7 Wealthy Mentalities of Successful People

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There are no substitutes if you want to accomplish your lofty goals. 

Everyone wants to be successful. Most want to be wealthy. So why don’t we ever end up getting there? Although most of us face detours to our big dreams, it’s typically not external factors keeping us from achieving our dreams. It’s internal barriers that stop us.

If you want to build wealth and be successful, you first need to have the right mentalities.

1. Goals are golden. 

It’s no secret there’s a positive correlation between setting goals and overall productivity—professionals who have a measurable goal to work for are far more productive than those who are just “winging it.” But being goal-oriented and treating goals as “golden” is about more than just setting them in the first place. You have to treat them as a major priority, making heavy sacrifices to achieve them and breaking them down into smaller chunks when necessary. Creating your goals is just the first step of the process—you also need to have the follow-through to make them count.

2. The future is more important than the present. 

This concept, from a subjective standpoint, is debatable. You could easily argue that living “in the moment” is more important than worrying about the future, but people who are future-oriented, that is to say, people who make decisions based on future payoffs, are far more likely to be successful. Future-oriented people aren’t afraid to make short-term sacrifices if it means a long-term gain, and they aren’t tempted to engage in momentary pleasures that would rob them of some future payoff. Their future selves are the main priority.

3. Failure isn’t a bad thing. 

The fear of failure permeates our society and it leads millions to live their lives in complacency. For example, you’re working in a job you hate with a pay and advancement ceiling. You have the option to quit and start your own business, but you’re so afraid of failing that you never give it a real shot. Failure is always a possibility and as a society we need to stop decrying it. Successful people see failure as a necessary step of the process and a valuable learning opportunity. Moreover, few plans are executed smoothly—how you handle them when they go wrong is more important than when they go right.

4. Opportunities exist everywhere.

Opportunities arise when you least expect them. They may take the form of hidden strengths in an idea you were about to toss, or a potential partnership with a stranger you met in a coffee shop. When you adopt the mindset that opportunities truly exist everywhere, in every moment of every day, you’ll be on the lookout for them. By that virtue alone, you’ll discover more opportunities for yourself, and you’ll end up earning far more value in your life.

5. Calculated risks are important. 

Risks are scary, but without them, there’s substantially less room to grow. Studies suggest that the wealthiest, most successful professionals of our time are ones who weren’t afraid to take a calculated risk—they went against the grain, gambled on an idea they thought was worth the investment and weren’t afraid to stake possible sacrifices. If you aren’t taking any risks, you aren’t making the move toward possible rewards, and, of course, without the rewards, you’ll never get anywhere.

6. Consistency is good, until it becomes prohibitive. 

This is a complicated mental state to try and achieve, but it’s an important one. For the most part, consistency is incredibly important. For example, if one of your goals is to accrue wealth through investments, you have to invest a certain amount of money every month or you’ll lose momentum. However, there’s a point at which consistency does more harm than good—when it starts to lead you down the wrong path, such as when you’ve developed a bad habit or an unproductive routine. It’s hard to spot when these “bad” kinds of consistency crop up, but you’ll need to closely watch for them.

7. Nothing is ever perfect. 

Accepting the reality that nothing is perfect helps you in countless areas. You won’t be as worried about taking risks. You won’t be as hesitant about starting a new project. You won’t be as deterred when something goes wrong, or when you overlooked a major flaw. You won’t find yourself perpetually waiting for the “perfect” time to launch a product, and you won’t abandon your goals just because you didn’t achieve them in the way you first expected.

It’s not easy to achieve these mentalities. Don’t expect to adopt them instantaneously. You’ll most likely have a hard time accepting some of them, especially if they conflict with your inherent and learned views of the world. But if you can slowly integrate them into your ongoing mental state and accept their maxims as truth, you’ll start making better decisions and forming habits that will one day lead you to the success you’ve always dreamed of. Remain patient and never stop moving forward.

