The Ten Steps To Wealth

March 23rd, 2012

Part of your journey along The Ten Steps To Wealth is having a plan for how to change your brain so that it more comfortably allows you to change and achieve what is important for you. Here’s a video on YouTube that will help you to develop such a plan. There is a series of five videos that start with this one. A Plan For How To Change Your Brain For Successing

In yesterday’s post I spoke about the idea that each step is really a phase that you must progress through in order to achieve the wealth or the results you are looking for. If you don’t pass through these phases, nothing happens other than your results remaining the same.

Have you ever noticed how there seems to be an endless list of wishes that people would like to achieve. People wish they had more free time; wish they did not have to work such long hours, wish they had more disposable income; wish they did not have to get up and go to work; or wish they could take a decent holiday.

In fact, most people have a relatively long wish list, yet seldom do they take the time to think about the reasons why their present results are as they are. Simply by wishing for the results to be different, most people fail to seek solutions to the causes of why things turn out the way they do. Despite wanting wealth, most people never make wealth a big enough MUST in their lives. Unless your reasons are big enough, you won’y have the necessary energy to complete the phase transitions or The Ten Steps For Wealth themselves.

Despite their list of wishes, the behaviour of most people is directed towards the continuation of actions based on the struggle of opposing desires.  On the one hand, the subconscious mind promotes an image of the world which appears ‘normal’ and not really all that bad. While people wish for financial freedom, more money, secrets of success, more connected relationships and more free time, there is a relative degree of comfort in their immediate surroundings. As a consequence, there is little motivation for serious change to take place.

On the other hand, despite this seemingly ‘normal’ view, there is a much deeper struggle taking place which witnesses a constant internal conflict between wishing for wealth and the avoidance of the necessary actions you must take in order for wealth to be achieved. Because most people never resolve this internal conflict, doubt, fear, worry, cynicism, scepticism and the lack of certainty become constant companions in a contemporary busy life.

Conventional wisdom achieves two things… it actively supports your development into a consumer being and a lifetime of consuming your financial potential. Secondly,  it actively resists and discourages development beyond this level.

Take a Journey along The Ten Steps To Wealth pathway and I’ll meet you in one of the transition phases

Wishing you every success

Paul Counsel

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The Ten Steps To Wealth

March 21st, 2012

Sometimes I think The Ten Steps To Wealth should be called the ten phase transitions to wealth. Each phase is a transition you must pass through in order to get the results you are looking for. If you don’t pass through them, nothing happens other than your results remaining the same.

Despite most people saying they want to be financially free and live a lifestyle of choice, especially in their retirement years, few actively do anything about it. If you consciously observe the general banter of people, you will basically notice that most people live in a culture of subtle or overt complaint. By and large, conversations suggest that most people are reasonably dissatisfied with their current circumstances and would love to change them sooner rather than later. Despite their desire for improvement they take minimal, if any, action to advance their achievement experiences. They seem happy to support the culture of complaint and seldom employ proactive behaviours for change. As a consequence, they have no strategies for obtaining the life they desire and no strategies for escaping the ‘rat race’.

Have you ever wondered why this remains the status quo for most people and why wealth, more money, the secrets of success, a wealth psychology and economic and personal freedom are not?

According to Roger Walsh, Professor of psychiatry, philosophy and anthropology at the University of California, part of the reason for this is that, through society’s conditioning practices, most people slumber through life in a kind of trance like state in much the same way as those who are hypnotised suffer a constricted state of mind. In this trance like state their awareness and behaviours are largely limited to the suggestions of other people. In Essential Spirituality, he suggests that people who live their lives in such a way neither recognise their state, nor their limitations, nor the fact that they are actually hypnotised by the conventions of society.

During every moment of our lives we make choices and these choices lead to certain results. Yet most choices are not consciously made and simply spring from habit. And the results of these habitual choices are ineffective in terms of an emotionally well-balanced, forward thinking, non-judgemental, entrepreneurial, happy and financially free abundant lifestyle of choice.

It is the results that people get in life which are complained about the most. I’ve made some new training videos to accompany your learning on The Ten Steps To Wealth eCourse. You can find the first of these videos by clicking on this Extraordinary Achievement link.

See you on the other side of the videos.

Paul Counsel

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The Ten Steps to Wealth

March 18th, 2012

I was deep in conversation about The Ten Steps To Wealth program with a group of people yesterday and one of them alerted me to the following observations.

It’s really interesting to see some of the research figures on Financial Literacy and future intentions being put out by the Australian Government: They nearly floored me…

• Many Australians intend to make improvements to the way they manage their money but some don’t, mainly because they’re happy with their current arrangements… 40% of adults intend to make improvements in the way they manage their money in the next 12 months; and 16% don’t intend to make improvements in the way they manage their money in the next 12 months, either because they are happy with their current arrangements (81%), or they are not interested (9%) or they haven’t thought about it (7%)

Which group do you find yourself in? Do you want to grow your resources, your cash flow and your income safety nets in 2012? Is economic and personal freedom important to you? Or do you number amongst the 81% who are happy with your current arrangements? Who would ever have thought that comfort zone would be the ultimate expression of the human psyche, especially in such challenging financial times.

