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HOW TO ACHIEVE GOALS IN 12 STEPS, BY BRIAN TRACY
1. Have a desire
What is that one thing that you truly desire? That one thing that makes you excited, keeps you up at night, makes you feel butterflies in your stomach?
This is not the moment to be logical and think what you should want in your life. Put your logic aside and listen to your heart. Allow yourself to desire whatever you want. You know the saying think big? Well, desire big, too!
2. Believe
You have to absolutely believe you can achieve your goal. If you start by doubting your possibilities one thing will happen for sure – you will fail. It’s been even proven by scientist and it’s called a self-fulfilling prophecy: what you expect, eventually manifest itself in your reality.
On the contrary, if you really believe you can do it, you wil start seeing all the possibilities to make it happen, you will have more courage and energy to chase your dreams.
It is not always easy to have that kind of faith. We have all failed more than once and we fear that we can fail again.
So what can you do to help yourself believe you can achieve your goals?
Set smaller goals for yourself first, so you can see and enjoy your small successes. Slowly, increase your goals. The worst thing you can do is set too big of a goal, something unrealistic. You almost force yourself to fail and prove to yourself that you are not strong enough. So start small. Build your faith and courage.
3. Write it down
There is something magical about writing things down. Psychologists have proven that we become more committed to what we write down versus what we say. So write down your goals.
Brian suggest a 3P formula for writing down your goals: use present, positive and personal statement.
That means that if your goal is to earn USD 500,000 by the end of the year, you should write: I earn USD 500,000 by the end of this year. You use verbs in present tense, you use positive language (you write what you want, not what you don’t want) and you write in 1st person: I.
4. Analyze your starting point
You know where you want to get. Analyzing where you are now allows you to understand what you will need to do. If your goal is to be 55kg then you need to know your current weight to know how much you need to lose and plan it accordingly.
Be honest with yourself. This is not the moment to allow your ego sabotage your efforts. Whatever your goal is, do a thorough analysis of your strengths and weaknesses in this area.
5. Determine why you want to excel in this area
Knowing why you want to achieve a particular goal will help you stay focused on it in moments of difficulties and doubt. Usually when we start working on a new project, we are very excited and super motivated. But those feelings don’t last forever. They usually come and go.
So take some time to write down at least 5 reasons why you want to achieve your goal. How will your life improve once you get it? How will your relationships look like?
Make a list (yes, write it down!) and keep it always available to you.
6. Set a deadline
Setting deadlines for your goals is one of the main rules for achieving them. Having a deadline helps you in 2 ways. Firstly, it allows you to plan. You start by deciding when you want to achieve your goal, and plan backwards. This way you will know how much you need to work on your goal every month, ever week and every day.
Secondly, it adds a pressure. Humans are lazy by nature. Setting deadlines adds a pressure that motivates us to work.
Think of any assignment you had to do at work on in the university. Have you ever procrastinated on it until a deadline came and you had no other choice but to do it?
Your deadline is your best guess about when the goal should be achieved. Don’t worry so much about not meeting it. In some cases, you won’t. But it doesn’t mean you failed. Deadlines are there to help us achieve our goals, but by no means are they determinants of our success.
Once you know a deadline for your goal, set deadlines for all the steps you will need to accomplish beforehand.
7. Identify the obstacles
I can guarantee that you will encounter difficulties on your way to achieving your desired outcome. But don’t let that discourage you. Everybody who has achieved great goals in their lives, had to overcome some kind of obstacles.
Think of what could be an obstacle for you. Knowing what the worst case scenario can be, allows you to be prepared. So if the obstacle does appear (though it doesn’t always have to), you will know exactly what to do.
Brian gives a very interesting theory on obstacles. He uses a famous Pareto rule of 80/20 and explains it this way: 80% of all obstacles comes from within us, and only 20% are due to external factors. This is a good news. It means that you have control on 80% of what could stop you from achieving your goals. these are usually some traits in our personality or lack of skills. And you can work on all of them.
8. Determine the additional knowledge and skill you need
You have a goal. Now ask yourself why is it that this goals is not yet a reality? You probably need to get some new skills and knowledge to achieve it. identify them. Understand what new skills you need to pick to become an expert in the field and to help you get where you want. Create a list of books, events and courses you will need to take to get there. This is how you work on that 80% of obstacles – the part that lies within us.
