Believe in yourself to Reach Your Goals

Each and every one of us yearn for something. It may be being better off financially, living a healthier life, finding one’s soul mate or just to be satisfied and happy. Now as I mention these things, let us imagine our own dreams and aspirations in life. Let us imagine what our desires are and let us not only think about the material things we desire but those things which are most important to us and our family, the intangible things like love, health and happiness.

As we are thinking about these things, what goes inside your head? Most people as they think about the things they want, they fear or they believe that they will not be able to have it. They do not believe they will be able to be financially independent or that they will be capable of being truly happy. They do not believe that they will be able to accomplish the goals they have in life.

Now how do you think you will act if you do not believe that you will have what you want? How do you think your beliefs will affect your actions? When you desire something but do not believe that you are capable of having it or being it will mean that your actions towards having what you desire will be affected.

Instead of pursuing the things you wish to attain, your actions will become - cautious and uncertain, you will become fearful of what may happen, you will believe that others are better than you and most of all you will expect failure. Now is it any wonder that others quit and give up before they even start? People quit and give up because they do not believe in themselves. They do not believe they have what it takes to reach their goals. They have trained themselves to think that they are not good enough so even before starting towards their goals they have resigned themselves to failure.

Now you don’t need this. What you need to do is start believing in yourself. Start believing that you can do it, you can achieve your goals and you are most capable of reaching success. Now get ready and begin by re-training your brain to believe that you can do it, that you are capable of reaching your goals and most of all re train your brain to believe in yourself. You can do it!

Article Source: http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/believe-in-yourself-to-reach-your-goals

6 Common Motivations for Money Guaranteed to Make You Fail (Hint: You’re Doing At Least One of These)

There are seven common motivations that compel people to exchange their time and energy for money. All of them but one are completely insane.

Pick your current poison:

1. Survival

You need a few pairs of clothes, 200 square feet of shelter per family member and roughly 37 percent of the food you’re currently eating to “survive”—that is it, and that is all. Really you don’t even need motivation to get survival money. Do you own a cell phone? Congratulations. You’re officially an imperial space alien from another dimension compared to your great grandparents. If you could travel back in time to surprise them, they’d probably freak out and worship you once they saw all your stuff.

Survival shmurvival. Nobody just survives anymore—no one with Internet access to read this article anyway.

2. To have a lot of money

No lie, I know people who work themselves into illness trying to get money just to have a lot of money for money's sake. They don't even buy nice stuff or go anywhere. They just count it. Millionaire Next Door types. All of them need psychotherapy and Jesus.

I mean it's not even real money…. It’s pieces of paper representing debt. Maybe if it was gold and silver I could reduce their sentence to just "Jesus" and skip the psychotherapy, but… it's not. Off to the shrink they go.

Money is stupid in and of itself. Why not collect construction paper? At least there's a bunch of different colors, and you can cut it into fun shapes and stuff.

3. To impress other people

Literally this is the most insane reason I can think of for wanting money. Let me just say this, if this is you (Is this me? should be going through your head as you read this if you're wise. We always need to be double-checking): As you're digging your own grave every day in the marketplace frantically trying to fit in with the rich and foolish, just keep this one thought in mind…

No matter what you manage to accomplish, there will always be lots of people that make your level of wealth and fame look like you are the V.P. of the home renter's association in the projects by way of comparison.

Bought (leased) a Ferrari? Wow. Someone else owns one in every color. And a Bugatti. And a Phantom. And a staff of drivers. And every other car in existence (Jay Leno). And then there’s the actual manufacturers of the cars. And the international bankers that allow the manufacturers to be in existence. I could go on.

Got a big house? Define big. Does it look like these (top 10 biggest houses in the world)?

Slaved over a business and sold it for a few million dollars? Incredible. A 23-year-old kid was just offered 3 billion dollars from Google to buy a phone app that probably took six months to create. He's not impressed. Carlos Slim, the Mexican Mogul worth $79 billion (richest man in the world), probably thinks the 23 year old's company is "cute.” You're not impressing Carlos Slim, man, I hate to break it to you. You're not even impressing the kid. Or anyone.

