Category Archives: Mindset

It’s very easy to find yourself complaining about anything and everything going wrong in your life.

Can you relate?

“Life is difficult, I’m broke.”

“Life is so unfair, why can’t it be easier?”

“I hate my job.”

“Why did he or she say that to me?”

“I can’t stand this place, it smells bad.”

“Why do bad things always seem to happen to me?”

The list goes on and on and on. Before long, you find yourself in a constant state of “victim mode”.

Here’s what I mean…

You might not realize it, but your everyday language has a major impact on your life. And while it’s easy to react negatively to life events, pretty soon complaining becomes a habit.

Focusing on the negative becomes a habit. And guess what? This habit becomes one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affect your personal happiness, and it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success.

Has being negative ever worked to your benefit?

I highly doubt it has. Why? Because blaming, complaining and justifying your negative situation only attracts more of the same and doesn’t help you one bit.

Watch my video to see what I mean, and read on below to participate in a powerful exercise that will transform your focus from a negative mindset to a positive one…

The 7-Day No Complaining Challenge

Are you open to believing that you can create your life and your financial success (this is how rich and successful people think!), instead of buying into the “life happens to me” victim mentality?

Are you ready to leave negative thinking behind once and for all and become a Power Thinker, someone who looks for opportunities and solutions instead?

As you make the shift, you’ll improve the quality of your life and start to positively impact everyone around you!

Good or good?!

Introducing the 7-Day No Complaining Challenge… if you choose to accept it.  

Keep reading to see how it works…

How It Works

The 7-Day No Complaining Challenge begins on May 17th and ends on May 24th.

Each day a new Focus and Declaration will be announced via Facebook Live on my Facebook page.

Use the Focus we specifically created for you throughout the day to help you to shift away from the victim mindset to the rich and empowered mindset.

You’ll also be saying the Declarations we’ve chosen for you out loud three times a day to deeply ingrain these beliefs into your body and mind.

How Do I Remember To Say The Declaration Three Times A Day?! I’m really busy!

• The Declaration only takes 10 seconds to say, so it’ll only take up to 30 seconds of your day.
  
• Use your phone to set an alarm/reminder so you don’t forget.
  
• Write it on a post-it and stick it somewhere you’ll see as a reminder.
  
• Make the commitment to say the Declaration three times out loud every day!
  

And guess what? Our entire team at Harv Eker International will be participating in the challenge with you, so we’re all in this together!

Join The Challenge & Enter To Win!

Just by participating in the challenge, commenting on the Facebook videos each day, and sharing it with your friends and community, 3 lucky winners will be randomly selected at the end of the challenge to win a full ride scholarship to ALL of my home study programs AND coaching programs.

Yes, you’ll have access to EVERY SINGLE one of my programs, new or old, for a FULL YEAR… 

FREE of charge.

Good or good?

Do you accept the challenge? If so, then here’s what you need to do:

1. Download this worksheet we created for you to use as you go through each day of the challenge. (Optional, but highly recommended.) Print it out or fill it out as a PDF document.

2. Follow my Facebook page each day at 10AM PST from May 17th-24th. A new Focus and Declaration will be announced each day by Jesse Eker via Facebook Live.

3. Share your experience with us. Leave a comment under the video posts and you’ll be entered to win a full ride scholarship to my home study programs and coaching programs!

Let’s start this now together!

 

Here is the Focus and Declaration for Day 1:

Focus: No complaining, blaming or justifying all day today.
Declaration: “I embrace a challenge.”

Want to watch this video of Day 1 on Facebook and participate with the rest of the community? Click here (Please watch on Safari or Firefox. Chrome is causing a delay in audio).

Don’t use Facebook? Then watch the video below:

Here is the Focus and Declaration for Day 2: 

Focus: Observe others complain.
Declaration: “I choose to surround myself with people who do NOT blame, justify, or complain!”

Want to watch this video of Day 2 on Facebook and participate with the rest of the community? Click here.

Don’t use Facebook? Then watch the video below:

Here is the Focus and Declaration for Day 3: 

Focus: Become aware of any negative thoughts that come up throughout the day.
Declaration: “My thoughts direct my attention and my attention directs my life.”