So many people intend to get around to things only to be put off, or distracted, from their real intentions.And when their financial circumstances take a turn for the worse, they find themselves stranded and unable to do anything positive about their futures. Don’t let this happen to you, especially when achievement and wealth freedom are so close at hand.

In terms of achievement, it’s vitally important to understand that any situation in which you find yourself involves risk. Choice involves risk. Driving involves risk, using gas and electricity involves risk. Flying involves risk. Human relationships involve risk. The only way to lower risk in any given situation is to have more skills, have more workable knowledge, have better selection criteria, have a better set of rules to work by and to have a more expansive set of references. Learning gives you these references. And this is exactly the sort of learning you get access to through The Ten Steps To Wealth.

When you learn the rules of wealth, when you learn to apply them with confidence, and you stick by the rules, the potential for a better future immediately becomes available to you. Anything else produces less than satisfactory results. Begin your journey by clicking on this link.

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The Ten Steps To Wealth

March 15th, 2012

A seed can grow and be strong or it can wither and die. There is no other alternative.

The Ten Steps To Wealth is essentially your journey of change but only if you’re ready for it and only if you’re at a major financial choice intersection in your life. If you’re at this intersection, you’ll note that one pathway leads to more years of sameness and settling for less. The other leads to years of financial independence, more choice, more security, more happiness, more free time and more money…  One pathway, requires you to do something different, the other pathway doesn’t require anything from you… it’s happy with you just being you… it doesn’t require any effort, any work, any thinking or anything other than what you’re doing every single day. Which pathway are you going to choose?

At some stage throughout your life, you’ve probably expressed a desire to be wealthy but, more often than not, it’s not wealth you want so much as it’s the products of wealth, in other words the product of the product. If you examine what most people genuinely want out of life their answers can be expressed in terms of a desire to help others, a desire to live a life of choice, a desire to feel secure, a desire to experience peace of mind, a desire to live according to your own sense of time, a desire to be free of the everyday constraints of the need to earn a living, a desire to feel a sense of achievement and a desire to experience real happiness. While most people desire these things, most will not experience their desires because they will not do the work necessary to make economic and personal freedom happen for them. Their programming and conditioning will continue to lead them in a different direction.

The mechanics of wealth, the mechanics of increased cash flow and more money are relatively simple, however becoming wealthy is a different matter. From a very early age, if you’re like most people, you were taught to surrender your potential to a life of financial freedom so that you could successfully follow the life of sameness blueprint that most people are following. You might be surviving more comfortably than others but chances are that  you’ll be experiencing less than the full potential you were born with. If you achieve your potential, you’ll know and live abundance but if you don’t you’ll know and experience financial hardship.

Patty Hansen tells the story of two seeds that lay side-by-side in the fertile, spring soil. The first seed said, “I want to grow! I want to send down my roots deep into the soil beneath me and thrust my sprouts through the earth’s crust before me… I want to unfurl my tender buds like banners to announce the arrival of spring… I want to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and the blessing of the morning dew on my petals!” And so it grew.

The second seed said, “I’m afraid. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don’t know what I’ll encounter in the dark. If I push my way through the hard soil above me I may damage my delicate sprouts… What if I let my buds open and a snail tries to eat them? And if I were to open my blossoms, a small child may pull me from the ground. No, it’s much better for me to wait until it’s safe.” And so it waited.

“A chook came scratching around for food in the early spring ground. It found the waiting seed and promptly ate it. Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.”

If you are one of those people who always wanted to be wealthy but were a little afraid of doing something about it, then this link will take you to a new beginning! Make a conscious decision to stop living in the past. Make a conscious decision to stop surrendering your potential. Make a conscious decision to stop doing as you have always done.  Make a conscious decision to stop wishing for wealth and start doing something about it. Make a conscious decision to change and achieve a life of financial independence, security, freedom and choice! Make a conscious decision to plant yourself in fertile territory and grow.

Victor Frankl maintains that the greatest distinction between humans and animals is the freedom to choose. As humans, “We are totally responsible for our own lives. Our behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.” Don’t wake up in ten years time and think of what might have been. Wake up tomorrow and decide to begin the very first of your Ten Steps To Wealth. You are now at the beginning of an exciting journey towards reclaiming lost potential. So stand up and reclaim your confidence, reclaim your present, reclaim the potential you were born with and reclaim your future.

That’s it really, wealth is about making things happen!

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The Ten Steps To Wealth

March 13th, 2012

While talking about The Ten Steps To Wealth the other day I asked someone if they have ever tried to assemble one of those do it yourself kits for just about anything, without reading the instructions? It’s hard to work without instructions, isn’t it? It’s so much easier to sit down, take your time, and work your way through the instructions step by step.

