If you've been reading my post you know that I'm the owner of 5 businesses. 3 Offline and 2 online.
I started my first successful business at the age of 21 and I've been on my own for the last 22 years. I love to read books on business and motivation and over the last year I've been reading the "Law of Success" by Napoleon Hill.
This is the big Bible like book its over 1,000 pages. This is probably the 3rd time reading this material and every time I read it I learn that I'm more open to seeing some things differently.
The last chapter of this book talks about the "Universal Law of Cosmic Habit Force." Most of us that are trying to improve ourselves financially are already practicing most of this law, but on accident.
Here's a part of that chapter that I believe if you do this on purpose you're guaranteed to become RICH!
"Once you have placed yourself under the influence of the proper associates, you must adopt some definite plan by which at attain the object of the alliance and proceed to put that plan into action.
The plan may be a composite plan created by the joint efforts of all the members of the Master Mind Group. If one plan proves to be unsound or inadequate, it must be revised or replaced by others until a plan is found that will work. But there must be no change in the purpose of the alliance.
Then you must remove yourself from the range of influence of every person and every circumstances that has even a slight tendency to cause you to feel inferior or incapable of attaining the object of you purpose."
This is exactly what my wife and I didn't back in 1990/91. We moved to Wisconsin from Texas to get away from friends that were not going anywhere with their lives. We didn't know what we were going to do for money but we knew that we had to get away from that environment.
When we decided started our advertising publication with NO Experience in publishing, No Computer, No Fax, No Software, No Contacts and No Money our friends laughed at us and our extended families thought we were crazy.
But on accident we did exactly what Napoleon Hill advised above.
My wife and I was our own Master Mind Group, BUT as we moved forward other people that we didn't know came into our lives and became a part of our Master Mind Group. The funny thing about that was they seemed to come into our lives when we needed an answer for something and they would sometime just disappear soon after. NO JOKE!
But the major key to our success was that we accidentally insulated ourselves from negative friends and family.
Be prepared for jealously and major attitudes from your friends and family after you become successful.
My wife and I don't talk to any of our friends or neighbors that knew us back when we started our business in 1990/91 but they do see us around town.
A funny thing happened a few years ago...we hired a cleaning lady to do major cleaning of house once per week. She happens to be a nurse at one of our hospitals also. Well one day she ask my wife and I questions about if we know a person that she worked with. After some deep thought we said yes.
This happened to be our neighbors across the hall in our 1 bedroom studio apartment that use to get a big kick out of watching us put our publication together on the hall floor between our apartments. (we needed a hard surface and our kitchen was too small and we couldn't afford a light table.)
Long story short they got divorced and she's working as a nurse also at the hospital. Not a bad job! But my wife and I raised all 3 of our children, my wife home school our children. My wife is a late sleeper and she wakes up at 11am everyday unless we are on vacation.
After my housekeeper told her co-worker that we were that couple, the ex-neighbor never called us!
So read that statement from Napoleon Hill over and over and over and over again! Because your family and friends and some people you don't know will sometimes hurt your chances of succeeding.
I'm also going to expand on what Napoleon Hill taught - criticism from your clients and people on forums like this one should not be considered "Negative Influence's". So don't get upset and take it personal.
I started my first successful business at the age of 21 and I've been on my own for the last 22 years. I love to read books on business and motivation and over the last year I've been reading the "Law of Success" by Napoleon Hill.
This is the big Bible like book its over 1,000 pages. This is probably the 3rd time reading this material and every time I read it I learn that I'm more open to seeing some things differently.
The last chapter of this book talks about the "Universal Law of Cosmic Habit Force." Most of us that are trying to improve ourselves financially are already practicing most of this law, but on accident.
Here's a part of that chapter that I believe if you do this on purpose you're guaranteed to become RICH!
"Once you have placed yourself under the influence of the proper associates, you must adopt some definite plan by which at attain the object of the alliance and proceed to put that plan into action.
The plan may be a composite plan created by the joint efforts of all the members of the Master Mind Group. If one plan proves to be unsound or inadequate, it must be revised or replaced by others until a plan is found that will work. But there must be no change in the purpose of the alliance.
Then you must remove yourself from the range of influence of every person and every circumstances that has even a slight tendency to cause you to feel inferior or incapable of attaining the object of you purpose."
This is exactly what my wife and I didn't back in 1990/91. We moved to Wisconsin from Texas to get away from friends that were not going anywhere with their lives. We didn't know what we were going to do for money but we knew that we had to get away from that environment.
When we decided started our advertising publication with NO Experience in publishing, No Computer, No Fax, No Software, No Contacts and No Money our friends laughed at us and our extended families thought we were crazy.
But on accident we did exactly what Napoleon Hill advised above.
My wife and I was our own Master Mind Group, BUT as we moved forward other people that we didn't know came into our lives and became a part of our Master Mind Group. The funny thing about that was they seemed to come into our lives when we needed an answer for something and they would sometime just disappear soon after. NO JOKE!
But the major key to our success was that we accidentally insulated ourselves from negative friends and family.
Be prepared for jealously and major attitudes from your friends and family after you become successful.
My wife and I don't talk to any of our friends or neighbors that knew us back when we started our business in 1990/91 but they do see us around town.
A funny thing happened a few years ago...we hired a cleaning lady to do major cleaning of house once per week. She happens to be a nurse at one of our hospitals also. Well one day she ask my wife and I questions about if we know a person that she worked with. After some deep thought we said yes.
This happened to be our neighbors across the hall in our 1 bedroom studio apartment that use to get a big kick out of watching us put our publication together on the hall floor between our apartments. (we needed a hard surface and our kitchen was too small and we couldn't afford a light table.)
Long story short they got divorced and she's working as a nurse also at the hospital. Not a bad job! But my wife and I raised all 3 of our children, my wife home school our children. My wife is a late sleeper and she wakes up at 11am everyday unless we are on vacation.
After my housekeeper told her co-worker that we were that couple, the ex-neighbor never called us!
So read that statement from Napoleon Hill over and over and over and over again! Because your family and friends and some people you don't know will sometimes hurt your chances of succeeding.
I'm also going to expand on what Napoleon Hill taught - criticism from your clients and people on forums like this one should not be considered "Negative Influence's". So don't get upset and take it personal.
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