Even your biggest heroes were unknown before they started

Even your biggest heroes were unknown before they started.
Everyone starts somewhere. It doesn’t matter where you start. Some people start with better opportunities than others. Some people start with less but the fact is all the people that you have heard of are people who started. They started as unknowns and they built their success from that. This is how they became our hero’s.
When you develop self-belief you are able to dream- -These dreams turn into events and opportunities to make those dreams real. This vision is born in the mind and developed in the mind first before it can appear in the world.
Think about your biggest heroes and think about what they had to overcome to achieve the status that they did. Think about how they were able to do this. This is a key part of becoming self-empowered. This is a key part in living the dream. Learning to focus on having something that seems far, far away is the key. Developing this is not an easy task, but then, what in life is?
What did our heroes learn?
Learning to do something new almost always takes time and effort. The results may not be what you wanted them to be. What this really means is that you haven’t convinced yourself that the impossible is possible yet. Your sub-couscous still thinks that you can’t achieve it. This is where the commitment to success has to take root. This is where the vision has to be practiced and made strong. Each day you need to tell yourself that you are going to achieve your goal. Each day you have to build that belief that you can accomplish it. The stronger your self-belief- - the bigger the results.
You have read many stories of your heroes struggling to succeed and you think to yourself, “How could anyone say no to that person”. It is amazing that some of our hero’s found the strength and belief to keep going but they had a vision and that vision was undoubtedly attainable for them.
Most things don’t happen overnight.- -Life is a journey and it is to be enjoyed in each moment throughout the journey. Every step you take toward your goal is one step closer your journey’s end.
The problem is that a lot of people take the first few steps and as soon as they stumble they decide that it is too hard and give up. If you don’t convince your subconscious that you will succeed then when you stumble it will feel like you should quit. You get the result that you expect. The key is to expect nothing but what you envisioned.
When you are armed with this self-empowerment you gain a confident that no matter what happens you will find a way to succeed. This is what our heroes knew. They knew that they would draw the things and situations needed to succeed.
Their vision will come to be in the real world. Before you knew who your heroes were they knew where they were going and they stayed focused on it.
They taught themselves to believe.







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Uncovering Your Passion

Uncovering Your Passion

Uncovering Your Passion

Successful entrepreneurs have a mind set unlike others, but one thing that they have that is critical to their business venture ideas that becomes their million dollar ideas, and in creating successful business for themselves, they have PASSION!

Similar to lust and love, sometimes I believe we can get a bit confused with which is which, and it is not until we feel true love do we understand what it is. For example, in those younger years and thought to be in love only to find out many years later that all we were doing was living a state of lust during those premature dating years. Passion is similar, where you don't really understand it until we uncover it. I use the term uncover, mostly because we all have something we are passionate about lying deep within us, the problem is most of us just haven't unleashed it. We tend to never take the time to "stop and smell the roses" in our overwhelming day-to-day lives. We are in a world where we have to go, go, go, especially as entrepreneurial mothers, trust me I completely understand. It is not until we are in a situation that forces us to uncover or rediscover that passion (because we got so busy we stopped doing the things that brought us joy). These situations that cause us to pause and reflect sometimes happen forcefully. By forcefully I mean, we did not intend to manifest a situation that causes our lives to seem in that moment out of balance, possibly even create some chaos in our lives. This is why I believe in many cases when we go through difficult times, these situations are simply signs from the Universe telling us to slow down, and take notice of what is before us. When we take notice of these manifested circumstances our perspective on them changes, and we do not see them as difficult times, but more along the lines of simply lessons and awakenings that we must pay attention to (this is my new perspective after having experienced the latter). I believe, and from my personal experience if we do not take the time to learn and pay attention to these circumstances that we attract we tend to see them as bad times, or bad luck, and we begin to throw ourselves into a spiral of depression screaming "why, why me", making it much harder to see what the Universe is intending to show us – which is a good thing if we choose to change our perspective.

We are all born to be the best that we can be. We are all born to live lives filled with joy, passion and love, living fulfilling and amazing life experiences. This is our mission in life, and that is absolute!

Without heart, there can be no passion, no enthusiasm, no feeling of energy and no charisma.  A leader high on heart and emotional intelligence breeds victory.  A disheartened leader, doubtful and stressed, manifests loss.

– John J. Murphy, Leading with Passion

For a long time I thought I was following my passion, until one day I had that "aha" moment when I realized that as my role in my life had changed over the course of time, these changes were simply leading me towards uncovering my true passion. I kept resisting by simply ignoring the signs, and thought stubbornly to myself, I am passionate about my business, I have to be, I built it from nothing. Now just to be clear, I was passionate about the business I had started, but it wasn't the business itself, it was the things I was doing in my business. You see, I realized I was passionate about starting a business and that whole process of building something out of nothing, and making it successful, which I did. I was passionate about working with people, and creating partnerships and great professional relationships, helping them to grow their ideas and businesses. I was passionate about many of the things I was doing; I just needed to find a way to incorporate these elements into other avenues that allowed me to further express my passion.

