minute.
Today, I have a successful business and a secure level of income because of
the many experts I have interviewed in the past two years and the guidance
of my mentors.
Do you realize how important having a mentor is?
If you do not have a mentor yet, then I suggest that you consider having
one?
Here’s a free gift to help you go further.
The Jim Cathcart Interview >>> http://bit.ly/pVKKUM
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This is one of my early interviews, and Jim is absolutely brilliant.
You’ll hear why:
• Most people never succeed
• You must go through your own learning curve
• You need to take control of your own thinking, and not allow others
to do this for you
• The more value that you give, the more rewards you get
• Starting the day and ending the day with positive input is so
important.
And yes, I was still very nervous at this point, but I think it’s important to
share this interview with you, to show you where I started from. And, you
will just love what Jim has to say anyway.
Now the reality is that not everyone will say yes. I’m sorry, but that’s just a
fact.
Just move onto the next one. I used to ask myself “Who’s Next?”
There are so many experts out there who would love for you to interview
them.
How do I know? Because I am doing it. I just go in search of them instead.
~ Most of us go through life as failures,
because we are waiting for the 'time to be right'
to start doing something worthwhile.
Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.'
Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have
at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. ~
Napoleon Hill
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My Embarrassing Learning Curve
I can still remember my very first interview. I had arranged to interview an
Internet marketing expert based in Australia and, because of the time zone
difference, it was at a very early 5:30 a.m. in the morning for me.
I sat there in my dressing gown, hands all clammy and sweat beads lining
my brow. In fact, I was so nervous that I forgot my login to the
teleconference service in order to record the interview.
At the time, it felt like it was a complete disaster. But the expert was
gracious enough to allow me to reschedule for two days later. Looking back,
I think that it took me more than seven different interviews before I
started relaxing and feeling more comfortable.
It wasn’t an easy learning curve for me, but I am very glad that I stuck with
it to overcome my own fears, because it is so worthwhile.
I stumbled my way through those early interviews and probably embarrassed
myself more than once. The important thing is that I kept at it.
Just because I wasn’t comfortable with my first few interviews didn’t mean I
wouldn’t ever be. It just meant that I wasn’t comfortable - yet.
I learned something new with each interview: I would find out new ways
to make money, and to inspire myself and others. And, with each
interview, I would come away with a wealth of resource material that I could
then turn into something of value for my clients.
So, I stuck with the process. I learned a valuable lesson in perseverance, and
today I have a successful business to show for my efforts.
Even though I was still getting valuable information and advice from the
experts I was interviewing, I still had to go through my own learning curve.
I needed to learn how to become comfortable with the interviewing
process and the initial approach.
I also needed to learn what questions to ask so that I could get information
that would be useful and valuable to me and my clients.
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And, I needed to find ways to build my confidence and find my own natural
style.
In the process I learned that a big part of what was holding me back was my
mind-set, my insecurities and fears.
It was time I shifted some of my thinking.
This brings us to Part Two – How To Think Like A Millionaire.
~ Dream, learn from the best to become the best you can, and take
action.
Success is a doorway, choose to walk through ~
Andy Sacker
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Summary
Consider doing something to put you and your family in a good financial
position. Do not wait, as I did, until a financial disaster hits you.
Remember that interviewing is your savior when it comes to creating
information products quickly.
Think: By interviewing an expert in your chosen area, you can actually create
a product that is full of good solid information.
You don’t need to have any specific skills or talents or online expertise at all.
Action – Test – Refine – Repeat
Consider that experts know they need exposure in order to maintain their
profile.
Do you realize how important having a mentor is?
Here is your free gift to help you go further. The Jim Cathcart Interview
http://bit.ly/pVKKUM (Just In Case).
There are so many experts out there that would love for you to interview
them.
Consider my first botched interview; a nervous wreck early in the morning,
sweating buckets. Believe me, you can do this, you only need to decide
whether you want to or not. That’s your choice.
We all have to go through our own learning curve, there’s no hiding here!
Consider finding ways to build your confidence and finding your own natural
style.
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PART II
How to Develop a Millionaire Mind-Set
~ 'If You Can Dream It, You Can Become It' ~
William Arthur Ward
~ When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out — because
that's what's inside.
