The Millionaire Mind-Set

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The Millionaire Mind Set - Understanding the Millionaire Mind and Leveraging it to Enhance Your Success.

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The Inner Strategies of a Millionaire's Mind

“You are not limited to the
life you now live. It has been
accepted by you as the best
you can do at this moment.
Any time you're ready to go
beyond the limitations
currently in your life, you're
capable of doing that by
choosing different thoughts.”

Attitude Is Everything by Jim Rohn

The process of human change begins within us. We all have tremendous potential. We all
desire good results from our efforts. Most of us are willing to work hard and to pay the
price that success and happiness demand.

Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a
desired result. But the one thing that determines the level of our potential, that produces
the intensity of our activity, and that predicts the quality of the result we receive is our
attitude.

Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of
our dreams and influences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No
other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by
teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us with
negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily
surrender that control.

No one else "makes us angry." We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of
our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They
merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile,
angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by
believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.
If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own
feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our
attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently
into a better future.

If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise
the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total
dominion over our attitude.

Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value, which must be protected accordingly.
Beware of the vandals and thieves among us who would injure our positive attitude or
seek to steal it away.

Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success requires.
The combination of a sound personal philosophy and a positive attitude about ourselves
and the world around us gives us an inner strength and a firm resolve that influences all
the other areas of our existence.

Accept No Limits by Vic Johnson
You are not limited to the life you now live. It has been accepted by you as the best you
can do at this moment. Any time you're ready to go beyond the limitations currently in
your life, you're capable of doing that by choosing different thoughts.

We each earn the income we do today because that is the amount we have limited
ourselves to earn. We could easily earn 5, 10, 20 times more if we did not limit ourselves
through the thoughts we maintain.

Don't believe that's true? Surely you know people who earn much more than you who
don't have your education, your skills, or your intelligence. So why do they earn more
than you?

I love the story of George Dantzig that Cynthia Kersey wrote about in Unstoppable. As a
college student, George studied very hard and always late into the night. So late that he
overslept one morning, arriving 20 minutes late for class. He quickly copied the two math
problems on the board, assuming they were the homework assignment. It took him
several days to work through the two problems, but finally he had a breakthrough and
dropped the homework on the professor's desk the next day.

Later, on a Sunday morning, George was awakened at 6 a.m. by his excited professor.
Since George was late for class, he hadn't heard the professor announce that the two
unsolvable equations on the board were mathematical mind teasers that even Einstein
hadn't been able to answer. But George Dantzig, working without any thoughts of
limitation, had solved not one, but two problems that had stumped mathematicians for
thousands of years.

Simply put, George solved the problems because he didn't know he couldn't.
Bob Proctor tells us to "keep reminding yourself that you have tremendous reservoirs of
potential within you, and therefore you are quite capable of doing anything you set your
mind to. All you must do is figure out how you can do it, not whether or not you can.
And once you have made your mind up to do it, it's amazing how your mind begins to
figure out how."

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Rich People Believe “I Create My Life” – Poor People Believe
“Life Happens To Me.” by T. Harv Eker

If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering
wheel of your life. You create every moment in your life, especially your financial life. If
you don’t believe this, then you must believe you have little or no control over your life
and that financial success has nothing to do with you. That is not a very rich attitude.
Instead of taking responsibility for what’s going on in their lives, poor people choose to
play the role of victim. Of course, any “victim’s” predominant thought process is “poor
me.” And presto, through the law of intention that’s literally what they get: “poor,” as in
money, me. Having said that, how can you tell if someone is playing the victim?

They leave three obvious clues.

Clue #1: Blame
They blame the economy, they blame their type of business, they blame the government,
they blame the stock market, they blame their employer, they blame their employees, or
they blame their up-line or their down-line. It’s always something else or someone else.
The problem is always anything or anyone else, but them.

Clue #2: Justify
Or they justify their situation by saying something like, “Money’s not really important.”
Let me ask you this question. If you said your husband or your wife or your boyfriend or
girlfriend or your partner or any friend whatsoever, wasn’t all that important, would they
be around for very long? Doubtful!

