Start Thinking Like a Rich Person (and Get Rich!)

The greatest achievement in life is to have the ability to create the world around you so that it matches the dreams in your mind.
This is how the most advanced city in the world sprung from the desert sands of Dubai in less than 10 years. This is how Bugatti built the 253 mph Veyron. This is how Steve Jobs created the iPhone.
Whatever that dream may be in your mind… Whether it’s unlimited time with your family, a new dress, the chance to work full-time for your favorite charity, or your dream home…having the financial means and the ability to say, “Yes, I can make this real if I want” is the ultimate expression of wealth that someone can experience.
That is being rich. That is wealth.
I got there, and so can you. And it all begins with mindset…

Step #1: Forget The Past And Forget The Present

Your past and present circumstances have nothing to do with your future.

The first thing you need to realize is that whether you were rich or poor growing up doesn’t matter. No one within my family tree has ever been what I consider wealthy, and all of the rich kids I envied back in high school are living uninspired lives of financial mediocrity today.
I started bussing tables the day I turned 26. I was an average B/C student in high school and barely squeaked through university. After graduation, I spent the next five years failing in my network marketing businesses and bouncing from one job to another in order to pay the rent.
Looking at me from the outside, I was nothing and no one.
But deep inside at my core, I held an unwavering belief that I would be a millionaire before 30, and that I would change the world for the better.
You can make the conscious decision right now to let go of your past and let go of your present.
Accept the belief that you deserve to be wealthy and that you will become wealthy, even if you’re not sure how it will happen just yet.
This will set your subconscious on a mission to create your new reality. You’ll start to make different choices, and better decisions that will lead you toward your goal.

Step #2: Realize What Money Truly Is…

For most people in this world, money is this scarce, all-powerful force that controls every aspect of their life.
Money is their master. It controls them. It determines the quality of life they get to experience, and some people are just luckier to get more of it than others.
The rich think differently.
They believe and accept that they have the power to change and shape their lives as they wish. Money doesn’t own their lives, they own the money. They have the power.
In reality, money is a physical representation for energy and value.
And energy can never be destroyed. It can only be transferred from one source to another.

Step #3: Know that Money is Abundantly Available

If money can never be destroyed, that means it is infinitely and abundantly available.
A critical step to acquiring wealth is to have an “abundance mentality.” And that simply means you realize your life and the world has an unlimited abundance of money, wealth, energy, happiness, hope, and prosperity. And that these things are not privileges of a lucky few, but they are available to all.
It’s this mindset of abundance that allows you to destroy the one thing that’s holding you back… Fear.

·         Fear of loss when it comes to your job or an investment.

·         Fear of judgment.

·         Fear of mistakes.

Letting go of scarcity means letting go of fear so that you can open up your heart and mind to creation and abundance.
So how do you foster and develop that abundance mentality? Well that leads us to…

Step #4: Choose Your Friends Wisely

You may have heard the saying that your income is destined to be the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
This is absolutely correct.
Our minds are like sponges that are constantly absorbing every piece of stimulus we encounter, either consciously or unconsciously.
To become rich, you must surround yourself with people who are already rich, because you will adopt the ideas, beliefs, and mindset of the people you spend the most time with, (including the people found on TV, in books, or on tape), which will lead you to make similar decisions, which will lead you to assume a similar life and lifestyle.
Obviously that might be difficult to do in person, but the great news is that your time spent with the wealthy of the world doesn’t need to take place in person.
All that matters is the amount of exposure, whether it’s by reading a book, watching videos at The Elevation Group, or listening to CDs in your car.
You must consciously protect yourself from people with a poverty mentality, and open your mind to those with an abundance mentality immediately.

Step #5: Understand that it Is Your Obligation To Be Rich

I’m not here to teach or preach religion, but I will simply share my personal feelings with you on this particular topic.
It is my firmest belief that God wants each of us to be rich, so that we can experience the incredible gifts that he has created for us.
We’re only here for a short time, and I personally feel like it would be an insult to Him if I did not do my absolute best to see and experience all of the amazing things he’s created on this world.
If I’m not driving the best, eating the best, drinking the best, seeing the best that life has to offer, and helping my fellow man do the same, I’m insulting his generosity, and I’m turning my back on what he’s trying to share.
God is by definition a creator.
Which means the closest you can ever get to God is when you allow yourself to use the gifts he’s given you to design and create your greatest life.
Your destiny is unlimited abundance if you’re a simply willing to accept that gift.