Today is October 28th, 2008... and during these few hours
that make up today, you will be given the same amount of
time that billionaires have, the same amount of time that
leaders in every industry have... the same amount of time
the president has.
You have more control over what happens today in your life
than anyone else... that is true in most cases, unless
today is the day someone else decides your fate, based on
things you did on previous days...
In S.A. we have an election coming up next year. A
historic election... because there a lot of major issues at
stake.
But, hmmmmm...
It seems the same was true 4 years ago, and 8 years ago,
and 12 and 16...
40 years ago, there was lot at stake, too.
In fact, all throughout history, there were always changes
happening... and all throughout history, there were always
financial winners and financial losers.
The winners won no matter who was in office, no matter
what industries rose or fell, no matter what new technology
developments occurred.
At all times, there are people who get richer, people who
get poorer and people who always seem to be skidding along,
always just one decision away from complete financial ruin.
It's times like these -- when financial markets are in
upheaval -- that simply expose the mistakes people have
been making all along.
Now, concerning this election or any other, for that
matter, I hope you don't believe that your whole future
rests on who becomes our next president.
Because, frankly, it doesn't matter... or it shouldn't
matter.
As history teaches us, the thing that matters most is what
you do today and tomorrow and...
Today for example, thousands of little boys and girls will
be born into poverty.
They will have nothing.
Their mothers have no great skills. Their fathers will
end up leaving their moms never to return and never to help
them financially in any way. And many of those children
will grow up to be career criminals, stealing what they
can, and selling drugs just to survive.
But a small percentage will break free of it.
And those kids will become more, do more and have more
than the 99.9% of the people who were born into relative
comfort or even into wealth.
Because it doesn't matter who is at the top when you're at
the bottom.
All you can do, all you must do to make your financial
future rock solid, is take the right actions.
Every day.
Like the people who are truly financially secure.
There are hundreds of trainings and courses and mentors
who can teach you what to do. And I'll be sharing many of
them with you over the coming weeks, months and years.
But in order to take fullest advantage of what they teach,
you must BE the kind of person who makes your financial
health important.
You must be that person from the inside.
Or it will never happen.
...regardless of who is in office
...regardless of whether it's raining or snowing
...regardless of whether the planet is heating up or cooling
...regardless of who their boss is
...regardless of what province or country they live in
Yes, it's true that some situations are better to be in
than others...
Some politicians will make it easier. Some weather
patterns are more helpful than others. Some industries are
rising while others are falling. Some bosses help. Some
hurt.
And yes, it's easier to make it in some countries.
That is why mindset is so important.
The right mind can wipe out all your disadvantages and
level the playing field for you.
You CAN be financially independant... secure...
You CAN be free.
No matter who wins next year... or ever.
It starts inside.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Why brilliant people fail?
Yesterday afternoon I was in a rugby meeting, and the ball got
rolling with discussion about a question I got from a player
about his fear of stepping out of his older brother's
shadow... of taking action on what has evolved into his
passion.
He's young and wants to go into business and learn how to
manage and run a growing organization with the dream one
day of going into either politics or journalism. He also
wants to lose over 10 kilo’s and keep it off for good
because he wants to be taken seriously, and knows that he
is seen as weak by many people.
And it makes him feel weak, too, knowing that he hasn't
been able to control his food urges and be super healthy.
Wanting to be a leader of people, he said he knows that
he must get in control over himself before he can lead
others effectively.
I told him that those are huge ambitions that would
require total dedication, confidence and the ability to
stare fear in the face and squash it... take its power away.
Because there is very little in life that can stop you
from doing things you truly want to do.
Big goals and dreams are just like small ones except that
there are more steps, they take longer and when you get
closer, the risks are higher. Because in life, when you
want something very cool, you are probably competing with
other people... they want the same thing you do.
Or they just don't want you to succeed, and remind them of
their mediocrity... how they aren't going after their
dreams. Dream stealers. These are people you want to stay
away from.
Every big goal you could have has its own risks.
You can tick-off family and friends who don't want you to
change, grow, get new friends that aren't like them, and/or
they don't want you to move away.
Their wrath can come out in a lot of strange ways.
The big thing is when you endure failures, or get slowed
on your journey toward success (at anything), you will be
criticized... sometimes mercilessly. Often this hammering
can come from inside your own family...the exact people who
are supposed to be on your side.
You must push on.
If you fall down or get derailed enough times on your path
toward your dreams, your reputation can take many massive
hits. And ooooooh, it can hurt.
Make you want to quit.
Criticism can HURT.
But it won't kill you. And it does not have to stop you.
There can be other things to fear...
