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Life is like a seesaw. On one side of the seesaw are your Poor Habits and on the other side are your Rich Habits.

If you have more Poor Habits than Rich Habits you put yourself on the path towards poverty.

If you have more Rich Habits than Poor Habits you put yourself on the path towards becoming rich.

Adding just two or three Rich Habits is all it takes to change your life and get your seesaw tipping in the right direction. You don’t need to worry about getting rid of any of your old bad habits when you add new good habits.

The interesting thing is that Rich Habits are like dominoes. When you add one Rich Habit it changes your other habits. Adding Rich Habits actually makes it easier to eliminate your Poor Habits, which will go away automatically.

The poor believe that the only type of luck they have is random bad luck

The rich believe that they create their own type of luck which I call Opportunity Luck.

Either way you slice it, becoming rich or poor comes down to luck.

From my research, I have found that luck is a major factor in success:

• 79% of poor people in my study believed wealth came from random good luck and the reason they were poor was due to a lack of random good luck.
• 87% of the wealthy people in my study believed they created their own luck.

I found that the poor created their own bad luck in the form of Detrimental Luck. Their bad habits, bad behaviors, negative thinking and uncontrolled emotions are like apple seeds they plant every day. Eventually those apple seeds sprout, turn into trees and produce rotten fruit.

The rich also created their own form of good luck called Opportunity Luck, according to my research. Their good habits, good behaviors, positive thinking and under control emotions are like apple seeds they plant every day. Eventually those apple seeds sprout, turn into trees and produce delicious fruit.

Persistence is sustained effort toward a goal or your Chief Aim in life.

Most people lack persistence and it is the reason most are not wealthy. A lack of persistence is the main cause of failure in life.

Wealthy people have the Rich Habit of being persistent. They simply never give up. They are obsessed with their dreams, goals or main purpose in life and will not stop until they achieve their dreams, goals or Chief Aim in life.

• 62% of the wealthy are focused on their goals every day.
• 80% are focused on achieving at least one goal.
• 55% of the wealthy in my study spent a year or more working towards some goal.

Negative thinking is a Poor Habit.

When you make negative thinking a habit, negative things eventually will materialize in your life.

The brain, specifically the subconscious (Brain Stem and Limbic System), goes to work behind the scenes to bring about that which you are constantly thinking about.

It does this through intuition. Intuition is the way the conscious brain (Neo-Cortex) communicates to you what the subconscious wants you to do. If your thoughts are negative, the intuition you will receive will be destructive. It will nudge you to do something that will bring about the negative things you are constantly thinking about. When you are in a negative place, intuition can be destructive.

This is why it is so important to be aware of our thinking and stop all negative thoughts in their tracts. This is also why it is so important to consciously put positive thoughts in our minds through the use of daily affirmations and visualization techniques. The conscious mind cannot hold onto two thoughts at the same time. so, the key to getting rid of negative thoughts is to think about something positive. This pushes the negative thought out of the mind and prevents the subconscious from doing any damage.