Want to watch this video of Day 3 on Facebook and participate with the rest of the community? Click here.

Don’t use Facebook? Then watch the video below:

Here is the Focus and Declaration for Day 4: 

Focus: Watch what you say in the form of complaints (how many times and how often).
Declaration: “My response creates my outcome.”

Want to watch this video of Day 4 on Facebook and participate with the rest of the community? Click here.

Don’t use Facebook? Then watch the video below:

Here is the Focus and Declaration for Day 5: 

Focus: Turn any negatives you experience during the day into positives.
Declaration: “I focus on what I want, not on what I don’t want.”

Want to watch this video of Day 5 on Facebook and participate with the rest of the community? Click here.

Don’t use Facebook? Then watch the video below:

Here is the Focus and Declaration for Day 6: 

Focus: Use only positive words the whole day!
Declaration: “I am optimistic. I believe everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to serve me.”

Want to watch this video of Day 6 on Facebook and participate with the rest of the community? Click here.

Don’t use Facebook? Then watch the video below:

 

Here is the Focus and Declaration for Day 7: 

Focus: Express gratitude for all the blessings in your life.
Declaration: “What I focus on expands.”

Want to watch this video of Day 7 on Facebook and participate with the rest of the community? Click here.

Don’t use Facebook? Then watch the video below:

 

NOTE: The remaining Focuses and Declarations for the rest of the 7-Day No Complaining Challenge will be updated in real time, so make sure to check back here each day!

Remember, What You Focus On Expands

You’ll be amazed at the transformation that can happen in your life in just 7 days!

By completing my 7-Day No Complaining Challenge, you’ll switch your focus from a negative mindset to a positive one. Obstacles will start to fall away and solutions and miracles will start to effortlessly appear.

Click here to get started by downloading the worksheet
and click here to join Jesse Eker at 10am on Facebook Live up until May 24th.

For Your Freedom,

Have you ever heard that old quote, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”?

This was said by ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky, and is a quote I always keep in mind. It’s a simple premise, but one that resonates with me to the core.

I recently stumbled across an email I wanted to share with you, which had a similar idea — although this time it was referencing basketball!

But the truth is, both Gretzky’s quote and what I’m about to tell you can — and absolutely should — be applied to your financial success.

 

The Email That Could Change Your Life

The premise of the email was this:

The author researched the top 10 starters for the Eastern and Western All-Star basketball teams to find out how much money they made this year — which came to a whopping $224 million. Not bad for 10 players.

But the interesting thing was what he discovered about their average field goal percentage. By the way, if you’re not into basketball, this is the number of shots taken that fall into the basket, versus those that don’t make it in. Basically, how often the player is making the shot.

So now you’ve got these 10 guys making tens of millions of dollars a year each, and you’re probably thinking that their percentages are somewhere near 100%, right? Or surely around 90 or 80 at the very least?

Nope — almost the opposite.

The author found that these 10 All-Star players were an average of 48.8% from the field.

Isn’t that crazy? That means that these 10 superstar athletes aren’t even making  shots half the time. Compared to the 100% success rate the average Joe needs to achieve in his desk job, being an NBA ball player sure sounds like a breeze!

 

The Truth Behind All Epic Success Stories

But of course, it’s not quite this simple. And when you think about it, pretty quickly you can see why.

These high-level athletes — just as any CEO, entrepreneur or successful individual — spend their whole lives training to be the best. Not so they can have a perfect score percentage, but so they have the skills and experience to even get to play on that court.

See, although these athletes make their jobs look easy, it’s anything but. They’ve put in copious amounts of blood, sweat and tears behind the scenes to get to that point.

The years of training and commitment, missing out on parties, staying focused, and constantly honing their skills are why they’re at the level they’re at today — and this drive is priceless.

It’s the amount of time they spent improving themselves before the big game which commands their huge paychecks.

Now, ask yourself: what are you doing to improve yourself outside of your job? Beyond the basic requirements you need to meet to get your paycheck… how are you going above and beyond?

 

What Does This Mean For You?

The truth is, success isn’t a one-hit wonder; it’s a slow burn. Seemingly “overnight successes” are generally people who have been grinding for years before they made it big — even if it seems like it came easy.

