You are Responsible for What You Create

There is a certain way of thinking and acting that will get you any outcome you want. You must find it and be willing to adopt it.

There is always a price to pay.

What you focus on and take action toward tends to happen.

The one characteristic of those who make lots of money

They are delivering a benefit or solving a problem…They go the extra mile to give benefit to others.

The 5 biggest reasons why people don’t make money.

? They think making money is evil or that you have to take advantage of people.

? These people often end up being dishonest when they try to make money

? They aren’t willing to pay the necessary price.

? They don’t believe they can.

? They’re only willing to do something that conforms to some idealistic value

Paying the Price

For any outcome you want there is a certain way of thinking and acting that will get it for you. You have to find it and be willing to adopt it.

Changes you might have to make in order to find and adopt the way of thinking and acting that will lead to success:

Beliefs:

• Evaluate your current beliefs
• Discover the beliefs of those who are successful at what you want to do.
• Adopt those beliefs.

Values

• Evaluate your current values.
• Discover the values of those who are successful at what you want to do.
• Adopt those values.

Ways of focusing

• Learn to notice how you currently focus your mind.
• On what you want?
• On what you want to avoid?
• What do you pay attention to and what do you filter out?
• Learn how those who are successful at what you want to do focus.

Set goals

• Learn to manage your time.
• Develop certain personal qualities.
• What are they for what you want to achieve?
• How will you develop them?

You can model the thinking and acting of successful people.

You should model their:

• Beliefs
• Values
• Ways of focusing their mind
• Ethical values
• Decision strategies
• What they actually do

A Burning Desire

• What does it mean to say that “The starting point of all achievement is desire”?
• We all ask, “What do I want?”
• Adding desire supercharges your wants and changes your ability to get them.

This is not magic—Desire…

• Focuses your mind on what you want
• Gives you courage and persistence to overcome obstacles
• Causes you to see opportunities you weren’t seeing before
• Leads you to action.

“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” –Napoleon Hill

“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind knows as a burning desire to win—essential to success.” –Napoleon Hill

How do you cultivate desire?

• Continually tell yourself how important what you want is to you.
• Focus your mind on the benefits of having it.
• Imagine how good it will feel to have it or achieve it.

Big Ideas

“Any dominating idea, plan, or purpose held in the mind through repetition of thought and emotionalized with a burning desire for its realization is taken over by the unconscious mind and acted upon through whatever natural and logical means may be available.” –Napoleon Hill

• You have an idea, plan, or a purpose
• You repeatedly focus on it
• You think about it, picture it, ask yourself how to achieve it
• You add as desire as possible—hopefully a burning desire that you must have it or create it
• Your mind takes what you are focusing on and both consciously and unconsciously figures out how to make it a reality.

Ideas

• Noticing resources
• A book
• An overheard conversation
• A website
• Attracting people you need

Motivation to act

• Repeated focus
• Esp. with strong emotion
• Your mind figures out how get it or achieve it
• You get ideas, plans, notice resources and people

What You Believe

• Beliefs are a crucial ingredient of your success
• Self-fulfilling prophecies
• Determines what you focus on
• Operate outside your awareness
• Based on early childhood experiences

3 reasons why your beliefs are inaccurate and not resourceful

• You were too young and inexperienced to evaluate early experiences that created your core beliefs
• You were operating from a powerless perspective
• You accepted many of your parent’s beliefs

You don’t believe something because it is true.

