MIND-MONEY CONNECTION

DISCOVER THE TWO KEY CONCEPTS THAT WILL PROPEL YOU TOWARDS FINANCIAL PROSPERITY FASTER THAN ANY OTHER.

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve “.
Napoleon Hill

The personal story of Think and Grow Rich author Napoleon Hill is a fascinating one.

Born into poverty in 1883, in a one-room log cabin in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Hill became a newspaper reporter while still in his teens and began writing stories for more than a dozen publications throughout the U.S. states. His original style soon caught the attention of former Tennessee governor Robert Taylor — owner of Bob Thylor’s Magazine — who hired Hill to write success stories about famous men.

Hill’s plan was to use the magazine money to pay his way through Georgetown University Law School. However, he was sent to interview billionaire industrialist Andrew Carnegie — then the world’s richest man — and his whole life changed. At the end of their three-day interview, Carnegie had convinced Hill to create the world’s first philosophy of individual achievement, based on the principles of success he had used to accumulate his vast fortune.

As a final test, Carnegie put a question to Hill and insisted he answer it immediately. He said, “If I commission you to become the author of this philosophy, and give you letters of introduction to people whose help you will need, are you willing to devote 20 years to research - because that’s about how long it will take - earning your own way as you go along, without any subsidy from me? Yes or no?”

Hill could think of many reasons why he couldn’t do it: he didn’t have the education, the time, the money or the influence — not to mention that he didn’t even know what the word “philosophy” meant! There was something inside of him, though, that just wanted to go for it so he answered, “Yes, Mr Carnegie. I’ll accept the commission and you can depend upon it, sir, that I will complete it”.

And he did. The subsequent and ongoing success of Think and Grow Rich, the outcome of that irrevocable decision, demonstrates just how one’s life can be created with new thinking. Carnegie may have produced as many as two dozen millionaires but the number of people Napoleon Hill continues to help become wealthy is too many to be counted. “Truly, ‘thoughts are things’,” was how Hill started Think and Grow Rich. He should have told us “thoughts are everything!” because that’s where it all starts.

In this chapter, I’ll reveal to you the mind-money connection, the critical role it plays in manifesting your results as well as why you’re not already where you want to be financially. I’ll show you two powerful and proven processes to create precisely the experiences in life you wish to live out. And I’ll introduce you to the second key principle of success: that of the mastermind team.

But first, we need to understand that just about everything we were taught to think about money was wrong...
 

MONEY;

‘Money is a good servant but a poor master.
Dominique Bouhours

Money is an idea. Understand it’s not the paper or plastic in your wallet, the coins in your pocket or the numbers in your bank account. These are all just representations of money, not money itself.

Why? Because money is an idea!
Money is neutral, neither good nor bad, just neutral. It has no characteristics accept those we project onto it. It has no life, no language. . . it’s neither dirty, evil, nor good nor...

Money is a tool. As such, like a hammer, it can be used to build or destroy based on the intent of the user. The effectiveness of its expression is totally dependant on the skill and belief of the person using it.

MORE MONEY;

“There is no such thing as something for nothing.
Napoleon Hill

Always remember, money is a reward received for service rendered. If you want more money you are going to have to render more and better service. Presumably your purpose in reading this book is to create a financial surplus for yourself and ie your family, and the fact that we are using property to do this, is incidental. If you want a million dollars, you need to render a million dollars worth of service. That could mean one deal for a one million dollar profit, or 100 deals at ten thousand dollars profit. Your income and reward will be in direct proportion to the quality, quantity and spirit in which you render service to the market. An entrepreneur understands this. They simply take something of a lower value and turn it into something of a higher value according to the needs of the marketplace.

