Steps to Become a Millionaire; Step 1 - Tune Up Your Millionaire Mindset

A question that is often asked, and a good one, I suppose, is what are the necessary steps to become a millionaire that normal, everyday people can take? I will be commenting on this subject through a series of articles that will address the steps you can take to better your chances at millionaire status. Step 1? Tune up your Millionaire Mindset!
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to have success, all the money they need, good relationships and connections in the community while others, even though they struggle to create them, never seem to accomplish any of these things? What is it that makes these "successful" people that way?
By the way, let me just say up front that it is not necessarily about the money. We all know plenty of people who have lots of money, and yet they still seem to make lousy decisions, leaving a wake of social destruction behind them.
Nevertheless, as you look around, there does appear to be a dividing line between those that "have," and those that do not. (You can define "have" almost any way you wish: have money, have relationships, have success.) And while there appears to clearly be a dividing line, what that line is, is not so clear. Is it genetics, is it opportunity, does it "take money to make money?"
I think there may be a lot of different factors that play into this equation, but there is one factor that can almost always be identified. It is not negotiable, because without it, you can only expect to fail. There are exceptions to this rule, of course, but you cannot "expect" the exception.
So what is it?
Very simply put: it is the mindset.
For the purposes of the steps to become a millionaire, we will refer to this as "The Millionaire Mindset," because that is really the primary dividing line between the millionaires, and the rest of the crowd. You see, in most cases, success is a choice. If you want to have success, you have to choose success. And it is not enough just to "want" success, you must "choose" success.
You might be thinking at this point, "How do I choose success?"
To answer that question, let's compare the difference between "wanting" and "choosing" something. Let's simplify it and say that it is not success or wealth, but a car that we are after. I could want a Lexus. But as long as I sit on my couch watching Lexus commercials and "wanting" that car, I will never "have" that car. At the moment I choose Lexus, I must act on that choice. I will get into my dilapidated Toyota and head down to the Lexus dealer to work out an arrangement to purchase that Lexus. That is a choice, choosing implies action.
Someone may counter this with the argument, "What if I don't act, but I do choose to have the Lexus."
Don't kid yourself, not acting IS choosing, but it is choosing to NOT have the Lexus. By not acting you have made a choice, and the choice is to stay right where you are, perhaps because it is comfortable, inside your air conditioned house, on your soft couch, watching the Lexus commercials.
Now, step that up to success, or money, or the steps to become a millionaire. When you choose these, you act on that choice. If you are not acting on them, then you have chosen to not succeed; or at least, to not succeed at something new. (You may be perfectly comfortable in the success you have already achieved.)
There is nothing to success about luck or chance, nor, in most cases, does someone accidentally become a millionaire. The elite have recognized early on, or sometimes later, that there are daily practices, exercises, and knowledge that can get anyone to the top, and this knowledge is not mysterious, it is accessible to anyone who truly desires success and wealth in their life.
So how do you choose success, act on that choice, and then navigate up to the precipice and across the chasm that may lie between your current position and your destination? (And for some of us, that chasm is a Grand Canyon, while others may have a mere gully to cross). How do you go from near-bankruptcy to wealth? How do you move from employee to successful entrepreneur and business owner? How do you break out of month-to-month living and into a lifestyle of absolute freedom and abundance?
On your own, it is highly unlikely. Just like purchasing the Lexus, you will need two things for certain, and even a third, to accomplish your goal.
1. You will have to pay a price. Nothing comes for free! And the price for success may be time, or money, or something else, but you have to be willing to pay it.
2. You must have someone who can help you make the deal. Like the salesman at the dealer, you need an advocate who can counsel you on the value of the goal, and then negotiate on your behalf to seal the deal. In short, you need a mentor.
3. You must have a millionaire mindset, a focus that says, "I can't fail!"
As you sit there on your sofa reading this, I ask you, "Do you really want to succeed? Do you absolutely desire to change your life, and do you commit to pay the price to do so?"
If your answer is yes, then you need to go to www.mylifevalue.com right now and submit your name and e-mail address to our data base so that we can send you some valuable information right away about how to establish this mindset, and build your mentoring network. You absolutely must get into a relationship with someone who can show you how to do what you want to accomplish; someone who has been there before and can show you the ropes; someone who understands the steps to become a millionaire. This mentor will save you hours, maybe even years of frustration, and thousands of dollars building your business because they can tell you what pitfalls to avoid.
The only question now is, "Do you really want the change?" Or are you happy right where you are? If you are, there is nothing wrong with that, but please don't complain that nothing ever changes. However, if you really are ready to make the leap from mediocrity to excellence, then I will see you on the other side!