People come up to me all the time and say, “You know, money’s not really that
important.” I look them squarely in the eyes and say, “You’re broke! Right?” After a few
stutters they usually blurt out something like, “Well, right now I’m having a few financial
challenges but…” and I retort, “No, not right now, always, you’ve always been broke or
close to it, yes or no?” At this point they usually nod their heads in agreement.

Clue #3: Complaining
Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your
wealth. Why?

Because there is a universal law that says, “what you focus on expands.” When you are
complaining what are you focusing on? What’s right with your life or what’s wrong with
it? You are obviously focusing on what’s wrong with it and since what you focus on
expands, you’ll keep getting more of what’s wrong.

Through the law of attraction, whereby “like attracts like,” you are actually attracting
“crap” into your life. You are like a “crap magnet.” Have you ever noticed that people
who complain a lot seem to have crappy lives? It’s like everything bad keeps happening
to them. They say, “Of course, I complain, look how crappy my life is.” Now you can
finally explain, “No, it’s BECAUSE you complain that you have a crappy life.”
Now, I’m going to share a secret with you…

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A RICH VICTIM!

Yet being a victim definitely has its rewards. What do people get out of being a victim?...
Attention. Is attention important? Absolutely, for many people it’s what they live for.
But, as we said, there is no such thing as a rich victim; so in order to stay a victim these
attention seekers make darn sure they never get rich.

It’s time to decide. You can be a victim OR you can be rich, but you can’t be both. It’s
time to take back your power and acknowledge the fact that you create every moment of
your life. That you create everything that is in your life and everything that is not in it.
That you create your wealth and you create your non-wealth and everything in between.

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The Law Of Abundance by Brian Tracy

We live in an abundant universe in which there is sufficient money for all who really
want it and are willing obey the laws governing its acquisition.

There is plenty of money available to you. There is no real shortage. You can have
virtually all you really want and need. We live in a generous universe and we are
surrounded on all sides by blessings and opportunities to acquire all we truly desire. Your
attitude, of either abundance or scarcity toward money, will have a major impact on
whether you become rich or not.

The first corollary of the Law of Abundance says that, "People become wealthy because
they decide to become wealthy." They become wealthy because they believe they have
the ability to become wealthy. Because they believe this completely, they act
accordingly. They consistently take the necessary actions that turn their beliefs into
realities. And you can always tell what your beliefs really are by looking at your actions.
There is no other way.

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The second corollary of this law says: "People are poor because they have not yet decided
to become rich." In the book, The Instant Millionaire, by Mark Fisher, the old millionaire
asks the boy who has sought his advice about becoming a millionaire, "Why aren't you
rich already?"

This is an important question to ask yourself. However you answer this question will
reveal a lot about yourself. Your answers will expose your self-limiting beliefs, your
doubts, your fears, your excuses, your rationalizations and your justifications.
Why aren't you rich already? Write down all the reasons you can think of. Go over your
answers one by one with someone who knows you well and ask them for their opinion.
You may be surprised to find that your reasons are mostly excuses that you have fallen in
love with.

Whatever your reasons or excuses, you can now get rid of them. The world is full of
hundreds and thousands of people who have had far more difficulties to overcome than
you could ever imagine, and they've gone on to be successful anyway. So can you.
Now, here are two things you can do to apply this law immediately: First, imagine that
every experience you have ever had with money contained a special lesson that was
designed just for you to help you to ultimately become financially independent. What are
the most important lessons you have learned so far?

Second, analyze yourself honestly and determine your biggest block, your major selflimiting
belief that holds you back from becoming more successful financially. Resolve
to act from now on as if this block no longer exists.

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Read All The Books - Jim Rohn

All of the books that we will ever need to make us as rich, as healthy, as happy, as
powerful, as sophisticated and as successful as we want to be have already been written.
People from all walks of life, people with some of the most incredible life experiences,
people that have gone from pennies to fortune and from failure to success have taken the
time to write down their experiences so that we might share in their wealth of knowledge.

