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Create Success Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 2 - February 2005
Powerful Tips to Grow Your Business and Your Life
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
-- Ben Franklin, quoted by T. Harv Eker
In this issue ---
1. "Your Education Jar"
2. Mind Matters - "Why We Play Safe"
3. Recommended Resources
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Lead Article
"Your Education Jar"
© Wes Hopper - All Rights Reserved
There were 2 reasons that I was in Phoenix
in January. One was to present the first ever "How
To Create Success" workshop, which was lots of fun
and got great reviews, like this:
"This was the most amazing personal growth
workshop I have ever attended. I absolutely loved
the visualizations and the metaphors. It was so well
explained that concepts that once eluded me now
make sense. I feel so empowered and know that this
will transform my life." - - - Dana Lauer
If you missed it, don't worry, there will be more and my
faithful subscribers will be the first to know about it.
But that wasn't the only reason I traveled. I also
attended a program put together by my friend Debbie
Allen. She had assembled three days worth of
awesome speakers, people like T. Harv Eker, Loral
Langmeier, Tom Antion, Ken Foster, Greg Reid,
John Assaraf, Bill Glazer and more.
One thing stood out in this array of millionaire and multi-
millionaire speakers - they all said that their success
was due to the books they'd read, the seminars they'd
taken and the mentors and coaches they'd worked with.
In fact, most of them confessed that they had started
life as miserable failures!
John Assaraf, who at 19 was the leader of a street
gang, put it very well. He said, "I decided to change
my life, but I didn't know how. I got a job selling real
estate and fortunately someone took me to a sales
training seminar. It was a revelation to me that there
were people who knew everything that I needed to
know and they were actually willing to teach me!"
That's pretty amazing, isn't it? There are people, very
successful people, who know everything we need to
know and are willing to teach us! Why the heck do
so many people try to figure it out by themselves?
How much does it cost to do it the slow, ineffective
way by yourself? How much time do you waste?
Assaraf didn't make that mistake. He found people that
knew what he needed to know, and he cheerfully paid
them to teach him. In 25 years he spent over $500,000
on seminars and coaching. It seems like a lot until
you realize that his current net worth is over $1 billion!
For you financial planners, that's a 2,000 times return
on investment. Wouldn't you like to get 2,000 back
for every buck you invest? The only way I know to get
that kind of return is by investing in your own education.
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We have only 3 spots left in our 16-week teleseminar
program, "The 21st Century Science of Getting R'ich"
It starts on Feb 28th For information, see
www.TheCertainWayToSuccess.com
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Loral Langmeier told a similar story. She was in
her 20's and had a very good job, paying about $75K,
but she wasn't satisfied. She paid for a 1 year
personal mentoring program with Bob Proctor that
cost $25K. That's one-third of her gross income!
By 30 she was blowing right through millionaire
status, and now she trains people to do what
she did.
Are you starting to get the picture? If you're serious
about your own success, it will show up in your day
planner and your checkbook. If you're not investing
time and money on a regular basis, then you're
kidding yourself.
Amazingly enough, I have people all the time who
don't take my programs because "they don't have
the money." Gee, the Phoenix one I did was only
$195 and most people, in a couple of months, will
spill that much on the bar! But if that sounds like
you, then here's a solution from T Harv Eker.
He points out that most people's problem is not
making money, it's keeping it. We don't keep it
because we don't manage it properly. So he
teaches a great system to manage money. It
involves putting money in different accounts,
or jars, for different jobs.
One of the jars that is mandatory is your
Education jar. Take 10% of your after tax
income and spend it on education. It takes
discipline, no cheating allowed. You want
to always be investing in yourself.
There's a lot more to real money management,
of course, and Harv knows how to do it. I'm
going to let him teach me, because he knows
what I need to know. So I'll be at his
Millionaire Mind Intensive in LA in April. Why
don't you join us?
You can get all the information at Harv's site,
www.peakpotentials.com.
There are sessions
all over North America. If you can't go, then buy
some of his CD programs. But do something!
Remember the Ben Franklin quote we started
with:
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
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Article #2 - Mind Matters - "Why We Play Safe"
What is there going on in the subconscious mind that
causes people to have so much reluctance to spend
money on training and coaching? Especially when
our logical, conscious mind clearly realizes the
benefit to doing so?
From my experience with my own subconscious, and
with what others have told me, I think there are 3
main issues:
First is old negative thinking that says, "This
might work for other people, but it never seems
to work for me. I'd be wasting my money."
This, of course, is a powerful self-defeating
belief system. Sometimes it's even coupled
with what I call "success envy", which is
where your mind says, "All they want is
my money. It's just another scam."
Notice that this is a face-saving excuse, because
now the reason that the past trainings haven't
worked is the presenter's fault! In either case,
you don't step forward.
The next reason is a self-image issue. Your
image of yourself doesn't include seminars and
coaching. You just don't see yourself as the kind
of person who does that. You might read books or
ask a friend (who's just as broke as you are), but
paying for training is not who you are.
The third issue is also self-image. You can't see
yourself as the successful person that the literature
for the program promises you can be. For example,
you'd never go to T. Harv Eker's "Millionare Mind
Intensive" because your self image does not include
you hanging out with millionaires, much less being
one!
Any of these issues will cause you to feel
uncomfortable, resistant, maybe even angry when
you are asked to sign up for a workshop. But no matter
how strong those feelings are, you need to remember
that they are based on a subconscious picture of
yourself that's not even true!
You can change your self-image. You can become
more like this:
"I love training and coaching! I get great ideas and I
apply them immediately and I always get great
results. I love getting better faster."
"I have a millionaire mind. Money come easily to me
in increasing quantity from multiple sources and I
pay myself first. I love my money management system."
It won't happen by wishing, though. You will have to
do the work to make the changes. Decide what the
new image needs to be, and then begin to impress
that image on your subconscious. Repetition, emotion,
visualization, more repetition. Once your self
image changes, the rest is easy!
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The first step to millionaire status is seeing
yourself as one. That may mean creating a
new self image.
We only have 9 copies of Bob Proctor's
Winner's Image program with CD audio
and VHS videotape left.
www.CreateSuccessSeminars.com/products.html#winner
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Recommended Resources
Get T. Harv Eker's great new book
"Secrets of The Millionaire Mind"
It's available on Amazon or any major
bookstore.
Read about John Assaraf and his training at
www.TheStreetKid.com
Find out about Loral Langmeier at
www.LiveOutLoud.com
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© 2005 Wes Hopper. All rights reserved.
Feel free to pass the above in its entirety to
anyone you wish.
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