According
to Wallace Wattles, in his popular wealth treatise called the Science of
Getting Rich, said that, “There is a science of getting rich, and it is an
exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern
the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by
anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.”
It
is true. Those who make wealth know that it comes about by application of
simple rules and principles. Those who don’t make wealth don’t know about these
simple things, and so they assume that wealth is a result of luck or pure
chance or something just as superstitious or silly.
Anthony
Robbins is one of the top success coaches in the world, having coached starsports players, heads of states and Fortune 500
executives. In his Get The Edge program, he listed down 12 specific reasons he
has come to observe to be the leading causes for most people’s lack of wealth.
Here they are:
1.
They never decide and really define, very specifically, what wealth means for
them. The keyword here is specifically. Can you imagine how hard it would be to
build a car or a plane without making a blueprint or sketch drawings of it
first? You have to know what your target is before you go chasing after it.
2.
They make wealth a moving target instead of a fixed one (this is related to
point one above). Once you have your target, fix it. Don’t change it until you
reach it. You must accomplish each step, celebrate, and then set course for a
new step, a new target.
3.
They define it in a way that seems unreachable. You only achieve what you
believe. No more, no less. So you must make it believable for you. Set goals
that will make you move forward and stretch, but not too high that even you
yourself don’t believe you can. Take the biggest step you believe you can,
achieve it, then take the next biggest you believe you can. This will build
positive reinforcement in your self-confidence as well.
4.
They never start. Ok, this is obvious. If you keep thinking about it forever,
it will forever remain in the thought level. You have to act! Start somewhere,
anywhere! Only after you start do you begin to get some feedback which will
help you plot your course better. The aircraft has to first take off before it
starts to adjust course for its destination. You must start, somewhere,
anywhere, doesn’t matter, just start! Act!
5.
They never make it a must. Let me explain what it means to make it a must. It
means marshalling all your intent, your will, your direction, into one singular
flow that is directed towards your goal. All obstacles are viewed as challenges
to be overcome. You will meet obstacles, and so expect it, but also expect to
move forward anyways. Use your obstacles to develop strength and skills, don’t
run away. Find out how to go past them. Find out! There is always a way,
always. And if your emotions are acting against your desire, embrace them,
learn what they are, know yourself, but keep moving forward. Make it a must,
and it will happen. Guaranteed. You don’t know in how many steps it will take,
but you know it will happen.
6.
They don’t have a realistic plan. If you want to do something, find out how it
is done from someone who has done it before. Make a realistic plan. Copy from
those who have succeeded before you. But don’t throw away your
intuition. Your intuition is extremely powerful once you learn how
to listen to it with practice.
7.
If they have a realistic plan, they never follow through on the plan. Well, if
you don’t follow the plan, who will?
8.
They give responsibility to others (“experts”) instead of to themselves. This
way, they never really learn how to do it, and if there are failures they never
learn why the failures happened and so they are bound to repeat them. It is a
good idea to get advice, but do it yourself. At least understand it
yourself even if you will delegate the actual doing.
9.
They give up when they face challenges. Going through the challenges is what
has made people rich, not giving up. Look, there are always challenges. So get
used to that. You will only get where you wish to get to if you are willing to
face the challenges along the path. All challenges are opportunities dressed in
work clothes, remember that. After the challenge is over, you will discover the
amazing fruit it held for you.
10.
They fail to conduct their lives as a business; they never ensure that they
make a profit year by year. Get a personal
finance package like
Quicken or Microsoft MONEY
. you need to have
budgets and CASH
flow statements
for your personal finances and your businesses. It is easy with those software packages. If you don’t keep records and
track, you wont know when you are making or losing MONEY
until it is
embarrassingly too late.
11.
They allow other people’s ideas to affect their decisions unreasonably. There
will always be people who don’t believe in your way, or who are pessimistic,
who try to pull you down, or whatever. And they will sometimes be your closest
friends and family. You cannot change that – they have a right
to be who they are. It is OK. Allow them their thoughts, don’t judge them for
that, but don’t feel obligated to accept their thoughts of follow their way.
Don’t allow other people, now or from the past, unreasonably affect your
decisions. Allow them their way, and you live your way.
12.
They don’t get quality coaching. This is extremely important! Coaching is
simply getting mentored by someone who has succeeded wildly in the area of your
interest. Get coaching! Our education system hardly equips us for real life, so
don’t assume that because you went to college you are properly equipped.
Hardly. You need to keep learning. The most successful people attend seminars,
read books, join mastermind groups and clubs, find
mentors, network, and even hire expensive personal coaches to make sure they
succeed.
How
many of these reasons can you identify with? Well, now that you see the
reasons, you now can look at yourself and make sure that you don’t follow ways
that are known to not lead to wealth. Follow what works and it will work. And
don’t forget to enjoy yourself along the way.
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