Become a Student of Change by Denis Waitley

AS THE world becomes more interconnected, events outside your industry and career have an impact on your business, your family and your pocketbook.

Whatever your daily routine, it takes place in a larger context of social, technological, political, economic and cultural change. To be successful today, you must understand that world. Without that you won’t be prepared to innovate; you’ll only be able to react and to avoid.

Many people will tell you it doesn’t matter how well-informed you are. “You can’t do anything about it anyway”, goes the refrain, “so why bother to find out about things?”

Here’s a newspaper editorial that sums up this attitude: 

“The world is too big for us. Too much going on, too much crime, violence and change. Try as you will, you get behind in the race. It’s an incessant strain to keep pace and still you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast that you stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderment. Everything in business and life is high pressure. Human nature can’t endure much more!”

This newspaper editorial reads as if it were written last week. But it actually appeared more than 175 years ago on June 16, 1833 in The Atlantic Journal back in the “good old days!”

Imagination by Bob Proctor

HAVE you ever wondered how children can sit through replays of their favorite Lion King or Little Mermaid video?

 

It amazes me that they’ll watch the same show every day without a single complaint or request for something new.

What’s more amazing, though, is that adults do the very same thing with their days. The majority of men and women play “movies” in their heads day after day, relentlessly focusing on past events, many of which are unpleasant and disturbing experiences.

If they’re actually able to stop their contemplation of past events, then they allow impressions of their current surroundings and recent results to govern their thoughts. If they contemplate the future it’s usually by worrying about it, or wishing that something better might come along. Then they wonder why bad things keep happening to them, or why they never rise above the issues and obstacles in their lives.

17 Wealth Files from Secrets of the Millionaires by T. Harv Eker

In his book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
T. Harv Eker suggests that the difference between people who have money and those that don’t is because of what he calls their “wealth files” (i.e. their programming), and this is the reason behind their greatly contrasting actions and results.

Wealth File #1:
Rich people believe "I create my life."
Poor people believe "Life happens to me."

Wealth File #2:
Rich people play the money game to win.
Poor people play the money game to not lose.

Wealth File #3:
Rich people are committed to being rich.
Poor people want to get rich.

Wealth File #4:
Rich people think big.
Poor people think small.

Wealth File #5:
Rich people focus on opportunities.
Poor people focus on obstacles.

Wealth File #6:
Rich people admire other rich and successful people.

Poor people resent rich and successful people.

Wealth File #7:
Rich people associate with positive, successful people.
Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

Making Wishes Come True—Mark Victor Hansen

I’VE told people thousands of times that they’ve just go to ask for what they want. And I find that most people only have one problem with this directive ... 

They don’t KNOW what they want!

You can’t ask for what you want unless you know what it is! In this exercise, I’m going to start you on a wonderful path of painting your dreams into reality. I’m going to teach you the secrets behind setting—and achieving—your greatest ambitions.

Before we set off on this path together, let me make one thing very clear: The word “goals” can be intimidating—it can feel so overbearing that it keeps people from even beginning the process. So, let’s instead think of goals as a “To Do List With Deadlines”.

Do the deadlines have to be tomorrow? Next week? Of course not. This is your To Do List for the rest of your life. Goals can be added to, subtracted from and—most importantly—scratched off the list—as you move through your life.

Here’s a checklist to ensure you’re using a successful framework to set your To Do List:

Almost all first steps are awkward

By David Bradshaw

YOU may not remember, but your first steps were awkward.

You fell down a lot. You probably bumped your head. You may have scraped a knee, but you got up. You learned to walk. You learned to run. You made it to here.

Well done.

The same way you learned to walk is how you learn to do anything.

Take some stabs at it. Walk a little, wobble, fall down. Get up again.

That’s the real secret: Get up again.

As long as you get up again, you’re never out of life.

I found the piece you’ve just read in Life’s Missing Instruction Manual by Dr Joe Vitale.

Joe’s advice reminded me of the often-told story about Winston Churchill addressing the students at Oxford University at their commencement exercises by repeating the words “Never give up!” very loudly several times in succession—and then leaving.

As an address, this always seemed to me to be a tad unsatisfactory. No-one could argue with the message, given that it came from the man who inspired Britain at the most critical time in the country’s history. 

Will Smith Shares His Secrets of Success

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Actor and musician Will Smith became a millionaire before he was 18 as a member of American hip hop duo Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. He moved into acting in 1990. He has twice been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, first for the film Ali, in which he played the part of Mohammed Ali, and then for his rôle in the rags-to-riches tale The Pursuit of Happyness. US President Barack Obama has stated that if a film was ever to be made about his life, he would have Smith play his part.

Mark Victor Hansen Inspires You to Think Big

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Writer and motivational speaker Mark Victor Hansen is best known for creating, with his business partner, Jack Canfield, one of the most successful publishing franchises ever: the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

The first Chicken Soup book, which was published in 1993, sold more than 2 million copies, and books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series have sold over 112 million copies in the US and Canada alone and in 40 languages worldwide. There have been over 200 titles. With Jack Canfield, Mark, holds the record in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most books on the New York Times bestseller list at one time. 

Apart from the Chicken Soup series, Mark is a prolific writer with many bestselling books including The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth, Cracking the Millionaire Code, The Aladdin Factor and Dare to Win. 

Mark—often referred to as America’s “Ambassador of Possibility”—is the founder of the MEGA Seminar Series, coaching and teaching aspiring authors and speakers to build lucrative publishing and speaking careers.

The Universe Gives You as Much as You Can Handle with T. Harv Eker

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T. Harv Eker is a Canadian author, businessman and motivational speaker known for his theories on wealth and motivation. He is the author of the book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind (No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal’s business book list) and founder of the seminar company Peak Potentials Training.

Harv’s writing and speaking often focus on his concept of the “Millionaire Mind”, a collection of mental attitudes that facilitate wealth. He suggests that we each possess a financial blueprint or an internal script that dictates how we relate to money, and that by changing the blueprint people can change their ability to accumulate wealth.

He argues that rich people believe, “I create my life,” while poor people believe, “Life happens to me”. Rich people focus on opportunities while poor people focus on obstacles; and rich people admire other rich and successful people whereas poor people resent rich and successful people.