Loss of money and security.
Loss of physical health, in the form of injury or even the
risk of death.
But you can keep going in spite of the risks.
Now, I've seen many people take stupid, unnecessary risks.
I've taken my share of ill-advised gambles.
But there are two ways of handling failures (mistakes,
setbacks, errors, accidents, delays).
They can either stop you, where the only thing you learn
is that you are never going to reach your objective...
OR, they can make you more determined, teaching you dozens
of lessons that you use to win in the future.
It's always our choice.
Because if your life is the same now as it was 5 or 10
years ago, it's fear that made it that way.
If you are on the path to having a life, in 5 or 10 years,
that looks about the same as it does right now, it's fear
that will make it so.
Because every day we are given choices.
Most people can be pretty much whatever they make their
mind up to be. The average person has scary high
potential. But the average person uses hardly any of it.
Either you stare down fear, and go after your biggest
dreams every single day, or you do little and end up with a
meaningless life.
Releasing the fears that are stamped on us when we are
children is the key to unlocking your unlimited potential.
Shrinking the lifelong fears that have kept you small,
unimportant, unappreciated, underutilized, and way too
often unwanted or unloved can be so easy.
It's all in how you communicate with yourself.
When you change the way you communicate with yourself,
through your habitual, moment-by-moment mental pictures,
your affirmations, the questions you are posing to yourself
all through the day... when you make yours similar to the
people who are now doing what you want to do, then your
days will magically get better.
Because doing what you need to do to make those dreams
come true, in all areas of your life, mental and physical
health, education, relationships, spiritual, career,
financial, will become natural. Easy.
A snap.
rolling with discussion about a question I got from a player
about his fear of stepping out of his older brother's
shadow... of taking action on what has evolved into his
passion.
He's young and wants to go into business and learn how to
manage and run a growing organization with the dream one
day of going into either politics or journalism. He also
wants to lose over 10 kilo’s and keep it off for good
because he wants to be taken seriously, and knows that he
is seen as weak by many people.
And it makes him feel weak, too, knowing that he hasn't
been able to control his food urges and be super healthy.
Wanting to be a leader of people, he said he knows that
he must get in control over himself before he can lead
others effectively.
I told him that those are huge ambitions that would
require total dedication, confidence and the ability to
stare fear in the face and squash it... take its power away.
Because there is very little in life that can stop you
from doing things you truly want to do.
Big goals and dreams are just like small ones except that
there are more steps, they take longer and when you get
closer, the risks are higher. Because in life, when you
want something very cool, you are probably competing with
other people... they want the same thing you do.
Or they just don't want you to succeed, and remind them of
their mediocrity... how they aren't going after their
dreams. Dream stealers. These are people you want to stay
away from.
Every big goal you could have has its own risks.
You can tick-off family and friends who don't want you to
change, grow, get new friends that aren't like them, and/or
they don't want you to move away.
Their wrath can come out in a lot of strange ways.
The big thing is when you endure failures, or get slowed
on your journey toward success (at anything), you will be
criticized... sometimes mercilessly. Often this hammering
can come from inside your own family...the exact people who
are supposed to be on your side.
You must push on.
If you fall down or get derailed enough times on your path
toward your dreams, your reputation can take many massive
hits. And ooooooh, it can hurt.
Make you want to quit.
Criticism can HURT.
But it won't kill you. And it does not have to stop you.
There can be other things to fear...
Loss of money and security.
Loss of physical health, in the form of injury or even the
risk of death.
But you can keep going in spite of the risks.
Now, I've seen many people take stupid, unnecessary risks.
I've taken my share of ill-advised gambles.
But there are two ways of handling failures (mistakes,
setbacks, errors, accidents, delays).
They can either stop you, where the only thing you learn
is that you are never going to reach your objective...
OR, they can make you more determined, teaching you dozens
of lessons that you use to win in the future.
It's always our choice.
Because if your life is the same now as it was 5 or 10
years ago, it's fear that made it that way.
If you are on the path to having a life, in 5 or 10 years,
that looks about the same as it does right now, it's fear
that will make it so.
Because every day we are given choices.
Most people can be pretty much whatever they make their
mind up to be. The average person has scary high
potential. But the average person uses hardly any of it.
Either you stare down fear, and go after your biggest
dreams every single day, or you do little and end up with a
meaningless life.
Releasing the fears that are stamped on us when we are
children is the key to unlocking your unlimited potential.
Shrinking the lifelong fears that have kept you small,
unimportant, unappreciated, underutilized, and way too
often unwanted or unloved can be so easy.
It's all in how you communicate with yourself.