9. Determine the people you’ll need
At more than one time you will need help from somebody. Identify key people for your success. Who can teach you what you need to know? Who can help you stay focused and motivated?
Once you have that list, start working on relationships with these people. Offer then your help first. Don’t expect them to help you if you are not willing to do the same for them. Be genuine and honest. Don’t use anybody for your goals, but create real relationships beneficial for both of you.
10. Make a plan
You’ve probably heard the saying that what doesn’t get planned doesn’t get done. Or as Benjamin Franklin once said: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Having a plan for achieving your goal is essential to your success. Without it, how will you know what to work on? We have limited resources (like time and energy) and you need to make sure you put them to the right use.
Make a plan. This is your roadmap. But stay flexible. Observe how the environment changes. You might need to adjust your plan more than once. Be open for it. Planning itself is a part of your success.
11. Visualize
This is a very important part for you to achieve your goals, unfortunately often ignored. Visualization is a great tool to help you get where you want to get. And its powers are almost limitless.
Create a habit of visualizing what you want. If you want to lose weight, see yourself with the body of your dreams. If you want to have your own business, picture yourself as a successful businessman. By doing so you activate your subconscious, or as Brian calls it – your supermind.
Here is how the magic works. Your external (the world you live in) is a reflection of your internal (your imagination, beliefs). If you want to change the external, you need to first change the internal. In an almost magical way you will see how the world changes to fit your internal.
It works because of the 2 laws. First one is what we’ve already discussed: self-fulling prophecy. Visualizing having achieved your goals makes you behave in a way that helps you notice all the possibilites and dismiss any obstacles. That keeps you focused and motivated.
The second law is called the Law of Attraction. It states that whatever it is that you mostly think of, whatever it is that you are always focused on and truly desire, will be attracted to you. You will suddenly notice that the right people and the right opportunities come to your life.
12. Never give up
The key to achieving your goal is persistence. No matter how much talent you have, if you don’t persist, you might just give up right before your big breakthrough. Don’t let any failures discourage you. You already know that obstacles will happen. Whenever they do – work ont hem and keep going forward. Once you decide you want to achieve a goal, make a decision to never ever give up.
5 EASY STEPS TO SET LIFE GOALS
How to Set Goals
Whether you have small dreams or lofty expectations, setting goals allows you to plan how you want to move through life. Some achievements can take a lifetime to attain, while others can be completed in the course of a day. Whether you’re setting broad overarching goals or planning specific manageable goals, you’ll feel a sense of accomplishment and self-worth. Getting started can seem daunting, but we’ll show you how to build up to even the loftiest dream.
STEP 1.
Determine your life goals. Ask yourself some important questions about what you want for your life. What do you want to achieve: today, in a year, in your lifetime? The answers to this question can be as general as “I want to be happy,” or “I want to help people.” Consider what you hope to attain 10, 15, or 20 years from now.
A career life goal might be to open your own business. A fitness goal might be to become fit. A personal goal might be to have a family one day. These goals can be incredibly broad.
STEP 2
Break the big picture down into smaller and more specific goals. Consider areas of your life that you either want to change or that you feel you would like to develop with time. Areas might include: career, finances, family, education, or health. Begin to ask yourself questions about what you’d like to achieve in each area and how you would like to approach it within a five year time frame.
For the life goal “I want to be fit,” you might make the smaller goals “I want to eat more healthily” and “I want to run a marathon.”
For the life goal “I want to open my own business,” the smaller goals may be “I want to learn to manage a business effectively” and “I want to open an independent book store.”
STEP 3
Write goals for the short term. Now that you roughly know what you want to accomplish within a few years, make concrete goals for you to begin working on now. Give yourself a deadline within a reasonable time frame (no more than a year for short-term goals).
Writing your goals will make them harder to ignore, consequently making you accountable for them.
To become fit, your first goals may be to eat more vegetables and to run a 5K.
To open your own business, your first goals may be to take a bookkeeping class and to find the perfect location for your bookstore.