Even if you somehow managed to become the richest man in the world, you're still just an ant eternally speaking. Picture the richest people in the world with the biggest and fanciest cars, houses, jets and yachts. When you wake up on the other side of eternity you are going to see clearly that they were less than the equivalent of a toddler playing with plastic toys. It all means nothing. 

Does this mean you shouldn't have nice cars, houses, jets and yachts? Of course not! If life hands them to you, by all means take them. I do. But I sure as heaven don't give a rat's crap what anyone thinks about it. I never have, and I never will.

The mistake we make is thinking other people are somehow inherently better than us. They're not. We're all equal no matter what we do or own. So for what reason should I want to impress them? That's like me walking into a class of kindergartners and trying to be the cool kid in class. Kind of.

Listen carefully because you're going to find this out the moment you achieve your definition of "success"…. No one cares! Not only does no one care about your success, they don't even care about Slim’s success! The richest man in the world, and no one cares. Guess what they care about? Themselves.

You want to impress someone? Care about them. That is the only way to genuinely shock and impress anyone. The reason? It's rare. Sad, but true.

4. To be able to party at the highest level possible

Admittedly, I empathize with you on this one. I used to live to party. Monday through Thursday did not even exist to me. But there is no escaping the end of this road. Don't watch the Wolf of Wall Street because it's disgusting, but ask someone who saw it what happens. OK fine, I saw it; I'll tell you. He ended up miserable, divorced, bankrupt and in prison.

Just… party at a lower level or something.

5. Power

Why do people seek external power? Because they have no internal power. Only weak people seek power over other people. And that is why we have the world the way it is… insane. 

Real power comes from within and it needs nothing from anyone. It seeks to give not to take and control.

6. To buy more stuff just to have more stuff

Ever see the A&E reality show Hoarders? Insanity.

7. Freedom (or "options")

Freedom is the only reasonable motivation for building wealth (in my mind at least).

Freedom to give what you were meant to give, freedom to live how you were meant to live, freedom to go where you want or need to go, freedom to provide properly for your family, freedom to take care of your health preventatively, freedom to enjoy more of the world.

Freedom to surround yourself with beauty. This is one of my personal favorites. I truly appreciate and am inspired by beauty. I always live in waterfront homes for the sake of beauty not vanity. I could drive a Lamborghini if I wanted, but I drive a Fisker Karma (that I got at half price) because I think it's the most beautiful car in the world. I wear diamond jewelry because I personally like sparkling. I make no excuses for it.

Freedom to _____________________ (fill in the blank with whatever you're currently not free to do because of a lack of that paper everyone calls "money").

So again… Why do you want more money? Your answer to that question may determine whether you actually get any or not.

My answer: freedom.

“I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.” – Gianni Versace

Article Source: 6 Common Motivations for Money Guaranteed to Make You Fail (Hint: You’re Doing At Least One of These)

What Is Your Center Of Influence

There are already plenty of books written about belief system, both scientific and motivational. What I would like to do is to share with you how my belief system works. Maybe it works for you too.

You see, I was never cut out to be successful in the first place.

I never did well in school - probably because I lost focus, playing around too much then. So I stopped after high school; I've never studied in a college or University before.

My job is rather "futureless" -- I ended up working on the streets selling greeting cards, door-to-door.

I don't come from a rich or well-off family -- that's also the reason why I didn't further my studies; it's too painful to take my folks' hard earned money that way. There wasn't any financial support for me to pursue what I wanted to do. We're your typical middle class family - my Dad's a cab driver and my Mum's a housewife. But most importantly, we're happy. I've never felt upset that we weren't rich and I'm proud of my Dad for driving a cab to take care of our family.

I don't have any special or unique talent -- I mean, there are people who are highly talented in sports, inventions, programming, arts, music, etc. that allows them to become millionaires. I don't recall having any of those talents.

I live on a small island -- not one of the big cities where there are plenty of opportunities. Although environment does influence one's success, I can confidently say that it's not entirely true. With today's technology, you can be rich anywhere you live.

I don't have any "connections"- some people became wealthy because they know the "right" people who can elevate them to the next level. I didn't have any entrepreneur friends or know of any millionaires personally at that time; nobody was around to guide me with advice about wealth and success.

I could have gone on, continuing with my ordinary life as it was... if it wasn't for a "vengeance" that I had.

