You Must Stay In the Game
The week before last I was really flying high due to all the business related activities I had going on. I had so many deals working that looked promising that I truly couldn’t believe it, because it just seemed too good to be true.
First off I had a piece of real estate property that I helped an investor acquire; the property was absolutely beautiful, the price was great and the seller was all set to go through with the deal. Contracts had been exchanged and a closing date was all set.
The deal looked like a surefire bet and I was already thinking about how I was going to spend my consulting fees from the deal! Then on top of that I had another property that was looking like it should sell.
You see one of the real estate investors that I’ve been working with on a lot of projects had a property that they were trying to liquidate on the west coast, so they offered me the opportunity to help them market the property and accumulate qualified leads.
So that is what I did and we received an excellent response from buyers. One lady was all set to go through with the deal, so once again I was thinking about how I was going to spend my bonus!
Then with my cleaning business my partner and I had a deal working that was beginning to look solid. We were about to acquire a contract that offered a good revenue stream to our business and didn’t have very demanding terms.
Once again I just knew the deal would go through and I was thinking about how I was going to re-invest my half of the monthly contract check! However I would have to put all my big time spending plans on hold suddenly.
A long story short, both the property deals fell through: one because the lady found something else she liked and the other because the property owner’s “secret” business partner which we knew nothing about, wanted out of the deal.
The cleaning contract we were about to get fell through because the old company who “supposedly” was no longer interested in the building due to conflicts with the office managers worked out all their differences and received a contract extension.
My Dad told me there would be days like this and I’ve experienced them before, but boy do they hurt! To go from having three deals that seem sold up to going to nothing back to square one isn’t the greatest motivator I can think of.
However after this happened I went right back to work even harder trying to accumulate deals to put together. I realized that I had to get back out there and try to make something happen again!
To all my fellow young and aspiring entrepreneurs, don’t get upset when business dealings don’t go your way,
Just get back in the game
I can promise you sooner or later things will fall into place in a big time way!
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December 7th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
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William
December 8th, 2006 at 1:05 am
artiatesiadeal,
I appreciate your comments concerning my piece. It’s definitely imperative to keep chugging away as a young entrepreneur, because you never really know what may happen, some days are up and others are beneath the ground.
It’s how you handle those down days that makes the difference between the successful entrepreneurs and the ones who don’t survive.
When I wrote that piece I was going through a lot business wise and just had several promising deals fall through all at once, so writing that article was very therapeutic for me and I’m glad that it might have helped someone else in the process.
I look forward to staying in contact with you and enjoying your writings here at artiatesiadeal.com and also discussing topics that affect young entrepreneurs over at mindpetals.com. Thanks a million!
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