STEP 4
Make your goals steps towards life goals. Basically, you need to decide why you’re setting this goal for yourself and what it will accomplish. Some good questions to ask yourself when figuring this out are: does it seem worthwhile? Is now the right time for this? Does this match my needs?[5]
For example, while a short-term fitness goal might be to take up a new sport within 6 months, ask yourself if that will help you reach your bigger goal of running a marathon. If not, consider changing the short term goal to something that will be a step towards meeting the life goal.
STEP 5
Adjust your goals periodically. You may find yourself set in your ways concerning broad life goals, but take the time to re-evaluate your smaller goals. Are you accomplishing them according to your time frame? Are they still necessary to keep you on track towards your larger life goals? Allow yourself the flexibility to adjust your goals.
To become fit, you may have mastered running 5K races. Perhaps after you have run a few and worked on improving your personal best times, you should adjust your goal from “run a 5K” to “run a 10K.” Eventually you can move to “run a half marathon,” then “run a marathon.”
To open your own business, after completing the first goals of taking a bookkeeping class and finding a location, you may set new goals to obtain a business loan to purchase a space and to apply for the proper business licensing through your local government. Afterwards, you can move towards buying (or leasing) the space, then obtaining the books you need, hiring staff, and opening your doors to business. Eventually you may even work towards opening a second location!
11 LESSONS THEY DON’T TEACH YOU AT SCHOOL
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MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES
75 quotes about success to inspire you to keep pushing forward and achieve your dreams.
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” James Cameron
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Henry David Thoreau
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” John Wooden
“Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence.” Lisa M. Amos
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” Jim Rohn
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life–think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” Swami Vivekananda
“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” Tony Hsieh
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney
“If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.” Anonymous
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
“Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” Vaibhav Shah
“Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.” Denzel Washington
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” Chris Grosser
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” Albert Einstein
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“The best revenge is massive success.” Frank Sinatra
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” David Brinkley
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” Henry Ford
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” Oscar Wilde
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” Bruce Feirstein
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” John D. Rockefeller
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” Ray Goforth
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe
“People ask, ‘What’s the best role you’ve ever played?’ The next one.” Kevin Kline
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas Jefferson
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” Napoleon Hill
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” Robert Collier
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” Thomas J. Watson
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” Michael John Bobak
“You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” Philippos
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” Pablo Picasso
“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” Earl Nightingale
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” Bill Cosby
“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.” Carl Bard
“I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” Martha Stewart
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” Mark Caine
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” Bruce Lee
“Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” Jimmy Spithill
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” Charles F. Kettering
“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it–teach yourself to be impatient.” Gurbaksh Chahal
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” Steve Jobs
“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” T. Harv Eker
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” Jim Rohn
“The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” Napoleon Hill
“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” Jane Smiley
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” George Bernard Shaw
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” Diane Ackerman
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Ryun
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” Francis Chan
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn
“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” Larry Winget
“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” Mike Gafka
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” Baltasar
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” Margaret Thatcher
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” Stephen Covey
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” G. K. Chesterton
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas A. Edison
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” Robert Hughes
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?” Robert Schuller
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” Abraham Lincoln
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” John Maxwell
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” Thomas J. Watson
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein
“Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there’s an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.” Dax Shepard
“My tombstone? I’m thinking something along the lines of, ‘Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'” George Carlin
THOUGHT AND CHARACTER
THOUGHT AND CHARACTER
THE aphorism, “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he,” not only embraces the whole of a man’s being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. This applies equally to those acts called “spontaneous” and “unpremeditated” as to those, which are deliberately executed.
Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.
“Thought in the mind hath made us, What we are, By thought was wrought and built. If a man’s mind Hath evil thoughts, pain comes on him as comes The wheel the ox behind….
..If one endure
In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow—sure.”
Culled from James Allen’s AS A MAN THINKETH.
THE POWER OF THOUGHTS.