When you change the way you communicate with yourself,
through your habitual, moment-by-moment mental pictures,
your affirmations, the questions you are posing to yourself
all through the day... when you make yours similar to the
people who are now doing what you want to do, then your
days will magically get better.
Because doing what you need to do to make those dreams
come true, in all areas of your life, mental and physical
health, education, relationships, spiritual, career,
financial, will become natural. Easy.
A snap.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The way to happiness
I woke up this morning.
That was a good start.
And it got even better, fast...
Because I noticed that the first thought that came to me
was about one of the primary goals I wanted to achieve
today.
Then in rapid fire succession - 2 to 5 seconds each - were
thoughts of two parent calls, then the interviews I’m having tonight,
then I thought about the individual tasks that would make all the bigger
things happen without a hitch. This took about 30 seconds -
tops. They exhilarated me.
Then it occurred to me, beginning at about my 31st second
of consciousness, that the average person doesn't think
this way when they wake...
Or if they do think about all the major doings that are
supposed to happen when their eyes open in the morning, it
instantly causes negative stress.
And they say to themselves things like, "Oh, no... Not
again... Just ten more minutes of sleep... Why me?"
Anxiety begins to grow. And if they don't think about
something else fast, panic could be just around the corner,
waiting to put a choke hold on them.
So what results is that Joe Average hates
responsibilities. Anything that could add to the unwanted
stress of greater responsibility is avoided.
And the search for what is most fun in the moment is on.
Reading newspapers or emails, surfing the internet, social
phone calls, SMS’s, etc. Problems get bigger. Time, and
opportunity... and life are wasted.
This is why people smoke too much, drink too much and eat
too much. And why decisions that are obviously good for
them to make are never made. The smartest actions are
never taken.
In fact, hundreds of addictive patterns are often brought
on by an escapism mindset.
So goals are never set, plans are never made, and
achievements are never achieved.
That would be cool if you are just out for a night of fun,
or are on vacation and you're along for the ride.
But to live every day going with the flow is THE recipe
for waking up in ten years finding out that you are the
same as you were tens years ago and that nothing else has
changed either.
It is the recipe for health problems, financial problems,
social problems... ALL problems.
Having no clearly defined challenging goals every day is
not the way.
Growing is the way to happiness.
Having the mindset of a person who is constantly growing,
striving, achieving is the recipe for having a meaningful,
purposeful, happy life.
The happiest people you'll ever meet are almost always the
ones who've done the most, done things that matter, helped
more people, brought more enjoyment to others, created
more, done things better, faster and with less strain.
That was a good start.
And it got even better, fast...
Because I noticed that the first thought that came to me
was about one of the primary goals I wanted to achieve
today.
Then in rapid fire succession - 2 to 5 seconds each - were
thoughts of two parent calls, then the interviews I’m having tonight,
then I thought about the individual tasks that would make all the bigger
things happen without a hitch. This took about 30 seconds -
tops. They exhilarated me.
Then it occurred to me, beginning at about my 31st second
of consciousness, that the average person doesn't think
this way when they wake...
Or if they do think about all the major doings that are
supposed to happen when their eyes open in the morning, it
instantly causes negative stress.
And they say to themselves things like, "Oh, no... Not
again... Just ten more minutes of sleep... Why me?"
Anxiety begins to grow. And if they don't think about
something else fast, panic could be just around the corner,
waiting to put a choke hold on them.
So what results is that Joe Average hates
responsibilities. Anything that could add to the unwanted
stress of greater responsibility is avoided.
And the search for what is most fun in the moment is on.
Reading newspapers or emails, surfing the internet, social
phone calls, SMS’s, etc. Problems get bigger. Time, and
opportunity... and life are wasted.
This is why people smoke too much, drink too much and eat
too much. And why decisions that are obviously good for
them to make are never made. The smartest actions are
never taken.
In fact, hundreds of addictive patterns are often brought
on by an escapism mindset.
So goals are never set, plans are never made, and
achievements are never achieved.
That would be cool if you are just out for a night of fun,
or are on vacation and you're along for the ride.
But to live every day going with the flow is THE recipe
for waking up in ten years finding out that you are the
same as you were tens years ago and that nothing else has
changed either.
It is the recipe for health problems, financial problems,
social problems... ALL problems.
Having no clearly defined challenging goals every day is
not the way.
Growing is the way to happiness.
Having the mindset of a person who is constantly growing,
striving, achieving is the recipe for having a meaningful,
purposeful, happy life.
The happiest people you'll ever meet are almost always the
ones who've done the most, done things that matter, helped
more people, brought more enjoyment to others, created
more, done things better, faster and with less strain.
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