Aggie

I came across this just now and wanted to post it on here. Once again it brings the power of your thinking to the forefront.

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Have you made up your mind that you are ready to move into the field where the big earners play? You’re tired of low-income wages. You’re tired of barely getting by. You’re sick to the teeth of scrimping and never having enough. You are desperate for things to not just be better, but to be really great!

If that describes you, there are some questions you will need to face squarely and answer honestly.

1. If you want to become a millionaire (that’s fairly wealthy, wouldn’t you say), how do millionaires act?
2. If you want to become a big earner, how do big earners think?
3. If you want to be rich, what is it that differentiates the rich from the poor? Most people answer these questions something like this:

1. Millionaires live in big houses and buy luxury cars.
2. Big earners think about how much money they have to spend and where they’re going on their next cruise.
3. Rich are different from poor because they have more money.

Wrong, wrong and wrong!

You Will Never Join the Rich if You Never Know the Rich

Let’s take this questioning a step further. If you wanted to be a corporate executive, wouldn’t you need to know what corporate executives do and what it is that works best for them? If you wanted to be a sky diver, wouldn’t it be in your best interest to find out what successful sky divers do and what works for them? If you wanted to ski double-black diamond slopes, will you just head for the slopes one day and jump in with the veterans? Am I making my point?

If you want to be wealthy (rich) doesn’t it stand to reason that you would learn how wealthy people think? And learn how they are different? To believe you become truly wealthy just because you gain a ton money; is similar to thinking you are an expert sky diver just because you know how to strap on a parachute. There’s so much more to it!

This article is much too confined to do justice to such as study as this, but let’s make a brief, general overview. Hopefully it will create a desire in you to learn more. Just for clarification: we are referring to the rich as those who are wealthy inwardly as well as outwardly. If they lost everything tomorrow, they would have the wherewithal to build it all over again, because it isn’t the money, but their mindset.

Let’s begin by taking the cue from our title: Wealthy people invest in self-improvement of mind and spirit. Poor people invest in things like big-screen TVs.See how it works? Here are a few more.

• Wealthy people are willing to take calculated risks. Poor people want a guarantee (i.e. steady paycheck). They feel that the whole world is out to get them.
• Wealthy people step out of the pack; they are not afraid to work independently. Poor people have a herd mentality; they watch a lot of TV and let the world do their thinking for them.
• Wealthy people are solutions-minded; problems are just an annoying bump in the road. Poor people crash at the first sign of a problem – they were sure it wouldn’t work all along. The problem proved them right!
• Wealthy people are big thinkers; they aren’t afraid of a few extra zeroes in their income level. Poor people think small – after all, it’s safer that way.
• Wealthy people make quick decisions; they are always moving forward. Poor people procrastinate, and then procrastinate some more. They are waiting for the “just right” time to get onto that road to success. If these concepts and this way of looking at life are new to you, it’s time for you to get busy! Stop wasting time. As business philosopher Jim Rohn says: “We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life.”

It’s pretty obvious that wealthy, successful people have chosen the latter. Which will you choose?

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By: Rob Walcher (From: Here)

Whoa!

So I was listening to a set of audiobooks (Dave Ramsey – Financial Peace University [don't worry I'm not going to say go out and buy it... If you're interested, you can probably get it at a local library or borrow it from someone else]) and toward the end of one of them, he says something to the effect of “the average millionaire reads a non-fiction book or two a month…” (after further research, it seems that they read even more than that). I was floored. I thought I was the only one who made virtually daily trips to the library to LEARN, LEARN, LEARN… There are also a TON of millionaire statistics in the book “The Millionaire Next Door” (by: Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D.) and “The Millionaire Mind” (by: Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D.).

Other thought processes of Millionaires.

7 Core Beliefs of Millionaires:

1. Millionaires Believe in Having Balance in their Lives: Millionaires do first things first. They ask themselves, “What is the most important thing that I can be doing right now?”

2. Millionaires Know They Can’t Make it on Their Own: Millionaires leverage the power of the mastermind group. Millionaires surround themselves with other like-minded people to help them achieve far more than they could have done on their own or thought possible.

3. Millionaires Believe They Have No limitations: Millionaires don’t believe that the sky is the limit; that would be silly to believe such a thing. Millionaires believe there are no limits. The only limitations we have are the ones we put on ourselves. Millionaires also understand that all roadblocks to success are mental roadblocks. All problems and solutions rest within our own minds.

4. Millionaires Believe They are the Makers of Their Own Destiny: Millionaires choose to live and run their own lives. They do this by not letting setbacks and unwelcomed circumstances hold them back. Millionaires have a winner’s way of thinking; they go forward with the attitude that “Failure is not an option”. Robert G. Allen has referenced himself many times asking, “Could I do it if a loved one depended on me accomplishing this task or goal?” and you’ll find that the answer is always a resounding YES.

5. Millionaires Believe in Giving: Millionaires believe in the law of abundance. Millionaires know that there will always be plenty to go around. They also know that as they give, the universe will give back to them in greater abundance. Millionaires believe the more they give of their time, talents, knowledge, and wealth, the universe will give back exponentially to what is given.

6. Millionaires Believe That at the Root of Every Problem is a Seed of Opportunity: Millionaires believe they can turn any negative situation to a positive situation. Whether it’s personal, family, or financial; they see problems as an opportunity of improvement.

7. Millionaires Believe in Education: Millionaires don’t believe in having solely college education, they believe also in self-education. The average person reads less than one book per year; the average millionaire reads two books per week. I’m not talking about books such as Harry Potter either, rather, books such as Think and Grow Rich and 7 Habits of Highly Successful People. Millionaires become successful through their reading habits.

ENJOY!

Happy New Year To All! I hope everyone’s 2010 went well even with all of the peaks and troughs. Well, it has definitely been an interesting 2010 for me. So far so good, though. I can’t really complain. I still have two arms, two legs, and I’m still breathing.

Anyway, I’m just putting in an image just below for the year end Net Worth. Enjoy! Although it does look just like the one in the last post.

Ag's Net Worth 2010