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Have you ever attended a seminar, a course, or even an online program, got SUPER excited, put a few things you learned into practice, but then after a few weeks your momentum quickly faded away?

Or do you know of people this has happened to?

It happens a lot. I’ve seen other teachers remark on how they believe only a small percentage of folks who participate in self-help kind of teachings actually apply what they’ve learned immediately. For most people, gaining momentum is a process.

This isn’t to say that most people are slow, or lazy, or dim, or anything like that. It’s just human nature that makes sense. If you’ve been thinking and acting in a certain way for years and years, even when you realize that you need to change it doesn’t just happen overnight. You’ve got years of negative momentum to turn around, and sometimes that means a lot of false starts in order to get into consistent positive momentum.

The question is, how do we do that? How do you keep raising the bar so you get into a more successful routine in life?

The simplest answer: make it personal.

Whatever it is you want to achieve in life, it doesn’t matter how many courses you’ve attended or books you’ve read. You’ve got to have a “why” that is undeniably true for you.

Why do you need to be successful?

If it’s to prove to your parents that you’re good enough, write that down.

If it’s to have enough so your kids and family can have a great life, write that down.

If it’s to live the rich lifestyle, go on nice vacations, write that down.

If it’s to have enough money to contribute to other people, write that down.

That’s fantastic.

Be honest, and write it down on a cue card so you can easily read it.

Your reason for becoming successful is also your greatest motivator.

If you don’t have a big enough and good enough reason for becoming rich or successful in whatever you’re doing, you’re never going to do what it takes to do it. I don’t care if it’s money, business or sports.

Can you imagine what a person who’s training for the Olympics has to do on a daily basis? These athletes train somewhere between six and eight hours a day every single day, probably with one or no days off a week.

It’s a massive commitment. They have no life. They can’t go out with friends for a drink, coffee or really anything. Why would they do this to themselves?

It’s because they have a very powerful reason. Their reason is personal.

For anyone who loses a bit of drive, you need to go back to your why. Why is this important to me? Why would I want to create financial freedom?

Then what I want you to do is put that cue card on the wall right in front of you in your office or your home. Don’t lose sight of it. Leave that in front of you every single day. Look at that all the time. If you find that the reason is not important to you anymore, then change it.

If you don’t have a why, I guarantee one thing: you won’t have any money and success, either. Mark my words on this.

I’ve been very fortunate to be very successful myself. It wasn’t always like that, though. I went through about 12 years that I was not doing well. Many nights I had to choose between putting a couple of dollars’ worth of gas in my car or eating dinner that night.

It’s not like that sat well with me, but it didn’t seem like I could do much about it. Nothing I was doing was working. Can anybody relate to this?

What is the difference between what I’m doing now when I am very successful and what I was doing then when I wasn’t successful? The minute I put my big Why in writing and put it right in front of me, things began to change quickly.

The same has happened for hundreds of thousands of my students; the same can happen for you. Take that and please run with it.

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For Your Freedom,

Let’s talk a little about financial freedom. A lot of people ask me questions around this.

The biggest question is about advice on how to create passive income, and the fastest and easiest way to reduce their working hours and earn more.

The bottom line is that passive income simply comes from earning money without you having to work, or if you work, you work by choice.

How do you do that?

It comes in two ways: money working for you or a business working for you. The reality is that you want to have both ways working for you.

The first way to earn passive income is to have some money working for you, which means that you have to first save some money. Without saving any money you cannot become financially free, especially on the money-working-for-you side.

The next thing is you have to use some of it. Take at least 10% of your income and invest it. In other words, people are paying you for the use of your money.

There are all kinds of vehicles: stocks, options, currency exchange, real estate, and a host of other investments. Pick up any investment book or magazine. Maybe it’s Forbes or Money Magazine. You’re going to see 100 investment opportunity situations there.

Now follow these steps:

1. Go with an investment vehicle that resonates with you, what feels good for you and what you like.

2. Make sure that vehicle has a decent chance of working well. Ask friends, do some basic research. The information is out there for those who really want it.