They have offered their wisdom and experience so that we can be inspired by it and
instructed by it, and so that we can amend our philosophy by it. Their contributions
enable us to reset our sail based upon their experiences. They have handed us the gift of
their insights so that we can change our plans, if need be, in order to avoid their errors.
We can rearrange our lives based on their wise advice.

All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in
books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of
information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our
children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?

Why do we neglect to read the books that can change our lives? Why do we complain but
remain the same? Why do so many of us curse the effect but nourish the cause? How do
we explain the fact that only a small percent of our entire national population uses the
library card they possesses - a card that would give us access to all of the answers to
success and happiness we could ever want? Those who wish for the better life cannot
permit themselves to miss the books that could have a major impact on how their lives
turn out. The book they miss will not help!

And the issue is not that books are too expensive! If a person concludes that the price of
buying the book is too great, wait until he must pay the price for not buying it. Wait until
he receives the bill for continued and prolonged ignorance.

There is very little difference between someone who cannot read and someone who will
not read. The result of either is ignorance. Those who are serious seekers of personal
development must remove the self-imposed limitations they have placed on their reading
skills and their reading habits. There is a multitude of classes being taught on how to be a
good reader and there are thousands of books on the shelves of the public libraries just
waiting to be read. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We
must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

A little reading each day will result in a wealth of valuable information in a very short
period of time. But if we fail to set aside the time, if we fail to pick up the book, if we fail
to exercise the discipline, then ignorance will quickly move in to fill the void.
Those who seek a better life must first become a better person. They must continually
seek after self-mastery for the purpose of developing a balanced philosophy of life, and then live in accordance with the dictates of that philosophy.

The habit of reading is a major steppingstone in the development of a sound philosophical foundation.
And in my opinion it is one of the fundamentals required for the attainment of success and
happiness.

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Is Opportunity Monopolized? by Wallace D. Wattles

No one is kept poor because other people have monopolized the wealth and have put a
fence around it. You may be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines, but there
are other channels open to you.

At different periods the tide of opportunity sets in different directions, according to the
needs of the whole and the particular stage of social evolution which has been reached.
There is abundance of opportunity for the person who will go with the tide, instead of
trying to swim against it.

So workers, either as individuals or as a class, are not deprived of opportunity. The
workers are not being “kept down” by their masters; they are not being “ground” by the
trusts and big business. As a class, they are where they are because they do not do things
in a certain way.

The working class may become the master class whenever they will begin to do things in
a certain way. The law of wealth is the same for them as it is for all others. This they
must learn, and they will remain where they are as long as they continue to do as they do.
The individual worker, however, is not held down by an entire class’s ignorance of these
laws; he can follow the tide of opportunity to riches, and this book will tell him how.
No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches; there is more than
enough for all.

A palace as large as the capitol at Washington might be built for every family on earth
from the building material in the United States alone, and under intensive cultivation this
country would produce wool, cotton, linen, and silk enough to clothe each person in the
world finer than Solomon was arrayed in all his glory, together with food enough to feed
them all luxuriously.

Everything you see on earth is made from one original substance, out of which all things
proceed. New forms are constantly being made, and older ones are dissolving, but all are
shapes assumed by one thing.

No one, therefore, is poor because nature is poor or because there is not enough to go
around.

Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches; the supply will never run short. Original
substance is alive with creative energy, and is constantly producing more forms. When
the supply of building material is exhausted, more will be produced. When the soil is
exhausted so that food stuffs and materials for clothing will no longer grow upon it, it
will be renewed or more soil will be made. When all the gold and silver has been dug
from the earth, if humanity is still in such a stage of social development that it needs gold
and silver, more will produced.

There can be no lack unless God is to contradict himself and nullify his own works.

You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches. It is a fact that even the resources
of the formless supply are at the command of the man or woman who will act and think
in a certain way.

