I forget exactly where I hear about Harv Ekers book The Secrets of a Millionaire Mind and it doesn't matter, I'm just glad I did get a hold of it because it changed my life. What I loved about the book; it's an easy read. It's practical. What I liked about it even more was a free ticket to the Millionaire Mind Seminar.
I've taken quite a few seminars but I must say that Harv Ekers Millionaire Mind Intensive blew my mind. The energy in the room and the teaching techniques were amazing. Harv states that for us to become wealthy and financially free we must change our money blueprint. We all grew up with certain beliefs around wealth and money.
Whatever our parents, family members and teachers thought about money and wealth has subconsciously become our belief. Beliefs like "it takes money to make money", or "money doesn't grow on trees" or "rich people are greedy and corrupt" or "money is evil" and whatever else.
As long as we have these beliefs inside of us we won't be able to change our financial situation even if we really want to or trying hard to do so. The change must come from the inside, from our mind. There are a lot of exercises in the book that help us understand our money beliefs and ways to install a new belief system around wealth and money. I realized that the more we buy into the news, the more we talk about "recession", the more we find an excuse to justify WHY we are not financially free. It's not our fault. It's the economy. Or; We were never rich; it's never going to happen. I was meant to be poor or middle class.
Everybody has different goals, not everyone wants to become a multi millionaire but let's face it, we all would like to have more of the green stuff.
The more we have, the more we can give and contribute to the world. We all deserve it and actually owe it to ourselves as well as to our friends and family.
Secret 1: The #1 Reason People Don't Succeed
People tend to not finish what they start. What's your chance of winning a race if you don't cross the finish line? No matter what you did prior to the finish line, you can't win the race if you don't cross that line. Completing what you start is the key to success, and frankly I think people don't give it enough credit.
And guess what? When you repeatedly fail to finish what you've started, this behavior becomes a HABIT.
Secret 2: Millionaires make it a Habit
Integrity. This simply means that you have built trust with yourself. You know that you will do what you say you are going to do.
If you make commitments to yourself that you don't keep, you train your mind to not do what you say you're going to do… which means you're training yourself to FAIL, and to fail habitually. To be a success, you must build a habit of integrity… In other words you have to do what you say you're going to do
Secret 3: Fail to plan and you plan to Fail
Rule # 1. Know your objective!
In the very beginning, before you take any action, take some time and get really clear what your top priority goal is. Don't listen to the urgencies in your life… try to listen to your inner voice and figure out what is most important. Don't become busy running around losing track of where you are going. CLARITY leads to POWER
Rule #2: You must have a plan
Now that you know what your goal is, you need to develop a plan of how to get there…you must have a sense of where to focus your energy and in what order to begin taking action. Can you get help with all of this? Yes. Getting people to support you and work together as a team. You can formulate a much better plan using the knowledge and skills of a whole team of people than you can by yourself. You have to do a plan, concrete and written, and start with something.
Rule #3: Know Your Obstacles Up Front
What challenges or obstacles may come up on the way to reaching your goal? If you don't know plan for these, then when they come up - and, believe me, they will - they could take you out. Knowing your obstacles ahead of time will help you manage them and find away to overcome them rather than throw you off track, stop you and make you fail.