So much of the success in the moment comes down to the hours, weeks, months, and years of dedication that have been put in before the first big paycheck.

On top of this, achieving the success you’re capable of relies on a thirst for growth, and the motivation to constantly better yourself.

And the rest is gravy!

As these big shot ball players show you don’t have to be perfect to get to where you want to be; in fact, you don’t even need to get half of the shots you take in.

But you do need to take a shot — and be ready for when your moment comes.

 

Your Next Steps

As I mentioned earlier, “the success you’re capable of relies on a thirst for growth, and the motivation to constantly better yourself.”

This boils down to two important steps.

First, don’t quit. You WILL reach any dream you strive for as long as you don’t quit.

How badly do you want to achieve your dream? A simple wish won’t cut it. You need to have a big enough goal that will motivate you to keep going, even during times when all you feel like doing is give up!

Secondly, you must constantly be learning and growing as a person.

And the best kind of learning comes from real life experience. I hope you agree.

And when it comes to success, it’s no different: Experience is the best teacher.

The problem for most people is that their experience is full of struggle, frustration, dealing with one step forward and two steps back, and so on.

So you can either learn from your own experience and pray you’ll figure it out.

Or you can learn from someone who has been where you’re at and has found a formula to make millions and millions and millions of dollars.

How are you going above and beyond to achieve all-star success? What could you be doing more of to reach the upper echelons? Let us know in the comments below!

For Your Freedom,

I recently did a call where everyone participating had a traditional 9-to-5-like job.

I’ve never had that before in a teaching situation. I’m normally involved with a lot of entrepreneurs. But on this call I hardly knew how to talk to them.

After a little resistance to what I was saying, they finally started to open up about their collective biggest concern — they were all worried about their financial future and God, they should be! They wanted to know the fastest way to financial freedom.

I said to them, “Listen, the biggest mistake most people make is equating rich with free.

Everybody I’ve ever talked to wants to be financially free. I’ve never talked to anybody that doesn’t want that.

But what you must understand is that you don’t need to be rich in order to be free.

If you set your sights on becoming rich, it is not necessarily true that you’ll become financially free. They’re not the same thing.

 

You Don’t Need To Be Rich To Be Free

Here’s what 99% of people don’t understand:

If you want to go for what you want, go for it as directly as possible. Don’t beat around the bush.

A lot of people say, “Well, I’m going to do what I need to do to be rich and then the end result of that is I’m going to be financially free.”

Maybe yes, maybe no.

Believe it or not, there are a lot of rich people who aren’t free. They have to work their asses off to keep their wealth because they didn’t set it up properly — that is, they didn’t systemize their businesses to run without them needing to be there. They didn’t learn or model from others who have succeeded before them. 

The road to financial freedom is different than the road to riches. They’re fundamentally different strategies.

 

First Free, Then Rich

So here’s how I would recommend going about this: First free, then rich.

It takes a lot less money and therefore less time to be financially free than it does to be rich.

If someone says, “I’m a millionaire,” I go, “Great, where do you live? Because where I live we barely can buy a house for $1 million.”

You see, to be rich you probably need to be in the multi-millions.

Rich is rich, but you can be free by earning, depending on your lifestyle, $65,000 a year. You can live a decent life, depending on what you’re doing and your wants and needs, especially if you have your mortgage paid and debt already handled.

It’s a whole different world to try and get to $20 million versus $65,000.

It is the biggest problem for most people who are confusing the two. They’re doing what it takes to get rich, which could take forever, in order to be free.

Free can take a very, very short time… if you know what you’re doing.

Just make sure you know the difference between being rich and being free.

Do you want to be rich, or do you want to be free? What about both? What’s your take? We want to hear from you!

For Your Freedom,

Many of my students just can’t make up their mind about what to focus on for their career.

They want to do a bit of everything that they have an interest in. And they wonder why they aren’t successful yet.

“I have this, this and this going on. Am I taking on too much to be super successful?”

Yes.

“I want to do this, this and this.”

Okay, but you’ll be broke.

“You don’t understand. I like them all.”

Okay, but you’ll be broke.

“What if this doesn’t work, and I give up this and that?”

Fine, be broke!

