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After you’ve been through a weekend or several-day workshop, there’s something that happens for the next few weeks, or maybe longer. You’re on a kind of high, having been immersed in an environment that was supportive of your goals. It’s understandable that when you get back, your loved ones might look at you like, “Who’s this?!?”

How do you cope with family and friends that you love that aren’t on the same journey as you? You’re functioning at a different level that maybe some or most of the people around you don’t get anymore. You want them with you, but here’s the trap … it’s easier not to grow and hope that you will do enough for everybody.

Don’t be an unnecessary martyr. I nor anyone can tell you whether or not the people you care about the most are on the same journey as you. Only you know that. Just because people live together or are in the same family, though, does not mean they’re on the same journey, nor does it mean they need to be on the same journey. They’re on a train based on their life, their karma, their programming and their purpose.

You’ve got to get to the top yourself first. Then if anybody wants to switch trains and journeys on their own accord, you can be the model. If you try to do enough for all, you’re just going to get tired.

You may think, “Harv, I understand all of that, but what do I do? I love these people. I want them with me but they don’t get me anymore.” That’s life. I get it.

Here’s what you do:

1. Be with someone when you’re with them and not when you’re not with them. If one of these people is your husband or your mother, and you find that you have to be with them all of the time, you don’t have to be with them all of the time. Respect where they’re at and simply allow them to respect where you’re at. Don’t put them down for where they’re at. Don’t look for accolades. Don’t judge anything. This is their life at this point in time. It might change one day. You do what you need to do. Someone stopping you from doing what you need to do is a whole other question.

2. It’s not about them, it’s about you. People come up to me all of the time and say, “How do I get my wife to come? How do I get my husband to go?” I say, “If you have to get them to go, you’re in deep doo-doo, my friend.” You don’t get them to go. You hopefully ask them to go.

How? I’ve probably given this advice to thousands of people. I have probably had at least 1,000 come back to me and say, “When I asked them to come for me, they came.” I had at least that many people that said, “Originally when I asked them to come, because it’s going to be good for them, they wouldn’t come.”

The fact is that, wholehearted, we are all one, but in reality we’re not one. You’re separate people. People say, “Everyone’s got to be like me and I have to be like them. Otherwise, we can’t get along.” Wrong. Try it again.

Try this out, draw two circles, but overlap the circles so that there are three sections. There is a big section of you, a big section of them and a nice big section of you together.

This means I have a life, you have a life and we have a life. When we are together for the amount of time we’re together, we decide we are together, we commit to being together and we are being one. When we are not together, we are not. You have a life, I have a life, and we have a life.

It’s not about them. It’s about you. If you ask them to come to a seminar for you, it’s the truth. “Come for me. I want us to know the same things. I want us to be on the same wavelength so I can talk with you about this kind of stuff.”

Never try to pull someone up a rock or ladder who doesn’t want to be pulled up, because they’re going to do everything they can to pull you down.

 
For Your Freedom,

Here’s a statement I get a lot, something to this effect:

“I want to get out of debt and create passive income so I can put 100% of my focus on my passions and interests. I have lots of things in my life that I want to do and accomplish.”

Do you know what the problem is here? I call it “means-to-an-end” living.

You can focus on your passions or interests, and the other things you want to do in life without being fully financially free and rich. If you wait to be rich before you do this, you might wait your whole life. You’ll be too old to do them by then.

Don’t wait. Do this stuff! You don’t have to be perfectly, financially free to do what you love to do. Do it in the way you can do it right now. Enjoy it in the way you can enjoy it right now.

If there’s a secret to balancing your life, that’s it! You MAKE time to follow your passions – two days a week – two to three hours a day.

It’s not going to be perfect, but most people do “means-to-an-end” living. “I’m going to work 30 years at a job or business I hate so that one day I can do what I want.”

I’m sorry…but WHAT?!

Who’s going to do that? Well, apparently, everybody does it because people are trained to do that. What a horrible life. What a horrible way to live.

Come on. Get with it!

This is 2015, not 1929. You can do what you want to do in your life. Start doing it. There’s no reason in saying, “I’m going to do something I hate so I can do something I love.” Forget that! That’s not good! Do what you love to do. Do it now. Don’t wait for anything!

You may not be able to do it perfectly. You may not be able to do it in just the exact style you want to do it in, but it’s a start.

Here’s An Exercise For You To Get Started

1. Make a list of five things you’ve always wanted to do but make up reasons why you can’t, shouldn’t, or would never do. Not just five things you think would be “neat.” I mean things that make you feel like, “Yeah, that’d be cool!” … things that make you smile and feel good when you imagine doing them.