MORE PROSPERITY MILLIONAIRES

“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, rich is better ‘
Sophie Tucker

Prosperity Millionaires have a prosperous mindset and so attract wealth and opportunity. They are entrepreneurial and come from a space of abundance, good stewardship and common sense. They are good money managers as they value, protect, multiply and share a portion of every dollar that passes through their hands. They always seek to add massive value and engage only in transactions that benefit all (win/win). They continually grow, learn and seek out specialized knowledge of how to make more surplus to leave a legacy and increase the pie for all.

In contrast, Poverty Millionaires have a poverty mindset and they come from a space of lack and limitation, believing the supply of money to be restricted. This scarcity mentality causes them to hold on tightly to every dollar they have for fear of loss and lack of confidence in replacing it. Poverty millionaires always seek to drive hard bargains, while advancing only their own interests at the expense of others (win/lose).

So now that you can see that not all millionaires are created equal, you will understand why the world is better off for the presence of more Prosperity Millionaires. For me, inspiring 1,000 new Prosperity Millionaires in ten years who are dedicated to contributing their wealth and energies to worthwhile projects is a goal worth striving for. By doing so, we will achieve our vision of raising the conscious and financial awareness of Australians.

DECIDE... BELIEVE... BEGIN...

“Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it’.
Napoleon Hill

Just about everything we were taught about money is wrong.

It doesn’t take money to make money.
It doesn’t take a university degree to make money.
It doesn’t take high intelligence to make money.
It doesn’t take good grades, good looks or even good ideas.
You don’t need a good job. In fact, you don’t need a job at all.
You don’t need friends of influence and to be “connected”.
You don’t need to come from a wealthy family.

None of these things matter. But you know what does? A decision. Yes, that’s right. The only thing that matters is that you make an irrevocable decision to commit and see it through, sees no matter what. That’s it.

So right now, before we even start, just as Carnegie did with Hill, I’m asking you to commit. I’m asking you to become one of our 1,000 new Prosperity Millionaires.

Yes or No?

The moment you make your decision and commit it to writing you will have made it tangible. Now make that commitment by signing here:

 
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Next I want you to go to www.TGRPropertycom.au/Gifts and download your free Think and’ Grow Rich Prosperity Millionaire Certificate. Print out several copies, fill them in and place them where you’ll see them around your home or workplace many times a day.

As Napoleon Hill wrote, “Somewhere in your make up (perhaps in the cells of your brain) there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement, which if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain”.

That seed has now been planted. It has begun...

CLARITY IS POWER

“The highest reward for a person’s toil in not what they get for it,but what they become by it’
John Ruskin

Congratulations! I’m so glad you’ve decided to join us. Let’s get started...

For some inexplicable reason, I have always wanted to be a Prosperity Millionaire. Ever since I can remember, I wanted to have influence so that I could make a difference and inspire others. The ideal and only way I thought to achieve that when I was young was to become a professional soccer player. I figured the fame would give me influence so people would listen and the money would give me the means to do good. So I trained hard, played hard and showed enormous potential in my early teens. I even earned the nickname there for a while of “Franz”, after the legendary German soccer player, Franz Beckenbauer.

As the years went by, I trained harder and harder yet didn’t seem to progress; if anything, I may have gone backwards. So… I trained harder. I even went to the lengths of getting my own Olympic running coach, working in a gym part-time to get stronger, and dropping out of university to spend more time training and, so I thought, following my dream.

Against the odds and in record time, I overcame what surgeons thought was a career-ending knee injury. Again, I did it by working hard and letting my obsession push my body, all the while missing the messages life was sending me. Despite playing a few more seasons, my dream to be a professional soccer player never came true. What annoyed me most when it was all over was that I didn’t know why I didn’t make it, especially when I was prepared to give everything for the chance.

Years later, I finally discovered the answer to my question: willpower, no matter how strong, will never overcome conditioning.

Let’s start to understand why.

