Do you have what it takes to become a millionaire? Do you know the most important thoughts and habits of “the millionaire mind”?
Long before the best-selling book and video The Secret, enterprising men and women have been trying to understand the success secrets of the rich and famous. In fact, the Law of Attraction draws on the research of some pioneering thinkers who have given us clear directions for creating wealth.
You have probably heard of Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich…one of the best-selling books of all time. But did you know he was himself a rags to riches success story?
Hill was born in poverty in the Appalachian mountains. At the age of 15, he became a “mountain reporter” for a small-town newspaper. It was there that he got his lucky break. As part of a series of articles about famous men, he interviewed billionaire industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie was taken with the young man, and commissioned him to interview over 500 successful men and women to discover the “formula for success.”
As part of his research, Hill interviewed many of the most famous people of the time…including Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Hill’s works examine the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in achieving success. One of his hallmark expressions is, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Hill’s work provides the foundation for many of today’s most influential personal development gurus. Bob Proctor, one of the stars of the best-selling movie The Secret, has carried around a copy of Hill’s book for more than 50 years. His first success came from following the simple 5-step process outlined by Hill in Think and Grow Rich:
- Identify exactly what it is that you want. This must be very specific…not just I want a lot of money, but I want $1 million dollars.
- Identify what you will give in return. There is no such thing as something for nothing. How are you going to provide value in exchange for what you want?
- Identify the date by which you plan to receive what you want.
- Write it all down in a very clear, concise statement.
- Read your vision aloud twice each day and visualize yourself achieving your goal.
Sounds simple, and it is. But you have to be able to make the leap to really believe that it is possible.
Joe Vitale, another Secret star and best-selling author, calls it “the attractor factor.” He explains it this way:
What you hold in your mind with energy and focus will tend to be created in your reality. You’ll attract it. It takes a little longer to experience results because we keep changing our minds….Our indecision makes attracting what we want nearly impossible. No wonder you end up feeling that you can’t get what you want. Yet it doesn’t have to be that way.
Those are the simple secrets of the millionaire mind. If you want to change your life, you have to change your beliefs. And it all starts with being very clear about what you want, and focusing your undivided attention on it.
This is something you can do, starting right here and now. Do you want to become a millionaire? Commit yourself to following the 5-step process outlined above, and watch the changes start to manifest in your life.
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