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Change Begins With Choice by Jim Rohn

Any day we wish, we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can
open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start
a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it
immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform. And if the idea of having to
change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest
over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence.
The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the
cause. As Shakespeare uniquely observed, "The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves."
We created our circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the
responsibility to make better choices beginning today. Those who are in search of the
good life do not need more answers or more time to think things over to reach better
conclusions. They need the truth. They need the whole truth. And they need nothing but
the truth.

We cannot allow our errors in judgement, repeated every day, to lead us down the wrong
path. We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how
our life works out. And then we must make the very choices that will bring life,
happiness and joy into our daily lives.

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing
to make changes in their life - If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a
tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life - and it all begins
with your very own power of choice.

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How Do Millionaires Set And Achieve
Their Goals

“All successful achievements are the result of a predetermined
goal. The goal acts as your guide – the compass that directs
your course of actions to your desired result.”

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The Piano Principle by Brad Yates

Imagine walking into someone's home, and finding the living room dominated by a
beautiful grand piano. You ask your hosts for a recital, to which they reply that they don't
play. As you run your hand over the sleek exterior of this magnificent instrument, you
think to yourself, "What a shame..."

I think human beings are like grand pianos - incredible creations capable of producing
wonderful music. But too often that potential goes untapped. We think that greatness is
meant for someone else, that we don't have the talent (the looks, the money, the time, the
breaks...) And so we live lives "of quiet desperation," occasionally entertaining thoughts
of "what if...?"

What if Mozart had hidden his talent? (Or Bowie, or, moving from music, Edison or
Gandhi or anyone else who has made a positive difference.) I'm not saying that everyone
should feel compelled to live that big, but if one has that inkling... It seems a shame that,
as Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "The average person goes to their grave with their music
still in them."

Imagine a world where people felt free to share their grandest music and make a huge
positive difference. Or, at the least, were free from the negativity that causes them to hurt
themselves and others.

Consider what would be possible.

So, thank you for looking for ways to enhance your music-making capabilities – I
encourage you to continue to make powerful choices as you reach ever-greater levels of
success. I believe the purpose of life is to enjoy life, and I hope you enjoy it
magnificently!

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Discovering Your Talents by Brian Tracy

Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Do you value life? Then waste not time, for that is the stuff of
which life is made.” The value of anything that you obtain or accomplish can be
determined by how much of your time, or your life, that you spent to acquire it. The
amount of yourself that you use up in achieving the goals that are important to you is a
critical factor to consider, even before you begin.

Only by discovering your innate strengths and developing and exploiting them to their
highest degree can you utilize yourself to get the greatest amount of satisfaction and
enjoyment from everything you do. Deciding what you want to do, what you can do well,
and what can give you the highest rewards for your efforts is the starting point in getting
the best out of yourself.

For example, a young man in one of my seminars came up to me and told me that he was
working as a plumber for a large plumbing contracting firm. He made good wages, but he
was very envious of the salespeople in his company who made more money, drove nicer
cars, wore nicer clothes and had much better life-styles. He had completed all his training
and had his journeyman’s certificate, and he was at the top of his wage scale.

The only way he could earn more money was by working longer hours. He realized,
however, that that was not the answer. Instead, he wanted to get into sales, where his
income could be higher and would not be fixed on an hourly basis.

I remember advising him that if he wanted to get into sales, it was up to him to learn how
to sell and then to do everything possible to get his management to give him a chance at
selling plumbing services. His future was up to him, but he first had to learn how to do
the new and higher-paying job.

A little more than a year later, he attended another seminar that I was giving in that same
city, and he told me his story. He had told his management that he wanted to get into
sales. The managers had discouraged him, telling him that plumbers had very little
aptitude for the hard, interpersonal work involved in selling a complex service. He then
asked them what he would have to do to prove to them that he could sell well. To make a
long story short, they helped him to learn how to sell their company’s services by having
him study manuals and take extra courses on his own time. He bought books and listened
to tapes and began spending time talking to the salespeople in the organization.