That’s what a good plan gives you. And that’s exactly what The Ten Steps To Wealth are all about. It’s a series of mini steps, a series of instructions to something that materialises at a future date. Without effective instructions very little new income or new wealth materialises for you. A plan gives you all the information you need to build your future success.

Einstein said that the solutions you generate to the problems you face today have to come from new ways of thinking and from new ways of doing. The solutions you seek are not found in old thoughts or old reference points. You cannot change by remaining who you are.

Successful change requires three pieces of information. You must have a thorough understanding of who you are now. This is important because you’ll have a few ideas about the behaviours, attitudes, thoughts, beliefs and habits you’ll need to change in order to start reaching for extraordinary achievement, more money and economic freedom. This is your starting point.

In addition, you must also have a clear idea of where you are going, this is your goal. When you have these two components worked out the third is relatively easy, it is how you’re going to get there.

However, unless you clearly identify the first two positions, your life journey will be based on role models within conventional daily life.

Let us say your goal is the same as mine was, to have $1,000,000 in net assets within four years.

Remember that my starting point was dead flat broke. When I told people about my plans, I invited a few mates to join me on my journey. Most laughed but one at least made a start with me.

However, when the going got tough, he quickly gave up. He didn’t have a clear vision to guide him the way I did. Click here to begin your clear vision. Other people said I was ‘crazy’ or that my ideas were ‘too hard’. I told them that I thought settling for less all your life was not only harder, it was absolutely crazy. But my words fell on ears that could not hear.

Today, these same people are working in jobs they don’t like and are stressed about their futures. And while it’s sad to see them struggling, it does highlight why so few succeed.

Extraordinary achievement requires a plan and an iron clad will to follow it through. Once you have a plan the ‘how to’ parts are relatively simple. If your goal is to make $1,000,000 in the next four years, most of your success will be in the fourth year, not the first. So what’s your next step going to be? What strategies are you going to skill yourself in? Where are you going to get further learning?

Who will be your guide and mentor? Are you willing to expose yourself to different knowledge? Are you going to get an accountability partner to keep you on track when life gets in the way?

Without a plan, a goal and a time line there are no instructions and no focal point. It is like trying to play golf or football on a surface that has no markings, no holes to aim for, or no posts to score through.

Imagine basketball without a court, without a backboard, without nets or rings. The games just wouldn’t make sense would they? In fact without rules, markings, goal posts and rings you don’t have a game. Other than getting fit, activity would be aimless and all you’d see is people running around throwing or kicking balls to each other.

Imagine an archer saying that where the arrow lands is where the aim was. Imagine a hunter shooting into the forest and hoping prey runs into the bullet. The Ten Steps To Wealth not only sharpens your aim, it carries you forward on a blueprint for success which is where you’re waiting to be greeted.

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The Ten Steps To Wealth

March 7th, 2012

As you achieve each of the Ten Steps To Wealth on your journey to the extraordinary achievement of economic and personal freedom, strong mental foundations allow you to move away from conventional wisdom and assist you to really understand money and the secrets of millionaires. They’ll also help to keep you on the most effective pathway to financial freedom. Each of the ten steps will be your guide in times of challenge.

Collectively, they’ll form your fallback position if you feel under siege from negativity. They’ll illuminate the way ahead when the light at the end of the tunnel appears to be fading. They’ll offer potential solutions to questions and challenges that arise. They’ll provide extra learning when needed and a sounding board to your own internal money processes.

Design a plan.

If we choose to look, we can learn a lot from nature. Nature doesn’t do anything without specific goals and nature’s goals are always associated with function and reason. Leaves and seeds would not fall from trees unless they had a need to reach the ground in order to form the basis of new life. Nature organises itself in ways that are most effective. It doesn’t do anything just for the sake of doing something.

Nature always reveals reasons for organising itself in the way that it does. Nature has been successfully achieving extraordinary results for millions of years and there’s a lot we can learn from the way it achieves extraordinary results. What nature does is the basis of The Ten Steps To Wealth process.

Because most people function without consciously organising themselves, we have terms like ‘going with the flow’ or ‘moving with the herd’. Things are done because friends are doing them, associates are doing them, and sports stars and pop idols are doing them.

In short most people do things just because everybody else is doing something similar. It’s not the normal practice for people to operate according to well designed plans, especially where money is concerned.

It’s not the usual practice to live or work via a series of effectively planned goals, strategies, tactics, accomplishments and future outcomes.

If you do not have clear-cut goals for success, all that’s left is achieving the results of conformity which is exactly what everybody else is doing.  As you journey further into the “Ten Steps To Wealth” program, one of the first things we’ll build together is a powerful plan for successing at a high level.

Many speakers, trainers, educators and facilitators encourage the planning and writing down of goals because they know that written goals are more effective than ideas and desires. Well planned, written statements that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and framed in time are powerful vehicles for achieving extraordinary outcomes which are the outcomes I want for you.

Quite simply, goals work! Writing your goals and focusing on them is about tapping into invisible forces that draw you towards your targets. So begin your journey sooner rather than later and I’ll see you in the complimentary Ten Steps To Wealth eCourse.

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