There are only three things you need to be successful in any sport;

1. Skill
2. Fitness
3. The right mindset/psychology.

As a soccer player, my skill level was average; I was neither the best, nor the worst. My fitness, however, was definitely superior. I was one of the fittest athletes in the league, if not the country at the time. The third and final element came down to my personal mindset and psychology. And that’s where I let myself down. Outwardly you couldn’t pick it, but inside something wasn’t right. Later I would learn that in any field of achievement, experts unanimously agree that 80 per cent or more of a person’s success comes down to their mental attitude, mindset and thoughts. This became evident to me when I opened my first business...

OBSERVATION IS POWER

“No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking”.
Voltaire

Shortly after my departure from the soccer field, I redirected that drive, energy and my desire to help people into establishing my own fitness club. Through my part time-work as a fitness instructor, I found I really enjoyed helping people improve their lives. I noticed when they started to get their act together physically, many other areas of their lives improved as well.

But the results were inconsistent. Why was it that some excelled while others were mediocre at best? How is it that two people start out with the same information, the same equipment, the same experience level, similar circumstances and environment, yet one achieves and the other doesn’t? What makes the difference between success and failure?

Again, I found that success in the gym came down to just three things.

1. Exercise
2. Nutrition
3. The right mindset/psychology.

Are you starting to see a pattern here? I did. At best, most people only focus on the physical components of any success equation, such as skill plus fitness or exercise plus nutrition or intelligence plus application. What they lack is the most important component of all — the understanding that success and achievement in any field of endeavor starts and ends with the mind.

BE CONGRUENT

“There’s a big difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for something until they believe they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.”
Napoleon Hill

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Take a look at the diagram above. You’ll notice the word results is at the top of the hierarchy. Results are the name of the game and this applies to any area of your life, be that wealth, health, relationships or happiness. It’s both normal and natural for every human being to seek more in life and to grow.

Now notice that results are created by behaviour. For example, on Arnold Schwarzenegger pushes weights. Clearly that behaviour produces a certain result.

Beyond your behaviour however is where all the magic happens. Here is where we now cross over from the visible world into the invisible world, from the tangible world into the intangible world, from the physical world into the metaphysical world. You see, it’s your underlying and prevailing mindset that motivates your behaviour on a moment by moment basis.

Your mindset is like the weather in that it can change at any moment and frequently does. For example, how often have you told yourself you should go for a run in the morning, but when morning comes your mindset has changed? Hmmm. . . Isn’t that interesting?

Now for the really tricky part. What creates your mindset? Refer to the previous diagram once more and you’ll discover it. The ultimate influence on your mindset, and therefore your behaviour and results, is your conditioning. Conditioning refers broadly to what you have been brought up to think and believe about the world you live in and yourself. In consists of three key elements: values, beliefs and self image.

According to psychologists, an estimated 90% of your conditioning and indeed, your personality, is formed by the age of seven. This could be good or bad depending on your experience in those first seven years. Secondly, most of this conditioning is below your level of awareness, or what we call subconscious, much like the majority of an iceberg is hidden below the surface of the water. It is invisible and intangible.

So if this was all formed so long ago, and it’s invisible, and you’re not aware of it yet it controls all your behaviour and is responsible for all your results - the million dollar questions have got to be: How do you know what you have been conditioned with and how do you change it?

‘By their fruits ye shall know them’.
Matthew 7:15

You answer to the first question is simple — just look at your results. Your results broadcast loud and clear to the world your conditioning. It can be no other way. Just like a river that has been dammed momentarily can, and will, find a way around it to the sea, so too your values, beliefs, and self image will always find their natural expression.

So if you want to see what you have been conditioned to believe about money, just check your bank statement. The amount of money you earn each year is, in fact, what you feel you are worth, and not a cent more or a cent less. Take a look at your health and your relationships while you’re at it. The state of each will tell you exactly what you have been conditioned to believe.

Since you’re presumably reading this book to make financial improvements, let’s drill down to see how values, beliefs and self image relate to money.

Values - Everyone has a hierarchy of values. When it comes to finances, you will recognise your values by how you earn your money, how much of it you have and what you do with it.
Make sense?

