Developing a wealthy mindset

By David Bradshaw

IT WAS the 19th century British adventurer Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton who was the first to come up with the memorable line “Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind”.

Burton—according to his entry in Wikipedia—was an “explorer, writer, translator,

soldier, orientalist, poet, ethnologist, linguist, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat”. 

Fluent in more than 25 languages, he translated The Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra.

What Burton’s financial situation was I have no idea, although I imagine that when he compared broke and poor he was speaking from experience.

The quote, incidentally, is often attributed to the American theatre and film producer Mike Todd, who went bankrupt several times. Todd is best known for his 1956 movie Around the World in 80 Days (which won an Academy Award for Best Picture) and as the third husband of Elizabeth Taylor: the only one she didn’t divorce. What he said was: “Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind”. Burton was more succinct.

But to get back to the point, I know some people who very obviously think poor. They like eating out, but they eat only at inexpensive restaurants. 

Their idea of a holiday is a cheap package, a caravan, or even a tent.

I enjoy eating out too, but I don’t base my restaurant selection on price (maybe it’s my public relations background...). I judge eating places by the quality of the food, the service, and the atmosphere.

Some of the places I like are inexpensive, some are pricey. The only difference is that I’m more critical if a place that charges a lot doesn’t come up to scratch.

The Power of Persistence

Author and historian Michael Burlinghame PhD, author of the definitive biography Abraham Lincoln: A Life, commented:

“To come from a background where he really suffered from emotional malnutrition (his baby brother dies, his mother dies when he’s nine, his father is unsympathetic and beats him, his older sister dies, his sweetheart dies, he has a terrible marriage, two of his children die, he suffers career failures, and has a difficult midlife crisis), and yet he overcomes all that to become not only famous but profoundly psychologically whole and mature, balanced and a model of moral clarity with unimpeachable integrity.

“I think that there’s hope for all of us.”

—from an interview in Abraham Lincoln Online.

The man who became the 16^th president of the United States was nothing if not resilient, as the record of the setbacks he overcame on his path to the presidency
shows:

1832                Lost job
1832                Defeated for state legislature
1833                Failed in business

1834                Elected for state legislature
1835                Death of sweetheart
1836                Nervous breakdown
1838                Defeated for post of Speaker
1843                Defeated for nomination to Congress
1846                Elected to Congress
1848                Lost nomination
1849                Rejected for post of land officer
1854                Defeated for US Senate
1856                Lost nomination for Vice President
1858                Again defeated for US Senate
1860                Elected President of the United States

Getting Your Imagination to Work for You

By Denis Waitley

ONE of the wonderful aspects about human imagination is that it can see things not as they are now, but as they can be.

It can foretell the future, based upon our beliefs and expectations, in an almost uncanny way; it can draw the colorful mental images that we hope someday to turn into reality. 

Imagination is the beginning of creation. 

Dr. David McClelland, former professor of psychology at Harvard University, demonstrated this through a series of “projective tests”. In these tests, McClelland used photographs or drawings depicting basic scenes. 

For instance, in one photograph, a man was lying in bed with his eyes closed. His hand was raised and extended over an alarm clock on the table next to the bed. 

A window in the background was bright with the rays of early morning sunlight.

  Motivation

McClelland asked his subjects to either describe the scene or tell a story about the person in the picture. To be sure that the responses were solely a function of motivational levels, the subjects for each test were people of the same sex, age, social background, and level of education. 

Brian Tracy’s Five Must-Have Personal Qualities for Success

(Selected by JOHN WOOD of John Wood Copywriting, who, not surprisingly, gives each one a copywriting slant)

SOMETIMES we focus too much on learning all the great tips, strategies, and techniques for mastering a skill … while we ignore the “mechanism” that’s responsible for putting them into action.

Recently I was reading best-selling author and internationally known speaker Brian Tracy’s “How You Can Start, Build, Manage, Or Turn Around Any Business” program. He starts off his program talking about the five essential personal qualities you need to be successful.

Not surprisingly, these qualities are the same qualities you need to achieve success in copywriting. Because if you don’t possess them, truth be told—all the know-how in the world won’t get you to where you want to be in life.

The good news is they’re not things that only a select few are born with. They can be acquired by anyone.

Here are Brian Tracy’s five must-have personal qualities to achieve success in business and in life (with a “copywriting twist” to each, added by me):

Motivational quote: Arnold Schwarzenegger

“See it, believe it, achieve it.” Arnold Schwarzenegger (born 1947 in Thal, Austria) Austrian-born American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor and politician. Served two terms as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 to 2011.

Peter Jones—Ten Golden Rules for Entrepreneurs

PETER JONES—one of the stars of the BBC Two program Dragons’ Den and the US television series American Investor—is a British entrepreneur and businessman with interests in mobile phones, television, media, leisure and property.

He has won many national awards, including  ‘Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year’ back in 2001.

Still in his forties, Peter is considered to be one of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs. His current net worth, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2013, is around £475 million.

Here are his entrepreneurial top tips:

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