So let’s get started!

PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT YOUR FAMILY

I’m married to my high school sweetheart, Heidi. We started dating 27 years ago, and we celebrated our 20th anniversary this week! We have four beautiful children. Andy is 18, and is leaving this week for college. Abby is 15, Carly is 12, and Caleb is 7. God has blessed me in many ways, but my family is by far the greatest gift he has given me. Thanks for asking!

Do you have any pets?

Growing up, we had both dogs and cats. My cat was Clover, and he lived about 18 years! Most of my family is allergic to cats, though, so my cat days are over. We now have a Shih Tzu named Buddy, and he is 11 years old. He’s a great dog—very easy going, trouble free, and affectionate. He’s also small enough that it’s easy to find a place for him to stay when we’re on vacation!

Who would you most like to meet?

I currently have 34 people I would like to meet on my Goals List. The person I would most like to meet on that list is Richard Branson. He is a phenomenally successful businessman, founding the now famous Virgin brand—Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic airlines, etc. And, according to people I know who’ve met and spent time with him, he’s a down-to-earth, great guy, too. I think he exemplifies the idea of “living life to the fullest” which is something I try to do in my own life. Where would we meet? Necker Island of course—Branson’s own private island located in the British Virgin Islands!

"Sometimes I do wake up in the mornings and feel like I’ve just had the most incredible dream. I’ve just dreamt my life." – Richard Branson

Where would you most like to visit?

I love to travel. There’s so much to learn from visiting other places, and I’ve been very fortunate to have not only traveled extensively myself, but to have also exposed our children to other places, and other cultures. I’ve visited 32 states outside Michigan, and 9 countries outside the United States. Most of my foreign travel has been in the form of family vacations, which I am really grateful for.

I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface in terms of places to see, because there are still so many places I want to visit. Probably at the top of my list is Australia. I think Sydney is one of the greatest cities in the world, and I’m sure other parts of Australia are equally amazing. Three of our four children are now certified scuba divers, which has added a new dimension to our vacations involving water. I would love to spend several days with my family on a boat, diving the Great Barrier Reef.

What is the biggest risk you’ve taken?

A few years ago, as I was approaching my 40th birthday, I really wanted to do something spectacular. My gift to myself that year was a skydiving adventure! I always wanted to skydive, and what better way to celebrate my birthday? I’m not sure that was the smartest thing to do with a wife and four children, but fortunately I lived to tell about it. Life doesn’t get much riskier than jumping out of a plane! It was an absolute thrill-of-a-lifetime adventure, and I’d do it again in a second. I want to go with someone else next time, though. So far, I haven’t had any takers.

If you could be any movie, book, or TV character, who would you like to be?

James Bond. I think “007” is the movie/book character most men really aspire to be, and I’m no exception. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live his life? He travels the world, drives nice cars, and always has the coolest toys. Bond lives a little more dangerously than I would like to…but it always works out in the end!

What kind of music do you listen to?

When I was in school, I played the French horn, the saxophone, and the oboe. I played in the school band, as well as a Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band. That diverse background helped me to appreciate different genres of music. I love jazz and classical music. I’ve attended several operas, and have enjoyed them immensely. I even listen to some hip-hop and country, genres I’m exposed to right now by my two oldest children. But the music I like most is rock. I like classic rock, but there are a lot of bands out there today that are great, too. I probably listen to Dave Matthews Band more than any other group. Coldplay, The Fray, and U2 are some other bands that come to mind.

What kind of car do you drive, and if you could drive any car, what would it be?

I’ll answer the second question first. My dream car when I was growing up was a Rolls Royce. For me, that was always the epitome of excellence in automotive design. The car at the top of my list now is a red Ferrari Testarossa with tan leather interior. I just saw one in LaJolla when I was in California recently. I parked next to it, so I guess that means I’m getting closer to my goal, right?

A car I’d love to drive that is more in my price range is the Maserati GranTurismo. Maserati makes great Italian sports cars, and I love both the coupe and the sedan (Quattroporte). I like nice cars, and the GranTurismo is beautiful! It’s a bit of a leap, though, so for now I’ll enjoy my Infiniti M45, which I absolutely love.

I HAVE WORKED VERY HARD FOR YEARS, BUT I’M NOT WHERE I WANT TO BE IN LIFE. I FEEL LIKE I’M ON A TREADMILL, AND DON’T KNOW HOW TO STOP. I WANT TO WORK LESS, AND MAKE MORE MONEY, BUT WHERE DO I START? PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE.