2. Then write down those reasons you haven’t done the things you’ve always said you wanted to do. Write them down and then read them back to yourself ALOUD. Are those reasons and excuses as ridiculous as, deep down, you know them to be? If you decide to be a professional athlete but you’re in your mid-life … it’s not impossible, but perhaps maybe that’s good reason not to pursue that idea. But if your reason for not starting a business because you fear how that will impact your family life and time … well, that’s just fear and outdated blueprints holding you back.

Then for every reason “why you can’t,” come up with at least one reason why you can pursue what you want.

3. Pick three of those wants (or maybe all five) and start doing them! Start learning what you need to learn. Do some research. Talk to people who are doing what you want and are really good at it! Get coaching or take a course.

One of those wants is going to be your Big Kahuna, the one thing you’ll focus most of your waking time on because you’re passionate about it and it’s going to make you your main money, but for your own sanity’s sake, have a couple or a few core interests that give you reasons to look forward to doing stuff. That’s the way to live!

One of the reasons to get rich is to be happy, but if on the journey to wealth you’re not happy, what’s the use, my friend? Is it so you can roll over and die or have five years to enjoy it? Are you kidding me?

I went through that myself. That’s why I know it’s not the way to go. Start living as much of your dream life as you can right now.

 
For Your Freedom,

It’s unfortunate but, especially over these last few years, I get lots of questions coming from people who are plagued with debt. People say things like, “I feel stuck because I want to invest and create passive income, but I don’t have enough money to invest?”

This is gold so pay attention here: The habit of investing is much more important than the amount. The amount makes no difference whatsoever.

If you’re in America, I don’t care if you start with $1 a month. You could be a homeless person and start with $1 a month. Beg for one more dollar and then invest that.

You may ask, “What kind of investment am I going to get for $1?” You start with $1 and then you’ll eventually have $10, and maybe by then you can do $2 every time. Then you do $4. Pretty soon you’ll have $100.

If you have $100, you can invest. There are thousands of stocks you can buy. There are a lot of mutual funds you could buy. It doesn’t matter.

The point is this: To wait until you have money to start investing is insane because it’s not going to work. First, by the time you do have money that will take forever. Second, there’s magic in telling the universe that you are intent on investing and earning passive income by doing it.

You can tell the universe, “I intend on investing. I intend on earning passive income. Send me lots of opportunities and money,” but the universe is going to say, “Nice try. Talk is cheap. Show me you can do it.” You’re going to say, “Universe, when I have a lot of money, then I’m going to invest.” Then the universe is going to say, “That’s good. Wake me up then.”

There is magic in doing and there’s magic in action. The first path toward passive income comes from the habit of investing.

The second path comes from passive income businesses.

If you’re in a pinch where you don’t have more than a few months to make a lot of money, or don’t have a lot of money right now to invest, then start with what you have or start with no money.

Here are two ways:

No Money Real Estate Investments. This actually takes zero money. I ain’t the guy to teach you how to do this, but I know 20 people right now that teach no-money real estate. It all starts with finding a problem that someone has got. They need to get out of their house and either they don’t need the money right now or they don’t need your money right now. In other words, you find a way to finance it. Even in this market lots of people flip real estate successfully. Why can’t you?!?

First Sell, Then Buy. When I started my fitness business I was $2,000 in debt. I borrowed $2,000 on my Visa card, for goodness sake. Then I got a line of credit with one piece of equipment. From that one piece of equipment, I took deposits from clients and put together about $50,000 from those deposits and then I bought the equipment. I delivered all of that and made myself about $8,000 or $9,000. I pocketed that and did the whole thing again. First sell, then buy.

Real estate isn’t everyone’s thing, but it’s certainly a way to make a lot of money at once. But if you don’t want to go that route, there’s still no excuse for not starting a business despite the fact that you have no money.

Don’t give me this stuff and say, “I’ve got no money, so I can’t invest,” or “I’ve got no money so I can’t start a business.” That’s crap. I don’t start any businesses with any money. I never have. Also, lots of people still have their saving accounts or jar-equivalents. If you can buy a daily cup of coffee, you can start collecting savings to start doing some investing.

I have whole courses that unravel fears, blocks, obstacles, etc. Sometimes, though, just a little common sense can go a long way. We’re rarely as helpless to move forward as we trick ourselves into believing sometimes. As trite as it sounds, its’ true: where there is a will, a way reveals itself.

Freedom isn’t an event, a goal, a destination. Freedom is a mindset. It’s your thoughts and actions. Don’t wait to be free to be free. Save, invest and be creative on your path to financial freedom now.

 
For Your Freedom,

It’s one of the most basic questions ever: What do you and 99% of the population want most?

Most people will say, “More money.” Specifically, we want to be rich. Who wouldn’t? If you’re rich, you really don’t have much to worry about, except maybe what to do with all that money, or maybe what to do with that “distant cousin” you never knew, who all of a sudden shows up when they find out you’ve got some money. Still, that’s a problem most people will gladly accept.

