Personal Improvement

I’ve always admired the work of Brian Tracy, and I intend to share his insights often with readers of this blog. In the following article Tracy shares the five basic ways to become wealthy and tells you which method is the best.

The Five Roads to Financial Success in America and How to Choose Your Own

There are basically five ways that you can become wealthy starting with nothing in America based on over 25 years of research into American millionaires. Number one, you can inherit it. Less than 10 percent of wealthy Americans inherited any of their money, and it’s less and less every single year.

The Second Way

The second way that you can become wealthy is you can achieve it professionally. You can become a doctor or a lawyer or an architect or an accountant. You can become extremely good at what you do, be paid very well, and hold on to the money.

The Third Way

The third way you can achieve it is you can become a senior executive of a large corporation. You can be highly paid; you can have stock options and bonuses. And if you stay with the company long enough, for enough years, you can be paid enough to become wealthy.

The Fourth Way

You can win it. But only a tiny fraction of one percent of wealthy Americans got that way by winning their money some way or another. As a matter of fact, the odds against you winning the lottery are the equivalent of lightning striking twice in the same place. They’re millions and millions to one.

The Best Way

The fifth way that you can become wealthy is you can start your own business and earn it all by yourself. Starting your own business has been and will always be the high road to becoming wealthy for most self-made millionaires. Entrepreneurship in America offers more opportunities and opens more doors than all other possibilities put together. This is why it has been said that if you have the ability to start your own business and you don’t do it, you are a fool. I’ll repeat that. If you have the ability to start your own business and you don’t do it, you’re a fool.

Where do you start?

You start by getting your finances under control. The very first thing you do is you make a decision to get your finances under control. Some years ago, a man named George Classon wrote a book called The Richest Man in Babylon. It’s a classic on financial success and what Classon said in that book was that the key to becoming wealthy is to pay yourself first. Take ten percent off your earnings, off your gross income every month and put it aside. Learn to live on ninety percent or less of your gross income. So the very first thing that you do is you begin to save your money.

Action Exercises

Now, here are two things you can do immediately to put yourself onto the high road to personal wealth:

First, resolve today to begin saving your money a little bit at a time. Set a goal to save 10% of your earnings, to put it away and to never touch it. This will change your life.

Second, immediately register your own business or sole proprietorship. Open a bank account, get business cards and letterhead and create the corporate entity under which you can do business. Your business opportunities will appear far sooner than you think. If you build it, they will come.

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I highly recommend anything in Brian Tracy’s catalog, from print books and audio courses to DVD presentations, multi-media home study course, and full-blown personal consultation. This personal development expert has been studying millionaires and business success for the past 25 years, and therefore has a wealth of innovative strategies and techniques to share.

Brian Tracy is one of the world’s premier experts on goal setting, self-discipline, and personal success. I’ve enjoyed many of his lectures and complete programs and picked up numerous effective strategies and tactics from him over the years.

One of the more interesting tactics he promotes is called “Back from the future thinking”. This is a powerful combination of visualization and goal-setting that I highly recommend.

Essentially here’s how this method works…

Take the time to vividly imagine your life as you want it to be five years into the future. See every detail of every aspect exactly the way you want it.

What kind of work will you do?

How much money will you have?

Where will you live?

What kind of home will you have?

Who will live with you in this home?

What will you do for fun and satisfaction?

How will you impact society through charity, philanthropy, etc.?

Leave nothing out! And once you’ve captured your ideal vision write it out (or type it up); go ahead and take a couple of pages so you can account for every detail.

When you have a clear, exciting picture of everything you want your life to be, start the process of thinking backwards from this ideal vision toward where you are now. Through this process of imagination you’ll begin to identify how you arrived at your dream life from your current position.

You’ll start to develop ideas and receive inspiration. Opportunities and ideas will emerge, many of which have been hiding in plain sight for some time now.

Do this exercise on a regular basis and soon you’ll be able to see clearly a powerful plan that will take you from where you are now to where you most want to be five years into the future!

Not only is this practice highly productive in terms of organizing a serious life plan, it’s a real confidence builder and it’s loads of fun. And this is just one of many amazing goal setting tips from Brian Tracy.

For even more fantastic insights on how to visualize and achieve anything you want be sure to have a look at Brian’s Ultimate Goals Program:

I purchased this complete course over a year ago and I’m still using the proven methods within. In fact I can easily say this is the most comprehensive goals system I’ve found so far.

Using this material you’ll be amazed by how much you are able to get done and how quickly you can transform yourself into a super-achiever. You won’t be the same after following along with the amazing formula in Brian Tracy’s Ultimate Goals Program.

If you’re ready to roll over all obstacles, put aside all excuses, and take possession of the exciting and rewarding life you know you deserve this material is the perfect fit. Be sure to check it out and let me know what you think.

True personal development is a process, not an event.

In today’s fast food society people demand instant solutions to problems they have created through poor thinking and sorry habits over the course of many years. Furthermore very few people who claim to want change actually want any such thing.

The sad reality is most people want the benefits of change handed to them right now, and without any effort required on their part. As a writer in the personal development field it’s difficult to be compassionate and understanding when so many people have an absolutely infantile idea of what it means to improve the self.

Obviously most readers of this blog are a cut above weak-minded, mainstream thinking.

It’s important that we always recognize that any change or improvement will be a multi-part process. We can experience great quantum leaps where we appear to literally jump from one state of being into an entirely new and improved state, but this normally occurs after significant revelation and a genuine  paradigm shift.

Whether we’re looking to lose weight, hone our listening skills, make more money, or control our temper, what we are really expressing is the desire to evolve, and to become a better human being.

It is for this reason that people often continue their quest for personal development long after they’ve attained the initial goal that brought them into the field of literature. Most of us find very quickly that our innermost desire is to be our personal best and expand into a new self who is far greater than anything we previously imagined possible.

Personal improvement, or personal development if you prefer, is a lifelong journey that never ends. The joy and the triumph are in the constant learning and growth.