This Week’s Power Topic – Money – Your Surrounding Environment

From This Weeks Power Topic – Money
In working on understanding your own beliefs about money, take a second and write down the 5 people that you have the most contact with in your life. Think clearly about those 5 people;

• How do they view money?
• How do they make money?
• How do they spend money?
• How much do they have?
• Do they talk about money?
• Do they take calculated risk, or do they gamble?

Think about it. These are just a few questions but begin to really paint a picture of where a lot of your influence comes from. If you want to be rich, you have to condition your mind to think rich. Even the strongest people are influenced by their environment to some degree. The key is to understand how much and in what ways that happens. But this is where you always have the important choice to make; are you going to create your environment or let it create you?

Where you are at in your life right now is the sum of all your decisions, thoughts, beliefs, influences and resources. And the same mind that got you to this point is not going to get you to where you want to go. So start giving yourself new input. But first you have to create some space

1. Stop. That’s right, stop right now anything that you’re doing (ie. reading my blog).
2. Understand where you are at now. What’s good, what’s not?
3. Decide what you really want. Where do you want to be?
4. Name 1 or 2 people that are there right now. People that you can understand and model from.
5. Get excited! think to yourself, “I can do that too!”, of course you can.
6. Now: Act On It!

Create a supportive environment by surrounding yourself with those people that can push you forward towards where you want to go. What would it take to have someone with the influence you want show up in your list of 5 people?

Winning is a habit, built by taking little steps at a time towards your goal. Unfortunately so is losing. That’s why teams like the Bulls, Yankees; Companies like Google, Whole Foods; and People like Warren Buffett, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, are Winners, is that they’ve learned to develop that Habit of Winning. The ability to consistently take small steps to constantly improve and become the best. They cut out any dis-traction. Do you have your list of influence you want in your life? I know I do.

You don’t have to be great, to become great!

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