Thinking of Buying a Foreclosure? How to Know If It’s Right for Your Soul.
Journey To Your Soul's Home Podcast
Release Date: 04/20/2022
Living with Purpose | Are You Confused About Whether to Sell or Stay?
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Are you confused about whether to sell or stay in your home? In my workshops and private sessions, I often attract people who are struggling with selling or staying in their home. Our homes have such a major impact on the quality of our lives that it makes sense how difficult this decision is. As I’ve listened to people’s stories, I’ve found a common thread to the struggle. The ego points out all the reasons to sell when your soul calls you to stay. Or, your ego convinces you to stay when your soul is itching to leave....
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Living with Purpose | Is the Declaration of Independence Soulful? A look from a Soul’s Home® Perspective.
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Is the soulful? In honor of Independence Day today, let’s look at the Declaration of Independence from a Soul’s Home® perspective. is an important Soul’s Home® ingredient and the Declaration of Independence is the foundation upon which this community of America was built. But does the Declaration of Independence have soul? When it was written in 1776, the 13 American colonies were controlled by Britain’s King George III who imposed military rule, restricted trade, and collected taxes without representation or protection...
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Living with Purpose | Does Your Décor Reflect Your Spiritual Purpose or Is it Keeping You Stuck? How To Use Décorating To Get Un-stuck.
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Does your décor reflect your spiritual purpose or is it keeping you stuck? A couple of months ago, I was spinning the wheels on my business and problem solving was going nowhere. Then, I remembered my father’s advice about getting stuck in the snow, “Spinning your wheels digs you in deeper making it hard to get out. Instead rock back and forth until you can move forward.” That’s the same way the Journey to Your Soul’s Home®...
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Living with Purpose | Got Pesky Household Members? 3 Things You Can Do to Turn Pesky into Pleasure
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Got pesky household members? Last week, we applied the to things you don’t like about your house. But what if the thing you don’t like is a pesky household member? Let’s face it. It’s hard to live with other people! Heck, sometimes I find it hard to live with myself! So, let’s use the three choices to turn pesky household members into pleasures. Should you: 1. Live with it 2. Lobby for change 3. Leave First, think about your soul’s purpose for the short term – what I call the little p. If you need help figuring out your little p, check out . Once you know your...
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Living with Purpose | Have So Much to Do That You Don’t Know What to Do? 3 Simple Steps to Cure the “Too Much to Do” Blues
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Do you have so much to do that you have no idea what to do? I often feel like I have way too much to do. If you’re overwhelmed too, here’s a simple cure for the, “I’ve got too much to do” blues. It starts with the belief that there’s always enough time to do everything your soul wants you to do. Think about it – your soul wants you to live your most authentic life and if you’ve always got too much to do, that just can’t happen. You need spaces in-between to hear your soul. But it can be tricky to know WHAT your soul wants you to do, so let’s break...
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How to Leverage Your Troubles to Find Meaning and Purpose in Life
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Can your troubles help you find purpose in life? Last week, we talked about in order to stay balanced during life’s ups and downs. But what if you don’t know what your purpose is? Likely, you’ll find it in your troubles. Let’s transcend your troubles by leveraging them to find purpose. Times of turmoil are fertile grounds for discovering purpose because by experiencing what you don’t want, you can clarify what you do want and are more motivated to get it. ...
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Living with Purpose | What’s Your Point? How to Stay Focused When Life Throws You Off Balance
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What’s Your Point? What do I mean by “What’s your point?” It’s a lesson I learned from spinning ballerinas and balancing yogis. To spin without falling, a dancer “spots” by focusing on a fixed object as her body turns and whips her head around to see the object each time she rotates. The balancing yogi fixates on a point to stay steady. Losing focus means wobbling and that’s bound to happen sometimes but with maturity, you regain focus and steady again. When your life feels out of balance or you’re dizzy from...
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Living with Purpose | Where Are You on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? How Your Soul’s Home® Helps You Reach Self-Actualization
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Where are you on Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs? Maslow believed that people are motivated to act on their needs in priority order: Physiological, Safety, Love/ Belonging, Esteem and Self-Actualization. So, if you don’t have food and water, you’ll seek it even at the expense of your safety. Once you have food and water, you’ll seek safety. Until you have safety, it will be your priority before seeking love and so on. Maslow believed that the ultimate goal of self-actualization was not possible until all the lower needs were met. I was excited to...
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Living with Purpose | Are You a Product of Nature or Nurture? Understanding the Factors That Shaped Who We Are
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Are you a product of your nature or how you’ve been nurtured? As a teenager, I had an ongoing good-natured debate with my mother about whether or not, people were a product of nature or nurture. She was a science teacher so, she argued the Nature side – that people were born with genetic predispositions. I studied psychology so, I argued the Nurture side – that it was the environments people lived in, particularly when they were a child that shaped who they were. But now, I’ve come to realize that we were both right – both what you are born...
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Living with Purpose | Don’t Know What to Do? Here Are the 3 Choices You Always Have
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What shall you do? It’s often hard to know what to do. There are so many difficult decisions in life. I remember the first time I struggled to make a big decision, my mother gave me some sage advice. She said, “Suzanne, you always have three choices: 1. Live with it, 2. Lobby for change or 3. Leave.” Knowing the three choices has felt liberating and empowering. Liberating because it shrinks a sea of unlimited choices down to bite sized pieces and empowering because – gosh, darn it! With this tool, I can decide and move on! So, let’s look closer at these three choices. First, name...
info_outlineThinking of buying a foreclosure?
When people talk about buying a foreclosure, I see a gleam in their eyes in anticipation of getting a great deal. Ahh the lure of a deal – fuels the ego but is it right for your soul? Not if that “deal” turns out to be a financial and life burden.
Buying a foreclosure is only a good deal FOR YOU if it’s also what your SOUL wants. The money and time to find the right house, renovate, resolve issues and carry the property can easily cost more than the house is worth and divert you from your soul’s purpose. I know HGTV makes this look easy and fun! But I’ve lived the other side from my own renovations, clients who flip and meeting investors going into foreclosure themselves after putting more money in than they could get out.
So how do you avoid these foreclosure pitfalls? First, get clear on your soul’s purpose for this time in your life and determine if buying a foreclosure fits in. If it doesn’t, ask your soul to release you from the lure of the deal. But if it does, task your ego with finding homes and the due diligence work and your soul with making the decisions.
Ask your soul:
1. Will I be able to make this my Soul’s Home® or a Soul’s Home® for someone else?
2. Is this project worth the financial risks?
3. Is this how you want me to spend my time?
If you still feel called to proceed, each time you run into an issue ask your soul how to approach it. For help hearing your soul, check out Episode 3.
I hope your home purchase is guided by your soul so you may have a home that feeds your soul. If you need my help hearing what your soul wants you to buy, I’d love to speak with you. Just click Contact Me to schedule a free 30-minute call.
Next week, I’ll share my foreclosure purchase experience with you. Until next time, I wish you well on your journey.