Archive for July, 2008

All successful people know one important fact and live by it:

You earn money only through satisfying the needs and wants of others.

Think carefully about that last sentence before you shake your head. Nothing is bought, sold or traded that does not satisfy some need or fulfill someone’s desire. Make the welfare of others a chief priority in your life and you hold an important key to lasting success. Find ways to better serve your customers, business partners, colleagues, friends, family and others to the best of your ability. This must be foremost in your mind and reflected in your daily decisions and actions.

It is only by helping others to their success that you guarantee your own.

Trouble only arises when you change your focus from cooperation with others to focusing strictly on yourself; when your thoughts turn towards problems or your own profit then trouble begins.
Just learning to dedicate yourself to the person you are talking to or dealing with, will increase your success in business immediately and substantially!

If you enjoy doing this, you will be not only successful, but happy as well. This is the only way to true happiness: find a need (that unfulfilled, bothers many people) and enjoy filling it. If people do not want or need what you offer (we are not talking only about products and services, but your ideas as well!), you can waste much energy without any (or very little) success.
This idea is easy to understand. When you act in the best interest of others, people recognize and appreciate your commitment to them and reward that commitment by giving you their energy (business, time, attention, loyalty, money) back. Its as easy as that.

Always remember: Your problems are of no interest to the vast majority of people, however, you can solve the vast majority of your own problems by simply helping others solve theirs.

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Entering the Millionaire Realm Every day more and more people enter the elite society of millionaires. Unfortunately, only a few maintain their top position of wealth and go on to increase their fortunes.
Your education, color of skin, age, gender or even your profession or measured intelligence does not determine whether you become a Millionaire..
The question you need to ask is: What do all successful people have in common?.

Successful people listen to their inner voice, to their feelings and hunches.. In short, winners rely on their own inherent wisdom. Why? Because they already know what you are about to discover, that you already have the path to your unique success within you!

Successful people see opportunity where others see only defeat. If you read biographies of successful people, you will discover that they saw opportunity in the challenges before them, where others saw only insurmountable obstacles.

Successful people listen to their own inner voice and become involved in the process of success instead of focusing on the destination of wealth. Its surprising how little it takes, how far a few key characteristics go. Of course, it all begins with taking the first step.

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My intangible wealth is so vast as to be incalculable; giving me the personal net worth of a multimillionaire, even a billionaire. Think of the wealthiest individuals on the planet — perhaps Bill Gates or Warren Buffet or The Sultan of Brunei or one of the Asian tycoons — and think of their vast financial wealth. And now that I have thought of their huge mountains of money, I shall dismiss this entirely from my mind. Here on my Intangible Wealth Statement, financial worth is of no consequence. Instead, of most importance are
my hidden assets, my everyday blessings. For example, if I am younger than Bill Gates or Warren Buffet and healthier than both of them, so what if they are worth billions of dollars? My ‘age wealth’ and my ‘health wealth’ exceed theirs. What about happiness and peace of mind? If I am happier than The Sultan of Brunei and have greater peace of mind than him, my ‘happiness wealth’ and my ‘peace of mind wealth’ both exceed his.

Now I’ll write my top five Gratitude Factors, my five most important Feel Good Factors, and my five most valuable Physical Assets. Once written, I must give each factor a dollar value — unless I believe its worth is incalculable, in which case I shall just write ‘priceless’ as in the examples on the next page. What value do I place upon being a citizen of a country that believes in free enterprise — is this worth at least one million dollars? What is the value of having eyes that can look up and see a majestic sunset or view the full moon on a clear starlit night — if my eyesight is good, would I sell my eyes for one million dollars? It is probable that I possess an intangible wealth that can be calculated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. So, from this day forth, I will always feel like the Millionaire I truly am.

Empowered Millionaire’s
Intangible Wealth Statement

Top 5 Gratitude Factors Value
- Working at a career I enjoy $ priceless
- Living in a free enterprise society $ priceless
- Siblings to cherish and argue with $ priceless
- The unconditional love of my wife and children $ priceless
- Wonderful role models in my mother and father $ priceless

Top 5 Feel Good Factors Value
- Being an entrepreneurial spirit $ priceless
- Helping underprivileged children $ priceless
- Eating chocolate fudge ice-cream $ priceless
- Making passionate love with my spouse $ priceless
- Swimming at the beach on a sunny day $ priceless

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