First Steps to Success

I've talked about the importance of having a dream, a vision in order to accomplish our goals, but in order to turn those dreams into reality we need to truly believe we can, and keep that hope alive.

Hope isn't a wish, it's an expectation.

Most people project their past into their future, think it's their present and repeat their past. Saying your family is poor is no excuse for you to be. This becomes your expectation, and it must change in order to be successful. So if you've always been poor, release the expectation of being poor. Take control of your destiny. Allow your destiny to define you, not your difficulties of the past. If you expect to be wealthy, healthy, happy, and you take action in the direction to be those things you will accomplish them. You do not need to know exactly how they will be accomplished in detail, but you do need the vision to take actions towards that direction. Believe you can accomplish them, have that faith and make it happen. You should not have to discuss that you believe it will happen, it should show. Beliefs and having faith are not proven by talking about them, but by acting towards them.

We're not born winners and losers, we're choosers. We are what we want to be. Take responsibility for your life: Respond with ability and you'll discover your capability.

People who walk in their power believe their beliefs and doubt their doubts. People who don't walk in their power doubt their beliefs and believe their doubts. If your beliefs are a lie, you are limiting yourself. Focus on your beliefs that tell you that you can be what you want to be, don't focus on the beliefs that will hold you back.

Let's look at some of the lies out there...Time is money. No, time is not equal to money. Time runs out and you can never get it back, however money runs out and you can earn it back. Therefore, time is more valuable than money. Something I have never lost sight of. Most people tend to value money more than time...which is why most people spend so much of their time to earn the small amount of money they do in a 9 to 5 job, 40hrs a week...wasting time. Personally, having put almost every waking moment since November 2007 (when I decided to take control of my destiny) working, many people close to me may feel that that my actions are contradicting this belief that time is more valuable to me than money, due to the endless hrs of work I put in and very little free time I've allowed myself to have. Little do they realize that what I'm doing right now is buying decades and decades of time. To build a foundation to earn more money for my future without having to rely on give 40hrs a week of my time to a 'job', I have released thousands of hours to spend with my family and friends, freed up time to focus on my health and leisure, buying me even more time by drawing a plan to stay strong, healthy, stress free and happy. The most valuable reward of financial freedom is to obtain time freedom. Work to live, don't live to work. Do you have a plan?