Before I get into why those were my responses, let me tell you a little story about my own life and see if you can relate to it.

I was living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I was broke until I started doing pretty well selling pen watches. I made $4,000 a month working only two hours a day in the flea market! Not bad, yes?

I worked for an extra hour going back to the shipping yard to pick up another couple of boxes of pen watches. I was happy with that, except for one thing.

A friend of mine at the yard asked me, “Do you know what just came in? These watches look like really high-end watches, but they’re not. You can buy them for $40 and sell them for $100 or more.”

My first hunch was that it wasn’t a big market, but the watches were legal, and even I wanted one. He was convincing, saying how he made $1,000 a week hardly doing anything. So I bought and sold a few here and there, doing okay with that.

Next time I hit the shipyard, the same guy said to me, “I have a shipment of T-shirts coming in. You should see these T-shirts. You’re already going around to the jewelry stores to show them the watches. You should sell these T-shirts.” And then it was hats.

About a month later, I noticed I’m selling all this other stuff, but my pen watches weren’t doing as well. I ended up running four businesses at a single time, and none of them fully took off yet.

Within six months, I went from making $4,000 a month for two hours a day to making literally no money for 15 hours a day.

How does that happen?

 

Two Reasons Why Most Business Owners Don’t “Make It”

I was clueless in business and personal development at the time — I didn’t know what I was doing to myself. I was chasing after every opportunity because of two reasons that end up being huge pitfalls to a lot of would-be entrepreneurs:

1) I wanted to make money faster.

In terms of making money faster, let’s just put this reality check into perspective:

It takes every bit of energy and focus you have for you to succeed in any one thing.

Your first million dollars ain’t happening overnight. That might work for a lucky few, but not for most.

That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with wanting to achieve maximum results with as little effort as possible; $4,000 for two hours of work ain’t bad, but the fact of the matter was: I got greedy.

And then there’s reason number two — the B-word.

2) I wanted a “backup.”

I wanted a “backup” in case what I was doing didn’t work.

In my mind, I thought that if I had more than one business, it would be “safer” — it would assure me of some kind of success because I’d always have some sort of backup.

What if my pen watches didn’t work so well? I should get into this and this in case that doesn’t work so that, well, I’ll have a fallback position.

But I went from doing decent, to being completely broke again!

How can having more be less?

 

You Need 100% Energy Going Into One Thing At A Time

Here’s the deal:

At the time I didn’t understand something called energy.

It takes an enormous amount of energy to get something going, especially at the beginning.

If you don’t use 100% of your energy to get something off the ground, you’re not going to make it over the chasm. You’re going to fall into it.

Let me give you an example that I mention in this video.

Imagine a rocket launching and all the power it takes to get it off the ground. All the thrusters have to be facing in the same direction — especially at the beginning for the rocket to escape Earth’s gravity.

Now imagine that one of the thrusters was facing outward, in a completely different direction, instead of facing downward. What would happen? Obviously, that rocket would crash and burn.

Why? Because it takes massive energy — a 1000% focus in one direction — for the rocket to launch successfully.

Many people ask me:

“Harv, what about multiple streams of income?”

That’s a great idea after you have one stream going beautifully. “You mean I can’t do three things at once?”

Yes, rich people are diversified… But only once they are rich! You don’t get rich by being diversified, you get rich by being focused.

It’s hard enough to be successful at any one thing. Do you think you could be successful at two or five things all at once? Are you kidding me? I can’t.

 

Focus, Focus And Focus Are Your Three Words

At the start of anything, it takes much time and energy to get it off the ground. It’s called momentum. It takes everything you’ve got to get it going.

Every resource, every inch of energy at your disposal to launch successfully.

I learned the hard way so hopefully you won’t make the same mistake  I did. Don’t fall into this trap. I see it everyday and wish I had someone tell me this 30 years ago.

Focus on the pot that is going to make you rich, leave everything else UNTIL you “make it.”

Does any of this sound familiar to you? What interests are you juggling right now? How are you discerning which is most important and why? What’s keeping you from making a choice and sticking with it?

We’d love to hear from you! Let us know what might be keeping you from taking that 100% leap into a more prosperous future.

For Your Freedom,