by Stuart Goldsmith
I prefer being rich to poor, and I've tried both. I used to think that being a millionaire was for other people – for me it seemed just a ridiculous dream. I'm telling you this to show you that I've been exactly where you are right now. I am merely further up the mountain path than you. I am not unchaseable, indeed I invite you to overtake me! Come on up, the air is cleaner and fresher here, I can promise you that.
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Five tips for making a lot of money are as follows:
1. Do something. That's what this article is all about. Don't sit around any longer. Forget TV, forget the bar; start taking action to improve your life, even if it is just that first, small step. I judge people by what they do rather than what they say.
2. Be rationally selfish. Take 'good for me' decisions. You don't owe anything to anyone apart from your kids. They need love, consistency and honesty. They don't need Adidas trainers and Nintendo games machines. When you live your life trying to take 'good for others' decisions, you are playing God and trying to second-guess other people's lives. This is arrogant.
3. Stop believing in something for nothing. This one tip can save you thousands of pounds and a lot of lost time. There is no such thing as something for nothing. Ditch all of those 'business opportunities' which come your way. 99% of them are scams operated by small minded people of limited vision trying to cheat their way to a fortune. They are relying upon your laziness and gullibility. Don't support them, and above all, don't join them. The financial loss is minimal, but the loss of time and momentum is far more serious.
4. You should have one burning question which you must answer as soon as possible: "What honest value can I create which others will voluntarily buy from me time and time again in order that I might become guiltlessly wealthy?"
Only you can answer this question and you must work at it rather than expecting the answer for nothing. Nobody is going to hand you a wonderful, magic pre-packaged business on a plate. It's obvious why. If you had some superb practical 'make a million' business, would you operate it yourself and make a million, or sell a 30-page 'how to' manual for £24.95 to a few hundred punters via an advert in Exchange and Mart?
5. When you create values you become wealthy. When you trade equal values you merely survive. There is nothing wrong with survival. Most people do only this. But make sure you have consciously selected this option, and not chosen it by default out of laziness or fear.
Most businesses merely allow you to trade values – "You watch my sheep and I'll mend your roof" – and so you will not become wealthy by operating one of the 10,000 or so businesses you might think about getting involved in. For example, "I'll cook fish and chips if you repair my car." At best, you will do slightly better than average due to the division of labour and your superior bartering skills, but you will never make a million.
To become wealthy you must create new values which didn't exist before and then run with your idea until the copycats grab your idea and rake over the bones of your fortune. Then you have another, new idea which creates more unique values and you run with that… These ideas do not have to be earth-shattering; many are just small creative twists on an existing idea.
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Stuart Goldsmith is a multimillionaire teacher, author and lecturer. He created a 16 million dollar fortune starting from heavy debt and despair, and has taught thousands of others how to live debt-free & wealthy. You can discover more of his secrets at:
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Aristotle said that if you gave him a lever big enough, he could
move the world. The same principle of leverage applies in your
life. In this case, we are talking about the use of a small
amount of time each day to revolutionize the results you get from
the rest of your day and your life.
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If a person would take just one hour out of every day, and devote
it to personal development, he/she would rapidly achieve
extraordinary results in life. This is the idea that is being
presented to you here, and one you would do well to take
seriously. Before you even think of saying that "you can't afford
the time", consider this: you can't afford NOT to!
Too much of the time, our well-intentioned resolutions for self
betterment fall by the wayside. Certainly, we intend to take our
personal growth very seriously. Yet, it either never happens at
all, or if it does, fails to yield the results we might have
hoped for.
This is often because there is little consistency in what we are
doing. Sometimes, we go at it strong and appear to make good
progress. However, with no set routine to fall back on, we are
always at risk of letting the whole thing slide when something
"important" comes up. By establishing an hour of power – a
regular daily period for self growth – you prevent this from
happening and make solid progress rapidly. Many people devote
regular time to physical exercise, which is to be applauded.
However, doesn't your your mental life, and your very future,
deserve the same respect?
What does this hour consist of? To a large extent, you can shape
it as you wish. However, there should be certain elements
present. There should definitely be time reserved to set and
review your goals. This would include writing them out by hand to
reinforce them upon your mind. All this could take 10-15 minutes.
There should be a period where you actively visualize the
successful achievement of your dreams. Here, you use all of your
imaginative inner senses to bring your desired future into your
present subconscious reality.
You could spend 20-30 minutes of your hour reading a personal
growth book, or listening to tapes from motivational speakers.
Remember that in order to recondition your subconscious, and
raise the vibration of your thoughts and what you attract to
yourself, you need to be continually feeding yourself with
positive material. If you have spent much of your life thinking
negative, and being fed unhelpful ideas by those around you, it
is vital that you consciously reverse the process and impregnate
yourself on a regular basis with the ideas that actually help you
move you forward and upward.
Perhaps 5-10 minutes of your hour of power can be spent actually
planning out your day? Alternatively, if you do your hour in the
evenings, then you can plan out the next day. This would simply
involve listing out the things you need to do, and ranking them
in order of importance. Clearly, we are not talking about
remembering to do the shopping, or going to see the latest movie.
