Day 2: The Millionaire Difference & Day 3: Motivation!

It's Thursday! What happened to Wednesday? I thought this was a daily thing? What happened?

Well that's an easy one, Technical difficulties!!


Yup! My internet connection was down, simple as that
So today Thursday is a double installment, "The Millionaire difference" and Motivation: mine and yours...

The Millionaire difference is the result of the Millionaire Mindset.
Our beliefs are like spotlights that show us what is possible. With an employee mind set whats possible?
A raise? Waiting to be noticed and elevated? Worry about pleasing the boss? Worry about getting fired?
Praying it'll all work out?

The employee mind set focuses on:

Working just enough
Getting by
Pleasing others
Dependence on an employer: Hoping they have your best interest at heart
Avoiding: pain, risk, being comfortable

Now for just a moment just pretend this is how you think. Try it on. try on that thinking, check it out, how does it feel? What would the future hold? How far could you go? How would it feel ? What is the best you could hope for? At best getting by, having just enough hoping and praying?.Think about it you tell me.

And Now, let that go and adopt the Millionaire Mind set,.
What's possible when you are:

Living your passion
Following your vision
Fulfilling your
Confident in your judgement
Willing make mistakes in order to win
Secure and confident enough to take risks and spot opportunity
Optimistic and Confident in your abilities to succeed
Working hard and wanting to, because you believe in what you are doing and loving every minute of it.

I don't know about you but this whole employee thing seems is pretty bleak to me!
I ready for something more. In fact I demand something more!

On to the homework:

So passion is a big part of this, if you have passion it'll drive you on when and protect you from criticism and doubt.

With that in mind tonight's homework is to list at least 10 business ideas that I am passionate about:

1. Running a holistic center
2. Seeing clients as an NLP practitioner
3. Writing books
4. Owning/Servicing healthy vending machines
5. Providing technical and systems support to small business
6. Growing gourmet mushrooms
7. Generating new business idea
8. Creating/Selling  art work (Mine and others)
9. Becoming a recording engineer
10. ...

Alright 9 idea for now, maybe more later...

If you have any good suggestions for me send 'em on over!

And on to Day 3: Motivation Mine and Yours

One thing that unnites all of the millionaires in this program is motivation. Motivation to succeed. Motivation to push past critics. Motivation to make their visions into reality!

So what is it that motivates them? The money of course! No that's not it! Good guess. I mean millionaires do it for the money right? WRONG!!!

According to the our millionaires, even if they started out hungry for money or desperate not to be poor, once they could make a living doing and were doing they kept on going! and going and going! and not because of the money; Money became a means and not the end. Money was nothing more than a way to keep going and growing. It wasn't the money it was the passion! Some want to make a name for themselves, some want to leave a legacy and some just love the rush of doing the impossible. What ever it is that motivates them is what drives them on and the money came along after.

So find what gets you Revved up, Get Excited, Get Going and Don't Let Anyone Stop YOU, Not Even YOURSELF!!!  GO, GO, GO!!!

 

In the beginning there was the millionaire mind set: The Millionaire MBA Day 1

That's right today's the day! Day one of the millionaire MBA and the beginning of Transformation Travelogue.

Today was all about Millionaire Mindset the way of thinking and behaving that is the essence of the entrepreneurial spirit and the bedrock of self made millionaires. It is diametrically opposed to the employee mind set and even further from the corporate mind set.

So whats the big deal?
Well as the Buddha said "with our minds we make the world". Now I could dive into a rich esoteric explanation but I think I'll save that for another day and trust me I will. But for now just accept it as the truth that it is, go with me for a while here. If we make the world with our minds and I'm sure you can agree this is at least true of our personal inner world, then what we hold in our mind is what we create. So then Millionaire Mind set is what it's all about!

Passion!
Believing in yourself
Desire, Commitment, Drive.
Courage!
Clear Vision of the future
Hard work and Self Discipline
Optimism
Wisdom
Willingness to risk

That is what separates a self made Millionaire from an employee or a corporate man.

