If you are looking for financial success today, you must follow the 3D’s rule. So what are these 3D’s all about? They are Discipline, Dedication and Desire. I learned this from a book titled ‘Weekend Millionaire Mindset‘. It is a great book that I strongly recommend anyone who wants to be a millionaire read it.

As you know, the road to becoming a millionaire is not an easy one, it is a very bumpy road. You will have to face a lot of ups and downs before you finally reach your destination. These 3D’s principle was created to help you in your road to become a millionaire.

1. Discipline

You need to have self-discipline. Achieving great wealth in your life is a very challenging mission. If you are serious in becoming a millionaire, you have to possess the discipline of a millionaire. Discipline is developed by making the small decisions, like getting out of bed when the alarm goes off rather than hitting the snooze button. This is what most people are lacking, self-discipline.

You know that you have to read wealth books, do market research for you business and read financial reports and dissect them to the bone before you invest in any stock you pick. However, many people procrastinate and they never really care about this. That is why they fail to become rich. Discipline is one of the most important factors that determine your financial success no matter what business you are in.

If you are in network marketing, you need to have self-discipline, read more self-improvement books and get yourself motivated all the time. Look for prospects and do your follow-up work seriously. The same thing happens if you are in internet marketing. Although that you are working from home, you still need to adopt the self-discipline in order to create amazing results in your life. Write articles and read e-Books the moment you need to. Don’t procrastinate, don’t watch television and don’t chatting with your friends when you have to get your task done.

Put in discipline and commitment. Every business requires this habit, so learn to develop self-discipline in yourself from now on.

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2. Dedication

Dedication comes from making decisions to persevere with a course of action until it is brought to a successful conclusion. In other words, by deciding not to be a quitter. Like I mentioned above, the road to become a millionaire is not an easy one and it is not likely to happen overnight. This is where you have to put in your dedication and decide that you are going to put in effort as long as it needs to achieve your goals.

Many people thought that they can become a millionaire in just a short time. Yes, there are people actually become millionaires within a short period of time. However, do you know who are those people? They are either very credible people who already had all the resources to succeed or they are someone who hit the lottery and become rich instantly. If you get rich because of lucky, your wealth will never stay with you for long. This is because you don’t know how to manage your wealth, and you will spend them all.

So accept the truth that you have to put in real effort and it takes time to become a millionaire. It is not likely you will become a millionaire in a matter of days, not even months and maybe not the first few years. Put in full dedication and decide that you are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve your goals. Tell yourself that you will never quit. Always remember, a quitter will never win and a winner will never quit.

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3. Desire

Desire is increased by constantly measuring the results of the decisions we make. In this case, are we better off today than we were yesterday? And don’t measure yourself against others, instead, measure yourself against the way
you were last week, last month, or last year. You need to have the desire to be better with each passing day. You need to have burning desire if you want to be successful in your life. Without a burning desire, you will never achieve your goals simply because you will not be driven into taking action.

So, find out what actually drives you and find out the reason for you to achieve your goals. You need to possess the desire to become better today than yesterday. Always ask yourself whether you have taken more action than yesterday, or have you achieve much more than last month, or what have you learned more today than last month. You need to measure where you are in your life only then you will know whether you are improving.

If you are not measuring your results, you will never know if you are improving. The process of how to measure is easy, just follow your heart and your feeling, you will know if you have achieved much more in your life today than last year. Bear in mind, in order to keep yourself driven all the time, you need to develop the burning desire in your mind. Know why you want to become a millionaire so badly, and you will eventually achieve it.

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Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Shawn
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