Thanks for your question. First of all, I want you to know that you’re not alone. You have been brought up in a culture that defines people, at least in part, by how hard they work and how much money they make. One of the problems with that is it never seems to be enough. It probably seems like, no matter how hard you work, you never seem to get caught up. And, if you’re like most other people today, regardless of your income, you still want or need more money to get to where you want to be.

The first thing to realize is that it is possible to work less and make more. It’s not easy, and it’s not something that’s going to happen overnight. But thousands of people have been in the same situation as you, and they’ve literally turned their lives around. They’ve created thriving businesses, or great careers, and yet they still have a life. They have been able to take back control of their lives, rather than being controlled by the endless demands in their lives. They have designed the lives they want to live, and figured out how to make a reality, rather than just wishful thinking.

If you don’t have the book Work Less, Make More, you might want to pick it up. The book is a step-by-step recipe for creating the life you want to live. You won’t get there by just reading the book, though. You must be completely committed to the 10-step process outlined in the book. Once you complete the questionnaires and exercises in the book, and apply what you learn, you will discover that there’s no limit to what you can accomplish.

If you want to get a jump-start before you get the book, here are a couple key thoughts:

1. The first thing you must get very clear about is what your life will look like once you’re working less and making more. You must define, in very specific terms, what Work Less, Make More means to you. For example, how many hours will you work? How many vacations do you want to take each year? How much money will you earn per week, month, or year? How will you know when you’re working less and making more? The more specific and measurable you make your vision, the more compelling it will be.

2. Equally important is to figure out what’s stopping your success. Once you identify what’s preventing you from working less and making more, you can begin to change your thoughts, beliefs, and behavior to overcome those obstacles. Make a list of all the things that are holding you back. You can also complete the assessment on page 25 of Work Less, Make More. The nice thing about the assessment in the book is that each question corresponds to a specific chapter in the book. Once you finish the assessment, you will be directed to the chapters of the book that are most relevant for you. Either way, determining what’s holding you back is a critical step on your Work Less, Make More journey.

3. The Work Less, Make More website and blog also contain valuable tools, techniques and strategies to help you get to where you want to be in life. The material is constantly being updated, so be sure to check those resources, too.

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Have a great weekend, and I’ll be in touch again next week. Remember, you may submit your questions in one of three ways:

1. Send an email to info (AT) jwcgroup (DOT) com, with “You Asked For It” in the subject line.

2. Fax your question to our office. (734-254-9973, Attn: Marti)

3. Comment on the Work Less, Make More blog.

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INSIDE YOUR AUGUST 2009 SUCCESS CIRCLE INTERVIEW:

How to Achieve RockStar Status in Your Industry, with Craig Duswalt

Recently, I interviewed Craig Duswalt. Craig is a professional speaker and the creator of RockStar System for Success: How to Achieve RockStar Status in Your Industry. Craig’s background includes touring with the band Guns N’ Roses as Axl Rose’s personal manager and Air Supply as the band’s personal assistant.  

Craig was also an award-winning copywriter, working as a senior copywriter for a Los Angeles based ad agency until opening up his own ad agency, Green Room Design & Advertising, which was recently named Small Business of the Year by the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce. Craig combines his backgrounds in both music and marketing, and he teaches numerous ways to save a ton of money on marketing and advertising, and also, how to become perceived as a celebrity and an expert in your business, where potential clients will come to you instead of you having to go after them.  

This interview provides a great opportunity to learn the secrets of promotion from a former insider in the multi-billion-dollar music industry, and how to apply them to your business. Watch your mailbox, because your package will be arriving soon.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn:

- What it takes to create RockStar status in your business

- How to use the power of social networking to generate tons of business

- Why having a “title” is the key to self-promotion

- The one thing you must do to establish yourself as an expert…and how to do it in the next 30 days!

- Why you don’t need business cards any more…and what replaces them

- How to increase your fan base by using a little known RockStar secret!

- Why RockStars always do encores…and how you can, too

Here’s an excerpt from our interview:

Guns N’ Roses, let’s just say if this were to happen on the road, I’m not saying this happened with Guns N’ Roses, but for example, say we’re playing a show in Denver, Colorado, and the next night we’re playing a show in Kansas City, Missouri.  And Kansas City’s ticket sales are low, and we need to promote the show.  Now the band doesn’t specifically promote a show.  The promoters do.  But we can certainly do something to spark an interest in Guns N’ Roses again.  Or, I’m not saying this happened with Guns N’ Roses, but if it were to happen with a band like this.

