Day 3. Motivation, Napoleon Hill's Visualization technique and Rockefellers 12 Golden Rules of Riches

Day 3 of my blog-post a day challenge seems to go pretty well. In fact i am starting to enjoy it more and more every day. Writing builds some-sort of unexplainable creativity.

The mornings are usually the hardest. Somehow I wake up and need at least half an hour to get my head back together and feel inspired, motivated and turned on by life again. I heard no one hardly wakes up ready to kill it :). I have experienced this kind of motivation on several occasions. I call it my version of the flow. My goal is to create the lifestyle where each day I wake up with such an energy that I am absolutely inspired and motivated to crush the day...

I kept reading Napoleon Hill yesterday and I am trying to read a chapter a day from Think and Grow Rich and take out one small lesson each day that resonates with me. Yesterday it was the chapter on Auto-Suggestion.

Now, this chapter was very related to an understanding that I came to recently. Basically, one of the keys to achieving your goal is becoming the person you will one day be right away before you even get to the goal. Lets say, you want to be a Successful entrepreneur, business owner, millionaire, or pretty much achieve any goal you have set to yourself. The secret is, to Visualize yourself already there... With every action you take, with every thought or decision, think of what would your successful version do and act in accordance to that. Riches is not a material place to get to. I am sure most of you would agree that if you take away the material wealth from a truly successful person he will eventually get back to the place of riches he once was. It is right the opposite of why most lottery winners end up back with the 0 within few years. Its because success or riches is a state of mind more than anything else. So, the fastest way to achieve your goal is not to have a perfect plan made of Whats and Hows. It is learning and developing the habits/thoughts of the successful people and living in the condition of abundance and productivity that you aim to get to.

This morning before writing this post I read a fantastic article about Rockfeller. I summarised and took the following notes:

1. Do not work work with someone else. Work less for someone else. The one who works the whole day for someone else, he will never have the opportunity to make money for himself.

2. Save money and invest.

3. Start a business. If you don't have much money, you have to do business. If you don't have money at all, you should do business immediately. Right now!

4. Create Passive Income. The path to immense riches lies only through passive income -the income that comes to you independent from your efforts. Create a source of passive income and enjoy your life. Investing is a good option for this.

5. Make 50 000$ per month. Aim for making minimum $50 000 per month. You can make more but not less.

6. Socialize. Meet new people and network.  Money comes to you via other people. Unsocial people rarely become rich

7.  Surround yourself with Successful People. Poor surrounding will almost always drag you down to poorness. Surround yourself with the winners and optimistic people.

8. Take Responsibility! Lack of responsibility makes you poor. Do not make excuses why you cannot start moving towards your goal right now. You don't have excuses. Take action now!

9. Study the biographies and the way of thinking of the richest people of the world. Listen and take advise from only successful people who have already achieved what you want to achieve not your friends or family.

10. Dream! Dreams are the most important thing in your life. A person starts to die when he stops dreaming. You must always have a dream, a vision and an ambition where you want to get in life.

11. Help others. Help people without expecting anything in return but help the ones that you truly want to help. Give back 10% of your income to charity.

12. Enjoy the life. Create business systems that will be working for you in the long run and enjoy the life and the money you made!
                                           

Hope you enjoyed it! Have a fantastic day and work on building your dreams!!