Rich Habits Word of the Day

Latticework – Framework, infrastructure. Tom built into his Outlook database a latticework of processes that enabled him to remember every person’s birthday.

Rich Habits Fact of the Day

Twelve Things How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie book) Will Do For You:

In my research 80% of the wealthy made happy birthday calls while only 11% of the poor did this. The wealthy process this Rich Habit into their day using cell phones, calendars, customer relationship management software, database management systems, Outlook and in some cases a simple Rolodex. While it may seem trivial it isn’t. In Dale Carnegie’s famous book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, Mr. Carnegie points out that the two most important things to every individual are their names and their birthday’s. To each of us our birthday’s are important. When you wish someone a happy birthday it says to the birthday boy or girl you are important to me. Phone calls are the best way to wish a happy birthday because it gives you an opportunity to communicate with your relationship. While Facebook is a great tool to process happy birthday wishes it should not take the place of a phone call. The more we communicate with our relationships the stronger they get. Wherever you go carry around a notepad and when you meet with your relationships at events, gatherings, get togethers, ask them for their birthday and write it down in your notepad and then transfer it to your cell phone or Outlook and set it as an anniversary reminder. This way you will never forget anyone’s birthday. Happy birthday calls keep all of our relationships on life support because at least once a year we are communicating with them. I have been following this Rich Habit for years and I discovered that about 20% of the people you call on their birthday will eventually reciprocate and call you on your birthday. This reciprocal birthday call takes your relationships off life support and grows the roots to your relationship tree further.

Rich Habits Word of the Day

Salubrious – Good health. Tom learned his salubrious lifestyle from studying the daily habits of the wealthy.

Rich Habits Fact of the Day

Rich Habits Word of the Day

Prosperity – Financial success and abundance. Tom’s dream was to help the poor rise from their individual poverty in pursuit of the American Dream and realize unlimited prosperity.

Rich Habits Fact of the Day

The American Dream represents the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American along with a life of personal happiness and material prosperity. The American Dream offers every American a real hope that they can increase their prosperity and the potential to rise from poverty to wealth in one or two generations. It is the dream that children will grow up to be happier and more prosperous than their parents; that each generation can be better off than the last.

Rich Habits Word of the Day

Perspicacity – Genius, perceptive. G. W. Carver’s perspicacity for seeing what other experts did not see is why he is in the history books and those so-called “experts” are not.

Rich Habits Fact of the Day

The successful have the courage to pursue their dreams in spite of the overwhelming obstacles placed in their way. Passion for your goal or dream enables you to persist. Perseverance, in pursuit of your passion, always manifests opportunities and unintended consequences. That is why it is so important to persevere. Often the path to achieving your goal or dream is very different than the one imagined. You simply cannot predict the “how” to reaching your goal or realizing your dream. The “how”, in the face of persistence, just appears out of thin air.

Rich Habits Word of the Day

Outlander – Outsider. Tom was an outlander trying to help the poor rise from abject poverty to wealth.

Rich Habits Fact of the Day

It often takes on outsider’s perspective to solve intractable problems. Many wealthy individuals were outsiders. Oftentimes the greatest achievements in life were by outsiders who were not confined to the rules and paradigms of industry experts. Being an outsider means taking risks, being innovative and bucking the tide. Critics are everywhere but those who persist reap the rewards.

Rich Habits Word of the Day

Vicissitude – Innovation. His very vicissitude helped lift millions out of poverty.

Rich Habits Fact of the Day

Many wealthy people become wealthy, in large part, because they are innovative risk takers pursuing a dream. Their passion fuels the fire of  creativity allowing them to create newer and better ways of doing things that have value in the marketplace. They are not afraid of following their dreams even when they lack experience, knowledge, capital and knowhow. They follow their passion and this passion instills in them a persistence to follow their dreams and innovate even when others around them say it can’t be done.

Rich Habits Word of the Day

Adulation – Love. His adulation for his family never waned.

Rich Habits Fact of the Day

Rich Habit Lesson of the Day

Those who are wealthy and successful understand a very fundamental universal law: Positive Thinking creates wealth & success; Negative Thinking creates poverty & failure. Love & Gratitude are the strongest of the positive emotions. Together they will change your mindset from a negative one to a positive one. Use the Daily 5 technique to make love a daily habit. Every day think of 5 people who have helped you in your life and affirm your love for them. This daily habit exercise is like sending a good computer virus into your subconscious. If you perform this daily habit every day for 30 days it will shift your mindset from negative to positive and will reprogram your subconscious to begin seeking out more people to help you become successful in life. It is a directive to you subconscious. The subconscious is a computer. It takes this directive and it begins attracting more people and events into your life to love. It becomes a guided missile for love. Try it for 30 days.