Infomercials and Self Doubt
I couldn't sleep the other night. In part thinking about all the work I need to do on this blog. About the enormity of the task ahead of me, finding a house within a year with little or no money down, my current poor credit rating envisioned as a stumbling block. Never mind that like most Americans these days I had very little savings put away. I thought of how little definitave information was in The Challenge and how much more research I had to do.
It was then, mindlessly clicking through late night tv that I saw something I hadn't seen in years, channel after channel of infomercials. Most were real estate oriented, the Carlton Sheets and Russ Whitney's, the forclosure guy and the cash flow guy. But there were otheres, stocks, wholesalers looking for you to sell direct using their catalog, and one that didn't say what it was, just a girl leaning forward with her cleavage saying you should call this number to make tons of money in only a couple of hours.
Selling hope.The question was were they making money off of their books and courses or had they really "done it"?
I remember my mom buying a set of tapes and some books from Carlton Sheets, when was that 1994? 1998? What had ever happened to those? Did they get read, did she ever try to put them to use only to find the techniques fell short in the real world?
The question began to nag away at the back of my brain, "what if I had set myself up for failure?" What if I had started too soon, posted before my blog was picture perfect, made a comitment based on a happenstance finding of a 20 year old book in the library that caught my attention. Would I be better off at the Blackjack tables?
The problem is that I am commited now. I want to know, probably like many other people that watch these late night infomercials. Is this for real? Or are they just good salsemen? If I had half of what some of these people charge for their introductory set of books and CD's I wouldn't be in the predicament I'm in now.
Back at work at my crappy job I wonder, couldn't I imagine a more inspired destiny for myself?
During a lull I flip through the paper to look at the outrageously priced homes. Nothing that remotely sounds like the ads from the book. Maybe I should call the few ads offering to buy houses for cash and see how they do it. The book said keep five lines in the water at all times. I flip through the forclosures and notice one not to far from where I used to live, a condominium. Has to be cheaper than a house.
I take out the ad and decide to check the property out in the morning after work.
What other "lines" can I throw out there?
It was then, mindlessly clicking through late night tv that I saw something I hadn't seen in years, channel after channel of infomercials. Most were real estate oriented, the Carlton Sheets and Russ Whitney's, the forclosure guy and the cash flow guy. But there were otheres, stocks, wholesalers looking for you to sell direct using their catalog, and one that didn't say what it was, just a girl leaning forward with her cleavage saying you should call this number to make tons of money in only a couple of hours.
Selling hope.The question was were they making money off of their books and courses or had they really "done it"?
I remember my mom buying a set of tapes and some books from Carlton Sheets, when was that 1994? 1998? What had ever happened to those? Did they get read, did she ever try to put them to use only to find the techniques fell short in the real world?
The question began to nag away at the back of my brain, "what if I had set myself up for failure?" What if I had started too soon, posted before my blog was picture perfect, made a comitment based on a happenstance finding of a 20 year old book in the library that caught my attention. Would I be better off at the Blackjack tables?
The problem is that I am commited now. I want to know, probably like many other people that watch these late night infomercials. Is this for real? Or are they just good salsemen? If I had half of what some of these people charge for their introductory set of books and CD's I wouldn't be in the predicament I'm in now.
Back at work at my crappy job I wonder, couldn't I imagine a more inspired destiny for myself?
During a lull I flip through the paper to look at the outrageously priced homes. Nothing that remotely sounds like the ads from the book. Maybe I should call the few ads offering to buy houses for cash and see how they do it. The book said keep five lines in the water at all times. I flip through the forclosures and notice one not to far from where I used to live, a condominium. Has to be cheaper than a house.
I take out the ad and decide to check the property out in the morning after work.
What other "lines" can I throw out there?
posted by Chris at 11:52 AM
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