Life has a way of going wrong. When things go wrong, our natural inclination is to blame someone or something. This knee-jerk reaction helps protect our fragile egos, by taking individual responsibility for our actions, out of the equation. Blame is anchored in negativity and negativity is the default mode for those who are unsuccessful…
Believe it or not, there is a Devil and an Angel residing in each one of us. The Devil says “Do it now” and the Angel says, “Don’t do it now.” The Devil goes by a more scientific name – the Nucleus Accumbens. The Nucleus Accumbens is part of the Limbic System, or mid-brain. It…
Back in 2004, I began to research why the rich were rich and why the poor were poor. When I began my Rich Habits research, I had some entrenched negative beliefs about the wealthy that I inherited from my non-rich upbringing. As I learned more about the drivers behind wealth and poverty, however, my perception changed….
When I began my Rich Habits Study, I wanted to know the answer to one question: why are some people rich and other people poor? Five years, and 51,984 questions later, I learned the answer – Habits. Habits dictate your circumstances in life. This is a truly groundbreaking discovery. Habits affect just about every aspect of your…
Many successful individuals seek to mimic or model themselves after other successful people they admire. Typically, these are individuals within the same industry. This copycat strategy helps you in numerous ways: Avoid Mistakes – Because you are walking in the footsteps of other successful individuals within your industry, you are able to avoid making the…
When most think of wealth, they think about money. The thinking goes, the more money you have, the wealthier you are. But wealth is about much more than money. True wealth is measured by how much freedom that money buys and how much fulfillment you have in your life. Money can buy you freedom, permitting…
In November 2016, the journal BMC Public Health published a study conducted in Finland over an eleven-year period. The study included 2,267 men and women. 121 of those men and women, who were identified as more pessimistic than the rest of the group, had died of coronary heart disease during the study’s eleven-year period. The…
I’ve got a lot of hard proprietary data on why the rich are rich and why the poor are poor. Some of the research I’ve gathered centres around the decision-making process of self-made millionaires. What I found is that self-made millionaires don’t make rash decisions. They often mull their decisions over, sometimes for weeks or…
We are hardwired to be lazy. And we have our brains to thank for it. The human brain is lazy. Or, looking at it another way, the brain finds ways of doing things that enable it to work less. And that is exactly why we have habits. Habits use less brain fuel (glucose or ketones),…
Your money habits can make you rich or put you in a poor house. According to a recent study by Brown University, in which nearly 50,000 families were surveyed, most of the habits we pick up in life come from our parents (Brown Study). This includes money habits. If your parents had bad money habits…
