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Success is not easy, but it’s not complicated either. Success is actually very simple. What people do is they bring complication to a simple structure.

Take those who are working hard to improve their financial and overall life circumstances, which happens to be many of the people I have the pleasure of teaching. I often hear people use words like “overwhelm,” “drained,” “ineffective,” or feeling guilty for not doing as much as they think they could or should to improve their lives. These clues are huge indicators that they’ve complicated the ideas of what success really means, which many of us do or once did.

That’s not to say that working long days–which you’ll most certainly have to do if you want lasting success–isn’t going to be part of the journey. Of course it will.

The difference between, for example, how I experienced long days in the three years before I became a millionaire, and what I often hear of the experiences of many of my students, is in our attitude about having to work 15-hour days.

For me, it didn’t feel like “work” at all. Yet others use words like “overwhelm,” “drained,” etc.

Why do so many high-achieving people feel so depleted?

It’s a simple one-word answer: passion.

When the driving force in your life is anything other than operating from your passion, it throws your whole life out of whack. It might work for a time, and you can make money this way, but in the long run if your brain and your heart are not working together, you’re screwed.

Everybody wants to have money, but what’s your passion? Do you have the courage, wherewithal, or understanding to live it?

My parents would talk to me about work and business when I was a teenager. They’d say things like, “You’ve got to make money to survive, so go to college, get a job,” so on and so forth.

I’d say, “I understand, but I want to find something I really love doing.” They’d say, “You’re crazy. You’re a dreamer. This isn’t Disney Land. You play on the weekends, if you’re lucky, but five days a week you work.”

That never sat right with me, but I did it their way for a long time, about 12 years. Do you know what happened in those 12 years? All I tried to do was make money, and I was broke. How do you like that?

Finally, I got so sick and tired of being broke, working at anything to try to pay the bills and make money, that I said, “What the hell … I’m bad at everything, so I might as well be broke doing something I like.”

The only thing I liked doing was running. I like fitness. I like staying in shape. It’s my passion. I didn’t think about a business. I had nothing to lose anyway, so I started looking for opportunities in fitness. Eventually I opened one of the first retail fitness stores in the world and became a millionaire in two and a half years after that decision.

How about you? What do you love doing? Work hard and do whatever it takes within an area you love. That’s how you meet the balance of success and fulfillment.

There’s a space within that provides the juice you need to work those long days and, believe it or not, love most of, if not every minute of it, every hour. That’s the power of passion. Just find a place of focus that you can enjoy and love, and start thinking from there.

What are some of the typical ways you think we trick ourselves into not working from our deepest passion? Have you found your passion and applied it to business success, no matter how big or small? How different is the experience of living your passion from imagining it? What are some of the signs when you’re on the wrong track, or the right one? Share your stories … we want to hear from you!

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For Your Freedom,

There’s a part of us that keeps control over us. Have you ever noticed this about the mind?

You say things to yourself like, “I know I shouldn’t beat myself up about making a mistake,” but then you do it anyway and it makes you feel worse.

Does anybody see a problem with this? It happens all the time, but here’s the problem: you cannot win this kind of conversation. There’s no debate. It’s got you. When you enter into a conversation between the mind, you will lose.

Stop the conversation. It’s not about thinking, “It’s okay, I made a mistake,” or “You’re a bad person for missing (blank).” Just cancel the conversation.

“You don’t understand. I didn’t do what I said I was going to do, and so now I want to improve.” Stop! Remove yourself from the conversation.

“Harv, what should I put my attention on if it’s not that conversation?”

Well, what are you doing right now? “I was on my computer. I was doing my emails, and this one thing came up, and I realized I hadn’t done ____.” Stop.

Go back to your email later, or go to a different email and come back to this one when you’re ready to drop the whip, and you can just say, “I didn’t do that, so I’ll do it tomorrow.” Whips don’t work.

Next, you begin a new habit of relaxation–something that takes your mind off of what you did or didn’t do today, or yesterday, or five years ago, or whatever.

You could say, “I really need to do my yoga and 15 minutes of stretching every morning. That’s something I really need to do.”

Let me tell you what will happen. For the first day you’re going to say, “Way to go! You said you were going to do it, and you did it. You kept your word. You’re a warrior. You’re awesome!”

Now you say, “This is really good. I’m going to do it another day.” The next day you do your yoga, and you go for 15 minutes. What do you say to yourself this time? “Good job. Very good. That’s great. What else do I have going on here?”

The third day you do your yoga for 15 minutes. What does your mind say?

Your mind says, “That’s great you did your yoga, but you didn’t send that email you were supposed to send. What the hell is wrong with you? Why did you do that? You never do what you say you’re going to do. What is the matter with you?”

Of course, the one day of yoga you miss out of the next 10 days, your mind is going to beat the crap out of you, too. Do you see what’s happening here?

The whole conversation sucks. Just let go of the conversation, and put your attention on the present moment, or if you’re going to do anything, put your attention on something more positive.

In one of my camps when I’m teaching, I put on a miner’s light on my forehead. When you shut off the lights, it shines in a certain area. That’s what we do. We focus our attention.

