I hap­pened to over­hear a con­ver­sa­tion the other day between two men.

Young man has started learn­ing about real estate invest­ing. He has read books and attended sem­i­nars that put on by some gurus who make more money sell­ing infor­ma­tion about real estate invest­ing than they do invest­ing in real estate. I am impressed with the young man’s ini­tia­tive and atti­tude, he is tak­ing the action and will­ing to learn more, which is more than most peo­ple will do.

Old man owns his own house. Young man wants to buy real estate as an invest­ment, no mat­ter it is apart­ment build­ings, office build­ings or houses, it is that type of stuff. Well, old man has no expe­ri­ence in this area.

Dur­ing the con­ver­sa­tion, old man says to young man “Are you still going to attend more of those real estate non­sense seminars?”

By “non­sense” I know old man was refer­ring to attend­ing the “get rich quick” type sem­i­nars and not a con­dem­na­tion of real estate invest­ing. But he for­got one thing; those sem­i­nars came across as a con­dem­na­tion of the young man’s process of edu­cat­ing him­self towards to learn some­thing new, some­thing that could improve his life and the lives of his family.

Unfor­tu­nately, you prob­a­bly already see there are many peo­ple are like that in your life. You may be a per­son like that in some­one else’s life as well. Peo­ple in your “box” don’t want you get­ting out!

You know the type of per­son that I am talk­ing about here – peo­ple who neg­a­tive towards to oth­ers whomever want to improve their life, to be dif­fer­ent, to stand out, and to be more suc­cess­ful than they ever are.

I heard a great anal­ogy for this by attend­ing a free invest­ment sem­i­nar. I knew the speaker would be advo­cat­ing some risky finan­cial moves, but I fig­ured that since I was in the sem­i­nar and learn the busi­ness myself, I might be able to learn some­thing use­ful and some­thing new, even­tu­ally I did.

In many cases, peo­ple that you are asso­ci­ated with are mostly prob­a­bly just like you. Your guys have sim­i­lar edu­ca­tional with sim­i­lar fam­i­lies and income back­ground, when you talk­ing to each other, you guys com­ing up with sim­i­lar ideas. You live in houses and drive cars of sim­i­lar value. You attend the same church, your kids attend the same schools and you shop in the same stores.

One could say you guys are in the same “box” or rut.

Unfor­tu­nately, the “instruc­tions” on how to get out of your “box” are posted on the “out­side” of your “box” where you can’t read them. You need some­one who has already made it out to help you, to help you “read” the instruc­tions so you can get out too.

Only with the help of suc­cess­ful per­son who already made it is not enough. You will also need to deal with your “box­mates” by your­self, you have to deal with those who would rather you stick around with them, and to keep them com­pany in their sad lit­tle “box.”

In lis­ten­ing to the con­ver­sa­tion between old man and young man I imme­di­ately flashed on the image of young man — he may start­ing to climb out of the box, the old man is try­ing to reach­ing up and grab­bing him by the belt to pull him back in.

It is sad to say but it is all too com­mon to see in the daily life. If any of this sounds famil­iar to you, you might have some hard deci­sions to make.

Under­stand that to get out of the ‘box’ is not a day or two days task, it takes time. If com­pletely get­ting rid of a neg­a­tive per­son from your life is not pos­si­ble (e, g: spouse, rel­a­tives, employer, friends) then you have to clam up about your goals, dreams and desires.

You can dis­cuss them Only with peo­ple who will sup­port you, or prefer­ably with peo­ple who have already done what you want to do.

Thus, no mat­ter what you want to accom­plish or what­ever you want to achieve, like to have a bet­ter lifestyle, get out of debt, start­ing your own busi­ness, going back to school, invest­ing in real estate, mys­tery shop­ping, los­ing weight, tak­ing piano lessons or any­thing else, just take action, sim­ply get it started and keep the pie hole shut, oth­er­wise you will for­ever stuck at ‘Think’ out­side the box instead of ‘Get’ out out­side the box.

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