Anyway, you’re in a hotel in Denver, Colorado, and Kansas City is the next night, and ticket sales are….  So you could always trash a room.  You can throw the TVs out the hotel room window into the pool, like you hear all the time, all the stories about stuff that that’s happened is very, very true.  And it happens because they get in the news.  They’re in the news that night in the local town.  And it usually gets onto CNN that, oh my, God, Guns N’ Roses did something bad again.  They’re in the news.  And then what happens the next city, all of a sudden, the ticket sales go through the roof because they’ve been in the news for something that they did.

Now they were known as the bad boys of rock-n-roll, so the worst they did, the better their attendance was.  When Axl went off and did something bad, the next show would sell out.  I mean, every show would sell out within a week of what happened because everyone – you know, they say Howard Stern, 50% of the people in this world listen to him because they love him, and 50% of the people in this world listen to him because they hate him.  You know, people want to – if they’re bad boys, they want to be – they just want to see what’s going to happen.

How does a business use something like this?  Well, do something in your community that stands out from the rest, whether it’s a charity event.  Chairing charity events, I do that all the time.  I help with charity events, and you always get in the news, and the name of your business gets in the news as well.  Anything local, if you’re a local company doing things local with your Chamber and doing things local with a lot of associations in your town can help you get into the press.  Obviously you’re not going to trash hotel rooms because not only will you get in the press, but you’ll probably get arrested, whereas we can avoid that being bands, you know, big bands.  

But it’s a lot of just, you know, just standing out from the rest.  Do something different than everyone else does, and that’s what rockstars do.  Their albums, every time they put out a new album, you know, Queen was famous for this.  They always put out a new album with a whole different genre of music, and they’d get a whole new audience.  

Duets, I talk about this all the time.  Rockstars do duets with other bands, and the reason why they do that is, yes, they’re fans of the other people, but they get to tap into their database.  Look at David Bowie and Bing Crosby, I mean, two totally different people.  But David Bowie, now, the people that listen to Bing Crosby are all going to say, who is this David Bowie guy?  Oh, look, he’s kind of normal.  We could buy this album, so they’re using each other’s database.  The same thing with joint ventures with businesses.  Partner with other people that have, like, a common interest with what you do, and then you get to bank off of each other’s databases.  So joint ventures is a big thing that I teach because working with other people, you get double the database.  

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If there’s one goal people have in common, it’s to be happy. In our society, we think people can buy happiness. That’s why millions of dollars per year are spent on fad diets, trendy clothes, and expensive cars. That’s why we work long hours at the expense of hobbies and relationships—to earn enough money to buy our happiness.

We design our lives around making money, and then wonder why we aren’t happy when we have it. It’s because we are working too hard and not feeding our passions and interests. We design our lives around making sure the items on our to-do list get checked off, whether they contribute to our overall goals or not.

This doesn’t work. In order to live your best life and find true happiness, you have to design your life around you.

What does this mean? It means giving serious thought to how you spend your time, as well as who you spend it with.

It means spending your time with the people who build you up, not tear you down. The only person you owe anything to is yourself. Get rid of the people who treat you badly or don’t support you.

It means recognizing your strengths and passions, and then prioritizing them so that the majority of your day revolves around them. Eliminate tasks that don’t make you feel good or slow your progress toward realizing your dreams. Spend time on the things that show your brilliance, and happiness and success will come easier.

It means investing in the relationships that matter to you. Take the time to enjoy your family and friends.

It means coming up with your own definition of success, and not basing it on what others think. Don’t compare what you have to what others have. Don’t compare what you’ve done to what others have done. The bigger question is how you measure up to your own personal definition of success.

It means taking care of yourself. Eat well, get enough sleep, allow for plenty of free time, and set aside some time each day for exercise.

It means focusing on what you want, not on what your friends, family, co-workers, or supervisors want.  

Design your life around you, and watch your dreams unfold. You’ll find that you’ll be working less and making more without really trying. And that’s because by designing your life around you, you’ll no longer be blocking your own success.

