Keys to Your Wealth

The first principle in creating wealth is
Know what you want--Dream Big Dreams, see it in your mind.  I can hear some of you saying... "yeah, yeah, figure out what you want, dream big, visualize, got it. Now tell me what steps to take to make it work!".

The thing is, the most successful folks I meet keep coming back to this idea and principle. Most recently, Frank Kern and his Core Influence video. [If you haven't seen it, you can go to http://umakeadiff.com and sign up to get access.] He could stand to clean up his language but by and large, he's following in the teachings of Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Stephen Covey, Napoleon Hill and thousands of others.

Covey's seven habits book starts with habit number 1: Start with the End in Mind.
Some of the difficulties I have had with this idea is just plain figuring out where I really want to be. I found that exercises like pretending to be 120 years old. Drag your best friend into this and make them a young reporter who's asking you questions about your incredible life--- the things you've done, the legacies you've left behind, the people you've influenced, where you've been. Do it well and you'll have goals to last you the rest of your life.

One book I have found useful in helping me figure out what's important to me is The On Purpose Person by Kevin McCarthy. He basically has you write out all of your dreams and goals and then compare them against one another like final elimination tournament.

Once we know what we want. We really need to see it. In Psychology of Winning, Denis Waitely wrote about his experiences in training world class athletes and astronauts. The very best, in addition to their usual training, also visualized the results. Those who visualized were significantly more likely to achieve their goals than those who didn't. So take the time, each evening, and as clearly as you can, close your eyes and visualize how you want your life to be.

Finally, you need to think big. The quote "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men" by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe comes to mind. In his classic book The Magic of Thinking Big, David Schwartz makes a great case for the value of thinking big.

The evidence seems clear, we need to know what we want and we need to be thinking about it. And if you reach for the stars and miss, you can catch the moon on your way down.

Rich Freeman, Keys to Wealth

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