Beliefs - Recognise that your beliefs are not necessarily fact or even true. They are simply what they are, and can broadly be split into two categories: limiting beliefs and empowering beliefs.

Some limiting beliefs might be:

• the money supply is limited. For me to get more, others have to go without.

• money is the root of all evil;
• if this really worked, somebody would have already done it.

Some empowering beliefs might be:

• money is abundant. The more I create the more there is to share;
• the lack of money is the root of all evil;
• if it’s working for them, it’ll work for me.

Self Image - Scientists have determined the overriding cause of success or failure in life to be our invisible self image. This invisible force works much the same as a thermostat on a heater. Let’s say the thermostat is set at 20 degrees. When the temperature of the surrounding air drops below this set point, the thermostat reacts to the drop and sends a message to the heater to heat the room; if the temperature of the surrounding air rises above the set point, the thermostat reacts to the increase and sends a message to the heater to switch off. Your self image works in the same way.

Anyone who has ever struggled with a weight problem will be familiar with this process. Dieting may shed pounds for a while but eventually the set point mechanism reacts to the dropping weight, causing the dieter to change the way they feel, change the way they behave and, ultimately, return to their pre-diet weight, or more.

How about financially? Do you think you have a set point there as well? You’d better believe it! The amount of money you earn is a direct reflection of what you feel you are worth. This is why somewhere between 70 and 95 per cent of major lottery winners squander their sudden fortunes in two years or less. The unexpected windfall is far in excess of their conditioned financial set point, causing them to subconsciously repel it.

To raise your financial and other set points you not only have to take the right actions in the physical world, but you also need to adjust your in-built thermostat. Both need to be congruent:
the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the intangible. You must repeatedly now see yourself as a highly prosperous person. You must create a new set point. Here’s a powerful process and exercise that will help you...

THE MIND MOVIE PROCESS

‘Any idea that is held in mind, that is emphasized, that is Feared of Revered will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate form that is available”.
Andrew Carnegie

First, put yourself in a completely relaxed state. Next, choose a goal that you would like to achieve, such as becoming a property entrepreneur. Then, create a short mental movie of yourself enjoying your goal NOW. Be sure you are fully in the picture, the star of the show! Allow yourself to feel the feelings you would expect if you were living out this goal for real. Imagine what this would be like in exact detail. Repeat this mind movie several times a day.

THE GOAL CARD EXERCISE

On a 3cm x 5cm card write an abbreviated version of your mental movie, commencing with the words: “I am so happy and grateful now that An example might be: “I am so happy and grateful now that I earn a passive income of $10,000 per month as a property entrepreneur.” This is your Think and Grow Rich Goal Card. Carry your goal card in your pocket or purse so that whenever you touch it from now on, the image of your mental movie will flash onto the screen of your mind.

Think and Grow Rich Goal Card
I am so happy and grateful now that.

The Mind Movie process and the Goal Card exercise really work. Just as a seed is planted into the soil and begins to attract all things necessary for the fulfillment of its growth and potential, so too your goal has now been planted into the deep resources of your subconscious mind where it has begun to germinate and attract to you all that is required for the accomplishment of your goal.

THE MASTERMIND TEAM

The next big idea I’d like to share with you is that of the mastermind team. Although generous in content, Think and Grow Rich can actually be distilled to just three key principles:

1. A Dream
2. A Theme
3. ATeam.

I’m going to assume that you have a dream in mind, perhaps to become one of our 1,000 new Prosperity Millionaires? And, given you are reading this book, your theme is likely to be that of property. So, the one thing we need to discuss now is your team.

The business of property and wealth-creation are team sports. In the following chapters, you’ll hear time and time again the experts talk about assembling a team. This has been the secret of my success and the key principle behind this very book. Carnegie himself put his entire success down to just two key principles in Think and Grow Rich, one being that of the mastermind team. He even wrote an epitaph for his grave that read, “Here lies one who knew how to get around him men cleverer than himself”. Carnegie was renowned for working with the very best people. Here’s how he picked them, as passed on to Napoleon Hill.

