For the last month I’ve been revisiting some classic business books. Among them “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude” and “Think and Grow Rich”. The first time I picked up these 2 books was 30 years ago and I don’t even know how many times I’ve read them.
As I read these books I also read Robert Kiyosaki’s “The Business School” and re-read Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”. They all fit together in their message better than it may appear on the surface.
Broke people let their out-dated beliefs steal their income, and by extension of that, their life.
There are certain conclusions about the difference between wealthy people and broke people that have become generally accepted. Interestingly, even that fact doesn’t seem to motivate broke people to change their thinking or their actions.
To be clear, my definition of wealthy people is more than just having money. It’s being wealthy in mind and spirit. My definition of being broke is more than not having enough money. It’s having a lack mentality and actions that flow from the belief in lack.
One of those generally accepted ideas is that wealthy people are willing to do what broke people aren’t. That allows the top 3%, those wealthy people, to have more money than the other 97%.
If you’re not in that 3%, I have 3 questions for you:
What are you willing to do to become one of them?
Why aren’t you doing it now?
What do you believe they have done to become wealthy that you wouldn’t be willing to do?
These 3 questions and your answers go directly to your beliefs about what it means to be wealthy, or what you may call ‘rich’. If you’re paying attention, it will also tell you where you have some beliefs that are holding you back.
Another generally accepted idea is that there is no job that is beneath a truly wealthy person if it leads to their desired end result.
Broke people think almost everything they aren’t willing to do is beneath them, or said another way, they are better than that, or they deserve more.
Unfortunately you can’t take that attitude to the bank and cash it.
“The Business School” is Kiyosaki’s book talking about why he’s a big supporter of Network Marketing as a stream of income and the best business school for people who like helping people. I have to say I agree with him.
There is still so much old baggage and outdated beliefs connected with the word MLM. Do you even have an open mind when the topic comes up? Many broke people don’t.
But I’ve found that the vast majority of wealthy people are very open to hearing more about it. This was not always the case, but things are changing rapidly and the wealthiest people are usually the first to jump on a lucrative opportunity.
In fact a whole lot of the wealthiest people I know have had a Network Marketing stream of income working for them for many years before I was smart enough to listen.
There was a time when Robert Kiyosaki wasn’t open to it and for a long time neither was I. In the early 80’s I had a couple friends that drove a pink Cadillac, but I was a Realtor. I was a professional. I may have been making lots of money, but their was still a broke person running around in my head.
Then in 2001 I got into the information marketing business and met Robert Allen and Bob Proctor who both gave me the opportunity to join their Network Marketing teams, but I wasn’t interested in ‘that kind of thing’.
A couple years later I had the chance to be at the top of Jack Canfield’s team, but I passed again.
Before I finally saw the light myself I had already been speaking in the Network Marketing industry and doing private mentoring for some high ranking people. My excuse then was that I couldn’t get involved with one company when I wanted to speak to all of them.
I finally had to admit I was being a snob and at the same time I was afraid of what my friends or peers would think if I said I joined a Network Marketing team.
But when I looked at all the top personal growth and business gurus who were involved in Network Marketing and found out how many more were quietly ‘doing the business’ I quickly got over my fear in favor of a lucrative opportunity. I was supported by a great team and now I support and mentor those on my team.
And as I read Kiyosaki’s book this week, I found that it talked about the same principles of what it takes to be successful that are laid out by Og Mandino and Napoleon Hill. And surprisingly, many of the principles of creating a new earth from a point of higher consciousness talked about by Eckhart Tolle.
So if you are in a place where you want a great business education and a terrific opportunity for personal growth, give Network Marketing a look. You may find that if you look in the right places, what you find is not your old idea of what you thought Network Marketing was.
Not all companies have a big start up cost. Many are less than an average quality home study program. So don’t let the things you think you know about the industry stop you from having a new stream of income on a part time basis. Take a look. I think you’ll like what you see.
There are companies today that provide a great education and income that starts when you do. And if you’re lucky and get into a great company with a great team to support you, you’ll find as Robert Kiyosaki says, “The Business School for People Who Like Helping People”.
The dream of every business person is to create a business full of clients who happily pay what you ask and sign your praises bring in tons of referrals, right? So how do you increase the chances of this becoming reality for you?
Until next week, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Just comment on this post on my blog at http://www.LynnPierce.com
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Thank you Lynn! So often beliefs and attitudes hold a control over our actions that our conscious mind neglects to honor. We think we’re engaged in self-determination, moving forward when in fact, we’re reaching into a dusty mental file cabinet of ‘this is how I respond to X’, keeping us strongly rooted in the past without examination or re-assessment.
You’re so right Andrea. Learning who we really are and why we believe the things we do is a never ending journey. So many of the beliefs we have are not even ours once we really look at them. Many times we just accept what we hear other people say over and over as if it were truth. That’s why it’s so important to constantly challenge our beliefs to see if they still serve us.