Now a year had passed. He had been a full-fledged salesman for about five months. He
was already earning more than twice as much as the most he had ever earned as a
plumber. But most of all, he was happier. He was more excited and more enthusiastic
about himself and his work than he had ever been. He loved the field of selling, and
he considered his career change to be one of the best decisions he had ever made.

This story is typical of countless stories that have been related to me over the years. In
each case, the individual had discovered and developed his or her strengths and,subsequently, improved the quality of his or her life. And you can do the same. In fact, this may be one of the most important things you ever do.

Remember: Your goal is to identify your strengths so that you can deploy yourself in
such a way as to increase your personal return on energy. One of the best mental
techniques that you can use to accomplish this is to see yourself as a “bundle of
resources” that can be applied in a variety of directions to achieve a variety of objectives.
As a bundle of resources, the amount of time and energy that you have is limited;
therefore, your time and energy must be put to their highest and best use. Stand back and
imagine that you’re looking at yourself objectively, as if through the eyes of another
person, and you’re thinking about how you could apply yourself to bring about the
best results. See yourself as your own employer or boss. What could you do to maximize
the output of which you’re capable, and where could you do it?

Earl Nightingale said that the amount you’re paid will be determined by three things: (1)
the work you do, (2) how well you do that work, and (3) the difficulty of replacing you.
The laws of supply and demand also affect the labor market, of which you are a part.
Employers or customers will always seek the very most for the very least. That means
that you’ll always be paid the very least that is necessary to prevent you from moving to
another organization.

Abraham Lincoln said that the only security a person can have is the ability to do a job
uncommonly well.

In reality, you’re the president of your own personal-services corporation. You’re
completely in charge of production, quality control, training and development, marketing,
finance, and promotion.

Thinking of yourself passively, as being employed and, therefore, subject to the dictates
of someone else, can be fatal to your long-term success. On the other hand, seeing
yourself as self-employed forces you to see that you also are self-responsible and selfdetermining,
that everything that happens to you happens because of your conduct and
your behavior. You’re in the driver’s seat. You’re behind the steering wheel of your life.

It’s up to you to decide how to utilize your talents and abilities in such a way as to bring
you the very highest return on investment of your time and energy. No one else is going
to do it for you. You’re the boss. Others can help you, guide you, direct you, channel you,
point you in the right direction and even give you opportunities, but in the final analysis,
no one can make the critical decisions that will determine your future and your fortune.

Here are four questions that you need to ask yourself on a regular basis: (1) “What do I
most enjoy doing?” (2) “How would I describe my ideal job?” (3) “If I could have any
job at all, anywhere, what would it be?” (4) “If I won a million dollars in the lottery and I
had to pick a job to work at indefinitely, what would I choose to do with my time?”

In uncovering your strengths, ask yourself, “What are my unique talents and abilities?”
What have you been good at in the past? What things do you do easily that seem to be
difficult for other people? In what areas of work do you seem to get the best results, and
do you derive the most pleasure from? The answers to those questions all are indications
of how you might deploy yourself to increase your return on energy invested.

As a result of your genetic structure, your education, your experiences, your background,
your interests and proclivities, you’re a unique and rare combination of talents and
abilities. You can be extremely good at something. You’re responsible for finding out
what that something is and then throwing your whole heart into it, without reservation or
holdback. Only when you discover what you really enjoy doing and then commit yourself
to it wholeheartedly do you begin to feel really alive and fully engaged in life.

What can you-and only you-do that, if done well, will make an extraordinary difference
in your life? What can you do now, or can you learn to do in the future, that will give you
the biggest payoff for the amount of time that you invest in it?

Remember: You were put on this earth with a special combination of talents and abilities
that make you different from anyone who has ever lived. Whatever you’re doing today,
it’s nowhere near what you’re really capable of doing. The key to a happy and prosperous
life is for you to regularly evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, to become very good
in the areas you most enjoy, and then to throw your whole heart into what you’re doing.