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Financial Success

How To Achieve Your Financial Goals

"When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is." – Oscar Wilde

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." – George Horace Lorimer

"Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky."

– Rabindranath Tagore

Developing Prosperity Consciousness

The starting point of all riches is the development of a prosperity consciousness. You must become a financial success in your thinking long before you achieve it in your reality.

Both poverty and riches are the result of a state of mind, and the most important single step you ever take on the road to wealth and financial independence is the decision to change your thinking, to impress into your mind an unshakable belief that you can and will achieve your financial goals. This must happen before anything else happens.²

Do What You Love To Do

If you're not doing exactly what you love to do, get out now and find something that captivates you.

"I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life," says Steve Jobs, Founder of  Apple Computers. "Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation – the Macintosh – a year earlier, and I had just turned 30... Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."

Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success

2. Do your best. Do your best at every job. No sleep! Success generates more success. So be hungry for it. Hire good people with passion for excellence... More

Decision as the Key to Transformation

Decision is the key to transformation. In his classic work, "Think & Grow Rich", Napoleon Hill stated that 98% of people are in the jobs they have through indecision, i.e. because they never made the decision about what they wanted to do in their lives in the first place. Indecision explains why many people feel that they have a life purpose, but have no idea what it is... More

Earn Ten Times As Much

By Brian Tracy

There's an exercise for you; imagine that it's possible for you to earn ten times your current annual wage. If you're earning $25,000, imagine for a moment that it's possible for you to earn $250,000, a 1000% increase.

Don't Sell Yourself Short

The first reaction of most people to that exercise is to smile briefly and then to begin thinking about why it isn't possible. One man said to me, "If you knew how many years it's taken for me to get to what I'm earning today you wouldn't be suggesting that I could earn ten times as much."

Never A Good Excuse

Mark Twain once wrote that there are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason. The tragedy of the average American is that whereas his or her main preoccupation seems to be money, or the lack thereof, the average person has the inherent potential to earn far more than he or she is doing currently.

Is the manager earning $250,000 per year ten times as smart as the manager earning $25,000? 10 times as experienced? Does he or she work 10 times harder? Of course not. None of these are physically or mentally possible, but there are people in every business earning many times more than others with the same average age, experience and intelligence.

The Results Are In

In fact, a few years ago in New York, a thousand men and women were selected at random and tested for I.Q. Between the one having the highest I.Q. in this sample and the one with the lowest, there was a difference of only 2 1/2 times. But between the person earning the most, who by the way, was not the one with the highest I.Q. and the one earning the least, who was not the one with the lowest I.Q., there was a difference of 100X in income.

Action Exercises

Here are two things you can do to start increasing your income.

1. Identify the highest earning, most successful people in your field and find out what it is that they are doing differently from others who aren’t doing as well. Copy them every day.

2. Set a goal to double your income over the next two or three years and then figure out what you’ll have to do to achieve it. Get started!

Creativity

The benefits of functioning more creatively are enormous. It helps you get promoted faster, and enjoy greater status, prestige and recognition. You can only earn more by producing more or of better quality or cheaper or faster or differently — and this requires doing things differently, using creativity... More

Entrepreneurial Creativity

Entrepreneurial creativity is about coming up with innovative ideas and turning them into value-creating profitable business activities.

Entrepreneurial creativity = creativity × entrepreneurial action... More

Brainstorm with Other

Successful people have formal and informal brainstorming or masterminding networks. Napoleon Hill, in "Think And Grow Rich," pointed out that this was a common trait among the millionaires that he studied. Put several people together who have a common interest or goal. These gatherings have proven very powerful. It's a natural breeding ground for breakthrough ideas.

The Power of Small Victories

By Mike Litman

What I'm sharing with you is what worked for me. And now it's worked for thousands of other people that I've coached.

I believe in small steps, small victories, progress, growth and momentum.

'Inch by inch everything is a cinch' is one of life's greatest pearls of wisdom.

Here, read this great quote from William B. Storey, a railroad tycoon from decades ago.

'Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too; and remember that the little thing must always precede the bigger.'

Powerful.

Remember, you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going.

Here's what has allowed me to help a lot of people and build a multi million dollar company at 32 years old.

• Focus.

• Small victories.

• Momentum.

• Doing things in order of their importance.

• Mental Pictures of what I was pursuing.

• Becoming a person of value, not a person of success.

• Asking better questions.

• Intelligent self education.

• Marketing mindset.

• Sales mindset.

• Building a team.

• Having multiple mentors in different 'skill' areas.

Positive Emotions Are the Key To Life

Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area... More