Professor Payne explores what really stops people from pursuing success: surface fears like rejection, but deeper, the belief they don't deserve it. He shares his own struggle with real estate wholesaling, how he thought he was taking advantage of sellers until he reframed what the work actually was.
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I would like to address why, the real reason why we're scared. And these are things that I felt. What if I freeze up? What if I don't know what to say? What if I sound dumb? What if they hang up on me? Now, I'm actually going to take it a little bit deeper. Those are common fears, but these are deeper issues that a lot of us face that a lot of us don't really know why we're scared. The deeper issues are maybe you don't feel like you're worthy of the success that will come. As you continue to go. A lot of people just feel like they don't deserve it, okay? So that's something that's difficult and that can come back to like childhood trauma and things like where you just don't feel like you deserve to win. You don't deserve that life that you see all the other people having. Maybe you feel like, oh, you don't deserve it. Maybe you don't feel like wholesaling is right. Maybe you don't believe deep down that you think you're doing a good thing. Maybe you feel like you're taking advantage of people. So you don't really internally want to do it. Guys, that's, that's a big issue I had when I first got started. I didn't feel like wholesaling was like a good thing. I always— people would be like, oh man, you're just taking advantage of sellers. You're just stealing people's properties. I didn't really know what wholesaling was at that time, like too in-depth, and how much we can help people. So I kind of felt like I wasn't doing something that was something commendable or like a good thing, like something to be proud of.