Nothing evil. Not the kind of vengeance where it makes you want to kill someone or anything like that.

It's a feeling that makes you want to prove to the world that you're better than that.

But actually, in retrospect, I was just trying to prove it to myself.

It's the time when you deny your situation; denying that you're incapable of achieving more in life, that you're stuck with your existing, futureless life.

That makes me hungry.

You see, you got to have that kind of hunger, that kind of drive to BE successful.

When I was trying to achieve success then, I was beaten up emotionally from so many angles.

If you've been to motivational seminars, you probably know that you are supposed to network with other attendees. I mean, the Gurus teach that networking is important for success, right?

I kid you not, I was a very positive fella. But it seems like not many people wanted to network with me or wanted to exchange cards because I was nobody then.

You know something -- the more the environment and people dissent you, the more powerful you should become - not the other way around.

Instead of focusing on weakness, I choose to focus on strength.

The more they say I cannot do it, the more it fires me up to show that I can do it.

This is where I want to differentiate positive thinking from optimistic thinking.

Positive thinking is saying...

"It's okay, it doesn't matter that these people do not support me because I'm a positive thinker - I don't let negative thoughts affect me. They probably don't mean it anyway."

Optimistic thinking is saying...

"They don't support me - I accept that, even though I don't like it. It sucks; I wish it wasn't like that. But since that's the reality, what good can come out of this?"

And the answer to that question from an optimistic thinking standpoint is...

I'll take that as a challenge and I'll prove to you who's right.

But I guess the biggest breakthrough when it comes to tuning your belief system for greatness is...

"What is Your Compelling Reason to be Successful?"

If you CAN answer that question, you have the strength to walk you through the journey to success.

I've already given you mine. And it has become the major influence that propels me to become successful in both personal and business life - to become a millionaire, best-selling author and be at the same level as some of the most successful authors and speakers.

Now, compelling reasons usually don't come in a material form. For instance: a car, house or anything like that. Those are not your true compelling reasons.

Why? It's because your mind will ultimately "give up" and let you settle for less. So if your dream car is a Ferrari or something, at one time, you'll make the decision to say that it's fine... even if you don't drive that Ferrari. You'll just drive a more affordable car and forget about your compelling reason.

A compelling reason usually has a strong emotional attachment to it.

It could be an incident that happens in your life.

It could be something that you value – more than any material things in this world.

It could be your hunger for something greater, and you know you have to become wealthy in order for you to achieve that.

Have a compelling reason for yourself.

P.S: This article is written by Patric Chan. Find out how you too can become a WakeUp Millionaire at http://donnaalt.chando2.hop.clickbank.net/

Success Habit: Working with an Accountability Partner

Sometimes we are more successful meeting commitments to others than to ourselves. This fact is the basis of what is known as using an accountability partner. 

What an Accountability Partner is Not

An accountability partner is not a boss. Such a person does not pay us or reward us. We pay and reward ourselves for satisfying the commitment. Nor does our partner punish us. An accountability partner does not tell us what to do.

Accountability is not mentorship; while a mentor could be our partner, the two functions are separate. An accountability partner does not give advice or counsel, nor do they analyze or critique our performance.

What an Accountability Partner Is

An accountability partner is someone who agrees to help us by listening and tracking our commitments. Such a person is acting in a neutral mode, neither praising nor criticizing our behavior. They are simply tracking our results.

To use such a person correctly, we meet them on a periodic basis. Every time we meet our partner, we tell them what we plan to do, and when we plan to get those goals accomplished. The partner makes a record of those commitments. Then, when we meet again, we inform him or her of our results. The partner makes sure to cover all the commitments that have been previously made. The partner then informs us as to how well we are meeting our commitments.

The power of such a relationship is based upon the human desire for respect. The best person for this role is someone whose respect you desire to either get or keep. By meeting our commitments, we can gain that respect, which is our reward.

Why an Accountability Partnership Works

Often, people are more responsible meeting commitments to others than to themselves. After all, if we are committing to just ourselves, we as humans can be very good at making excuses and justifying not reaching the goal. We use our schedules, our work, our relationships as excuses and explanations for why we did not achieve our goals. But when we make that commitment to someone else, we do not want to make those same excuses; it makes us sound weak and ineffectual, which is not the image we want the other person to have.