                   

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INSIDE YOUR JUNE 2009 SUCCESS CIRCLE INTERVIEW:

Tapped for Success, with Frank McKinney

Recently, I interviewed Frank McKinney. For nearly 25 years, Frank has been creating art in the form of the world’s most magnificent oceanfront estate homes, each set on a sundrenched canvas known as the Atlantic Ocean. Frank began his real estate career with a modest $50,000 fixer-upper in 1986, and completed his first $2.2 million spec home on the ocean in 1992. Since then, he has created and sold over 36 oceanfront properties, with an average selling price of over $15 million. His recently completed Acqua Liana is the world’s largest and most opulent triple certified “green” mansion, priced at a whopping $29 million!

Frank was recently featured on ABC’s 20/20, and he has also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, Discovery Channel and the Travel Channel. His story has been featured on the cover of USA Today, and in publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Town and Country, and The Robb Report.

In addition to his unprecedented success as a real estate artist, Frank is a five-time best-selling author (which he accomplished in 3 different genres), a philanthropist, and an ultra-marathoner. This month he’ll compete in the 2009 Badwater Ultramarathon, a grueling 135-mile run through Death Valley!

This interview provides a rare opportunity to learn from one of the most visionary and courageous real estate entrepreneurs of our time. Watch your mailbox, because your package will be arriving soon.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn:

- Why now is the best time to get started investing in real estate

- A surefire formula for purchasing real estate (Violate the formula and you might be "snake bit!")

- Why the American Dream is more viable today than ever before…and why it’s important for you to defend it

- What Frank McKinney, Don King and Donald Trump do that you should, too!

- Why we are "tapped" to become responsible stewards

Here’s an excerpt from our interview:

“When you consider those six cycles that I just referenced and you consider the property value correction that we’ve been through over the last two years, regardless if you’re a full-time investor or not it is incumbent upon you as an American, as an entrepreneur, to own real estate. Look at the wealthiest people in the world—the Sam Zell’s of the world, the Donald Trump’s of the world. They’ve made their fortune in either commercial or residential real estate. Now why now? Because of the devaluation and the correction in values over the last couple of years mark my words that this is a buyer’s market unlike any time that I have ever seen and/or studied, and mind you, I went back pretty far in writing the Burst This! book, nor will I likely see in my lifetime. And if you’re new to the business one segment of the real estate marketplace that will be forever recession proof is the first time homebuyer market. What is that? Depending on your geographic area it is that first time homebuyer home, so for us down here in South Florida it might be a house worth $100,000 to $200,000. And so you would want to go out and find out what’s the price point for first time homebuyers and what are they buying in at. That’s the area that I spent six years honing my skills. That is an area where if you buy your real estate right, and now is the time to do it because banks are dumping their real estate portfolios like you wouldn’t believe, you go in there, you make one right purchase—one.”

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INSIDE YOUR MAY 2009 SUCCESS CIRCLE INTERVIEW:

Million Dollar Networking, with Andrea Nierenberg

Recently, I interviewed Andrea Nierenberg. Andrea is the founder and president of The Nierenberg Group, an innovative communications consulting firm that The Wall Street Journal calls a “networking success story.” With a stellar 25 years as a leader in sales and marketing, Andrea is an in-demand business expert, both at home and around the globe. Her company partners with the world’s leading businesses in diversified industries throughout the world.  

In addition, Andrea is the author of three best-selling books — Nonstop Networking: How to Improve Your Life, Luck and Career; Million Dollar Networking: The Sure Way to Find Grow and Keep Your Business; and Savvy Networking: 118 Fast and Effective Tips for Business Success. Andrea also speaks around the globe and her travels have taken her to companies and conferences across the United States, Asia, Europe and Africa.  

What impact does networking have on your business and life? Are you ready to become a masterful, million-dollar networker? Then watch your mailbox, because your package will be arriving soon.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn:

- The one thing you must do to network effectively

- The biggest mistakes to avoid when networking (these can make or break your relationships!)

- What not to do with your business card (Don’t miss this one!)

- The latest phenomenon in networking (and how to take advantage of it)

Here’s an excerpt from our interview:

“I think they first have to sit down and figure out their goals and their plans. I think that they have to think about the industries or the areas that they want to get more involved in—whether it’s a new job or for a lot of people it’s building business—and trying to figure out where there some of their new prospects or clients may lie. And then really sitting down and doing some homework. Thinking about how do you want to develop your plan of action. Are you going go to events?  Are you going to write articles? Are you going to be visible somehow in your industry? Or things like that. And just like you would put down any kind of a marketing or a business plan, you almost have to think strategically about how you want to spend your time in the networking, when you’re asked to actually get where their job or business. And I think one of the other things is that you have to make sure that you always remember to ask people that you know to give you advice, but not to be upset if they’re too busy or they can’t.”  