When you’re stuck in that useless self-conversation you’re focusing your attention on your mistakes, your problems, or what you didn’t do, so move your head and shine your light on something that you did really well.

You might say, “I didn’t do anything really well.” Did you get up this morning? Yes. Okay, you did that pretty good. That’s a good thing. A lot of people didn’t do that.

What’s one other thing? “I made my kid breakfast.” That’s wonderful. That’s a good thing. What’s one thing that’s going right for you? “I’m doing pretty decent in my badminton.” That’s great. Change the conversation, or stop it altogether.

The only way to really win the conversation, though, is to not be in it. Take a nice, deep breath, focus on something positive or focus on the present.

Feel free to share … what’s the conversation you’re having with yourself these days? What’s your best strategy to stop the conversation? Share your thoughts … we want to hear from you!

For Your Freedom,

How do you manage a relationship when your partner is not looking for financial freedom and you are, and they are considered the spender in the relationship?

First of all, understand that you don’t have an issue with your partner. You have an issue with your partner’s money blueprint not matching your blueprint.

I had the same situation myself with my ex-wife at the time. She is one of the most amazing people on this planet. You couldn’t have a nicer heart or be a better mother.

One problem was that my meaning for money came from growing up with parents saving every dollar that they possibly could and trying to become free so that they wouldn’t be slaves to anybody else, and they wouldn’t have anybody else ever be able to control them. For me money meant freedom.

My wife’s parents owned a little convenience store, like a 7-11 type of thing. They sold candies, cigarettes, bread and that type of thing, and it was actually very successful. For her, all she thought about was the candies. Whenever she came into the store, her father would give her candies, and all of her friends would have to buy her candies for a penny or two. Money meant pleasure for her.

Somehow in her blueprint, money meant that when you have it you should spend it. Her parents didn’t teach her about financial freedom and things like that.

So when we got into a relationship, for me spending money meant you’re spending my freedom. Her money-meaning was that if you don’t spend the money, or if you try to save the money, it was taking away her pleasure.

The bottom line is this: know that you and your partner have different blueprints for money. It’s not just the partner in your relationship, but partners in every relationship you’re in such as your kids, your business… everything. Your meanings are different. Your blueprints don’t match. You are arguing with their blueprint, not with them.

First, take the upset away from them, and understand that you’re only looking at a difference of opinion and conditioning, or domestication, and how you were brought up. You can’t fault your partner for being a spender because that’s how they were brought up.

Next, you sit down with them, but not when you’re upset. Over a nice dinner when you’ve been getting along beautifully you say, “I’d love to talk with you about something in our relationship that I’d love to be able to take to the next level. Are you willing? ” And you start the conversation from there.

It’s not your fault, and it’s not their fault. The problem is fear. Ask your partner if they can help you with it, and vice versa. Ask them what they think you can do, or what you can do together. Is there a way to balance the need for freedom and the need for spending and pleasure?

My resolution was, “Instead of taking all of the money and spending it, or taking all of the money and throwing it into an investment, why don’t we piece it off? Every month, you take this much money, and go have a great time with it. I’ll take this much money, and we’ll put it into our Freedom Account, and the rest we’ll manage.” Though we had other issues outside of money, this approach saved us both a lot of grief at least when it came to money.

Unfortunately, statistics reveal that lots of relationships get into trouble over money. That doesn’t have to be the case. Understand how money blueprints work, and give your relationship the chance it deserves so both partners and your family can grow, learn, and be happier!

For Your Freedom,

Let’s say you’ve got a personal service business in some way, shape or form, and you basically have to be there in order for the service to be provided. If you’re not there, your service isn’t provided and you don’t get paid. What do you do when you want to move away from making a living to making prosperity?

There’s only one word you need to know: “leverage.”

The definition of leverage is simply doing more with less. There is less of your effort but more income, more value and more energy being put out, but you’re not the one necessarily putting out all of the energy.

You need to systemize your business so someone else can do it while you’re away, but that’s only one option for leverage, isn’t it? Leverage comes in other people, in using technology, and in other ways of delivering your service, a portion of your service, or a likeness of your service without you having to be there.

The most intelligent thing I ever did in my entire life was set up all of my courses and trainings in a way that someone else could do them. I wrote the book (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind), and everybody wants to come see Harv. That’s true, but it’s not true 100% of the time.

You think that people are coming to see you as the rock star, right? You don’t see how they won’t want to see anyone else, but that’s not true. They want the value, not necessarily you.

They want their problem solved. They really don’t care about whether it’s you, Joe, Bob, Sue or Phil. If Phil can do just as good a job if not better than you, they’ll take Phil.

It’s time to get off the high horse. I had to do the same thing. Yes, I think I could do the best job. I only do two or three seminars a year now just to open up new countries. When I teach at one of my seminars the sales are 20% to 30% higher.

Guess what? I do two or three a year, yet there are over 250 of my courses going on. Can you imagine? That means there are about 200,000 people getting value without me being there.

