"Heather Seitz's In Search Of Heroes Interview Was Awesome Part Three" by Ralph Zuranski
"Heather Seitz's In Search Of Heroes Interview Was Awesome Part Three" by Ralph Zuranski
Ralph Zuranski:That’s really a great goal. How important is it to have a positive view of the setbacks, misfortunes and mistakes that everybody goes through? I know you’ve been through a few that are kind of a frightening experience of Spain and the love of your life. How important is it to have a positive view?
Heather Seitz:Well you’ve got to just look at the big picture. You’ve always got to look at the goal. It’s funny that you say that, because I was just actually writing something about this, especially in a couple of my primary businesses, the real estate and the seminar. Take real estate for example, there is so much that goes on with each and every transaction, if you allow yourself to get caught up or hung up in the little details you won’t make it past your first or second transaction.
Its just keeping the big picture in mind and even when it gets frustrating you just kind of say okay, lets put things into perspective. I could be doing this versus this; it’s not as bad as it seems right now.
Ralph Zuranski:Do you think that it takes a lot of courage to pursue new ideas?
Heather Seitz:I think that depends on where you are in your life. I think that initially it probably does, because there’s this fear of what am I going to do? What if I fail? More importantly than what if I fail, what if I succeed? I think that a lot of people are even more fearful of success then they are at failure because they’re used to not getting what they hope or dream for. What happens if they actually achieve it? What happens if they reach that goal? They’ve got nothing else to dream for, which is crazy, because every time you accomplish something or achieve a goal you kind of stretch yourself a little bit further.
When you’re first starting it can be very, very scary and it does take some courage. Its kind of blind faced and its kind of saying I’m going to go out on this and see what I can make happen and there’s an element to courage. Once you do it, its like a muscle that you exercise, I mean now I have no problem I love to come up with new ideas and test them and start them up and see where they take me and realize not everything is going to be a home run. But part of the challenge and part of the fun is the actual experience and what you learn along the way.
Ralph Zuranski:So in exercising your dream and muscles, as in anything, to make muscles grow there’s a certain amount of pain. Do you think that’s the same with building your dream muscles, going through a certain amount of discomfort to pursue your dream?
Heather Seitz:Certainly. It’s funny, because I was recently working on a project that was a larger project than I’ve ever done before. I said my goodness this is just like the first time I ever bought a property or did my first deal. It was just like starting over, because it was so big compared to what I’m doing now. In the scheme of things it’s not that big, but it was a big step from where I am now and you’ve got to be uncomfortable to push yourself. You’ve got to have a little bit of uncertainty.
You’ve got to realize that if everyone had all the answers there wouldn’t be anywhere to go. There wouldn’t be anything to fight for. There wouldn’t be anything to learn. So if you’re not uncomfortable and if you’re not struggling from time to time then you’re really not moving forward. One of my best friends, we were having a drink when he came back into town, it bothered me at first when he said it to me and it wasn’t until probably a couple months ago. He said this to me years ago; he says you know Heather you’re never going to be satisfied with being comfortable.
I thought gosh you’re a jerk what is that supposed to mean? I took it, and this was back while I was learning to be positive, I took that as a negative. I took that as he was putting me down and saying you just can’t be content with anything. When I thought about this statement and it stuck with me for years and I thought about it recently and I said to myself, you know what that was really a good thing, because even back then I took it as a negative. It meant I’m not content with just being average or just what I’ve got and that’s different than saying I’m not happy with what I’ve got.
There’s always more that you can do. There are more people that you can help. There is a bigger impact that you can make. So once you just become satisfied with what you have and don’t confuse that with being happy with what you have and wanting what you have, but you’ve always got to have a next picture to go to and a bigger dream to step up to.
To be continued...
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