Now that you’ve decided to sell your own house, you may be thinking, “What have I gotten myself into?”
That is completely normal and to be expected. Did you know that there is a predictable learning curve that everyone experiences whenever they learn something new? The pattern goes like this:
It starts with “uninformed optimism”. You’re excited about your new venture and can see its potential to improve some area your life and help you get what you want – whether it will make you money, get you in shape, or help you sell your house.
The next phase is “informed pessimism”. This is where the reality of what is involved with your new venture sets in. It’s realizing that the new diet, opening that little shop, or selling your house involves more work than you thought.
The next phase is “crisis of meaning”. This is where you consider throwing in the towel on your new venture, “I can’t do this. This is too hard. I can’t figure this all out. I didn’t know it was going to take so much work.”
At this critical point, many people give up. It’s where they have an overwhelming desire to run back to the familiar, even if the familiar sucks! (I’m going through that right now with a new diet I just started…)
The shame of it is that at this point, the very point where most people give up, they are SO close to being at “informed optimism”. This is where you know the score, you are realistic about what it takes to meet your goal and you are still totally motivated. Getting to this point is what separates winners from losers every day in all areas of life.
So remember if you are feeling overwhelmed about selling your house right now it’s just because you’ve moved from “uniformed optimism” to “informed pessimism”, the normal learning curve.
