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Last weekend I was at a party and got round to meeting some of the esteemed guests there.

I got speaking to a store owner who owned one of Brisbane’s boutique cake shops. After pleasantries were exchanged, she asked me some of the things I did, and I ended up telling her about some of the incredible interviews with wealthy people I’ve done lately. I told her I’ve done close to 30 interviews now, from people ranging in net worth from $1 – $50 million dollars.

She was very interested and realized the scale of wisdom I’ve been privileged to encounter. What came next really got me thinking:

“West, tell me one thing that you would say is the major distinction you’ve observed that distinguishes these people from the rest.”

I thought to myself: “Great question!!”

My answer surprised even me. And although I don’t think it’s the all encompassing answer, it certainly is right up there in my reflections of the key traits.

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When Athletes and Artists Achieve Their Top Results Top athletes and artists know the state that helps them achieve top results. Psychologists call it a state of great enthusiasm or a state of altered consciousness. Athletes call it the zone. It happens during the moments of your greatest pleasure; when you forget everything around you and allow yourself to go with the flow, get into the zone, contact your higher self, etc. Your conscious mind rests in the background and doesn’t give any instructions. It is interesting that champions have defined this state of ecstasy as the greatest reward, over glory, prestige or medals.

Looking at when such perfect performances happen, you will discover that they only happen when you.re not burdened with how you will perform. The routine of your experience carry you through. This heightened state will remain as long as you don’t think about the results. It happens all the time in sports someone who is not in the top ranking defeats everyone above them and wins the competition. They continued anyway, knowing they had no chance to win, and thus freed their mind of all fears of defeat and delivered the best performance of their career.

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.

Even if you are not strictly a businessperson, satisfying the needs of others should be your primary objective in life. Most of your daily activities (conversations, shopping, work, play, family life) bring you in contact with others. You will be more successful in every area that involves people if you focus on their needs instead of your own. In the process, you’ll satisfy your needs automatically.

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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A fine line exists between information and knowledge. That fine line is nothing more than “use.” — You can memorize bits and pieces of information all day, every day, but, until you actually use that information, it is not knowledge. Once used, information becomes knowledge and, thereby, power.

SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE; whether they be self-employed or wage-earners, executive or common laborer, are seekers after knowledge. They absorb information from every direction. The information they can use becomes knowledge, while the information they have no apparent use for is simply stored on the chance that someday it may become useful. UN-SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE, on the other hand, claim to be seekers of knowledge, but, they believe that knowledge itself can be imparted. Because the books they read, the courses they take, and the plans they buy contain only “information.,” they are forever disappointed. Because it is ONLY INFORMATION (not the “knowledge” they thought they were going to get), they never use the information and, thereby, the knowledge they sought is lost to them forever.

The RULES OF SUCCESS used by successful people & businesses since the beginning of time have never really changed. Those rules have been written-down for all to read, learn and use, but they appear as “information” only and can only be changed to “knowledge” by use. If there were a way to “force” every person and every business to “use” those known and proven rules of success, there would be NO UN-successful people or businesses in the world. Statistically, 90% of small businesses fail, and 90% of people live a life of sustained mediocrity, simply because they will not “use” the information available to them. In your quest for financial independence you MUST learn to force yourself to use the information you have at your disposal. — No one (but YOU) is going to force you to assume that responsibility. Of course, some smart aleck reading this is going to say, “Yeah! But, I’m not going to use any bad information.” Granted, there is bad (counter-productive) information out there. BUT – there is NO WAY of telling good information from bad information, UNTIL YOU TRY IT.

Judging the value of information without using it is like trying to judge the flavor of a pie without ever tasting it. YOU can be your best friend, or your worst enemy. No one forces you to be what you are, or do what you do (or don’t do). – What you have today is a direct result of what you did yesterday. What you will have tomorrow will be a direct result of what you do (or don’t do) today. It’s up to you!

Hi and welcome to my Blog. My name is West Loh . I’ve been witnessing the massive growth of Blogs, and being an internet marketer, I thought it imperative to at least begin one.

I’ve learnt that you need to love what you’re blogging about. If you don’t, it becomes a JOB. I’m lazy. I don’t want a job. Especially considering how 80% of bloggers don’t make a cent blogging.

I hope to make small, regular posts of inspirational, motivational snippets I’ve gathered over the years from hundreds of seminars I’ve attended and thousands of books I’ve read. If you learn one new thing that adds value to your life, then this has all been worth it.

So make sure you check back regularly!

I’ll make another post soon. Just want to test a few things. cheers

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