More money means material comforts, and doing what you want when you want without having to answer to anybody. No bosses, no deadlines, no evaluations—being in charge of your own life. Since this is so apparent… why are we even talking about it?

Because sometimes, the obvious is so obvious that we miss the bigger picture. When we talk about wanting to be rich, what are we really talking about; money, or freedom?

There’s a pretty big difference between the two, no? Does having more money absolutely mean having more freedom, or security, or even peace of mind? Not necessarily. Being rich certainly provides material convenience, but you and I know there are plenty of rich people out there who are completely miserable. Sometimes they miss the whole point of being rich – i.e. freedom and happiness. Instead, they work even more than some middle class people, who struggle just as hard, because some rich folks think they have to work harder in order to stay rich and “free.” Can you believe that?!

So in the end, what are we really after? What do we really want?

What we’re really seeking is a feeling that we associate with being rich. The house we want can give us a sense of comfort. The car we want can heighten a feeling of importance. Travel and toys can bring excitement and stave off boredom. But you don’t have to wait to be rich in order to have these things or experience the feelings of freedom and happiness.

The goal isn’t to get rich in order to be free. Let’s turn that around! Get free first, and then being rich becomes icing on the cake.

How do we get free now? Financially speaking, you do this by creating passive income vehicles – some to build, some to buy – letting those streams gather momentum over a few years, reaping the rewards, then doing more of this with other passive income structures. This way, you get the material wealth that gives you tangible freedom from having to worry about working – one of the basic goals of our desire to be rich – and if you really know what it is you really want, you get the happiness part of it as well.

Freedom is only as good as the results of your true intentions. In other words, keep the endgame in mind. We’re not getting rich to be free. We want to be free and then enjoy the benefits of being rich. This is not something we have to wait for to arrive in the future. There’s no freedom in waiting. Freedom starts now.

 
For Your Freedom,

Let’s look at the question of life-balance.

In normal conversation, when we use the word “balance” we tend to think of balance being an even distribution. It might be weight, for example, where I’m balancing on one leg, or my arms feel balanced when I work out. We tend to think of balance as an even-Steven proposition.

We think, “Balance means equal attention given to both or to all.” If you’d like, write that down.

Now cross out the word “equal” because it’s wrong and it doesn’t work in your life.

Here’s the secret: I call it the Big Kahuna. I live in Hawaii, half the year. The Big Kahuna means the big thing. What it means is that, especially in your money and your business, there is one big thing.

What is the one big thing you can do that would have the most impactful effect on your entire business or money situation?

It’s the one thing; not the 10 things.

For my situation, I’ve been fortunate enough to do enormously well on my book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. That book brought me a lot of clients and business, millions all over the world. It has sold almost 2 million copies now in 43 languages. It’s more than a blessing.

What could I do right now, if I wanted to, that would have the greatest impact? I could probably write another book and put the energy into making that another huge best-seller.

Do I want to do that? Not necessarily right now, but this is what I could do. That would be my Big Kahuna. If the Big Kahuna for me was to write another best-selling book, that would be huge compared to everything else that I do on a day-to-day basis.

Here’s what I want you to do:

Create a two-columned space. The left-hand column is for “Money and Business” and the right hand column is for everything else: relationships, health, leisure-time activities; the other areas of life that are important to us all. In the left hand column you’re going to divide it again into ‘Daily Business’ and ‘The Big Kahuna.”

Here’s the thing, and please, don’t freak out. Fifty percent of all of my money and business time, in that left hand column, goes into my Big Kahuna.

Do you want greatness or do you want mediocrity? Do you want wealth or do you want to earn a living? If you want wealth, you have to work on the Big Kahuna and make it happen. That’s what creates greatness in your life. Everything else is piddly. What we do is we spend 99% of our time on the piddly stuff. The Big Kahuna gets left out.

Let’s review. There are two sides, money and business on the left side, on the right side is the rest of your life.

On the business side you divide that into two categories. That’s going to be 10 hours a day, five days a week or however many hours a day, five days a week; whatever you want.

Out of those 10 hours you are going to split the 10 hours in half. Fifty percent of it goes to your Big Kahuna and the other half of it goes to whatever else you have to do in your business.

You’re never going to get rich on your other side of the business; the side that’s not the Big Kahuna. It’s going to be on your Big Kahuna. The rest of the time other than your 10 hours a day at work is going to be for your life.

You balance the money and business side of your life. Is it all equal compared to the right side, the life side? No. Does it have to be? No. Does this system work? Yes.

Will you get rich? Yes. Will you take care of all the other areas of your life? Yes. That’s how it works.

It’s the Big Kahuna principle. Fifty percent of all your business work time goes to the one big thing that is going to make the biggest difference and the highest impact in your business and your financial life.

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For Your Freedom,