3. If you’re going to do it yourself, you’d better be good at it or you’re going to throw your money away. If you’re going to invest yourself, choose a system that makes sense to you. Or maybe it’s time for a portfolio manager.

Should you go for the high investment returns or the low investment returns? I would divide my 10% savings for investment. With some you take manageable risks; the rest is money that cannot be lost at all, period.

If you’re younger, and we’re talking about $100, I would take $50 and put it away into something totally safe with a very small amount of return on it. It covers itself, covers taxes, and it makes five percent.

If you’re not getting a five-percent return on your safe investments, you need to take some of our programs because that’s the low end.

Either way, choose a system, learn it, do it on paper first, and then invest that way. Otherwise, you’re going to have to find an investment manager who is doing well.

That’s money working for you. What about a business working for you?

There are passive-income-based businesses. What businesses are out there that you can start or get involved in that don’t take you working at them 10 hours a day?

You’re trying to create a system where you build something one time, and it works for you on an ongoing basis. That’s why I love our online business, Harv Eker International. It can do that.

Writing a book and getting royalties, that’s an ongoing thing. If you create an intellectual property and license it to somebody else to use, you get a royalty from that. That goes on without you.

My book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind was published in 2005. A decade later, I’m getting 5-6 figure checks on just six-months of royalties.

Talk about passive income!

You want to look for things that allow you to do something one time, or on one set up. It might take you a week, month, a year, or more, however, then you don’t need to do anything except for maintenance once in a while. You could be off on the beach doing things.

If you can’t set your business up in three years to work without you, you don’t have a passive-income business.

Now that doesn’t mean you’re never involved at all. You still have to do some work on it, but a whole lot less than what you’re doing now!

For Your Freedom,

When we talk about right directions, the biggest issue that people have is not being able to make a decision on what direction they think they should take for fear of making the wrong choice. When we are fearful of making a mistake, then it’s got to be the “right” direction.

I want everyone to write down these words: “What is it?”

Everyone wants to know, “What’s the right thing for me?”

That’s a bad question. Why? Because it puts way too much pressure on you.

I don’t blame you for being afraid to make that kind of choice, because what if it’s the wrong one? It’s like a forever question: what if you get stuck with that choice forever?

Go back to that question “What is it? ” and cross out the word “it.” I want you to replace that with the word “next.”

What is next? What’s the next thing you want to try or do?

What just happened is you gave yourself some breathing room. You let yourself off the hook. You took the massive stress out of the question.

What is next could be a day, a month, a year, three years, or whatever.

You’re not necessarily going to find the perfect direction, but as I say in my Life Directions course “The idea is to try on different coats”.

We have this imagination that says, “Here’s what my perfect dream life looks and feels like. If I was just a writer, and I wrote books all day long, or if I was on stage teaching all day long, I would be a happy camper.”

And here’s where we get stuck. We have this image of the perfect situation for us. We’re not in that perfect situation, and we’re not living that perfect lifestyle or direction, but we say, “This will be it.”

Here’s what happens: You do “it,” and pretty soon you’re saying, “This isn’t it. There’s something missing. What is it? Do I need to make a revision to where I’m at now or do I need to change to something completely new? I’m so disappointed that this wasn’t it. I still don’t feel great.”

Now we’ve got a big problem, don’t we?

If your issue is career, then I would ask, “What is next?” In other words, what would you love to try, especially if you weren’t afraid of the money thing?

Whatever the answer to that is, you may think, “I don’t know if I can make a lot of money at that.”

Here’s my contention. I’ll go back to the original teachings and principles that I think I’m fairly well-known for, which is solving people’s’ problems.

If you help people in a way that they need or want to be helped, and it’s in the area that you love to help people in, you’re going to love what you do, and you’re going to make a lot of money, assuming you learn the business elements we teach in our Million Dollar Business Secrets course.