The six characteristics of top mastermind team members

Honesty and loyalty
Hill placed both honesty and loyalty at the very top of his list for a good reason. Honesty and loyalty breed trust, and trust is the foundation upon which people do their best work. Specifically, Hill said, “If a person doesn’t show loyalty to those that are entitled to it, I want no part of them”. Of course, loyalty is not an automatic right and is not something you should ever take for granted. You have to earn the loyalty of your team members by proving to them that you’re somebody who is worthy of it.

Dependability
This comes in at number two, although dependability, honesty and loyalty are pretty much equal. After all, what good is a loyal person if you can’t depend on them? The whole point of developing a team is so you can step back into more of a management role and allow those with the specialised skills you’ve chosen to do the hands-on work. Its a system that can only function correctly if you are able to assign a task and know that it’s going to be done to a standard that will meet your requirements. If somebody comes back to you with a half-finished job and a list of excuses, they’re
the wrong person for your team.

3. Ability to do the job
This is probably the easiest one to detect but that doesn’t make it any less important. It’s absolutely essential that you surround yourself with people who actually know how to do what it is that you need them to do. It might seem reasonable to assume that a real estate agent would know everything necessary to successfully complete a property transaction or that a qualified tax accountant will be able to pick up all the deductions you’re entitled to but experience has shown these things can’t be taken for granted. Still, it’s interesting that Hill placed this quality in third place behind honesty, loyalty and dependability.

4. Positive mental attitude
Speaking very broadly, there are just two types of people in life: optimists and pessimists. It’s been my experience that optimists have, by far, the better end of the deal. They are positive, encourage others and always look for the opportunity in adversity. Attempting anything in life above mediocrity is going to attract both adversity and criticism, often from those who are close to you. Therefore, it’s important to surround yourself with positive people who will be able to encourage and support you. 1 find the “can do” attitude of optimistic people means they’re far more motivated and are always keener to get going, which is good for business and excellent for customer service.

5. Willingness to go the extra mile
You’ll know you’ve got a truly excellent team member when you find somebody who not only does the job that is required of them but goes that extra distance to make sure it’s done to the absolute highest standard possible. This type of person is incredibly hard to find and well worth holding onto once you have them. I’m talking about the kind of person who will do extra jobs for you, whether or not they are stipulated in their contract, and who will spend their weekend feverishly working on a project they’ve been given at short notice without any complaint. It’s very hard to find such people but by no means impossible. I know this because I have a number of them in my own team.

Applied faith
Let me start by saying this has nothing at all to do with religion. It’s about individual minds discovering themselves and establishing a working relationship with the lawful power of the universe, known in this case as infinite intelligence. There’s a very important distinction that needs to be made here, between applied faith and mere belief. Simply believing in something is far too passive and no more potent than daydreaming when it comes to achieving your goals. Applied faith is all about action. The more action, the better, not only on your part but that of your mastermind allies as well.

When you’ve found someone with all six Carnegie characteristics, you’re in the presence of royalty. And if they are lacking in just one, you’ll need to be careful. Your job from here is to maintain perfect harmony between your team members and discover how to utilise them for maximum effect. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of each member in your team so you can help them reach their potential and, in doing so, achieve your own.

KEEP THEM IN MIND

“If a person advances confidently in the direction of their dream, and endeavours to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with success unexpected in common hours”.
Thoreau

We’ve now covered two of the most important keys to financial prosperity: the mind-money connection and the mastermind team. This chapter has been deliberately placed at the beginning of the book because understanding both concepts will propel you towards your goals faster than any other.

So, with that firmly in mind, let’s discover the five unique property strategies to go from zero to financial freedom in five years or less...

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