The Years Just Begun…and would you believe that a lot of people have already forgotten about their resolutions for the new year?? Hopefully you’ve already deliberately planned out how your going to achieve your success in 2008. If not, you better get on it. 1/12th of the year is almost gone already!

If you’re looking back on 2007 and unsure of where the year went, and your bank account isn’t where you want it to be, I can almost guarantee there were two major deficiencies: ONE, Lack of Purposeful Planning to take deliberate steps to reach your business and personal goals. TWO, following your plan in a calculated manner each & every day until you hit your goals.

Most entrepreneurs start out each year gung-ho to plan their huge successes writing out what they want and how they’re going to get it. For many, the problem is that it begins AND ENDS right there. There is no follow through. Let’s face it, we’ve all been guilty of it.

Not that you don’t have any intention of following your plan - most start out strong, and stay really focused…at first. By the 3rd or 4th week of January your focus has waned a little bit & by mid-February you may have even forgotten where you even put your plan that you spent so much time writing out. Why does this happen to us?

Its’ really quite simple.

First, our plan may be realistic, however it’s not deliberate. What I mean by this is we haven’t taken the extra time to break down each step into the smaller steps that we must focus on each month, week, day & even minute in order to achieve our goals.

Take a look at last year’s plan (if you can find it). When you wrote it out, did you start by saying, “I want to make $240,000 this year. That’s $20,000 per month, $5,000 per week. I need to sell “x” number of widgets per month, & I’ll hit my goal”? Or, did you look at what you wanted to make for the year, break it down into smaller increments & then take the time to plan out every single action and marketing step you would need to take each & every day, each & every week for the entire year?

Take a look at it and compare to your end results for 2007, and in a couple of days, I’ll post part 2 of this article and I’ll outline 4 Simple Steps for Maximum Success in 2008.

Until next time,

Adam

P.S. Kick your start your year now. Get a Pre-Approval letter for funding to make sure you beat your competition when making offers. You can get it here now: www.WeFundHouses.com

One of the big things for Adam and I when we created www.wefundhouses.com was that we really wanted to help people be successful in their real estate investments.  Obviously, we wanted to help them get funded when they had hard money needs, but another big piece of the puzzle is useful resources for investors.  Whether you are a first timer, or an experienced veteran of investing, good resources are invaluable to your success.

When we find helpful information, we aren’t going to keep it a secret, we are going to share it!!  In our profit vault section of the site are lots of sites that you may find useful.

For example, there are several organizations in Dallas that are focused on helpful information, classes, and networking opportunities for Real Estate Investors in D/FW.  Two of those organizations are D/FW REIN and AIREO.  Both are great places, to find ways to be more profitable in your real estate investing right now! 

Our profit vault section has those sites and more listed, and we are always adding to it whenever we find sites that can help our clients get ahead.  You can go directly to that part of our site here  Profit Vault.

We hope you find those helpful, and we are looking forward to a prosperous 2008!

Best,

John

The Dallas Morning News had a report yesterday from Mortage Insurance firm PMI Group, that found that the D/FW housing market was one of the least likely in the country to see a decrease in home values.  If you would like to see the full article you can find it here DFW Home Prices Least Likely to Drop

 John

Roy Cotton was the lucky winner of the We Fund Houses iPhone Giveaway at the December DFW REIN meeting this month. Here’s a picture of Roy just after he got his new phone. If you want your chance at a new iPhone its not too late. Any deal submitted and funded in December at We Fund Houses gets an iPhone too, so get your applications in today!

We are running a promotion for the month of December over at www.WeFundHouses.com 

Anyone who submits an Application For Funding after December 1st that closes and funds before December 31st will receive a new iPhone!!  Its just that simple.  Here’s your chance to own one of the hottest products of 2007!  We will run more promotions in 2008, but I don’t know if they will be this crazy in the future, so apply today.

- John