You need to have a little bit of skill, but the most important thing is: are you helping people? Are you really helping them solve their problem?

Also, do you love helping people in that area? Is that something that sings to you? We all love to help, but we all love to help in certain ways more than others.

This is for those people who are having challenges with choosing their direction:

1. A lot of this is about fear. Instead of putting pressure on yourself to choose “correctly,” choose what’s exciting for you to imagine how you would help a lot of people in a way that’s fun for you, and that you’re good at.

2. Get a private coach. Let them help you for at least a few months. Whatever your goal, it’s much harder to accomplish without someone who can mentor you through that process. Learning the skills from someone with proven experience makes a huge difference.

The problem with most people is that they are so busy being fearful of choosing the wrong thing that they lose focus on what’s exciting for them to pursue versus what’s correct.

What’s a path that sounds awesome for you to pursue? Do you believe you’d never make the kind of money you’d like to make pursuing that path? Is that absolutely true?

If so, is there another way you can stay in the field you want but apply your skills and talents in a different way?

Bouncing ideas within the community could be a valuable way to help brainstorm the path that’s true for you. Leave your feedback in the comments below, we’d love to hear from you!

 
For Your Freedom,

All leaders have the same problem. This matters to you because to get what you want in life, at some point you’re going to have to lead. That’s what successful people do in some way, shape or form.

The problem is that you have a team, a group, and they all have personalities. They, like us, are all robots. They want to do things their way because it suits them, and they think their way is better.

When you have a team that’s on the same page despite their individual robotics, you have a group primed for success. If not, you get mediocrity or worse.

I have an example that really brought this home for me. I have a place in San Diego, so I’ve grown an affinity for the football Chargers. They got a new coach year before last, Mike McCoy, and ended up doing well in a tough division even though they really actually weren’t that great of a team talent-wise.

At the end of his first season, McCoy was asked, “When you took over, how did you get the team to start performing so well?”

What was so profound for me about his answer was that I heard the exact same thing in basketball on the exact same day. Another first-year coach was talking about his new success. He and the Charger’s coach gave the exact same answer, so I thought, “This must be important.”

The answer was: “I came from a system, and I installed a system that they’re not used to. The reason we’re doing better now is not only that the system works, but everyone’s following the system. A lot of coaches have systems, but the players won’t play the system, so you have a losing team.”

They key is not just to have a system that works. The key is to have the players “buy into the system.”

In other words, successful coaches are great salespeople.

You have to give your team a vision of how change is actually going to be fun and exciting because it’s been proven to work–as long as everyone commits to it.

They get to be part of a process that will turn the tide from mediocrity (and those not-so-joy-joy feelings that go along with knowing you can do and be better) to tangible, noticeable success.

You hear it all the time in sports: nothing squashes minor squabbles and drama amongst a team better than success.

But most importantly, you’ve got to show proof that the system works.

McCoy was a coordinator on the Denver Broncos the year before he joined the Chargers. That year, the Broncos went to the Super Bowl.

It wasn’t hard for him to sell the fact that the Broncos went to the Super Bowl–the one thing every NFL player wants–and the Chargers didn’t.

He didn’t say, “Do you want to play the system?” He said, “Do you want to go to the Super Bowl?” They say, “Yes,” and he says, “Good. This system takes people to the Super Bowl.”

Not a hard sell at that point.

What needs to happen next, though, is to make the system very simple to understand, which makes the buying-in that much easier. Make it very, very easy, and one tiny thing that they do that’s within the system.

Show them the benefits of the system. Have them learn the habit of using the system, even just one tiny part of it.

The basketball coach said he showed his team that in his system, when you’re in the best position you pass the ball off to the right, and that player passes off to the corner, and then the corner player passes back off to the original passer, who now has a clearer path to the basket than before that first pass. Going two more steps moves the opposing player and opens up the lane to a much greater extent.

So that’s what his team practiced 100 times. They became perfect at it. They only drove the ball to the basket after it’s gone to the third corner player and the lane is open.