Accountability partners are not necessary or required. People can hold themselves accountable to themselves, and eliminate the use of the other person. However, especially when making a fundamental change, having someone else in the process can be very inspiring. Making a commitment to someone else can help us learn to be consistent and persistent, which are traits we need to reach our goals.

If you are interested in having an accountability partner, trying being one for someone else. This will almost always inspire someone to serve you in the same way.

Article source http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/success-habit-working-with-an-accountability-partner

Rohn: A Good Life Contains These 6 Essentials

The values that make up the foundation of a life well lived—and, no surprise, money isn’t one of them

Jim Rohn

The ultimate expression of life is not a paycheck. The ultimate expression of life is not a Mercedes. The ultimate expression of life is not a million dollars or a bank account or a home. The ultimate expression of life is living a good life.

Here's what we must ask constantly, "What, for me, would be a good life?" And you have to keep going over and over the list—a list including areas such as spirituality, economics, health, relationships and recreation.

So, what would constitute a good life? Jim Rohn has a short list:

1. Productivity. You won't be happy if you don't produce. The game of life is not rest. Yes, we must rest, but only long enough to gather strength to get back to productivity.

What's the reason for the seasons and the seeds, the soil and the sunshine, the rain and the miracle of life? It's to see what you can do with it—to try your hand to see what you can do.

2. Good friends. Friendship is probably the greatest support system in the world, so don't deny yourself the time to develop it. Nothing can match it. It's extraordinary in its benefit.

Friends are those wonderful people who know all about you and still like you. I lost one of my dearest friends when he was 53—heart attack. As one of my very special friends, I used to say that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly, and, if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a real friend—somebody who would come and get you.

And we've all got casual friends, friends who, if you called them, they would say, "Hey, if you get back, call me and we'll have a party."

You’ve got to have both real friends and casual friends.

3. Your culture. Language, music, ceremonies, traditions, dress. All of that is so vitally important that you must keep it alive. The uniqueness of all of us, when blended together, brings vitality, energy, power, influence, and rightness to the world.

4. Spirituality. It helps to form the foundation of the family that builds the nation. And make sure you study, practice and teach—don't be careless about the spiritual part of your nature because it's what makes us who we are, different from dogs, cats, birds and mice.

5. Don't miss anything. My parents taught me not to miss anything, not the game, the performance, the movie, the dance. Just before my father died at 93, if you were to call him at 10:30 or 11 at night, he wouldn't be home. He was at the rodeo, he was watching the kids play softball, he was listening to the concert, he was at church—he was somewhere every night.

Go to everything you possibly can. Buy a ticket to everything you possibly can. Go see everything and experience all you possibly can.

Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.

6. Your family and the inner circle. Invest in them, and they'll invest in you. Inspire them, and they'll inspire you. Take care of the details with your inner circle.

When my father was still alive, I used to call him when I traveled. He'd have breakfast most every morning with the farmers at a little place called The Decoy Inn out in the country where we lived in Southwest Idaho.

When I was in Israel, I'd have to get up in the middle of the night, but I'd call Papa. I'd say, "Papa, I'm in Israel." He'd say, "Israel! Son, how are things in Israel?" He'd talk real loud so everybody could hear. I'd say, "Papa, last night they gave me a reception on the rooftop underneath the stars overlooking the Mediterranean." He'd say, "Son, a reception on the rooftop underneath the stars overlooking the Mediterranean?" Now everybody knew the story. And giving my father that special day only took five or 10 minutes.

If a father walks out of the house and he can still feel his daughter's kiss on his face all day, he's a powerful man. If a husband walks out of the house and he can still feel the imprint of his wife's arms around his body, he's invincible all day. It's the special stuff with your inner circle that makes you strong and powerful and influential. So don't miss that opportunity.

The prophet said, "There are many virtues and values, but here's the greatest: one person caring for another." There is no greater value than love.

So make sure in your busy day to remember the true purpose and the reasons you do what you do. May you truly live the kind of life that will bring the fruit and rewards that you desire.

