Archives for June 2014

Being a parent success mentor to your children sets your kids up to be successful in life. Parent success mentors teach their children good daily habits such as:

• the 80:20 Rule (Living Below Your Means)
• the 5:1 Rule (Listen for 5 minutes, talk for 1 minute)
• limiting T.V., Internet, cell phone use to less than one hour a day
• reading for self-education 30 minutes or more each day
• exercising aerobically 20-30 minutes each day
• volunteering 5 hours or more per month
• practicing optimism and gratitude every day
• setting goals
• pursuing a dream or major purpose in life
• controlling your emotions
• eating and drinking in moderation
• staying in touch every day with valuable relationships
• avoiding gossip and
• always doing more than you are paid for

Time is a limited, valuable resource, second only to health. Most people, unfortunately, spend most of their time working to achieve the goals and objectives of other people, commonly referred to as employers. When you set a long-term goal or follow a dream or major purpose in life, all that changes. Passion explodes from within. Passion forces you to change your priorities. Somehow you are able to find the time. That’s one of the the unique character traits of passion. It changes how you use your time. It gives you the motivation to go the extra mile. It creates energy you didn’t know you had. This newfound energy enables you to do the work that is necessary in pursuing a long-term goal, dream or major purpose. Only when you are pursuing your long-term goal, dream or major purpose in life will you be truly happy. That is why goal-setting is so important. It creates the passion and energy that allows you pursue individual success.

We all talk to ourselves. Sometimes the self-talk is verbal and sometimes non-verbal. Non-verbal self talk are thoughts that pop into our minds from time to time and usually follow immediately after something happens such as a conversation, action, event etc. Verbal and non-verbal self-talk act as mini computer apps that infiltrate our subconscious (limbic system and brain stem) and program our minds a certain way. Self-talk can be positive or negative and can confirm or change an exiting belief. If you have limiting beliefs that are holding you back you need to change your self-talk from negative to positive in order to rid yourself of those limiting beliefs.

Wealthy, successful people all have one thing in common: ongoing, daily self-improvement. Whether it’s reading books, periodicals, digital media, listening to audiobooks or podcasts, exercising, eating less, eating healthier, meditation or any other number of self-improvement activities. Select just one and do it first thing upon waking up. It will make you feel better about yourself and will inspire and motivate you, no matter what your mental state. One self-improvement activity for one day. Give it a try. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose except a little time.

Poverty circumstances are temporary, made permanent by our daily habits. 40% of all of our daily activities are habits (2006 Stanford Study). This means we are all unconsciously moving toward wealth or poverty. It is also the reason you are stuck in the middle-class. Breaking free from poverty or the middle-class is possible. 5-7% of those stuck in poverty, every year, break free from poverty and realize financial success in life. This 5-7% group all have one thing in common: changing their habits, beliefs and behaviors. Breaking free from poverty or the middle-class requires that you adopt new success habits. By adopting just one Rich Habit, such as daily self-improvement reading, you put yourself on a path to success. Adopting two or more Rich Habits accelerates that process. Start small, with one Rich Habit, and watch your life begin to transform before your eyes.