You’re dealing with habits here. You are the leader. You must lead a process of having people change their habits and buy into the system. You’ve got to show its effectiveness by:

1. Making the system super-easy to buy into (does this not apply to your customers as well?).
2. Making the system super-simple to learn.
3. Repeat Repeat Repeat … practice changing the habit.

This goes for athletics, personal habits, group habits, or your business.

Without a system in place, you’ll never have a self-sustaining business, and without proof of success and practice, your group won’t use an otherwise potentially good system.

For Your Freedom,

Conditioning is a tough topic, yes? We know we can be better, do better, have so much to offer ourselves, those we can touch, those we can reach. But we have these habits that get in the way.

There are the obvious bad habits: vices and diets that are bad for your health; not getting enough sleep; sleeping too much; lack of exercise, the usual suspects.

Then there are the bad habits that can be insidious, like not keeping your word: to yourself or to others. What’s that all about?

That could be a couple of things. It’s not understanding how important whatever the issue is that you neglected. It’s also disrespect of the other person and yourself.

But mostly, it’s just pure habit.

Like I’ve said before, we’re all freaking robots. The minute we’re born we’re a spiritual person who accepts the conditioning of a personality. Our mind is an empty place. It’s a brain that’s just a file cabinet waiting to be filled up. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t have a brain that was so adaptive to learning.

A lot of the things we learn isn’t about good or bad. It’s about the way that we learned them. They’re either helpful or not depending on what we want to do.

Now what do you do as a robot? If the robot is not keeping its word, do you beat it up? No. You just need to change the programming. You need to teach the robot something else to do.

How do you do that?

First of all, the robot is very good at understanding an awareness of the process that says, “Robot, we’re not keeping our word, and we would feel better if we kept our word, so we want to do that. Will you buy in with me?” Of course it’s going to say, “Yes.”

You plead with your robot again, “From here on out, we’re going to do that, right, robot?” The robot will say, “Sure,” but you know what happens the next day. The robot just does what it was programmed to do, doesn’t it?

What do you do? You gotta give the robot not a drastic change in programming, but an easy one.

You say, “Robot, do you think you have the capability of keeping your word one time?” The robot says, “That’s easy. I can do that.”

Robots like really easy things. You go ahead and keep your word, and you do it with intentionality.

Then you say to your inner robot, “You felt so good about that, do you think you might be able to do one more?”

“I could do one more. Of course I could!”

Now it’s just a question of memory and saying that when you say you’ll do it, you do it.

You must replace a habit with another habit, but you’re a robot. You have to take on one thing at one time. Then you learn another thing one time and then another thing one time.

Don’t say, “I’m going to commit for 30 days.” You’re going to set yourself up for failure. Why? It’s because you’re a frickin’ robot. If you’ve been running another program for X amount of years, 30 days of new momentum is outstanding, not something that just “happens.”

Make it long-term goal in the back of your head. For now it’s one step at a time, one day at a time.

Now, what if you don’t keep your word on this one particular new habit, or you don’t do your new habit for even one day?

You take a nice deep breath and say, “Thank you for doing the best you could today. You did not complete what you said you would. Would you be willing to commit for tomorrow?

It’s okay. It’s a habit. We’re going to take a little bit of time to reverse this habit. You’re literally pressing your robot’s restart button. Robots do what they do. They should always get another chance.

Hey, I’m the first guy in line to give tough love when it’s needed by my students. That’s what your teachers and mentors are for sometimes. But for goodness sake don’t beat yourself up about habits that are tough to change. We’re born this way.

But we’re also creative enough, imbued with gifts that allow us to create new paths, new ways of being. Kind self-accountability is what we’re looking for here. There are enough people in the world who are eager to beat us up, especially when we’re successful. Don’t do it to yourself.

Take on your transformations one at a time, one step at a time, and watch just how easy it can be to change bad habits.

For Your Freedom,