Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind

Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind suggests our financial success is predetermined from birth and shows us what to do to break through mental barriers and acquire the habits and thinking of the rich.

Imagine your Mum makes an awesome chocolate cake (I hope she does!) and you wanted to bake one yourself. You’d probably turn to her for advice and ask: “Hey Mum, how are you making that chocolate cake?”

Your mum would then tell you the recipe and help you get it right. But when you ask her why you’re doing things in a certain way, her answer might be: “Well, that’s the way I’ve learned to do it from your grandma, it’s the way we’ve always made chocolate cake.”

If that sounds familiar, then you’re in for a treat: Now look at how you make your money. Does it maybe also resemble almost exactly what your parents have done for years?

Not only is it very common for sons of doctors to become doctors, daughters of lawyers to become lawyers, but also for us to just take the same approach to our careers overall, that we’ve seen our parents take our entire life. If your dad has a regular job, you’ll probably also get a regular job. If your parents own a business, you’re likely to start one at a young age, and so on.

While entirely natural, replicating the income habits of our parents won’t work for most of us – we strive for more, after all – but what can you do to break old thought patterns?

Let’s paint a mental picture. At the beginning of the month, your paycheck arrives. Now imagine every single dollar bill is a passenger on a bus, and over the course of the month, that bus drives along, and everyone gets off at a different stop. Some dollars leave at the rent stop, some leave at the grocery stop, some get off at the dry cleaner’s, and so on. When you think of this metaphor, do you see yourself sitting in the very last row, just watching all of your precious dollar bills leave the bus, with someone else in the driver’s seat? It’s not uncommon for us to wonder at the end of the month “Where did it all go?” and feeling like a victim, because so many others have taken all of our money. But the truth is, you’re the one in the driver’s seat, and have been all along. Realizing you’re the one who’s in control of all of your finances is the first step to making a change. Instead of sitting in the backseat, watching your money disappear, while blaming the government, your employer or the…