When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside ~
Wayne Dyer
The Entrepreneur
There are going to be a lot more millionaires in the future, and I have a
question for you.
Do you want to be one of them?
I say this because this time that we are living in right now more than any
other time in history is the best time ever for anyone of us to reach our
dreams.
We are moving into the age of the Entrepreneur.
In his book, ‘The Entrepreneur Revolution’, Daniel Priestly shares how the
Industrial Revolution swept the world in the mid to late 1800’s. At that time
family businesses literally got swallowed up as they were unable to compete
with the huge conglomerates that emerged.
Now, many years later, the reverse is happening. Small entrepreneurs all
over the world are slowly taking market share back from big businesses.
This Entrepreneur Revolution has a huge impact on you as the emerging
entrepreneur. Right now, we are living in an age that encourages us to
reach our dreams. More than before, there is a greater chance of you
achieving your dreams. But what will it take to get there?
~ Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've
imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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What the School System Teaches Us
Traditionally, most school systems focus only on academic learning and
achievement. For most subjects, students are simply required to regurgitate
what they have been taught during the school year for their exams. Students
are not really encouraged to develop on a personal level, think outside of the
box, and build a great self-image.
When you ask a five year old what they want to be when they grow up, there
is almost no limit to the imagination reflected in their answer. “I want to
be a fireman, an astronaut, a pilot!” come the enthusiastic replies.
But, several years into the schooling system and those replies change don’t
they? Why is this?
Well the school systems are there to keep us in a job, and are used to
teaching us the 40-year plan. This entails finding a good job after leaving
school and simply sticking with it for the next 40 years until retirement. Not
much of a plan, if you ask me.
Fortunately, things are changing. Many educational institutions around the
world are starting to change their approach to learning. Mentoring is being
encouraged in colleges and universities. Students are now being asked for
their interpretation of the facts and to start expanding their thinking.
We are living in exciting times. I’m certain that 20 or 30 years from now
we can look back at this time and recognize that it was the beginning of an
age where anything is possible.
More than ever before, we will see more and more people living the life
that they dream of.
But, it starts with you and your thinking. This life of endless possibility is
open to everyone who is willing to expand their thinking.
Are you willing to do that?
Too often, it is not circumstances or our abilities that holds us back. Rather,
it is a fear of stepping outside of our comfort zones. Taking a risk, and paying
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the price in terms of effort and perseverance is well worth it to become the
person you were born to be.
Our self-image and how we talk to ourselves is often the basis for our
personal life story. To change our life - to turn it into the life we dream of
living - it’s mostly our thinking that we need to change.
How do we do that?
Let’s look to the example that many millionaires have already set and see
what we can learn from their life stories.
~ Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible
in your approach. It's the end you're after. ~
Anthony Robbins
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What Makes A Millionaire?
There are more millionaires today than ever before.
The interesting thing is that very few of these millionaires were born into
wealthy families. Most of them had ordinary childhoods, went to local schools
and some didn’t even benefit from a full education. Yet, they have become
self-made millionaires and billionaires.
If becoming a millionaire has little to do with your station in life, what is the
defining factor that differentiates those millionaires from the rest of
us?
Surprisingly enough, many studies show that it has to do with belief and
mind-sets; what you believe about yourself and what you believe you are
capable of achieving. Millionaires simply have a mind-set that they can and
will achieve their goals and they use this to drive themselves towards
success.
~ The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desires bring weak results,
just as a small amount of fire
makes a small amount of heat ~
Napoleon Hill
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How Beliefs Affect the Results You Get
If you’re in a place where I was two years ago, feeling tired and frustrated,
your biggest enemy right now is your mind-set. It all starts with our own
programming; the things that we accept and believe govern how we live out
our lives.
Everything we experienced since the day we are born is recorded into our
subconscious mind, and therefore whatever programming you have received
has got you where you are today.
The diagram below illustrates this perfectly:
Therefore, if beliefs have such a strong influence on the results you get and
you are looking for different results, the first thing you need to do is work on
changing your mind-set. Starting out with your beliefs you have the ability to
change your potential, to influence your actions and therefore affect the
results you get.
Beliefs affect so much more than we are aware of, including the way we act
in situations, the way we talk to certain people, and the way we approach
each work day.
