Eker - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind Masteri

Who the Heck Is T. Harv Eker, and
Why Should I Read This Book?

The Wealth Files
Seventeen Ways Rich People Think and Act Differently from Poor and Middle-Class People

P EOPLE ARE SHOCKED, AT THE BEGINNING OF MY seminars, when one of the first things I tell them is Dont believe a word I say. Why would I suggest that? Because I can only speak from my own experience. None of the concepts and insights I share are inherently true or false, right or wrong. They simply reflect my own results, and the amazing results Ive seen in the lives of thousands and thousands of my students. Having said that, however, I believe that if you use the principles you learn in this book, you will totally transform your life. Dont just read this book. Study it as if your life depended on it. Then try the principles out for yourself. Whatever works, keep doing. Whatever doesnt, youre welcome to throw away.

I know I may be biased, but when it comes to money, this may be the most important book you have ever read. I understand thats a bold statement, but the fact is, this book provides the missing link between your desire for success and your achievement of success. As youve probably found out by now, those are two different worlds.

No doubt youve read other books, listened to tapes or CDs, gone to courses, and learned about numerous get-rich systems be they in real estate, stocks, or business. But what happened? For most people, not much! They get a short blast of energy, and then its back to the status quo.

Finally, theres an answer. Its simple, its law, and youre not going to circumvent it. It all comes down to this: if your subconscious financial blueprint is not set for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.

In the pages of this book, we will demystify for you why some people are destined to be rich and others are destined for a life of struggle. You will understand the root causes of success, mediocrity, or financial failure and begin changing your financial future for the better. You will understand how childhood influences shape our financial blueprint and how these influences can lead to self-defeating thoughts and habits. You will experience powerful declarations that will help you replace your nonsupportive ways of thinking with mental wealth files so that you thinkand succeedjust as rich people do. You will also learn practical, step-by-step strategies for increasing your income and building wealth.

In Part I of this book, we will explain how each of us is conditioned to think and act when it comes to money, and outline four key strategies for revising our mental money blueprint. In Part II, we examine the differences between how rich, middle-class, and poor people think, and provide seventeen attitudes and actions to take that will lead to permanent changes in your financial life. Throughout the book we also share just a few examples of the thousands of letters and e-mails Ive received from students who have attended the Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar and achieved powerful results in their lives.

So what is my experience? Where am I coming from? Was I always successful? I wish!

Like many of you, I supposedly had a lot of potential but had little to show for it. I read all the books, listened to all the tapes, and went to all the seminars. I really, really, really wanted to be successful. I dont know whether it was for the money, the freedom, the sense of achievement, or just to prove I was good enough in my parents eyes, but I was almost obsessed with becoming a success. During my twenties, I started several different businesses, each with the dream of making my fortune, but my results went from dismal to worse.

I worked my butt off but kept coming up short. I had Loch Ness monster disease: I had heard of this thing called profit, I just never saw any of it. I kept thinking, If I just get into the right business, get on the right horse, Ill make it. But I was wrong. Nothing was workingat least for me. And it was the last part of that sentence that finally struck me. How come others were succeeding in the exact same business I was in and I was still broke? What happened to Mr. Potential?

So I began doing some serious soul-searching. I examined my true beliefs and saw that even though I said I really wanted to be rich, I had some deep-rooted worries about it. Mostly I was afraid. Afraid that I might fail, or worse, succeed and then somehow lose it all. Then Id really be a schmuck. Worse, I would blow the one thing I had going for me: my story that I had all this potential. What if I found out I didnt have what it took and I was destined to a life of struggle?

Then, as luck would have it, I got some advice from an extremely rich friend of my fathers. He was at my parents house playing cards with the boys and, in passing, noticed me. This was the third time Id moved back home, and I was living in the lower-level suite, otherwise known as the basement. I suppose my dad had complained to him of my woeful existence because when he saw me, he had the sympathy in his eyes usually reserved for the bereaved at a funeral.

He said, Harv, I started in the same way as you, a complete disaster. Great, I thought, this was making me feel a lot better. I should let him know that I was busywatching the paint peel off the wall.

He kept going: But then I got some advice that changed my life, and Id like to pass it on to you. Oh, no, here comes the father-son lecture, and hes not even my father! Finally he came out with it: Harv, if youre not doing as well as youd like, all that means is theres something you dont know. Being a brash young man at the time, I thought I knew pretty well everything, but alas, my bank account said something different. So I finally began to listen. He continued, Did you know that most rich people think in very similar ways?

I said, No, I never really considered that. To which he replied, Its not an exact science, but for the most part, rich people think a certain way and poor people think a completely different way, and those ways of thinking determine their actions and therefore determine their results. He went on, If you thought the way rich people do and did what rich people do, do you believe you could become rich too? I remember answering with all the confidence of a mush ball, I think so. Then, he replied, all you have to do is copy how rich people think.

Being the skeptic I was at the time, I said, So what are you thinking right now? To which he replied, Im thinking that rich people keep their commitments and mine is to your dad right now. The guys are waiting for me, see ya. Although he walked out, what he said sank in.

Nothing else was working in my life, so I figured what the heck and threw myself wholeheartedly into studying rich people and how they think. I learned everything I could about the inner workings of the mind, but concentrated primarily on the psychology of money and success. I discovered that it was true: rich people really do think differently from poor and even middle-class people. Eventually, I became aware of how my own thoughts were holding me back from wealth. More important, I learned several powerful techniques and strategies to actually recondition my mind so that I would think in the same ways rich people do.