There is no way I would be able to do 250 courses over a few year period of time. So yes, initially your sales might be lower without you, however, once you are able to leverage other people, technology or any other leverage points in your business you now have a real chance of scalability.

If you systemize and leverage your business properly, you will get rich. If you don’t, you will earn a living. It’s as simple as that. Obviously there are expectations to every rule but having almost 2 million students worldwide I get to see what works for 99% of them and what doesn’t.

Leverage works. And one who says different is either broke or is stuck on their high horse and will never get off it.

You could make a fortune teaching people how to do what you do.

Why don’t you put out a product? Products that give a similar or different value to you are the greatest invention on Earth because you don’t have to be there for your value to be delivered.

I think right now I have somewhere around 1.73 million books sold. All of these people have gotten the value out of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind without me being there.

I don’t make a killing or a fortune on them, though. If I printed every book myself and sold every book myself on the street corner, I would make $20 a book, but I don’t. Do you know how much I make? I make about $2 per book. That’s about it. Can you multiply $2 by 1.7 million? I think that’s pretty decent, don’t you?

You may say, “Harv, I’m not you.” No, but maybe you’re better than me at it!

Get a little creative. It’s not about you. It’s about your value. Remember, people pay to have their problem solved. If you can solve it, great. If you can’t solve it, they’ll go to somebody else. You can still solve their problem without you having to be there all of the time, can’t you? Put on your thinking cap.

And a great place to get the creative juices flowing is with me on my web class Zero To Mutlimillionaire. Hint: we may even be covering the topic of “leverage” on this class.

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Now tell us what you think. Have you thought of ways to systematize a service you provide? What are some of the benefits that you’ve found? What are the challenges in making that happen? Share your experiences with us…we want to hear from you!!!

For Your Freedom,

Let’s consider motivation.

Imagine you’re in a hole that you can barely see out of. Somebody comes along and instead of pulling you out, they wave a $100 bill at you (They’re not being mean; they’re trying to teach you something).

It’s a little hard to get out, but out of determination, or whatever it is that fuels you, and with a little extra effort, you eventually scramble out.

Now take this picture to another level. What if it was a $1,000 dollars? You’d scramble even harder, yes?

Now what if it was a $1 million dollars that is being held up in front of you, and they said, “If you can get out of there in the next 10 seconds, you’ve got this $1 million?”

You’d fly outta that ditch, wouldn’t you? Why? It’s because you’ve got a good reason.

And to be clear, the reason isn’t the million dollars itself. Those are just pieces of paper. Because somebody who had no idea what money meant would do what with it? Burn it to get kindling going? Blow their nose with it?

The reason you are motivated to get out of the ditch is because you know exactly what you could do with that million dollars.

You know the impact it can make on your life…

You know what security it can bring…

And you know the status and freedom it may bring…

So this brings me to the point of all of this…

What is your purpose for what you want?

In other words, why do you want to do what you want to do? Is it for your family? To prove something? So you don’t have to answer to a boss anymore? Because owning a yacht and travelling the world sounds fun? Be honest!
I’ll use myself as an example. When I was broke, it would be easy to get stuck because I would be very upset with what was going on. I was disappointed in myself. There were all of these “shoulds” and expectations. It was draining.

I had 12 businesses and 14 different jobs. Why would I keep getting back on the horse every time I kept falling off and getting slapped in the face?

It’s because at the time there were two things driving me. First was my value of freedom. I could not bear to think that I would have to be slaving away for the rest of my life in a job working for somebody else. I’m just unemployable. It cannot work for me at all.

The second driver wasn’t exactly an enlightened kind of purpose, but it was proving myself. I was attempting to prove to my parents that I was okay, that I was not going to be a bum because that’s what they said I was going to be if I didn’t finish school. That drove me, and I kept getting up when I didn’t want to get up.

I always say that I think I’m a decent teacher because I was in such rough shape before, and I’m in really good shape now. I really know the difference between what I did then and what I do now.

It was making a decision to work on myself, to train my mind and to finally say, “This next business is going to work, and I am going to stick with it until it does, even if it takes my entire life. I will make it work, and it’s going to work.”

One of my most important values became commitment. My word became LAW, there was no breaking it.

I did what I said I would do, period end of story, no excuses EVER.

That was the difference maker that took my “why’s” to another level.

That was the first time I ever said that after 12 businesses. Do you know what happened? In two and a half years, I become a millionaire.

Why you do what you do is the fuel that will get your ass outta bed every day to do better, be better, and to avoid getting stuck.

Never forget why you’re doing what you’re doing, and you’ll eventually get there.

What’s most important to you? What is it, deep down in your soul, that’s more important to you than money? Is it honesty? Integrity? Compassion? Keeping family together? What is it that, if you compromised this aspect of yourself, you’d have a harder time looking at yourself in the mirror?

Again, let’s be real with each other! It’s not about right or wrong; it’s about what serves and what doesn’t. What’s the fuel that keeps your engine pumping? Share your thoughts with us…we want to hear from you!!!

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For Your Freedom,