Rather, you need to list and execute the actions you can take
that will propel your life forward, and then make sure they get
done. Simply listing your activities for the day, ranking them in
order of importance, and making sure they get done will change
your life dramatically!
Nobody can create your hour of power for you. It is down to you
to decide on the components you want to include. Perhaps a period
of quiet reflection on your life is something you would wish to
include. Decide on what you want to do with the time, and plan it
out. Do not just set aside an hour and then drift through it
without any plan. Sub-divide the hour into discrete sections,
e.g. 15-minute chunks, and have an idea of what you will do in
each before you even begin. Indeed, your very first hour of power
may be devoted to planning out all the others to follow.
Also, it may not be one hour in a single sitting. You may find it
better to do two half-hour sessions, at the start and end of the
day respectively. That is fine too, if it works for you and your
time schedule. However, do not sacrifice the hour total. You do
need that amount of time to make it work. After all, this is not
"wasted time". Rather, it could be the key component in taking
you forward towards your dreams and goals.
Give some thought to this idea and consider making the hour of
power a key part of your daily schedule. We are so involved in so
many activities that we need a solid chunk of the day to
revitalize our hopes and dreams, and keep ourselves going on the
right path. Yes, given a large enough lever, you could indeed
move the world. But first, you have to move yourself!
Copyright Asoka Selvarajah 2005. All Rights Reserved.
Asoka Selvarajah is a writer on personal growth and spirituality,
and the author of "The 7 Golden Secrets To Knowing Your Higher Self".
His work helps people achieve their full potential, deepen their
understanding of mystical truth, and discover their soul's
purpose. You can subscribe to his FREE ezine, and get his FREE ebook
"Inner Light Outer Wealth" at:
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In his book, "The Science Of Getting Rich", author Wallace D. Wattles talks about the Law of Perpetual Transmutation. Simply put, energy from the formless realm is constantly flowing into the material world and taking form. This energy is limitless and inexhaustible. As old forms are exhausted, they give way for new forms to emerge from the invisible hidden energy of the universe.
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The formless energy is amenable to being shaped by our minds, and is the ultimate source of all wealth. Hence, in a very real sense, every person in this world is wealthy by birth because each of us is connected to that source of infinite supply. The only problem is that almost nobody knows how to tap into it and bring it into manifestation. Hence, they remain impoverished. It is not circumstance or upbringing that does it. It is sheer ignorance of the reality of our own wealth, and how easily we could tap into it if we just tried.
It is the mind that does this, and not some sort of "business strategy". Interestingly, most people who want to achieve anything in the material world tend to focus almost exclusively upon "method". They try to make the right contacts, study up the right books, learn the techniques, and so on. This is all very well, but it is not the final factor in success, or even the first one.
In any area of endeavor, you will often find two people with almost identical talent and opportunity. One is a roaring success; the other is going nowhere. You may see two almost identical businesses; one is going from strength to strength whilst the other is almost bankrupt. Why?
The answer lies in how successfully we can tap into the Law of Perpetual Transmutation, and manifest from the formless according to our desires. Rather than constantly immerse ourselves in the world of Effects, i.e. the material world, more of your focus should go into the world of Causes.
The first step to doing this is simply awareness. Being actually aware that your first priority should be working in the formless realm will get you a long way towards manifesting what you seek. Form will manifest from the formless, regardless of you. That is simply what happens by natural law. Hence, you can simply work with this process, and accelerate your progress, or try to ignore the law and experience relatively random results.
Meditating regularly on the Law of Perpetual Transmutation can help you make it a living belief for you. In a relaxed state, imagine a vast space above you, the size of the whole sky, and filled with energy. This is the formless realm; abundant enough to create ten thousand universes the size of our own, and still be nowhere near running out. Imagine it pregnant with potential, constantly giving birth to new forms in the material world. See this going on continuously, from microscopic to macroscopic, as a flow from formless to form. See also the forms of our material world dissolving right back into the formless energy continuum.
Now, place yourself between the flow. See the vast infinite energy flowing from the formless THROUGH YOU, and manifesting into form beneath you. It's like a gigantic hourglass. The energy particles move from the formless, using you as the conduit, and flow into the material world, changed by YOUR will! Rather than simply experiencing the effects of the Law of Perpetual Transmutation, you are bending it to your will. This is the way it was always intended to be used. In truth, the whole of creation is intelligent. Nothing happens by chance. This law was made to be intelligently used.
If you use a meditation like this each and every day, you will make this law your own, and begin to realize its effects in your life. It will become a living reality to you, and not merely a theory.
Yes, material methods are also important and cannot be ignored. However, doing this ALONE will almost certainly leave you as another "also-ran". However, if you combine working in the formless realm with also working in the conventional way, your chances of success will be phenomenally increased. In a very real sense, you will be "going with the flow"; the flow from the formless into form through the Law of Perpetual Transmutation.
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