Have you ever run into an optimist? Most who do walk away are energized, enthusiastic, motivated, well optimistic. Now contrast that to pessimists. Pessimists sap you of your energy, enthusiasm, and motivation and drag you down in life. They push you away and make you want to run for the hills. By a wide margin, the…
Your daily habits are the reason you are rich, poor or stuck in the middle class. They are the reason you live in the house of your dreams or a shack. Forty per cent of all of your daily activities are habits. This means 40% of the time you’re on autopilot, every day. Habits save…
No one likes adversity. It’s disruptive, stressful and painful. But, without adversity, there would be no learning. Without learning there would be no growth. And without growth, there is no success. Those who survive adversity become stronger because of it. Surviving or overcoming adversity makes you more confident. Anxiety and fear are replaced by confidence. Confidence…
“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” — Thomas Edison One of the things that stood out from my Rich Habits Study was how important thinking was to self-made millionaires. I tracked ten different types of thinking habits…
Since childhood, we are indoctrinated to avoid failure. It’s embedded into our education system. As a child, you experience failure for the first time when you fail a test. The teacher puts a big “F” on your test and immediately you learn that failure is bad. Our education system has been enormously successful in indoctrinating…
Parents serve a very important, basic function in society – they turn children into functioning adults. This is a critical function because without it, society would fall into utter chaos. But if you want more for your children, you must become more to your children, than a parent. You must become a success mentor. About…
“All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller The path towards success is like climbing a never-ending flight of stairs. Each step is another obstacle to overcome. Each step is another mistake to learn from. With each step, another closed door opened. It requires a warrior mindset. When you have a warrior…
70% of the people you run into in life are pessimistic and only 30% are optimistic. There are a lot of ingredients that go into the self-made millionaire stew. According to my Rich Habits research, optimism happens to be one of the most important ingredients. So too is a high tolerance for risk, which is…
I spent five years studying the daily activities of wealthy individuals. I learned so many things that I’ve spent the better part of seven years sharing that information to help those who were struggling financially pull themselves out of the abyss that is poverty. I’d like to share some of the myth’s about money I…
When I travel the country speaking to high school and college students about exactly what they need to do to become financially successful in life, I always begin my presentation by asking three questions: “How many want to be financially successful in life?” “How many think they will be financially successful in life?” Almost every…