• Beliefs come true because you believe them.
• Once you believe something
• You’ll unconsciously gather evidence that it is
  “true” using 3 methods:
• Attract people and situations that help your belief come true
• Interpret what happens as if your belief was true
• Act in ways that make your belief come true
• Beliefs aren’t true or false—they are resourceful or non-resourceful

Beliefs are filters

• Evidence that your belief is not true will be invisible–you will delete it or distort it
• You won’t see opportunities or resources that contradict your beliefs

Beliefs of successful people:

• For any outcome I want there is a certain way of thinking and acting that will get it for me. I just have to find it and be willing to adopt it.
• If I’m persistent enough and want something badly enough, anything is possible. (I can do anything. I never quit till I get what I want.)
• I can get what I want if I’m willing to pay the price. (Belief in hard work)
• Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent of greater benefit.
• There’s no such thing as failure, there’s only success or feedback (wisdom).
• I can find the people I need to help me.
• I can find the resources I need.
• My mind will generate all the ideas I need.
• The more I help others get what they want, the more I will succeed.
• I can trust myself to make good decisions, or to become wise from my mistakes.
• I can develop the qualities I need.
• My circumstances matter less than focusing my mind and taking action.
• If I ask myself questions, the answers will come to me.
• If someone else can do it, it’s doable, and therefore I can do it, too.

Decisions

Decisions—hugely important

• Moment-by-moment stream of decisions determine everything
• Successful people have a certain way of making decisions

Make a decision as soon as there is enough (not all) information

• Change it rarely

Components of a decision

• Know what you want
• A way to recognize it when you get it (criteria)
• A way to compare your criteria to your choices
• A way to know when you have enough information

Those who value completion—have anxiety until closure—eager to decide

And ACT

Those who want to leave their options open—have anxiety about closure—

Procrastinate

Error on the side of deciding and acting

• As-if thinking—many decisions happen in your mind, before the actions take place

Simple example—buying a watch

• If you don’t have criteria, how will you know it if you find it?
• If you don’t have a way to compare each watch with your criteria, how will you decide?
• If you know the style, cost, features, and you have criteria, you can compare
• If you don’t know, you can’t make a decision

Decisions are a strategy

• The key to success is how you focus your mind
• The Magic Question
• Focus is the key, and the Magic Question is about focus.
• When you ask yourself any question, your mind will accept the premise of the question and give you an answer.

Non-resourceful question:

• What’s wrong with me?
• Why can’t I do this?
• Why am I so stupid?

Your mind creates an answer based on the premise.

What’s wrong with me?

• You make bad decisions and you don’t follow through.
• The mind accepts the premise that there is something wrong with you.

Why can’t I do this?

• You just don’t have what it takes and you just are good at things like this.

Why am I so stupid?

• You were born that way, and you also didn’t pay attention in school. You’re a loser.

The Magic Questions are the premier resourceful questions.

• How can I?
• How can I create a product?
• How can I find people who will show me how to do this?
• How can I find the money to fund this?
• How can I be more motivated?
• How can I have more energy?

The more you use these questions, the faster the answers come to you. Whenever you’re stuck, ask these questions and keep asking it until the answer comes to you.

When it does, act on the answer.

The Magic Question tells your mind what to focus on.

• Your mind gets ideas
• Your mind notices resources
• You become motivated to act
• You figure out a way to get what you are asking about

Resourceful Habits

It takes only 21 days to create a new habit.

Benjamin Franklin method

• Focusing your mind on what you want
• Sorting by Possibility
• Seeking completion
• Making quick decisions once you have enough information
• Planning each day
• Observing non-resourceful beliefs
• Going the Extra Mile
• Finding and taking the most high priority actions
• Listing the potential benefits of setbacks
• Eating a healthy diet
• Exercising
• Meditating
• Time with loved ones
• Reading, studying, learning time
• Getting enough sleep

Qualities of Successful People

• They believe that money is a measure of service to others.
• They have a definite purpose, they set goals.
• They are willing to act as-if.
• They picture success in advance
• They picture their plans.
• They solve problems and make decisions in their head.
• They aren’t thrown off by rejection or adversity.
• They know that failure creates wisdom.
• They act in spite of fear.
• They model those who are already excellent.
• They don’t make excuses.
• They think about how to do it rather than about why something can’t be done.
• They do the highest priority items first.
• They give first, and go the extra mile.
• They have a positive attitude.
• They focus on what they want and keep their mind off what they don’t want.
  Chip Evans, Ph.D.
  
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