Personally, I had to deaden the inexperienced, opinionated, hater voices of those closest to me to stay focus. If I was to succeed in real estate, in addition to my vision of what that looked like, I needed to model my efforts after those who possessed a proven track record of real estate success. Further, I had to understand my experiences differed greatly from others’ own. My fears and insecurities were different. My “why” felt different!! I felt this was in fact all or nothing.