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Your beliefs about yourself can propel you to success and wealth or anchor you to failure and poverty.

“I’m not smart”, “I have bad luck”, “I was born poor and poor people don’t get rich”, “I can’t (fill in the blank nonsense)” will anchor you in failure.

If you want to re-tune your brain for success you need to start by wiping out those negative beliefs and replace them with positive beliefs.

Below are 12 strategies that will jump start your positive thinking:

1. Make a list of all of your wishes and dreams.
2. Write a future letter to yourself. This letter sets forth the incredible, ideal life you have five years from now. You write it as if it were the present. Don’t hold back. Describe the house you live in, the car you drive, the ideal job you have etc.
3. Write your obituary. Describe the incredibly successful life you lived. List all of your accomplishments and successes. Paint a picture of the perfect life you left behind.
4. Set one big goal that will help you realize the ideal life you described in the future letter and obituary.
5. Create a vision board. This is a picture of all of the things you have in your future life. The house by the beach, the RV, the boat, plane, Rolex watch etc.
6. Create daily affirmations that are tied to your new big goal and the future you. Affirmations act like computer software programming on the brain. They need to be in the present tense and represent a future state. Example: “I am a successful podcaster”, “I love living in my Jersey shore house”, “I enjoy traveling to Hawaii for speaking engagements”.
7. Meditate every day. Start out by meditating for just 60 seconds upon waking up in the morning or right before bedtime. This will soon become a daily habit. Try to build up to 2-3 minutes twice a day. When you meditate, visualize your ideal life and all of your goals and wishes coming true.
8. Practice gratitude every day. Being thankful for what you have sends a message to your brain that you like getting things. Your brain will then go to work seeking out more things for you to be grateful for.
9. Practice optimism. Start looking at the positive aspects of your life and stop focusing on the negative. Negative thinking programs your mind into believing you will fail. Practiced optimism reprograms your brain. Your brain will now go to work seeking out more things to be positive and optimistic about. It opens your eyes to opportunities that will make you more successful.
10. Learn to live in the present and don’t allow worries to intrude. If you allow worries to occupy your mind while on vacation, at the beach, at a family party etc.,  you will have lost that happiness event forever.
11. Maintain a victory log. This is a log in which you list any success, big or small. Keep it close to you. Get in the habit of success thinking. You do this by focusing on your successes and not your failures. The victory log will help you become success conscious.
12. Reward yourself each time after logging in a success on your victory log. The brain likes the feeling of being rewarded. It likes it so much it will re-tune your RAS into seeking more victories in life.

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Habits are repetitive behaviors, choices, emotions and thinking that occur below the level of consciousness, meaning you are unaware of them.

According to a 2006 Duke study, these involuntary acts represent 40% or more of an individual’s daily activities. This means 40% or more of the time, each day, we are all doing things, making choices and thinking a certain way, without even being aware of it.

After I completed my Rich Habits Study interviews, it dawned on me that neither the rich or poor fully comprehended the importance of their habits vis-a-vis, their wealth or poverty.

Neither group had any inkling that their financial success or failure was the result of their habits. Most were on autopilot, just doing the same things their parents did, or taught them to do, without realizing it.

This presented a big problem in my mind because, since millions of people in America were poor, this meant many families would be forever stuck in a generational cycle of poverty and have no idea why. It also represented an opportunity – if I could expose the Poor Habits that were the cause of poverty, I could help put an end to this generational cycle of poverty.

I found in my research that the only way families were able to break out of poverty or the lower middle class was when parents became obsessed with mentoring their children to succeed by indoctrinating in them Rich Habits.

I discovered in my research that awareness of our habits was the key to changing them. When we mentor our children with good daily success habits and put up a stop sign anytime we see a bad habit running amok, we tee our children up for success.

I wrote Rich Kids (http://richhabits.net/rich-habits-books/) in order to help give parents the tools they needed in order to become success mentors to their kids.

Parents are often the only shot kids have at having a mentor in their lives. Parents raise children but parents who are success-mentors raise successful children.

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Bragging is an attempt to portray yourself in a positive light.

Why do people want others to see them in a positive light?

Most people are not where they would like to be in life. Deep down, they are actually disappointed about themselves and their lives. They know they are not doing what is required in order to succeed. But, they don’t want others to know that. They want others to see them as a better version of who they actually are.

Wealthy, self-made people don’t brag. What’s to brag about? Most spent the better part of their adult lives slogging through adversity. To them, they don’t see the crown on their head, others see. What they do see, instead, are the bruises and battle wounds acquired during their long, arduous journey towards success.

The endless adversity they had to face and overcome left permanent scars in their brain matter. The reality is that the memory of the pursuit of success was ugly, stressful, unpleasant and nothing to brag about.

Wealthy, successful people do not brag because they have a positive perception of themselves, born of adversity, and they do not require any endorsement or validation from others. The fact that they faced adversity and overcame it, validates their self-worth.

Bragging is a Toxic Poor Habit. It germinates from a negative mental outlook. Anyone who brags is wallowing in a negative mindset and negative thinking is one of the paths that leads to poverty.

If a bragger somehow enters your inner circle, push them out. They won’t add any value to your life. In fact, they will have a negative influence on you and anyone else who is part of your inner circle.

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