Opportunity ≠ Success! The Must-Read Mindset for Real Estate Agents

Lessons from a failed agent: Why thinking methods matter more than waiting for opportunities

post date  Posted on 12 Apr 2025   view 75536
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There was a veteran local agent complaining about his fate.

He felt his life wasn’t like anyone else’s.

His life foundation wasn’t as good as others.

So he didn’t have the chance to do what he truly wanted.

And that’s why he never succeeded as an agent.

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I told him

this depends on

Mindset and Attitude in this career.

If you can’t even answer

what elements make up an agent’s career,

what hard skills and soft skills you need to study,

don’t rush into it yet.

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But he still thought

Mindset and Attitude are only parts of it.

He believed opportunity is the most important.

If he had good opportunities,

he would have already succeeded long ago.

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I really wanted to ask,

What exactly is the opportunity you’re talking about?

To succeed,

do you wait for opportunities to come

or run toward them?

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I also started from zero.

My old career was film production.

It had nothing to do with real estate at all.

But why am I here today?

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Mindset and Attitude

are not just a part.

They are #the main part.

You must sort yourself out clearly

before you even take the first step

toward any career.

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If you think opportunity = success,

then today I give you opportunities every day

as you wish.

Are you sure

that when I hand you opportunities daily,

you can actually make them successful?

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Many young people have received opportunities from me.

What’s the difference between those who succeed and those who don’t?

I think it’s not about the number of opportunities.

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But it’s about whether that young person

can interpret the opportunities I hand out

and see what direction it should go.

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Simply put, they need to see the big picture

of what comes in

and how much they can do with it,

what best results they can produce

under so many constraints.

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If a young person can’t see it,

even if I hand them prime Sukhumvit land,

at best, they’ll just sell it,

get a lump sum of money,

and then go on with life (or the money might run out quickly).

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But if they see it,

they’ll turn the land into a magic tool,

develop it further,

create commercial uses in various forms,

make a hostel, Airbnb, avenue, residential, market, shop,

rotate it according to economic conditions,

and collect rental income for life.

Plus, they can pass it down to their children as an inheritance.

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Same opportunity,

but two young people produce different results.

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So, do we really count

opportunity = success?

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The thing I want to say is

#ThinkingMethod

#isMoreImportantThanMethod

It’s more important than waiting around for opportunities

that you wish would come.

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If you’re not ready,

if you lack professional knowledge,

even if the opportunity lands in your hand,

it will slip away.

Because you don’t know how to grab it.

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If selling land

is seen as winning the lottery,

that is

a mindset

unsuitable for being an agent.

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Winning the lottery requires no skills at all.

Pure luck, pure fate.

No need to learn anything new.

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But selling land

requires knowledge in evaluating each plot.

In the industry, we call this doing a "feas."

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They must consider

what each plot

can be built on,

according to road frontage constraints,

plot shape, plot size,

including city planning laws.

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When they invest in buying that land,

is it worth what they’re going to do?

If from an investment perspective,

how can they get the highest return?

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Not just holding land

and randomly proposing it

without even knowing

what can be built on that plot,

what its potential is,

whether the price is reasonable,

whether it fits the client’s requirements.

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The client wants 1 rai,

but you propose 69 rai.

They want Ayutthaya zone,

but you propose Chiang Rai.

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It’s because they don’t even know how to check.

Randomly throwing things, hoping to catch an investor’s eye.

Working like this,

you’ll never close a deal in your life.

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Stop blaming the sky, the rain, or fate.

#BlameYourself instead.

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When I first started,

knowledge always came at a cost.

I had to take money from my savings

to attend each course.

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But nowadays, knowledge is so easy to find.

YouTube, TikTok, Facebook

sooo many.

And it’s good knowledge, for free too.

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Why not seek useful knowledge

to strengthen yourself,

build your own capability,

arm yourself with knowledge,

and use it to generate income for yourself?

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If you have no capital,

you must try

even harder than others.

Because in the end, success is the same destination.

Everyone can reach it sooner or later.

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Failing at something

is not shameful.

I also did many things

and failed too.

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As long as you still have strength and a brain,

just get up and keep going

in a new way.

Let experiences guide you onward.

#YouWillAlwaysGainSomethingGoodFromEveryFailure

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If you go around telling people,

“I did it before... didn’t succeed,

don’t do it,

because you won’t succeed either,”

I think that’s a loser’s mindset.

#FoodForThought

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