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So one day, I realized, I have chosen to be a mother, that is my role, the most important role I have, and I want to be a great mother, I want to be there for my children emotionally and physically whenever they need me. In that moment, I realized that my greatest passion in my current life was in being a mother. I continued to list all the elements that I also felt passionate about which forced me to begin connecting the dots. Why not blend being a mother with the business world, and this is when I began to have successful business ideas, these were unique business ideas that started to come to me readily. It was like once I connected the dots, and accepted my role as a mother as being a passion of mine, it all made sense. It's similar to people who have hobbies, and say "well it's just my hobby, I couldn't make a living doing this", but the reality is you could if it was your passion, it is what you are meant to be doing, begin to monetize it!

I feel I fought myself on discovering my passion for quite some time, and it was only because I allowed my ego to get in the way of this uncovering. I didn't want to believe that being a mother could possibly be a passion, and least of all something I could somehow blend with my business world. But once I did make this realization some great entrepreneurial ideas where unleashed and all these innovative business ideas began to flourish. I (or my ego) wanted to believe that the business I was running was my passion, but it wasn't, although there were many elements that I was doing that were inline with my passion, I had to take the time to dissect it and uncover some amazing insights into who I was.

What led me to this "aha" moment, was simply realizing that I was unhappy, I wasn't as successful as I imagined myself to be, I felt unfulfilled, I felt under valued, I knew I had so much more potential in me, and I wanted to feel amazing.

What you are thunders so loudly that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.– Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I remember listening to the radio one day, and they were interviewing the infamous Snoop Lion aka Snoop Dog. They asked him what he believed the purpose to life was; I was expecting everything but the response he gave. He responded: "to use the gifts God gave us"! Brilliantly spoken! It is up to us to uncover these gifts and use them, so that we can live fulfilling lives, as we were meant to and inspire other along our journeys.

Your next step is to uncover your gifts, and once you do, you will uncover your passion, and you will absolutely be one step closer to creating the life of your dreams. It is important to follow your passion, because it can take you where you never thought you would go. When you walk in the path of least resistance you can amount to great things, and affect those around you to create positive changes in their lives as well.  Be true to your passion, experience it, Live it and always be true to what you Love to do, because you will always be successful when you follow you heart.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. – Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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Belief in Yourself

The stronger your belief in yourself, the more you can have and achieve. Believing in yourself, in your abilities and in your capabilities is what makes your reality so undeniable. Today, more than ever, individuals need to believe in themselves and in their individual capabilities. With all the influence of social media, its difficult to differentiate truth from fiction. Its harder and harder to know the facts about any particular subject. I was always told that you can not believe everything you hear as truth, until you know the facts are concrete. 

But it seems to me that the further we move into the future the more we allow social media to control the direction of our future. Its as if the media is

controlling the direction of individuals. Instead of individuals creating the lives in which they desire and following their dreams. We must learn to take to take back control of the influences that we allow in our lives. And this is where our belief in ourselves, helps in the development of self esteem, self development and in our individual successes. There are many tools when used in conjunction with belief that help in propelling you to higher levels. Levels in which were unconceivable before belief.

Belief in yourself helps in acquiring that which you desire. In my past/present education, belief has been the first vital ingredient toward any worth while accomplishment in my development and
life. For if you believe you can do a thing the battle is 90% won. It is truly fascinating how powerful belief in yourself truly is. For if you truly believe, there is not a thing that can/will be held from you. For belief is that power that attracts and brings into your life all you could ever imagine and receive.

Belief is a tool that can be developed in our lives. As it has been stated over and over throughout the
years, it is a tool that can be perfected with proper application and desire.  These applications will be focused on changing and correcting the proper use of true information stored within your subconscious minds. For it is through our subconscious that our belief (our true belief) is uncovered and stored. So here is the foundation of our belief system, our subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind is the storage of our thoughts, our life experiences, our beliefs or our definition of our beliefs in things(our perception of how we interpret and see life). It is our connection with infinite intelligence. It is our connection to all others. Our connection to all knowledge and power.  So tapping and redirecting of our subconscious minds is the infinite goal of all mankind. Because if we learn to harness and direct our subconscious, there are no feats that could be of any resistance to us. Their have been many developments in the recent years that have helped in the reprogramming of our beliefs. Affirmations are probably the most commonly used application to improve your life. Some other tools that may be of assistance that are fairly new to the public are subliminal music and subliminal videoes. As time moves further into the future new tools will be developed that will surpass the tools used now to improve on reprogramming of our belief systems.

To learn more about principles of success, self development and self improvement look to my blogs, articles and web sites on improving your number one assets, "your mind". Heres to your success.

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Knowing How the Subconscious Mind Works: The Key to Success

Everything that happens in our life is influenced by how the subconscious mind works.

