Change Your Mentality And Get Into That Millionaire Mindset
Positivity and mindset are vital to success in life, sports and more importantly in your entrepreneurial journey and having that millionaire mindset. Napoleon Hill was one of the first to point this out in a business environment in ‘Think and Grow Rich’. More extravagantly ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne sugar coats everything researched in the past. Basically the simple lesson from these books is that your mentality affects the way you perceive and interpret ideas and opportunities. The use of a car and its headlights in ‘The Secret’ is another way of re-enacting what successful entrepreneurs have known for over 100 years.
When I was 16 I was working in my family business. My parents were in the rat race getting up early and coming home late. I saw this as ‘good business’ as they were maximising their earning potential. When I was 18 and just started my bachelor of Entrepreneurship, I learned about more successful businesses that are systemized so that the business was still making money while the entrepreneur was not in the business. Today at 21 I am thinking a lot bigger with the ‘born global’ concept which I had no idea about 18 months ago.
As you can see over the years I have developed my millionaire mindset. I can show you the stages by using the example of a generic business idea. From what I learned from my parents I would have opened a local store and serviced my local area working 60 hours or more a week. When I was exposed to scalable businesses I would have used my networks and the internet to have a systemized business which I could market nationally. With my born global mentality today I would look to develop the business concept to be implemented in multi-national markets.
The funny thing about the processes above is nearly the same amount of time and effort go into each of the three. The only thing which is different is the entrepreneur at the beginning of the business’ journey with what is and is not possible.
In developing that millionaire mindset there are stepping stones. Entrepreneurs who try to take a huge leap need to remember they can go backwards just as quick. However by taking small but frequent steps you will have only minor adjustments that should not take you back to quick.
Serial Entrepreneurs know and respect this. They understand the market is changing and the best way to develop is through experience. So they keep starting, growing and exiting businesses and then repeat this process with a slightly larger idea until they are happy with where they are at.
My path was a little different. When I was a teen I was reading a lot of business books which set my framework up. When I was 18 and just starting my higher education I also founded another business with my brother. The combination of the two meant my printing business quickly evolved from a local business to a truly national business in three years and hiring employees which my parents were afraid to do.
With your millionaire mindset just remember the only limitation is the ideas that your mind blocks. The best way to expand on your mentality is to experience as you can best judge then what is and is not possible.
Learn more about an entrepreneurs mentality. Stop by Jamie Xuereb’s site where you can find out all about the millionaire mindset and what it can do for you.
Personal Development Is Not Easy
Read that again. Personal development is hard. A lot of people are always looking for that magic pill that will fix their problems in life. You are that magic pill though.
The first thing that has to happen is that you realize the problem you are having. As I’ve written before, this will generally be a problem that falls under health, wealth, relationships, or a combination of the above. For most people, this is the HARDEST step. No one likes to admit that they are coming up short (or at least shorter than they would like) in some aspect of their lives. Most people are content with staying put in their life and resist change, even though the change (no matter how painful) is what could bring the most positivity and joy into their life!
It doesn’t have to be something that happens in a negative connotation, but I’ve found the most drive and motivation in my personal development efforts when there is a great deal of pain that is making me want to change. Moving towards pleasure in this instance usually isn’t enough. After my P90X and workout experiments of the last 4 months, I’m now around 175-180 on my weight. This change happened because of the immense pain I associated with being fat and out of shape. I felt disgusting, unattractive, and unhealthy. Those factors made me WANT to change so badly that I made it happen.
Now contrast that with the pleasure I feel with being fit and in shape. It is good. I definitely feel better and have positive feelings when people around me comment on how good I look. This is a driving force in my maintaining my results as well. But the memory of the PAIN I had to deal with to get to this point will definitely push me to stay in the gym and coming up with new goals to get in even better shape.
Self improvement works in this way almost always. Evaluate each area of your life. Notice what areas that are lacking give you tremendous pain and that having abundance in would give you great pleasure. If you don’t have any pain, create some for motivation. If you don’t come up with this combination your motivation and drive will suffer for it.
At this stage my fitness is pretty much on cruise control. I know how to eat, I work out regularly, and I spend my time with friends who think and act similarly. Now I am moving my attention to making money online. This is an area that I have spent a lot of time and money in and have not seen the results. I know a big part of that is that I have not taken the steps to implement things that I have learned as efficiently as I could have. It is like a thorn in my side and I now have the PAIN in place to tackle it. I also know how much pleasure I would get from focusing my efforts on the things that I am passionate about and making an income from it.
Personal development is hard folks. I love it because of the challenge, and I have seen seemingly ordinary people do extraordinary things because of consistent effort and a desire to be better. Identify your problem areas and your pain and pleasure motivators, and then go make a plan and implement it. Know, do, and be more in your life in every area.