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Have you ever noticed that, when things are good, you manage to get
through your work quickly, you feel great about what you are doing and you
walk around with a little spring in your step?
But if you are having a bad day, just one thing after another seems to
go wrong. Often, it’s simply a case that you are already in a bad mood so
you believe the world is at war with you. You react badly because you are
grumpy and that just makes situations worse.
So, it’s not really the rest of the world, it’s just you.
Your beliefs and your mind-set affect your life every day. Becoming more
aware of this gives you the power to change your beliefs and mind-set.
In turn, you can then influence your potential, your actions and your results
through your beliefs.
~ My greatest challenge has been to change the mind-set of people.
Mind-sets play strange tricks on us.
We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see ~
Yunus Mohammad
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What Influences Your Mind-set?
In order to be able to change your beliefs and mind-set, it’s helpful to
become more aware about what influences them. Every day interactions
and conversations with people can have a big impact on your beliefs.
This impact can be either positive or negative.
Some common influences are:
• Your Family or lack of Family
Your family relationships are often the ones that possibly most
influence your life and your mind-set. A loving and close family tends
to bring out the best in people, whereas physically or emotionally
absent parents tend to stunt personal and emotional development.
Your family, or the family that you don’t have, has a great influence
on a person’s mind-set.
People have a natural instinct to feel connected and a family is the
closest of those bonds. If it’s absent, people may carry a sense of
loneliness with them from not being part of a family.
• Your Upbringing
Your parents’ style of bringing you up has a major influence on your
mind-set. Parents act as role models that children often
subconsciously play out in their own lives.
For example: If your mother was a keen homemaker and spent a lot
of time with you and your siblings, then you may grow up to believe
that that is a woman’s role in the family. This can have a large
influence on your personal ambitions if you are a woman or your
expectations if you are male. This is a mind-set that you may carry
with you into adulthood and which WILL influence your dating
relationships and your career choices.
• Your Culture and Society
There are different cultural and social norms in every nation. The
culture in which you grow up has a strong influence on your mind-set.
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Some cultures believe that you follow family traditions and that
breaking away to follow your own ambitions is not acceptable. If this
is the culture you’ve grown up in you may not believe that there is
any possibility to live a life outside of the cultural norms.
• Your Home Environment
Today, there are fewer and fewer families that can claim to enjoy a
happy home environment. In many homes both parents work full-
time, leaving little time for family bonding. There are many single
parents that have to balance the responsibilities of earning a living
and managing a home.
The chaos or calm of your home environment has a large influence on
your self-image and level of confidence. Home should be a place of
sanctuary where you can relax and feel secure. Yet, for many people,
this is not their experience and they carry this with them into their
work lives.
• Your Friends or Peers
From early school years, friends and peers have a large influence on
what you think of yourself. A shy person that has few friends may not
have a very positive self-image. But, someone that manages to make
friends easily will often have a high level of self-confidence.
The people that you associate with socially or in the workplace are
often those you turn to for support or advice. They have the potential
to have a large influence on your mind-set.
• Your Work Environment
A company that looks after and invests in its employees can have a
positive influence. And, conversely, an oppressive work environment
stifles creativity, self-expression and innovation. It hinders people in
becoming all that they can be. Many entrepreneurs reflect how a
negative work environment influenced them into venturing out on
their own. Your work environment can have a strong influence on your
career choices, whether in a positive or negative way.
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• Your Experiences
Everyone has their own life story and some have had much more
difficult lives than others. Hardships often result in bitterness or low
self-belief. It is often said that a person’s character is reflected not in
how many challenges they have faced, but how they have weathered
or overcome them.
Experiences have the power to make a strong character or break a
weaker one. Those that are more resilient are likely to have a
stronger mind-set.
• Your Spiritual Beliefs
Spiritual beliefs are often a result of your upbringing and culture.
However, many people as adults embark on their own spiritual quests
to find greater meaning in life.
There’s no question that certain religions foster a belief that great
things are possible, whereas others teach that laws need to be
followed in order to achieve self-enlightenment. Your spiritual beliefs
can therefore influence your mind-set towards success.
• Your Interests
Each person is born with individual talents. One person may be
particularly artistic, another may love team sports. Still another may
love the outdoors, literature or music. People have a natural instinct
to spend their time doing things they love or have an interest in.