Right this moment, you are limiting your success. Every single thing that you are doing is causing you to be in the exact place that you are financially, professionally, and the like.  This knowledge is probably nothing new, but how are you going to change it?

Right now, you have an idea about what you are worth.  You may say that you want to earn x amount of dollars per year, but do you really feel like you are worth that much?  Why or why not?  Until you figure this out, you will continue to stay where you are at no matter how many books you read, seminars you attend, motivational CD’s you listen to, etc.

I found another great book over the weekend.  It’s called Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker.  Eker says that we all have a money blueprint- an image in our mind of what we are capable of based on old messages that we learned in the past.  This blueprint is currently affecting virtually everything about your financial state

He says that until you change this blueprint, the results will continue to be the same and I couldn’t agree more.

To one person, $100,000 per year would seem like a fantastic amount of money.  To another, it would be embarrassing.  What makes these two people different?  Only the way that perceive their self worth and the way they think about money.

If you really, honestly, truly want to change your financial situation, you’re going to have to do some serious soul searching to figure out why you are setting yourself up to achieve only what you have so far.

Eker devotes 140 pages to a detailed explanation of 17 ways that rich people think and act differently from poor and middle class people.  Some of these include:

• Rich people play the money game to win.  Poor people play the money game not to lose.
• Rich people admire other rich and successful people.  Poor people resent rich and successful people.
• Rich people associate with positive, successful people.  Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people
• Rich people choose to get paid based on results.  Poor people choose to get paid based on time.

These are just 4 or Ecker’s 17 Wealth File principles.  The rest, along with detailed explanations of each can be found in his book.  I know that I’ve got some work to do.  How do you stack up?

Live out of your imagination, not your history.  Stephen Covey

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