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In tough times like these, people are doing more than just making economic and lifestyle adjustments that aren’t always chosen or even wanted. People just do what they have to do.

With these outward changes, though, I believe it’s more important than ever to reexamine our attitudes and beliefs. For those who have been in the Millionaire Mind community for some time, you’re familiar with how blueprint impacts our mental, emotional lives, and economic lives.

We all have our own mental ‘File Box.’ It labels and stores information, yes? Certain ways of thinking and belief systems? The way you think can only come from the information in those files. If it’s not in the file box, you don’t think it.

Unfortunately most of us have file folders that have mixed messages in it. Mixed messages create mixed results. So if you believe that you don’t have the experience to start your own business even though you want to, you’ll act accordingly and never have the experience of starting your own business.  If you don’t believe that you have enough money to manage, you won’t manage your money, which means you’ll never have enough money to manage.

When you don’t periodically challenge your own beliefs, it’s kind of like driving with your foot on the gas pedal and on the brake at the same time. We’ve got mixed messages going out to the universe and to ourselves. We believe we want to get to where we say we want to go, yet some of our other beliefs hold us back.

We’ve got to revise some of those files or add some new ones so we can make new choices that seem perfectly logical and sensible toward what we want; files that support happiness and success versus those that don’t. We want to delete those files or at least neutralize them.

Whether you are naturally pessimistic or just facing uncertainty due to the current economic climate, develop the skill of challenging your negative, unconscious beliefs. However, instead of looking only at your beliefs, first look at your results and your ways of being! Look at your life and that will tell you what you MUST believe for those result to be there.

Describe your current life situation in the financial and work arena. Do you work for others, yourself, or not at all? Do you earn a lot of money, a little money, or a moderate amount of money? Where do you put your money if you have some? Are you a saver or a spender? Are you a risk taker or not? Do you love what you do or not?

Regardless of what you find, the truth is our lives are the way they are not just from circumstances we can’t control, but also because of that one area we can control though we don’t always take the time to do so: our belief system. We always act or not act in accordance with our beliefs. We co-share the results of this with the universe. Control what you can, and let the rest take care of itself.

Now it’s your turn. What are some of the things you’ve discovered about your belief system that may have surprised you? How long have you held on to these beliefs? How are you actively editing or deleting old, unsupportive beliefs? We want to hear from you!

The Secrets to Believe and Succeed

iStock_000007655825XSmallSUCCESSSSometimes it’s easy to tell when someone isn’t certain of something or maybe harmlessly fibbing when you ask them a question and they give you an answer you don’t believe. Not that it’s always a big deal—like asking someone “Are you sure,” and they answer, “Yeah,” kind of like they’re asking a question, not stating a truth.

Try that in business or pitching yourself or your product or in fact whatever! For frick sake if you don’t believe in yourself, why should anybody else? This can become another one of those “Duh, Harv” moments. “Of course you have to believe in what you’re doing.” But is that what most people really live, do and sincerely … believe?

After all, believing means having confidence in the truth or absolute reliability of something without being able to absolutely prove that you’re right. There’s always that chance that you’re dead wrong. And that’s what holds so many people back, often without them realizing it. Fear of being wrong is insidious, undermining, and can become a success killer.

The most important thing about your business—your vehicle—is you have to freaking believe in it so much you would stand and shout it from the top of the roof to everybody, every minute of every day. If you can’t do that, you don’t believe in what you do enough.

When you find something that you really believe in and get it into your subconscious, there’s no problem in telling people what you do, or the value you’re offering. Preparation, education (which implies knowing that what you believe in can always be improved), execution—these are the sledgehammers that break through those inner obstacles, the roots that block us.

Sometimes, though, those roots can go very deep. This goes back to blueprint. Or a bad experience onhealthy.net/product/celebrex/ with belief, in one way or another, somehow internalized. If you can’t get past taking a shot in the dark without absolute certainty that you’re going to hit your target, what else do you think you can’t get past in life? Try everything! Anything! You stay in that comfort zone and even a little step outside becomes uncomfortable.

But guess what? Making a million dollars is not so comfortable! It’s like stretching muscles that you didn’t even know you had. It’s gonna feel tense at first, or maybe for a while, but the more you exercise your success muscles, the more successful you’ll be.

Belief and faith go hand-in-hand, and they are the foundation of success as much as energy is the basic unit of everything that ever existed. The idea of faith—as in “higher power”—is uncomfortable for some, but the same rules apply. Faith is simply doing and being from a place of not knowing what the outcome will be, but doing it anyway and accepting the result, whatever it may be.

But we won’t even get there without the basic unit of inner strength—belief in ourselves, in what we’re doing, in what we’re creating, in what we’re becoming. The science to get there is learnable. The spiritual aspect is something we have to continuously nurture.

We’ve been knee-deep in the nuts and bolts of business over these last few blogs. Now it’s time to open up the forum to your thoughts on belief, faith and success, and look for more spiritual lessons and thoughts next week.

But before we go there, it’s your turn to tell me what you think. What tips or strategies do you use to breakthrough your inner obstacles?  Others can learn from your methods, so share below!

Here’s the Real Reason Why One Millionaire Gave Away His Fortune

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One of my blog readers recently posted an article about a wealthy Austrian businessman who is in the process of giving away his amassed fortune and retreating “to a small wooden hut in the mountains or a simple bedsit [in Austria].”

“Money is counterproductive—it prevents happiness to come,” said Mr. Rabeder, who sold interior furnishings and accessories. “For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness.”

Most people understand this concept, yes? The idea that “money isn’t everything?” Unfortunately, most people aren’t in the position to know for themselves because they aren’t rich. It’s unfair for a wealthy person to advise someone who is struggling financially that “money isn’t everything.” That line doesn’t work when mortgage is due.

Mr. Rabeder, much to his credit though, says at the end of the article that he does not judge those who choose to keep their riches, and that he was following the advice of his own heart and soul. He also confesses in the article that he came from a poor family “where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years.”

Quick, what’s the magic “B” word? Blueprint!

His blueprint said that he had to toil his life away in order to get more. But shouldn’t it be the opposite; you get rich so that you don’t have to work hard? And didn’t he accomplish just that?
Whether people choose to “be comfortable” or be rich, there’s always room for regrets, regardless if you made a lot of money or not. So it’s not about the money; it’s about us. It’s about our money blueprint.

Does building wealth mean you have to be miserable? Of course not!

Becoming rich does involve making changes, which can sometimes seem like work. Changes in your thoughts, habits, and actions bring measurable results. You can measure happiness as surely as you can measure your idea of wealth. Are you enjoying life? Are you becoming more of the person you want to be? Do you feel like you’re wasting time, spending time, or rather taking time, and having time?

These things matter, but neither side of life has to suffer in the process. If your money blueprint involves misery, what else will the outcome be? From a happy millionaire’s point of view, I can only offer that it does not have to be this way.

Quite frankly, how happy can anyone be when they’re constantly anxious about finances? There’s no way to be worry-free about money without being financially free: getting out of debt and staying out of debt with income that out-paces living expenses and materials wants.

Happy rich people build money machines that require less personal investment of time and energy, making money while they do what they want to do, give who they want to give to, and enjoy whatever comforts they choose.

Building wealth does not have to turn into greed, selfishness, or out-of-control materialism. These are choices people make based on their individual blueprints. Money does not have to rule our lives, but it doesn’t have to fall by the wayside either. We can grow emotionally, spiritually and financially while defining our ideas of happiness.

As I’ve said from the beginning, don’t believe a word I say.

Find out for yourself.

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