Develop the Habits to Create Opportunity Luck, Achieve Consistent Success, and Build Wealth
Every time I tell someone the title of my book they’re curious. That’s because “Strategies for Cats” is a metaphor. Yes, it is a story about “Kitty”, a homeless cat who receives a life filled with abundance, and I guess I could have used a person instead of my cat, but you may not fall in love with her like a lot of readers already have. [Read more…]
In my book, Change Your Habits, Change Your Life, I highlight one of the most important factors to success – the importance of being liked. According to my Rich Habits Study:
As it turns out, the rich in my study were on to something big. According to a Columbia University study by Melinda Tamkins, success in the workplace is guaranteed not by what or whom you know but by your popularity. In her study, Tamkins found that, “popular workers were seen as trustworthy, motivated, serious, decisive and hardworking and were recommended for fast-track promotion and generous pay increases. Their less-liked colleagues were perceived as arrogant, conniving and manipulative. Pay rises and promotions were ruled out regardless of their academic background or professional qualifications.” (Pam Holloway – The Secret of Likeability). [Read more…]
Why is there so much unrest in America’s inner cities? The experts are quick to point the finger of blame at a variety of causes: low wages, racial discrimination, Police gone wild, America’s shrinking manufacturing base, U.S. companies moving oversees, China stealing our jobs, illegal immigrants stealing our jobs, poor education system, the rich exploiting the poor, insufficient taxation of the rich, etc.
But none of these pundits ever address the real source of this unrest – bad parenting.
America’s growing discontent among the poor of the inner cities and the growing disparity nationwide between the rich and the poor is a reflection of how America’s have’s and have-not’s were raised by their parents. [Read more…]
Habits define us. Like the Wizard of Oz, they are hidden behind a curtain of unconscious behaviors, thinking and emotions. Those with good daily habits excel in life and are happy.Their lives are filled with satisfying relationships, calm and unexpected good consequences (i.e. good luck).
Those with bad daily habits struggle in life and are unhappy. Their lives are filled with conflict, turmoil and unexpected bad consequences (i.e. bad luck).
I thought I’d apply my extensive habits knowledge to the two main individuals who are running for President this year, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Based on my findings Donald Trump has 3 Poor Habits and 3 Rich Habits that stand out. Hillary Clinton has 6 Poor Habits and 2 Rich Habits that stand out. From a habit standpoint Trump is the better choice for President.
I complied a list of the most common types of habits along with some commentary regarding those habits that stand out, good or bad. [Read more…]
Most everyone wants to become rich. According to my Rich Habits research, being rich eliminates 67% of the problems that plague most people. So, besides being able to buy that house by the beach, a Rolex watch or travel to exotic places, being rich means fewer problems in life. Fewer problems equals less stress. Less stress equals a healthier and happier life.
There are 14 signs that will lead to success and wealth. If you possess all 14 your chances for becoming rich increase geometrically: [Read more…]
In my Rich Habits study I discovered that your beliefs dictate your circumstances in life. Those who are wealthy have different beliefs than those who are poor or stuck in the middle-class.
Beliefs represent the acceptance of something without any proof to back up what we accept as fact. They are inherited unconscious programming. We adopt the beliefs of our parents, family, mentors culture and our environment (neighborhood, town, city, state, country). Most who were raised in poverty, inherited limiting beliefs that hold them back in life.
Those who are able to rise from poverty and become wealthy found mentors who possessed success beliefs or employed certain strategies that enabled them to remove their limiting beliefs and implant success beliefs, effectively re-programming their entire belief system.
The wealthy adopt certain beliefs that promote success:
If you want to succeed in life, if you want to become rich, you need to understand the beliefs you currently have and then do some surgery. For a week, write down in a notepad every belief that pops in your head. This belief awareness exercise enables you to isolate any limiting beliefs that are likely holding you back in life. Once you’ve identified those limiting beliefs, then it’s time to remove them and add the beliefs that will enable you to become rich and successful.
So, how do you remove limiting beliefs and implant success beliefs?
Your existing beliefs were formed over many years. It takes time to re-program you belief system. How long? At least one year of dedicated effort. But that one year investment will pay you dividends for the rest of your life. Your future you will thank you.
We all have negative and limiting beliefs that hold us back in life. Most of these beliefs came from our parents and were forged during our early childhood years, prior to the age of nine. These negative and limiting beliefs cause us to develop habits that hold us back in our adult lives. Most are not even aware of the negative and limiting beliefs they have. These beliefs prevent us from becoming successful in life and in many cases they act like an anchor dragging us down into failure, poverty and a life of misery. If you want to be wealthy and successful in life you need to remove and replace these negative and limiting beliefs. Here’s how: [Read more…]
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius
As children we are programmed to believe that failure is bad. If you fail a test it negatively impacts your grade for the course. Fail enough tests and you will fail the course. Teachers call parents, parents yell at child. When we become adult we get bad grades in life by taking risks. As a result, we avoid taking risks in life in order to avoid failure.
Well most of us. The ones who don’t shy away from taking risks that could lead to failure are called self-made millionaires. Self-made millionaires somehow are able to re-program their minds in order to see failure as a good thing, learning experience, rather than as a bad thing. Failing, for self-made millionaires, helps them learn what what works and what does not work.
I thought I’d share some real-life stories of millionaires who failed and whose failure brought them to the brink of financial ruin, only to rise like a phoenix out of the ashes of failure. [Read more…]
I spend a great deal of time reading the Amazon reviews of my books. Particularly, the 1 and 2 star reviews. Rich Habits, 1st Edition had some critics, although 67% awarded it mostly 5 stars. Almost 100% of the criticism had one common theme: Where’s The Beef? We fixed that with my upcoming book Rich Habits Poor Habits, which expands the number of Rich Habits and Poor Habits from 10 to 30. Also, we have included two bonuses:
We will be releasing Rich Habits Poor Habits in the fall of 2016. We believe it will become a blockbuster, international best seller, right up there with Think and Grow Rich and other timeless classics.
My newest book – Change Your Habits, Change Your Life, continues to receive 5 star reviews. right out the gate. What readers love about this book is it’s ability to boil down complex topics into simple to understand language, making it easier to apply the strategies included in the book. It’s a powerful book and I was fortunate to get a back cover endorsement from none other than Jack Canfield, bestselling author of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Jack is in the Guinness World Book of Records – he holds the record for the most books ever published by an author: 500 million books! Jack doesn’t endorse books without good reason. Within two weeks of releasing Change Your Habits it rose to #1 on Amazon and iTunes and stayed there for two weeks. I am getting calls and emails from the media in all parts of the world who love the book and I am receiving astonishing reviews on Amazon. Here are some recent reviews from my readers on Change Your Habits, Change Your Life: [Read more…]
It was an early morning on the first day of spring. The farmer had just finished planting the last of his sunflower seeds. The ground was still cold and hard from a long, cold winter. The frosty, damp morning soon gave way to a strong morning sun rising slowly over the horizon. Its warm rays stroked the ground, stirring the newly planted sunflower seeds to life.
“Is it time? Is it time?” an anxious sunflower seed called out to his brothers and sisters. “No. It’s still too cold.” Thousands of sunflower seeds buried just beneath the earth echoed the refrain. “It’s too cold, it’s too cold.”
The next day the anxious sunflower seed called out once again, “is it time?”. “Not yet. It’s too cold,” rang out, one after the other from every seed. Day after day, the anxious sunflower seed called out to his brothers and sisters and each time their answer was always the same. [Read more…]