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We all have certain beliefs when it comes to success. The question is, are these beliefs helping us, or hindering us?

Early in my career, I adopted the belief that “in order to get what you want in life you have to work really hard to get it. You are going to have to put in long hours, and sometimes your personal relationships will suffer. You may have to give up hobbies and interests, and you’ll probably be working when your friends are out enjoying themselves and having fun. But in the end you’ll be successful.”

At the time, it never occurred to me that these were fictitious stories that I had been telling myself. I had certain beliefs about success, and those beliefs were based on my past experiences, as well as what people told me.

And that’s normal. You too probably have certain beliefs when it comes to your life and work that you’ve carried with you from your earlier years. But while some beliefs help you to do your best, others hold you back from moving forward in your life.

If you’re like a lot of people, you probably think that you’re going to have to suffer for success. Put in years of 80-hour weeks. Sacrifice time with your family and friends. After all, this is what the gurus tell us on television, and it’s what we read in their books. Success, many of us believe, can only be achieved if you motivate and push yourself to do things that you really don’t want to do. Is this your belief about success?

If it is, you are probably going to resist my Work Less, Make More program. When all is said and done, you’ll feel that you aren’t suffering quite enough to be successful. You’ll wonder where the pain is, and you’ll start to question whether this program really works.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that the old beliefs about success don’t work. They do. It’s just that you’ll end up paying a pretty big price for that success. You’ll have to make huge sacrifices. If the sacrifices are too great, you may start to question your own definition of success. I see that all the time. People have wildly successful businesses, but they aren’t successful in the other parts of their life that truly matter. That’s not my definition of success. Is it yours?

If you really want to learn how to work less and make more, you’re going to have to change your perceptions about success. Unless you change your beliefs about success, the type of success I’m talking about will never be within your grasp.

The good news is you can change your thinking. The choice is yours to create new beliefs, leaving old beliefs where they belong—in the past. Change your beliefs and you’ll change your life. It’s that simple.

                   

A few years ago, I was having lunch with a prospective coaching client. We were discussing his aspirations—where he was at the time, and where he wanted to be.

At the end of our lengthy conversation, Bruce asked me what the “key ingredient” was. He wanted to know the one thing successful people do in order to create results. What was he not doing, he asked, that was preventing him from pursuing this dream that he was so clearly passionate about?

There are a number of traits that must be present in order to create results. Investor’s Business Daily, in its “Leaders and Success” page, lists 10 secrets to success. Brian Tracy, one of the all-time “guru’s” of personal development, has his “21 Secrets to Success.” Given the importance of each element, it’s difficult to narrow it down to just one thing.

But Bruce was looking for a magic pill.

And he got it.

Surprisingly, I answered without hesitation. After our meeting, I reflected on this very point. I realized that this “one thing” is absolutely essential. While other traits may or may not be present, successful people always possess this one characteristic. Without it, achieving a desired outcome would not be possible.

What is this important trait?

ACTION.

Think about it. Bruce had an incredible idea for a new business. He was visibly passionate as he described the entrepreneurial opportunity. He had reviewed the plan over and over, sought input from others and examined the possibilities from every angle.

But he hadn’t taken action. He had a sliver of doubt about the viability of his idea, and it prevented him from taking action on an idea that he had been carrying around for almost six years!

Until and unless he took action, he would never achieve his desired outcome. And until and unless you take action, you will wonder years from now why your idea is still stirring around in your head.

Action sets the whole process in motion. It takes what is only an idea, and makes it real. When you take action, results are produced. They may or may not be the desired results, but every event moves you closer to your desired outcome.

Think about how a plane travels. When an airplane is on autopilot, it’s off course much of the time. But it’s constantly moving toward the destination. I love this metaphor, which so accurately reflects the dynamics of our own journeys.

Theodore Roosevelt once said, “There is nothing brilliant nor outstanding in my record, except perhaps one thing: I do the things I believe ought to be done…And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.”

Sure, there are other “habits” of successful people. And they are all important. If they are all a part of your life, then nothing can stop you.

You can set goals, and you can think positive, and you can visualize and affirm and practice all the other success habits. But, if you don’t take action, the other habits will all be for naught.