About the Author
Richard Finn and his team have helped hundreds of people learn how to achieve financial success and independence, and are the mentors to internet millionaires. Learn more about his amazing team here

Bouncing Back!!!

Her husband committed suicide by overdosing on Valium. Her daughter didn't talk to her for two years after that happened. Her agent then told her she would probably never find work again after being fired by Fox. And she was flat broke. How in the world does somebody cope with all that? Especially when it happened all at once? How? Well she did. She looked toward the future and slowly rebuilt her personal and professional life. She reconciled with her daughter. She found a ton of work. She's not flat broke anymore. And she also just recently won the Celebrity Apprentice. She is the one, the only - Joan Rivers. And if she can come back from something like that, it just goes to show how much potential we all have inside ourselves to bounce back from whatever lifethrows at us, no matter how hard or how fast it hits us.

7 Reasons Why You Havent Reached Your Goals

You don’t know what success is
The problem with success is that most people don’t fully understand what it is. Success cannot be generalized because success is not the same thing for everyone. A successful life all depends on the individual’s goals for themselves and their ability to achieve those goals.

Wrong assessment of what you can do
I’ve never been a big American Idol fan. It is amazing the fanatics that this show has spawned through a series of singing competitions that are split into elimination rounds. When this show is in season, the talk of every radio and television station is who will win Idol. One of the biggest draws of the program is being able to witness those poor souls who truly believe they are destine to become famous despite their obvious lack of singing talent.

Unreasonable goals
They are sometimes called unrealistic goals. Right along with an assessment of what you can do, you must also correctly assess what the goal is. . In order to prevent yourself from setting unreasonable goals, accomplishments towards that goal should be measured by time.

Your thinking is not aligned with your goals
Doubt and fear are two incredibly powerful inhibitors. Mixed with a lack of clarity and misguided vision, success is almost impossible. Aligning your thoughts with your goals is crucial to what you want to achieve. Changing your thoughts and managing your inhibitors may be a problematic task.
Your Actions are not aligned with your goals
Although I enjoyed The Secret, I think that they failed to emphasis on the importance of action in a successful life. The movie did a good job of inspiring the viewer to change their thinking so that great things will happen but it glanced over the fact that action needs to take place in order to claim those great things. As I said before your thinking is the first step towards success, not the only step.

Your environment is not aligned with your goals
If you’ve never heard of the story of the crab bucket here it is in a nutshell
A man was walking along the beach and saw another man fishing in the surf with a bait bucket beside him. As he drew closer, he saw that the bait bucket had no lid and had live crabs inside.
"Why don't you cover your bait bucket so the crabs won't escape?” he said.
"You don't understand.” the man replied, "If there is one crab in the bucket it would surely crawl out very quickly. However, when there are many crabs in the bucket, if one tries to crawl up the side, the others grab hold of it and pull it back down so that it will share the same fate as the rest of them."
We might look at that story with our big human brains and think that those poor unintelligent creatures doom themselves by their behaviors. Surely humans are much more logical and would never react that way. Truth is people act that way all the time.
You’ve given up too soon.
Thomas Edison said, “Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”. The importance of persistence is sometimes overlooked in society today. We require things to come fast and easy and if they don’t, then we move on. This idea doesn’t work when applied to the principals of success. When obstacles appear and the goal seems impossible is when most people bail. There was a recent survey of Pentamillionaires (people who have made 5 million dollars) who started their own business or worked for a small company that had an explosive growth. Most reported that their success came in a lump sum after years of effort. Years of effort!

Take a look at the list and then take a look at your life. Focus on the things that must be change in order to accomplish what you want, then take action to do them.

About the Author: Ralph Jean-Paul is a motivational speaker and the founder of Potential2Success.com. He is a champion speaker who has mentored many to success. Please visit us at Potential2Success.com

Take that first step!!!

There's a first time for everything. There was the first time Arnold picked up a weight.There was the first time Christian Bale had an audition for a movie.There was the first time Oprah had her own TV show with a very small audience. There is great power in the first time and not a lot of people realize this because they're too afraid to try it. So go for it, even if it's your first time because in that first time, lays the elements of courage, desire, and faith that you will need in order to go the second time, and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth until you pick up everything you need along the journey, only to realize that it was because of taking that first step, that you discovered everything you ever needed came after it.

Brian Kim

PS. Guys, I am thankful for my life and having GREAT health. Hope you are enjoying too.
Hope to talk to you again... :) Laugh, smile and live LIFE to the FULL.EST...

Take Action Now!!!

If you're going to do it, do it now.

Bold action has a way of making waves.

It gets other people's attention.

And life's too.

After that, they wait to see if it's the real deal or a fluke.