{"id":11317,"date":"2010-02-16T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11317"},"modified":"2010-02-16T22:34:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T05:34:52","slug":"the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11317\/the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Thing We Have to Fear, is Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my late twenties, as a trader on the floor of the options exchange, I was a “Master of the Universe”.\u00a0 That’s a very common affliction down there.\u00a0 Apparently, when you put a bunch of young, fearless, risk-takers together and give them the power to move markets around the world, you end up with a bit of a monster.\u00a0 At one point I attended a symposium with my fellow traders; each of us secure in our status as Cowboy and Superman rolled into one very special gift for the world.\u00a0 We listened to the latest market analysis systems and celebrated our shared royalty.\u00a0 Amidst all the revelry was a speaker who didn’t have a financial background; he was more of a self-help, motivational kind of guy. (Believe me, the last thing that group needed was motivation<\/em>!)\u00a0 I remember not paying much attention to him – you know, being a “Master of the Universe” and all – but I wish I had.\u00a0 He wasn’t there to motivate us, he was there to help us – to keep us from losing ourselves… an effort made mostly in vain.<\/p>\n

Within days of the symposium all was blissfully forgotten; let’s face it, what could these talking heads possibly teach a “Master of the Universe?”\u00a0 All, I should say, but this bit of wisdom from the self-help guru – the one who was so out of place.\u00a0 This stuck with me and I damned him for it:<\/p>\n

If you want to know who you really are, listen to that quiet voice you hear while driving home after a meeting, late at night and tired, with no one else in the car and the radio off.\u00a0 That voice is who you really are… and the fears that voice brings forth are what you really fear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over time I was pretty sure I understood what he meant… but I didn’t.<\/p>\n

I was thinking about this the other day.\u00a0 I had just finished with a group of agents in my POPs Program, where we had been favorably comparing the stress AND the fun of being Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the field of real estate, your beliefs about yourself are just as important to your ultimate success as your knowledge and expertise. Listen to that little voice and face your fears. Not only will this open the door to a flourishing career, it will lead to a greater understanding of who you are… and why each of us is truly a “Master of the Universe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,29],"tags":[465],"class_list":{"0":"post-11317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"tag-fear","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1656,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1656\/fear-factor-who-makes-a-real-estate-market\/","url_meta":{"origin":11317,"position":0},"title":"Fear Factor – Who Makes a Real Estate Market?","author":"Kris Berg","date":"July 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"What factors contribute to price declines in a downward trending market? 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