But not everyone knows how they can use this power of the mind to help themselves achieve success in about everything they do.

Some just go through life by relying on the outcomes of their plans, most of which are failures, without trying to use the power they have.

If you have goals to achieve or things that you desire, you can be triumphant in possessing or achieving whatever it is by knowing how the subconscious mind works then try to use it.

But before anything else, you must be asking: What is the subconscious mind?

First you must know that the mind is divided into two: the conscious and the subconscious.

The conscious mind is the part responsible for all thoughts that you are currently aware of. This is the part that's working when you're making decisions, deductions, and other thinking processes involving reason and logic.

The subconscious, on the other hand, is basically the part of the human mind that consists of a person's beliefs and habits. These are the thoughts that are integrated into the mind long before, usually at childhood.

Your childhood experiences basically lay the foundations for your thoughts, beliefs and habits you carry through your life. They create what is sometimes referred to as 'your map of reality'. What you see, hear, feel and experience during the early years is continually being imprinted on your subconscious mind. All this information is then processed and used to create your very own external reality.

Let's say for example, your parents constantly told you as a child that life was a struggle and money was always scarce. Repeated enough times, this kind of information will become part of your subconscious programming.

As you progress through life this programming will keep playing out time and time again, meaning that your life experiences will be that befitting to struggle and scarcity. Get the idea on how the subconscious mind works?

The good thing however, is that you can erase and re-write the childhood programs that are held deep within your subconscious mind.

Below I've included some simple methods you can start using today to slowly reprogram your subconscious so you can begin savouring more and more success in your life.

1. Integrate your Goals/Ideas into the Subconscious

When you have a goal for example, to be a doctor, or professional athlete you should picture yourself being like one, repeatedly every day.

The goal is to incorporate the idea that you will, one day, become a doctor or professional athlete, into your subconscious mind.

Doing this repeatedly will slowly but surely change your programmed beliefs which will power you on to achieving success with this particular goal.

2. Make Requests to your Subconscious Mind

The subconscious mind doesn't rest. It continually works even at sleep.

Making requests to the subconscious is done by affirming out loud the things you want to have, do and be and then visualizing them just before you go to sleep.

For example, you want to become a professional public speaker, but you're afraid that you lack the confidence and ability to speak in front of hundreds or thousands of people.

Close your eyes, and speak out with emotion "I am a confident, captivating and inspiring speaker", and then imagine yourself walking out on stage in an auditorium of thousands of people and speaking to them with supreme confidence and fluency.

Do this every time prior to going to sleep and the power of your subconscious mind will pick up your request and will slowly and surely find the ways and means for you to achieve and realize this goal.

How your brain works can be really powerful. The brain does not only let you analyze things but it can also shape your character and beliefs.

But its understanding how the subconscious mind works that is the real key to a successful life.

Put simply it's the engine which runs your whole life. The number one determinant to where your destiny lies.

Learn how to use it properly and you literally can achieve success without really having to try very hard.

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Be First to Get Paid

I have attended many personal development trainings, seminars, have read many books about financial success and they all say "Pay Yourself First".

This concept is pretty easy, when you get paid; first thing to do is to put some of money into savings account. It doesn't matter how much as long as you pay yourself first and bills and other payments comes second.

People with financial difficulties tend to forget themselves and first thing they do when get paid they pay all bills and see what is left over. I used to do that and then get depressed because nothing much has left for me.

We get what we put out there. If I don't pay myself first then nobody else will and I will stay broke forever. So I started to put aside some money on the day I got paid. I opened savings account with my bank and set up standing order and small amount every months went into my savings account. Firsts thought was that how I will survive without that money but interesting thing was that I didn't even miss that amount. I used to pay more than that for chocolates and since I took up healthy (healthier) lifestyle I don't buy as much chocolates anyway.

And there is a "but". My savings didn't really go up until I changed one thing. Before that I used to put some money in and take same amount out. I used to dip into my saving when I needed or didn't need it. One day I found some pennies in my purse and decided to put them in money jar and I noticed something that I wasn't aware of, I felt very bad when putting money into that pot. It felt like part of me is taken away from me and I did a bit of thinking.

I felt bad about paying myself and my subconscious mind thought if I don't like it then I should not be doing it. So every time I put money into jar for myself, I created experiences in my life so I would take it out again. Like a vicious circle. No matter how much I put in it never stays there anyway.

Awareness is the first step to change. Once I noticed it I changed the way I feel about it and my savings started to go up. When you start doing something for first time notice how you feel and decide whether feeling this way will help you to make positive change in life.

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