As the Nike commercial says, Just Do It. Decide that you will take one small step. Then another. Then another. Like an infant learning to walk, do not allow the obstacle of an occasional fall to stop you. Pretty soon, you’ll be walking. Then jogging. Then sprinting toward your destination. Just do it! You’ll be glad you did.

                   

What does Michael Jordan have to do with working less and making more? Lots. Michael Jordan is a good example of what happens when you focus on and maximize your talents and strengths. He’s also a good example of what happens when you don’t maximize your strengths and talents.

We all have things we’re really good at doing. And most of us aren’t just limited to one thing. Chances are, you’re probably brilliant at many different things. But there’s a difference between being brilliant at something, and loving something. When you focus on something you’re brilliant at, you’re using your strengths and talents in the best possible way. When you focus on something you love doing, you have a lot of fun but aren’t really using your strengths and talents in the best way possible.

Let’s get back to Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan is an amazing basketball player, so good that people were willing to pay him millions of dollars a year to play. And chances are Michael Jordan was born to play basketball. There was something in him that, when correctly nurtured, allowed him to be the greatest. He had a gift. And while all his hard work certainly shouldn’t be undermined—it’s that hard work that helped him hone his sport and become the greatest instead of just a good player—I could spend three times as much time on the basketball court as Michael Jordan and not even come close to being as good as he is. It’s not that I’m a bad basketball player. I just wouldn’t call it one of my gifts. So Michael Jordan is a good example of someone who recognized his gift, honed it, and as a result enjoyed great success.

Okay, so why is Michael Jordan also a good example of what happens when you don’t maximize your strengths and talents? Well, you may remember that at one time Michael Jordan decided to focus on professional baseball. Michael loved baseball and was having a lot of fun, but he wasn’t exactly brilliant at it. And while he was focused on baseball, he wasn’t able to focus on basketball. He wasn’t maximizing his strengths and talents.

Be smart about designing your life around your strengths and talents. Your strengths and talents are your allies when it comes to working less and making more. Focus on what you do best—at what you shine at—and success will come easy. Just look at Michael Jordan.

                   

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INSIDE YOUR SEPTEMBER 2008 SUCCESS CIRCLE INTERVIEW:

The Psychology of Wealth Accumulation, with Kevin Hogan

Yesterday, I interviewed Kevin Hogan. If you don’t know Kevin, you should. He’s an author, motivational speaker, and the nation’s leading expert in the areas of body language and unconscious influence. Kevin is the author of 15 books (including The Psychology of Persuasion, a MUST read), and he teaches persuasion and influence skills to business and government leaders around the world.

If this interview could show you how to create the life you desired, adopt the mindset of the wealthy, and literally give you a step-by-step map to manifest your life filled with abundance — would you be interested? Then watch your mailbox, because your package will be arriving soon.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn:

- The relationship between psychology and wealth

- What prevents people from achieving financial freedom

- Why your struggle to achieve wealth has nothing to do with the mortgage crisis, or the domestic auto industry, or runaway costs of major expenses like education and healthcare

- The secret to wealth accumulation

- What steps you must take now to achieve financial independence

Here’s an excerpt from our interview:

“The second piece is that people who build and accumulate wealth have a totally opposite way of dealing with post failure, post rejection. It is simple; people who are going to stay in that middle class or in the lower classes of income they do this; they start a business in niche A after they have researched it they found out that this is a really good niche to be in, a good place to be, this is going to be valuable and then all of a sudden they start the business. The business fails and they give up and then they go 90 degrees around the circle and they go try something else. So instead of having a brick and mortar store on the corner which they had researched and done all the demographic research and all that kind of stuff; now they are going to try something on the internet. The guy who is on the internet doing one thing tries a totally different other thing. What happens because people have a steep educational curve that often has to happen is they fail because they go from point to point to point. But the wealthy people, they fail at the pizza business and then they open up a new pizza store. They fail at that one and then they open up a new one and the second one, the third one, the fourth one is what connects, is what hits. So the person who is wealthy goes in a straight line where the person who ends up not wealthy, who does not accumulate any wealth and I am talking about even a quarter of a million dollars in an IRA or $100,000 in an IRA, they tend to bounce around. They don’t ever even have a single focus. It takes a few focuses to be securely wealthy. You have to have at least one focus to start and most people will just try stuff and then they will retire from the project as soon as it fails and go that is it. This didn’t work so I will go do something completely different.”

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