How To Think Like A Millionaire pt 1

To become a millionaire, or be abundant in anything requires but a few things.

Mindset
Mindset
Mindset
Mindset

When people who have little income but would like much more are not prepared to take on the stark reality of altering their current mindset, I immediately lose the power to assist them. You cannot make millionaire income with a paupers mindset. Sue me for putting it so direct, but the change is vital! Even if you won the lottery there is a high possibility that without the right advice you will be poor again in about a year.

Anything of value must be correctly nurtured and taken care of, your car, your wife, your education, your kids, your yucca plant, your health, your money. YOU.

I interviewed and polled approximately 200 people over a period of time and asked if they believed that they could earn one million dollars in about a year or up to three years. Average to low income earners on the whole laughed at first in disbelief and joked about winning the lottery. I reminded them that I had said ‘earn‘ and they eventually said no, it was not possible in their position, on their current wages and they could not really ever see the possibility, which considering the riches of opportunity and wealth cosseting most western nations is rather sad, no? It is a little like a blind man watching a silent subtitled film. It’s all happening in front of him but he can’t see it.

The Mindset!

The mindset difference portrayed here is that the mid to low earner is assuming that he is stuck in his position. He cannot yet visualize alterations to his path that could change his income…amazingly and eventually.

He has never been taught to and for him it is not a natural ability. 

Where he see’s deprivation a Million Dollar Mind sees earning potential. During the credit crunch, the news fed continuously to the public was that there would be shortages and cutbacks and job loss and indeed there were. But someone forgot to tell the $20 million bonus earners working in the banks over this period, the energy companies enjoying record profits, or the independent money lenders, pawn brokers and property buyers who have snapped up most of the over leveraged houses at rock bottom prices!


The high income contributors to my above mentioned survey, (which included people like the investors from the BBC’s ‘Dragons’ Den’ and the BBC’s ‘The Mind Of A Millionaire’ series), immediately started thinking up solutions to achieve the challenge…I’m talking, immediately! They didn’t even need to say ‘yes’ – it was a given. They expressed absolutely no doubt, fueled by the fact that it had already been done before and boosted by a lack of programed fear.

And the truth is indeed that it is entirely do-able – whatever your current position. It has been done too many times by people from all over the world, all ages, and all walks of life.

Their secret? My secret?

Mindset.

A lot of people close their minds to possibility with excuses: the kids, lack of education, their age, their sex, their colour, lack of time, their upbringing. They say things like 'Why are you blaming the poor for being poor? It's not mindset. They didn't CHOOSE to be poor!' Imagine, if you will, becoming a millionaire from absolute zero. As a slave held captive in the US in the 1800's, the woman in this picture really understood what it is to be stripped of ALL opportunity. ALL human dignity. ALL human rights. Stripped even of her name, her time and self ownership. But Madame CJ Walker became the first black millionairess selling what she knew: hair products. In spite of her start, she CHOSE a new destiny. I have a ton more examples. You have the time? Coachie has the stories! We can CHOOSE to make endless excuses, or CHOOSE to make new lives. The DECISION is ours!

Many formal and informal studies have pointed out the difference between the SELF MADE, (not inherited), Haves and the Have Nots and it all boils down to Mindset. Have Nots tend to find limitations in everything. When the limitations don’t exist they invent them! Million Dollar Minds tend to find opportunities in everything. When the opportunities do not exist, they invent them! Million Dollar Minds see everything as a new and exciting challenge or a game and not as another energy sapping problem or immediately dismissed impossibility. However, should they embark excitedly on a new idea and the rot starts to set in after a few tough months (or years), they merely alter the idea or themselves a little.

They don’t have a Grumble Cushion.

What’s a Grumble Cushion?

It’s figurative. It’s where a lot of us fall back onto when things don’t go exactly our way and according to the opinions of other people who don’t even matter we…(whisper)..FAIL! It cushions our fall and we use it to spare our blushes. It’s nice and comfortable and has been used so often it is now rounded to the shape of our figurative bottoms. We keep returning back there to use it also to soften the blow to our ego’s, (so it has to be sewn fairly large!)

We let go of the reigns and fall back moaning and grumbling ‘oh this always happens to me’ or ‘how did THEY get there? I’m so much better. They must have slept their way to the top,’ or ‘it was everyone else’s fault,‘ or ‘that person is mutton dressed as lamb,’ or ‘too old to be doing that,’ or ‘me me me me me me me…it’s all about me and my issues!’ Recognize yourself a little? I know I do…occasionally!


Unfortunately it’s all rather too comfortable there isn’t it? On the cushy Grumble Cushion you don’t have to try anymore, just come up with excuses, complain and eat pies all day…much easier than trying again and again and again isn’t it?

I’m not suggesting that complaints are not justified. I am just pointing out basic differences between the two mindsets as noted by myself and many other authors on success behaviours.

People with the Million Dollar Mindset on the whole don’t have Grumble Cushions. It is not in place waiting to soften any blows or falls from grace.

When they fall, they probably would have seen it coming and would have usually got Plan B into place. Working at full speed getting Plan B together meant they had no time to invest in a Grumble Cushion.
They never have the time for that.
Because it is indeed a waste of time.

If I told you right now that I believed it is entirely possible for you to brush your teeth this evening and asked if you agreed with this belief, you would no doubt say ‘yes’ and an image of you brushing your teeth would involuntarily pop into your head as if to agree with you…can you see it there now?… Just over your right eye…or maybe to the centre a bit…
There is no doubt about your ability to perform this task is there? Now imagine if similarly you had no doubt that you could have one million added to your assets in less than six months!

This is the Million Dollar Mindset.

Certainty.

Certainty though confidence.

Certainty through determined appliance.

Our job here is to (re)install that certainty in you. Followed by confidence. Followed by the ‘How To.’

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