuri