The Millionaire Secrets

It is astonishing how even successful people can go badly when you take on the wrong attitude and response the wrong way. Here is an interesting story. Years ago there is an old gentleman who ran a lunch counter along the highway. It was a time of depression in business. The old man was fortunate enough to be a little blind and deaf because he didn’t have to read about the depression or hear the negative conversation of his friends. So, not knowing there was a depression, he had a remarkably successful business.

He painted his stand, he delivered a good article, he put up bright signs along the road which almost conveyed the aroma of his sandwiches. He made his merchandise so delicious that people who ‘had no money’, would stop and buy his food.

The old man worked hard and sent his boy to college. There the boy took courses in economics and learned how bad things were. When he came home for Christmas and noticed the thriving business, he went to his father and said, “Pop, something’s wrong around here. You shouldn’t be as successful as you are. Why, you act as if you didn’t know there was a depression on!”

And he told his father all about the depression, and how people were retrenching everywhere. As the father began to think it over and look around him,and listen to the negative thoughts, he said to himself, “Maybe I’d better not repaint my stand this year. I’d better save my money because there’s a depression. And I’d better cut down on the amount of hamburger I put in these sandwiches. And what’s the use of putting signs if nobody has any money.” And so he stopped all positive efforts.

The result? Business soon fell off. When the boy came back for Easter vacation the father told him, “Son, I want to thank you for the information you gave me about the depression. It’s absolutely true. I feel it in my business. A college education, son, is a wonderful thing.”

That is what happens when negative thinking gets lodged in our minds. Such thought should be drained out constantly. You should start your day right mentally and it will continue right.

Too often, there are many negative thoughts in our life. People don’t really understand the nature of positive thinking. A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative, he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions. It is possible to look for something to build on, it is possible to expect the best for yourself even though things look bad. And the remarkable fact is that when you seek good, you are very likely to find it.

Sometimes you just have to ignore what other people has to say. Just like what Sam Walton did. If you want to learn Sam Walton’s success principles, read this post of mine, Sam Walton’s Wal-Mart Philosophy.

“Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there is a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you that you are headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything else was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.” Sam Walton.

So if you’ve decided to go for it, just do it. Don’t think that don’t hesitate. The more you think the more negative thoughts you will discover and the harder for you to move on. Sometimes when an idea was born in your mind, just do it. Of course you need to plan it, but don’t “over-plan” it.

Too much of planning will cause stagnation. After all, the only way to get results and reach your destination is to take action. This is one of the success strategies that most people never really care about. This is because it is so common that most people underestimate the power of taking action.

The longer you dwell on an idea yet to take action, the more negative thoughts are going to fill your mind. So start to practice positive thinking start from today. Here is an interesting article regarding positive thinking and how you can adopt this habit in your life, The Magic Of Positive Thinking. It is a great article that I strongly recommend everyone to read it.

Positive thinking is not magic, it is not a voodoo kind of stuff, it is a science. This is because when you think positively, you will act positively, and hence, every decision you make will yield positive results. Learn to be an optimistic start from now on.

No matter what happens in your life, just think positively. This is the success strategies that you will need to pave your path to success.

Your thinking is one of the most powerful tools that you must leverage on if you want to achieve great success in your life. Using your mind to achieve what you want is the best success strategy, and to think big, is the most practical and easiest way.

Did you know that everything that comes into your eye will become pictures in your mind? Even when you are reading this post of mine, your mind will create pictures so that you can easily absorb what you are reading. Here is the key to thinking big, when you think about something, you think about it in picture, not in words.

This is what I called mind pictures. Whenever you think about something, your mind will create pictures or images from experience stored in your mind that you have come across before. When you speak or read, your mind automatically converts words and phrases into mind pictures.

If someone tells you he had just bought a brand new Nokia mobile phone, you will straight away see the picture of a mobile phone in your mind. Your mind pictures that you see are modified by the words that you use to name or describe things. Just like when someone tells you about BMW, you will straight away picture the shape of the car, the design and so on. But when someone tells you about MiniCooper, you will picture different images in your mind. This is how words play an important role in shaping your life.

Suppose you tell your friend, “I’m sorry to report that I’ve failed.” What will your friend see? What will he think about? He probably will see defeat and all the disappointment and grief the word ‘fail’ conveys. Now, what if you tell your friend, “Here’s a new approach which I think will work.” He will feel encourage and ready to try again.

What I’m going to tell you is that, you need to think positively, be an optimist instead of thinking negatively. Every successful people think positively, and this is their number one success strategy.

One thing about thinking is that, most people will think negatively instead of positively. If your thinking is conservative, it will be hard for you to improve. Everyday there are more signs of expanding opportunity, so don’t sell yourself short. When you see an advertisement in the newspaper, it is a job that you like, what will you do?

For most people, they will think, “What a great job, but I’m not good enough for this job, so why bother?” Or maybe you see someone that you really like but you don’t call her because you think that your standard is not as high as her, or maybe you think that you do not rate with her?

These are the common conservative thinking that most people will face in their lives. When you go for an interview, if the interviewer asks you what is your expected salary, what kind of answer will you give? Again, most people will put in a modest number because they feel that they are not worth the bigger sum that they would earn.

So rule number one in positive thinking:

“Never sell yourself short! You know you are better than that.”

So if you are someone who always think negatively or conservatively, what can you do in order to change it? Very simple, below are 3 simple steps that you can follow to help you develop as a positive thinker.

The 3 Simple Steps To Positive Thinker:

1. Use Positive Words In Your Daily Conversation

Always use positive words in your communication or when you are talking to yourself (in your mind). When someone asks you, “How do you feel today?” What kind of answer should you give? If you respond with an “I’m tired, I have a headache, I wish it was saturday and I’m not feeling good.” If you give this kind of answer, you are making yourself worse. You need to start from this, even it is just a small simple point, but it will give you tremendous power over the long period.

So next time when somebody asks you how do you feel, tell them that you are feeling wonderful, great or fantastic. Make sure your answer is a positive answer. You will feel better when your words changes to positive words. Remember this, “Fake it till you make it”.

2. Encourage and Praise Others Often

It is good if you can use positive words in your daily conversation. There is one more thing that you can do with your daily conversation, that is to praise other people. You need to learn how to use positive language to encourage people. Think about it, if you have a special word for your wife or husband everyday, notice that he or she will stay in a positive state all the time. And when this happens, the whole surrounding will become a positive one. This is how successful people can always be motivated all the time, because they make use of their environment by changing other people’s state.

This is a very powerful tool. Use it! Use it again and again, there is nothing wrong to encourage or praise people often. If you can encourage people with your words, why you don’t do so? It is a free tool!

3. Envision A Positive Future

Imagine that if you keep on complaining about your low-pay job, the plumbing that always getting fouled up, the lucky breaks somebody else just got, the doctor bills that are piling up, you are poor, etc. You will act as if you are sentenced to living in this kind of lousy life.

However, if you think of yourself as the person you want to be in the future, you will see yourself as someone who is successful, you’re not just a lousy clerk earning lousy salary, you don’t live in the crummy apartment, you don’t have to worry about bills and so on, will these motivate you? Of course it will. You will think bigger and in the same time, grow bigger.

So always remember that you have to envision a positive future. Don’t see yourself as someone lousy who are earning or living a mediocre life. What is happening to you now do not mean that it will be the same for you in the next few years. We all have the same mind, we can think whatever we want, so choose to think something positive whenever you can.

If you are not leveraging on this powerful tool, you are wasting a lot of your potential and what you can achieve in your life. Have you ever imagined what you are capable of in the future? What kind of person you want to be and what kind of financial level you want to achieve?

You have unlimited potential. It all starts from your mind, your thinking. So always think positively in every side of your life. This may seem like a mundane and tedious work, but it is the key to success. Bear in mind, this is one of the ultimate success strategies that will give you what you want, so practice positive thinking from now on.