If you fill your mind with FEAR, doubt and unbelief in your ability to connect with, and use the forces of Infinite Intelligence, the law of auto-suggestion will take this spirit of unbelief and use it as a pattern by which your subconscious mind will translate it into its physical equivalent. THIS STATEMENT IS AS TRUE AS THE STATEMENT THAT TWO AND TWO ARE FOUR! Like the wind which carries one ship East, and another West, the law of auto-sug- gestion will lift you up or pull you down, according to the way you set your sails of THOUGHT. The law of auto-suggestion, through which any person may rise to altitudes of achievement which stagger the imagination, is well described in the following verse:
“If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you like to win, hut you think you can’t…
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10 negative-sounding words that have positive meanings.
1. Immeasurable.
As I show in number two below, the affix “im-” often functions to introduce negative meanings in independent words that begin with an “m.” That’s why words like “immaterial,” “immature,” “immodest,” “immoderate,” etc. are the negative forms of the root words they modify. But “immeasurable” isn’t the negative form of “measurable.” It means too great to be measured.
2. Invaluable.
Although most English words that begin with the morpheme “in-” often have a negative meaning because “in-” signifies “not” or “opposite of” (think of “inelegant,” “insurmountable,” “ineradicable,” “inelastic,” “insane,” “incompetent,” etc.), “invaluable” means so valuable that it’s difficult to calculate.
In English morphology the affix “il-“ is used to form negative meaning in root words that begin with an “l” (e.g. “illiterate, “illegal,” “illegitimate,” etc.), “im-“ is used before words that begin with the letters “a”“b,”“m” or “p,” (e.g. “imbecile,” “immaterial,”“impractical,” etc.), “ir-“ before words that begin with an “r,” (e.g. “irreplaceable,” “irreparable,” “irredeemable,” etc.) and “in-“ before most letters.
But the “in-” in “invaluable” isn’t negative. On the contrary, it signifies a surfeit of positives. The Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition defines it as “having great value that is impossible to calculate; priceless.” The word entered the English language in the 1570s with this meaning. By the 1630s, however, there was a shift in its meaning. It came to mean “without value; worthless.” That meaning didn’t last long. After the 1630s,“invaluable” reverted to its original meaning, and has retained that meaning ever since.
3. Inestimable.
Like “invaluable,” the affix “in-“hasn’t made the word the opposite of “estimable.” It rather means too estimable to be estimated. The Random House Dictionary defines it as “of incalculable value; valuable beyond measure; priceless.” It’s a Latin word whose original form is “inaestimabilis.” It came to French, according to etymologists, in the late 14th century as “inestimable” from where it made its way to English. The word has been used in English to mean “too precious to set a value on, priceless” since at least the 1570s.
As my prefatory remarks show, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s famous description of his wife as his “jewel of inestimable value” helped popularise this word in Nigeria.
4. Inflammable.
This is perhaps the most perilously misunderstood word in the English language. In spite of appearances to the contrary, it is not the opposite of “flammable”; on the contrary, it is synonymous with “flammable,” which is a relatively recent made-up word, as you will see shortly. It means capable of catching fire, combustible. Several accidents have happened in the English-speaking world as a result of the semantic confusion that arose from this word. Materials that are described as “inflammable” are often misunderstood as “not capable of catching fire,” which is the exact opposite of what the word actually means.
In light of the accidents that the misunderstanding of the word has caused, American safety experts launched a sustained campaign as early as 1920 for the abandonment of the word and for its replacement with “flammable,” at least in technical usage. “The National Safety Council, The National Fire Protection Association, and similar organisations have set out to discourage the use of the word ‘inflammable’ and to encourage the use of the word ‘flammable’ instead. The reason for this change is that the meaning of ‘inflammable’ has so often been misinterpreted,” a statement said in 1920.
The British Standards Institution followed suit. It also discouraged the use of “inflammable.” In a 1959 statement, it said, “In order to avoid any possible ambiguity, it is the Institution’s policy to encourage the use of the terms ‘flammable’ and ‘non-flammable’ rather than ‘inflammable’ and ‘non-inflammable’.”
Inflammable came to English from Medieval Latin around 1600 and meant exactly what it means in English-well, until native English speakers decided to chop off the “in” in the word to have “flammable.” Interestingly, Latin-based languages like French still use “inflammable” to mean “capable of catching fire.” In Canada where government regulation requires combustible materials to be labeled in both English and French, the English warning often reads “flammable” while the French warning reads “inflammable” on the same combustible material! Now, that’s really combustible!