Article source: Rohn: A Good Life Contains These 6 Essentials

Achieve Your Goals - What is Your Why

Achieve your goals in 12 months, what's your why? Now Today we are going to be looking at taking action! This is where the rubber meets the road. No more stuffing around.

So first things first. I want you to write down your goal for the next 12 months.

Where do you want to be in 12 months? Do you want to stay where you are right now? Then don't do anything. Do you want to better yourself and live a life of your dreams? Ok then time for action.

Here are some examples of goals you may relate to -

Do you want to save say $10,000 for a trip overseas? Save $50,000 and take the entire family? What about starting a charity? How about you lose 20 pounds in 12 months? And while your at it get fit and healthy? I don't know what you want but you do. Once you have it in your head and you are feeling inspired, write it down.

Now the second thing i want you to do is to work out your ‘why'. What does that mean? Your 'why' is your reason, the thing that will get you waking up early and jumping out of bed with a spring in your step. It's what will make you stay up late at night. It is your inspiration.

Achieve your goals.

An example would be ff you wanted to save $10,000 and I said to you why do you want $10,000 and your answer was 'just because' then you will never have it. But if you said ‘I want $10,000 so I can travel around the world and take my partner because we have never been and I have always wanted to go and takle her'  then you will make that happen. You have a cause, a why, a reason that will inspire and drive you.

Your cause must be bigger than you are. It will be the cornerstone for your life. Without a cause that is bigger than you, you wont do anything.

Do you want to achieve your goals in 12 months?

1. Write down your goal

2. Write down your 'Why'

3. leave a comment below with your goal and your why

Over the next 12 months let us work together and make it a must to get to that goal.

Don't waste your time. Don't procrastinate any longer, don't over analyze and get analysis paralysis! Just do it.

Focus your mind, gain clarity and work it, take action on achieving your goal and act like it is already here.

I wrote a facebook post not long ago and I made the bold statement that people who read don't take action. I really believe that. So if all you do is read, stop! Instead take action on your goal. Don't read, just do!

In summary - 

Write down your 12 month goal.

Write down your ‘why', your reason for achieving this goal.

Leave a comment below with your goal.

There is no more at the moment. Just do that. It's not hard. In the coming weeks I will lead you step by step to attaining that goal.

Like I said, stop procrastinating and do it now!

Live with passion!

Achieve your goals in 12 months, What is your why? Just do it!

Article Source: Achieve Your Goals - What is Your Why

The 3 Types of Income To Become A Millionaire

This article is written by Patric Chan, the author of WakeUp Millionaire. Discover his secrets of using the 3 components of Psychology, Opportunity and Mindset to become a WakeUp Millionaire… http://tiny.cc/wakeupmil


You need to do something to make money, regardless of taking a very small action or big one. Even if it is just sending emails - that's still considered as taking actions.

If you accept that fact, then it's obvious you're on the right track.

To create wealth and becoming a millionaire, you need to have a vehicle or platform.  I like to name it as Opportunity because IT IS an opportunity.

Obviously, there are plenty of opportunities to choose from today and it becomes "confusing" when you not know of your purpose.

Different opportunities will give you different types of incomes...

Income Today - This is the income that you'll need today and within the next 30 days. Basically, this is your life line - you need money right now to not only enjoy your lifestyle, but as fund for your journey to financial freedom.

You have to understand that there's no liberty to living frugal - you need to use your Income Today to give you the pleasure of what you can afford. You need to continuously reward yourself for taking actions to become successful.

Income Tomorrow - While making money for Income Today, you would also be planning for Income Tomorrow. Income Tomorrow is defined for income that you'll have within months and can be extended to a year or so.

It creates short-term passive income. For instance, you own a membership where people are paying you monthly fee.

Millionaire Income - This is where you can be free. You can choose when to work or not to work anymore. The biggest mistake that average people make (which keeps them from millionaire status) is simply not choosing the right Opportunity that can lead to this stage.

Bare in mind that Opportunity can change at any time. Just think it as the vehicle to get you from one place to another place, you're trying to get from your current level to a higher financial level.

That being, your focus is the destination and you'll choose whichever of the most suitable vehicle for you to get there.

In my years of making money and creating wealth, I've used at least 3 major Opportunities.

It doesn't mean the more you have, the more money you'll make. It's about choosing the right one and stay focus on it.