How You Are Limiting Your Success and 17 Ways to Change It
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?
I got through the first 25 pages of that book, but never really go into it. Sometimes books like this get me, because they are usually directed at people who have opportunities in their life, while glossing over the people who are really stuck and need a helping hand.
I returned it to the library, maybe I will get it out when I have more time.
Hi Christne that’s a great book, I read it a while ago (and also read “speed wealth”), and I even went to the 3 days intensive seminar. I loved the book and learned a lot, on the other hand the seminar wasn’t that great (overwhelmed by sales pitches the whole week-end)
That is so interesting Happy! I saw this as just the opposite! The way I saw it, it are those that have the least opportunities and the more financially troubled pasts that have the most to gain from this book. Thanks for sharing!
Wow Jon! You went to the seminar? (For those who haven’t read this book, it comes with an invitation to attend the author’s seminar) I was wondering if it would contain a lot of sales hype because the seminar was free. Just curious, what were they pitching?
Yeah, it’s just a gut feeling that so many of these books are just written to sell stuff and make money for themselves. Their target readers seem to be those already with decent money that are just not ‘living the life they want’.
I could also be a pulling on my heart to do something for people without resources. I have been thinking about writing a book that focuses on escaping poverty or starting a financial counseling that targeted very low income people. Make the book and services as inexpensive as possible, without the sales catch. So maybe my reaction to the book is more about a possible dream and personal desire than the content of the book.
Thanks for helping me think through that a little.
Hi Christine, well the seminar was ok, I learned great stuff there, the sales pitches were kind of overwhelming, they were pitching their other seminars (wizard training, train the trainer and others), that’s fine, I mean, the MMI seminar was free anyway, so they kinda have to pitch in their other programs, but the thing is too often they said things like “do you mind if I talk to you about this new program, it’ll take just 5 minutes” and 2 hours later the guy was still talking about it… after 3 times, we just left, in fact it was a 3 days seminar, and I attended only 2 days, I didn’t go on the Sunday. But appart from that the energy was incredible, it was a lot of fun to see the reactions, but seriously you really have to be in the mood and be open-minded, cause it’s really something, 12-14 hours per day for 3 days, you have to really want to be there. But still I loved the book!
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Interesting article and conversation. I’ll have to take a look at this one myself. I’ve heard of Eker and listened to a few of his recordings, but have never really studied what he has to say. Maybe this one will be added to my reading list.