This confusion is a result of the morphological characteristics of Latin, which has two uses for the affix “in-.” The first obvious use of the affix is to form opposites of words, as I showed earlier. But a second, less-known use is to accentuate the meaning of a word. Examples can be found in words like inculcate, incubate, indoctrinate, etc. Inflammable falls in that category.
5. Inhabitable.
This negative-sounding positive word almost causes the same confusion as “inflammable.” In its contemporary usage, it is the synonym, not the antonym, of “habitable.” An inhabitable place is a place that is fit to live in. It is an entirely positive word. However, etymologists point out that in the late 14th century when the word made its first appearance in English, it used to mean the exact opposite of what it means today. It meant “not fit to live in.” That was the meaning William Shakespeare had in mind when, in 1597, he wrote: “Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps, / Or any other ground inhabitable.”
“Inhabitable” took its current meaning (that is, fit for habitation) from the 1600s. It came about as a derivational morpheme of “inhabit” (inhabit + able), which has always meant to live in or to dwell both in English and in Latin (where it is rendered as inhabitare). The modern antonym of “inhabitable” in English is “uninhabitable.”
6. Numberless.
Although the word can mean “without numbers” (the suffix “less” means “without”) it often means too numerous to be counted.
7. Peerless.
Although the suffix “less” introduces negative meaning in words (such as “useless,” “careless,” etc.) the “less” in peerless isn’t negative. It means beyond comparison, matchless (another word with the “less” suffix but which means something positive). A peerless scholar has no rival. He is the best of the best.
8. Priceless.
This is another positive word with a “less” suffix. It means “having a value beyond price.”
9. Inimitable.
It means too great to be imitated, irreproducible, without comparison, one of its kind.
10. Unnumbered.
Although this word can mean “without number” (as in “unnumbered pages”), it can also mean “too numerous to be counted” as in, “she spent unnumbered hours reading the committee’s bulky report.”
HOW OLD IS YOUR ATTITUDE?
HOW OLD IS YOUR ATTITUDE?
I saw this inscription on a car this morning, and it got me thinking. “How old is your attitude?”.
What is the predominant attitude in your life?
When did you pick up this attitude?
Who helped you with this attitude?
How long have I been with this attitude?
Is this attitude ripe for change?
Pondering over these questions, got me asking another vital question, “How expensive is your attitude?
” What has my attitude cost me?
How much does it take to sustain this attitude?
Has this attitude deprived me of anything important?
Could my life be any better without this attitude?
As ponder over these questions and more, I’m generating answers that can help me live a better life. I hope you will do same.
Regards,
Gabriel Ameke.
AVERAGE PEOPLE vs RICH PEOPLE
1. Average people think MONEY is the root of all evil. Rich people believe POVERTY is the root of all evil.
2. Average people think selfishness is a vice. Rich people think selfishness is a virtue.
3. Average people have a lottery mentality. Rich people have an action mentality.
4. Average people think the road to riches is paved with formal education. Rich people believe in acquiring specific knowledge.
5. Average people long for the good old days. Rich people dream of the future.
6. Average people see money through the eyes of emotion. Rich people think about money logically.
7. Average people earn money doing things they don’t love. Rich people follow their passion.
8. Average people set low expectations so they’re never disappointed. Rich people are up for the challenge, they dream big.
9. Average people believe you have to DO something to get rich. Rich people believe you have to BE something to get rich.
10. Average people believe you need money to make money. Rich people use other people’s money.
11. Average people believe the markets are driven by logic and strategy. Rich people know they’re driven by emotion and greed.
12. Average people live beyond their means. Rich people live below theirs.
13. Average people teach their children how to survive. Rich people teach their kids to get rich
14. Average people let money stress them out. Rich people find peace of mind in wealth.
15. Average people would rather be entertained than educated. Rich people would rather be educated than entertained.
16. Average people think rich people are snobs. Rich people just want to surround themselves with like-minded people.
17. Average people focus on saving. Rich people focus on earning.
18. Average people play it safe with money. Rich people know when to take risks.
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