So on to the homework:

1. What are you passionate about?

People
The Dharma
Neuro Linguistic Programing
New ideas
Doing things the right way
Process improvement
New experiences

2. Who do you admire or what life styles do you admire?

Buddha
Khentrul Rinpoche,
Soygal Rinpoche
Lama Zongpo
Anthony Robbins
Richard Bandler
Richard Branson

3. What do you want out of life

Happy family
Loving supportive partner
To travel
Experience new things and cultures
Free people from suffering
Have all of my and my family's needs taken care of
To own at least one home

4. What don't I want

To be without my sons
To worry about where money is coming from or how to make ends meat

I could probably expand on all of these but that's it for now. It's getting late and tomorrow is another day

Ok So what's the program?

Ok, so you get the picture? Lots of info not so much work, So what's the program?

Well I'm quite sure of the whole program only that I'm going to work through all of the books and courses I own and that's a lot! 15 gig of Audio and  video and that's just the digital stuff that doesn't include CDs and cassettes. Yes I said cassettes.

I do know where I'm starting.

I'm starting with The Millionaire MBA program from www.millionairemba.com . It's a 60 day program based a collection interviews with 29 self made millionaires. Ok I know what your thinking. Make a million dollars, Scam Alert! OK well maybe and then again maybe not. That's what this is all about, giving it a go, trying it on, going all in, giving it 100% and seeing where it takes me. And hey if I make a million or two in the process it'll be that much more fun!

So the plan is to start next Monday with the first day of the program and to continue on with it for 60days. I think it;s really 8 weeks meaning forty weekdays but who's counting?

I'll do the listening and any assignments and post an overview of both. Actually now that I think about it, I might as well just post the homework in it's entirety. What do I have to hide? besides it will be interesting and fun to look back after I made my firt million and see where it all started. lol 

That's all for now, see you next time.

Transformation Travelogue...

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Wait What???

OK so here's the deal, for years  now I have been studying and reading and dabbling in personal transformation, personal growth, self improvement information: books, tapes, seminars,experiences.Call it what you will, it's the stuff we should all be doing to make our lives better. Which is good for the everybody really, especially the people closest to us. Ok, ok so back to the deal. I've been slacking! I've been studying and not doing. I know a lot of stuff but have never really done much with it.So what now? I've decided to get off my ass and put all of this lernin to use : ) 

So lets get to the Who..

And the answer is, it really doesn't matter! does it? I'm a regular guy just like you. 

I'm in my thirties, I have a couple of kids (two strong, smart young lads who will be bigger than me some day) a wonderful girlfriend (much more really <3 ) and a life that has changed a lot in the past few years. As it does for everyone; Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces, Revelations, Re-locations etc. you get the picture. 

And now for the What

This blog and the business of transformation.

I'm taking all the programs I've managed to aquire over the years I'm going to do all of them end to end, start to finish all the way through,doing all the work, tracking it daily; bogging my progress, my thoughts and reflections, and an overview of the days "work" and any the results along the way.

Ok so when? 

Daily. At least during the week. Most of these programs are set up for a five day week with weekends off so to speak. Of course, on the weekends I might be doing a seminar or attending a teaching I'll post on that too I suspect, If I can find the time. Why not? it's all part of the trip.

Where? 

Alright I might have gotten a little overzealous on the question words at the beginning, this one's a bit irrelevant. 

Why?

For the hell of it. I'm not really doing this for any reason other then to keep track of my progress and because I like the idea of having a real example of how well this stuff works. Perhaps it will, perhaps it won't, either way we'll find out one way, one way or the other. And just to be clear, I'm not writing this with any hopes of getting followers or making money. There are too many clumsy attempts to "get  followers" and "generate traffic" out there. I'm just lookin to be honest and frank about some stuff i'm doing that's all if you like it hang around if not it's been nice knowing you, see you around.

So I think you get the gist. If it sounds like an interesting proposition pop back and see what tomorrow brings. I know I will.