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“The way that I see financial success is the ability to accept pain.”

This may sound strange to most people but this is how I experience financial success.

It is the ability to make sacrifices, the ability to take the high road when the low road is a lot easier and more inviting.

It is the ability to take responsibility and to do the things that average and unsuccessful people would never do.

My definition of success

My definition of success was formed in 1979 while I was doing my military training. During that time I read a verse in a book that had a massive impact on my life, and this verse became part of my daily declarations.

This verse goes as follows:

“I am not on this earth by chance. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is not to shrink into a grain of sand but to grow into a mountain. Henceforth I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy”. (Og Mandino - The Greatest Secret in the World)

In order to become a successful Wealth Creator in the holistic sense I have described, you will have to put in a lot more effort than the average person.

To be successful you will be prepared to walk the extra mile, to do more than what is expected of you, to manage your time and your finances.

In short, you must manage your life and take responsibility.

There is simply no alternative if you want to be on the right side of the statistics – and escape the reality of how most people retire. Hand over responsibility for your future and your security to someone else (employer, government, a financial institution) and you can be sure you will get the worst of the deal.

Why don’t more people take responsibility?

• Because we’re not taught to.
• Because we’re intimidated and convinced to hand the whole issue over (with relief) to an ‘expert’.
• Because we’re naturally inclined to take the easy way out – the low road.
• Because society brainwashes us into trusting the system that was not set up to give us financial freedom but to make sure our hard work makes others rich!
• Because we’re not focused enough, not productive enough.
• Because we’re conditioned to expect the good things in life to come easily and shy away from sacrifice of our time and effort.
• Because bad experiences at school turn many of us against learning – thinking it’s a boring slog, when it’s not.
• Because human beings prefer not to change and some of them like it so much they’d rather do without their dreams than get out of their comfort zones.

It is not easy to become successful. You will have to make a lot of sacrifices. You will take a lot of responsibility and you will hold yourself accountable for your actions.

You will have to learn and keep on learning for the rest of your life. If you want to make money you must learn to invest money first.

Success is a never-ending journey. The moment that you think you are successful or that you have arrived, you are setting yourself up for failure.

What does financial success mean to you?

Is success purely financial riches? Or is it a balanced life?

Success to me is to have balance. If I was successful financially but a failure as a husband or a father, in my mind I would not be a success. So, in order to experience balanced success I must plan my life.

More shocking news

Most people set up their life to fail, even before they start!

They make it impossible to achieve financial success. They simply set their standards too high without realistic plans in place for their attainment.

So they live in a state of unhappiness. No matter what they do they will never feel successful because in their own minds, they have failed.

I want to live in a state of happiness, so I have set up my life so as to accomplish and reach my targets and in my book learn to invest money I will show you a guaranteed "financial success system" that works.

Life is difficult enough as it is, so I have decided to make life easy for myself!

Once you are successful you can build on your successes.

Success breeds success.

You can build a big success on a small beginning, but very little that is positive can be built on a failure. The best thing about it failure to learn from it and move on.

Perhaps the lesson is that your expectations were unrealistic. That’s a valuable lesson. So next time, set a smaller goal and build on that success. (Why don t you read some of the financial success stories on my websites)

This is one of the reasons I caution my students not to rush ahead too quickly with the Wealth Creators Mentoring Program.

Make it easy for yourself to be successful. Start with a small step. Then add another. In the end, a lot of small steps will help you to reach your final destination.

How do you take the first small step?

A successful person is in control of his or her own lifestyle. The trick to good lifestyle management is the ability to manage your time and money.

We all have the same number of hours a day, but what we do with these hours is up to each individual. Once you have learned good time management you will be absolutely amazed at just how much time you used to fritter away, even as you convinced yourself that you were working very hard!

The Formula For Riches helps me to concentrate on those things that are important to me. It also helps me to focus. This makes it easier for me to be successful. The Formula For Riches is a "financial success system" in its own right.

What can I do to focus on my journey?

The world is full of information. In fact, it is overloaded.

By paying attention to a lot of that unsolicited information, I am helping someone else meet their goals! While my own slip away and time just passes with a great sense of being busy, run off my feet, and in a hurry – but very little sense of achieving my goals and celebrating my success.

The world is flooded with information and the opportunity for us as Wealth Creators is to find the information that is of value to us without wasting time and effort. There is also a business opportunity there – think about it!
How do I stay focused?

I constantly ask myself questions like:

”This story/event/piece of news/magazine/email/advert/ billboard/sms/phone message in front of me, demanding my attention - will it help me to achieve any of my goals or is will it just waste my time and lower my productivity?”

“Will I achieve my goals for the day/week/month/year/my whole lifetime faster or slower if I give this my time?”

”What is the single most important thing that I can do right now?”

”How can I do it and enjoy it?”

”What will help me to achieve my goals with greater ease and more joy?”

Never underestimate the importance of these last two points!

Enjoyment makes it a pleasure; pleasure reduces stress; stress saps energy and motivation and brings you down. Boost your energy by simply finding ways to enjoy your working day!

Be careful not to gather useless information!

Personally I do not read newspapers and I do not watch or listen to the news.

To me that is a lot of useless information and a way to waste valuable time.

There is a lot of sad and bad news in the world but I personally can’t do anything to stop or change any of that. So it is a waste of my time to listen to bad news and it puts me in an unhappy frame of mind.

Is wealth a measure of success?

To be a Wealth Creator is to have life in abundance. If you are on my Wealth Creators Mentoring Course you will know not to confuse financial wealth with success. I recently read this story in "Business and Accounting Ethics" that says it all.

HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS?

A popular story recounts a meeting that took place at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago in 1923. Attending this meeting were nine of the richest men in the world at that time:

(1) Charles Schwab, President of the world's largest independent steel company;
(2) Samuel Insull, President of the world's largest utility company;
(3) Howard Hopson, President of the largest gas firm;
(4) Arthur Cutten, the greatest wheat speculator;
(5) Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange;
(6) Albert Fall, member of the President's Cabinet;
(7) Leon Frazier, President of the Bank of International Settlements;
(8) Jessie Livermore, the greatest speculator in the Stock Market; and
(9) Ivar Kreuger, head of the company with the most widely distributed securities in the world.

Twenty-five years later,

(1) Charles Schwab had died in bankruptcy, having lived on borrowed money for five years before his death.
(2) Samuel Insull had died virtually penniless after spending some time as a fugitive from justice.
(3) Howard Hopson was insane.
(4) Arthur Cutten died overseas, broke.
(5) Richard Whitney had spent time in Sing-Sing.
(6) Albert Fall was released from prison so he could die at home.
(7) Leon Fraizer, (8) Jessie Livermore, and (9) Ivar Kreuger each died by suicide.

Measured by financial wealth and power these men achieved success, at least temporarily.

Making a lot of money may be an acceptable goal, but money most assuredly does not guarantee a truly successful life and I will strongly advise you to apply the Formula For Riches n your life to become a true Wealth Creator and not just to amass financial wealth.

Many people think of fame and fortune when they measure success, but as Wealth Creators we know better.

However, at some point in life, most people come to realize that inner peace and soul-deep satisfaction come not from fame and fortune, but having lived a life based on integrity and noble character. President Lincoln put it this way: “Honor is better than honors.”

Proverbs 22:1: "A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold." In the final analysis, living an honorable life really is more satisfying than fame and fortune.

The question then remains - How do you measure success?

Is there a financial success course where anyone can learn to become a financial success?

A good place to start is to read the e-book :

Learn to invest money

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“The way that I see financial success is the ability to accept pain.”