In this Motivational Monday video, real‑estate coach Chris Prefontaine warns solopreneurs that the most dangerous moment in their journey is the "quiet phase" – the period after they start taking action but before they see tangible results. He explains why many quit at this stage, emphasizing that it’s a normal part of the entrepreneurial process and that persistence, discipline, and imperfect but consistent action are essential. Prefontaine contrasts passive consumption of his free content with the transformative impact of being inside his Smart Real Estate Coach community, where members receive real‑time accountability, deal‑room work, and hands‑on coaching. He urges viewers to move into an environment that forces growth, outlines the benefits of his Deal Lab (live seller calls and deal structuring), and provides URLs for free resources and the paid program. The core message is that staying in the quiet phase wastes years, while pushing through it in the right community leads to rapid deal flow and cash‑flow creation.
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most people quit right before it works. And I'm going to tell you that that's not going to be you. Let's, let's finish this 5 out of 5 series up the right way. If you've been with me the last few weeks, you've sort of heard it all. Your, your environment matters. Um, you need to take action. You need discipline. You need to stop negotiating with yourself. We talked about last week and right now. Some of you are starting to move. I hope you're making calls. You're having conversations. You're finally doing the work. Good. That's great. I'm hearing from my community. I hope you're doing it, even if you're not in our community. But this is the most sort of dangerous point because this is where most people quit. It's not the beginning because there's some kind of initial excitement. It's right here when they've started, but haven't really seen results yet. That's called normal, right? When you're in the entrepreneurial world, especially when you're a solopreneur. And then they start thinking, oh, this isn't working. Uh, maybe this isn't for me. Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe this doesn't work in my market. You're not missing anything. And it works in your market. Trust me. You're just early. That's it. You're early. And early differs for every single person, right? I always say it depends on what baggage you brought to the table, right? Took you this many years to get here. Don't beat on yourself. Every single person who's successful in this business went through a phase where it felt like absolutely nothing was happening. No deals, no momentum, no validation. And most people bail. That's where they bail right there. They go back to the nice comfort zone, the warm and fuzzy, back to watching, back to thinking about it. And then they convince themselves, uh, it didn't work or it doesn't work for me or no, it doesn't work in my market. It just doesn't. Nope. They just didn't stay long enough for it to work. That's the difference. See it over and over again. This has been, I don't know, uh, a decade and a third of just working in the creative space, coaching people, and we see it time after time. And I don't want you to be one of those people. I'd rather see you be the person that pushes through sort of the quiet phase and actually gets to the other side. Because if you do, everything changes. It starts to pop. But here's where I'm going to Get real with you as we wrap this up. These last few weeks, this content, this is absolutely nothing compared to what happens when you're actually inside with us at Smart Real Estate Coach family. It's unique because watching me say this and having someone in your corner pushing you, challenging you, holding you accountable, 2 entirely different things. 2 entirely different things because you get to experience it firsthand. One sort of, in other words, like you've been watching this, it kind of feels good. The other gets results. So inside our community, inside working with us one-on-one, you don't actually get to sit on the sidelines and watch and feel good. You don't get to disappear for a week. We don't allow it. You don't get to stay stuck in your head because we pull you forward. It's normal. Every week, if I don't hear that going on, I know someone's not communicating with me because normal, I expect it. We get you back in action. We help you structure real deals in real time. That's the big difference. So if you've been watching this series, getting fired up, I hope I affected some of you. That's good. And then going back though and doing the same thing, that's where you gotta be honest with yourself. How much longer are you gonna do that? Like how much longer are you gonna put up with that? At some point, you gotta decide this is real for you personally. And you can do it, or you just stop pretending because staying in the middle, that's where people waste years. All right. So here's the move this week. If you're serious, here's the move. Step into an environment that actually forces growth, that promotes growth. If you're not, that's fine, but own it because you own it. Just don't keep telling yourself, ah, yeah, I'm trying. Because trying doesn't build anything, let alone a business. Action does, even if it's imperfect action, as I've said over and over. Consistency does. And being in the right room with the right people does. That accelerates everything. You've got the blueprint now. I offered it to you a few times for free. The only question left is, what are you going to do with it? So as I've said each one of these on the series, let's get after it together. If you want to maximize this, Get into our next Deal Lab. The Deal Lab is really cool. It's hands-on calling sellers, structuring deals. Really cool. Go to 3paydaysapprentice.com/dealroad. I'd love to see you in the road with others just like you that are ready to kind of charge forward. And it's private and it's limited. Not sure where to get started? Go to smartrealestatecoach.com/getgoing for free books, strategy calls, and a whole bunch more. We're going to help you get going the wicked smart way. We've been after this for over a decade doing Exactly that. If you're an associate in our community already and you're in the deal room, you're leaving deals and cash on the table, period. If you're not in there and at $45,000 to $350,000 per deal, all 3 paydays, that's an expensive miss because this isn't another training. It's not theory. The deal room is where we go to work on real deals, real strategies in real time, like with real sellers. And I'll tell you straight that some of the biggest breakthroughs we're seeing right now are happening inside that room. We started about 18 months ago. This is where we get into the advanced side of the business. I'm talking about creating cashflow from deals that you don't even own yet. I'm going to leave you with that thought, and I can't wait to see you in person. And I'll see you next week on the next Motivational Monday.
