Step 1 - Know Where You Are
Before we get started there’s this story I’d like to share with you:
A young boy walks into an ice-cream store with his dad. He looks at the counter, sees all the lovely colorful ice cream and, after taking some time to decide which one he wants, he asks for the single scoop mint chocolate. Being excited to eat the delicious ice cream on this hot day, his face starts radiating happiness.
They walk out of the store and go to sit by the water where the child could eat the ice cream. The father hands the cone to the little guy but, boy, the ice-cream was huge… His little hands struggled to hold it but just as he was about to take his first lick, the heavy ice-cream fell out of his hand. Tears start welling up in his eyes and you could see the disappointment on his face.
Being a nice man, his dad says: “Come back inside the store and I will buy you another one.” They go in and the boy is once again looking at the ice cream counter. He decides he still loves the one he had previously chosen and picks it again. But, just as he was about to settle for the single scoop mint chocolate, he looks over and sees the mighty double scoop. He raises his big eyes and looks full of hope to his dad.
Now put yourself in the dad’s shoes. If you were to see your little child looking up at you with his eyes full of hope, would you buy him the mighty double ice cream, knowing that his little hands could not hold the single scoop? You would know that he will drop this one even faster and he’ll feel even more disappointed afterwards. Would you set him up for failure? No, of course you wouldn’t!
Well, the Universe uses the very same rule. If you can’t handle what you already got, then you won’t get any more.
The goal of step number one is that you
FIND OUT WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW.
Where we are right now is the reflection of what we are currently able to handle.
Then, our goal is to give you all the tools, skills, and resources you need in order to be able to handle more. We don’t get our next assignment until we’re overqualified for the current one.
Over the next 10 exercices, you’re going to learn all the skills and internal processes needed in order for you to be able to accept more.
We also want you to be able to have the knowledge and awareness so that you know this process is working. We want you to be able to look back one year from now and see exactly where you were when you began the process, so we can track your results.
Being able to see the exact results is what will keep you motivated throughout the process. Creating higher levels of wealth is not always easy and that is why we need as much as possible to keep us motivated, to keep us focused, and to keep us moving forward.
Step 1.a KNOW HOW MUCH YOU ARE MAKING!!!
It’s time for the inventory so please grab a pen and paper (or open an Excel spreadsheet) and just write down:
- How much did I make in the last 12 months?
- How many hours did I work to attain that income?
- Divide income by hours and figure out how much your time was worth per hour.
- What are my current savings?
- What is my current debt?
For example:
- €10,000 in last 12 months (€833 per month).
- 2,500 hours worked (208 hours per month).
- €4 per hour average income.
- €300 current savings.
- €1,000 current debt.
Step 1.b WRITE DOWN THE SAME THINGS AS YOU WANT THEM TO BE ONE YEAR FROM NOW!!!
For example:
- €24,000 in the next 12 months (€2,000 per month).
- 1,500 hours worked (125 hours per month).
- €192 per hour average income.
- €3,000 current savings.
- €0 current debt.
Keep the two side by side where you can see them regularly or when needed and this is how you can track your progress and prove that the system is working.
IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO CREATE REAL WEALTH THAT THEY START TO THINK ABOUT THEIR INCOME IN RELATION TO HOW MUCH TIME IT WILL TAKE TO CREATE IT.
There are a lot of CEO’s Making €100,000 per year and they work 80 hours per week, 50 weeks of the year. When they say they make €100K it can sound impressive until you work out that they only make €25 per hour. Then you feel very sorry for them.
Personally, I would much rather have €40,000 and work only 1 hour per week from a business, because then you can add lots more of those €40,000’s.
€1,000 per hour allows anyone to have a pretty good life.
The real goal is to have Time and Money. So always keep the wealth ratio at the front of your mind:
Money (divided by) Time used to get the Money.
PS1: We encourage sharing the process of getting wealthy from inside out with as many people as possible, so please feel free to invite your friends to join our programme. All they have to do is to fill in the form on our web page.
PS2: In order to get access to the next step you need to confirm the completion of Step #1. So once your homework is done, please make sure you reopen this email and hit the confirmation button below until next Sunday.
Have a great life, full of joy and prosperity!
Sincerely, David
What if…?
Having clarity about where you really are right now and knowing where you want to go is essential to making the necessary changes. Remember to keep the current and future financial statements where you can see them often. Tracking progress makes it exciting :)
Before going any further with this program it is essential to look at what you are thinking about the whole 10 Week Wealth Program and about yourself.
As I am writing this I’ve been re-listening to my favorite audio program on money.
That program is by Joe Vitale “The Secret to Attracting Money”. Every time someone asks me which is my favorite wealth resource out of the 1000+ books I have read and hundreds of audio programs I always say this one.
I wasn’t really sure why it was my favorite until I re-listened to it today.
Joe started off in his program by inviting me to play…..
The What If Up Game!
He said that most people are living their lives in the mental state of
“What If Down!”
What if nothing ever works for me? What if things never improve? What if the program is a waste of time? What if I am doomed for failure? What if my circumstances are different so it doesn’t apply to me?
He then said:
For the rest of this program how about deciding to play the
“What If Up Game!” What if I am destined to be rich? What if this is the best program I have ever listened to and applied? What if this program is the one that brings me all the money I need and want? What if this program is the one that transforms my life from struggle to joy and abundance? What if this is the program that will finally let me leave my job and build the company I have been dreaming about? What if this is the program that I will rave about and for years and tell everyone about? What if my whole world is about to change so much in a prosperous way that everywhere I go people will be asking how I did it?
And it really is amazing that because of playing the - What If Up Game - Joe Vitale’s program did become the one that I loved and told everyone about.
I was living then in an old abandoned Coast Guard station, sleeping on top of my books to stay off the cold ground, with no money, no income, being so cold I had to sleep in my ski clothes. And this very programme took me to now living in my dream home in the South of Spain, driving Supercars, traveling to different countries several times a month, buying four companies, in four different countries in less than four years, and being friends with the rich and famous international business people.
In everything that I did since listening to that program, I did it while playing the What If Up Game. Expecting it to work and expecting “Me” to be the person who does get the rich and abundant life.
Even though most of the skills and philosophies that made me rich came from programs beyond Joe Vitale’s, I think that this one mindset shift to prosperous expectations in everything I did gave me the energy and enthusiasm I needed to make the exercises he gave me and everything else work.
It wasn’t even that there were any really special exercises in there; it was just the fact that I did all of them exactly as he told me to and beyond. The world is full of strategies that work if they are applied. There are a lot, and I mean a huge amount of people who are very rich in this world. What makes them different is that they expect everything they do to work so they do it with full commitment.
So I want to invite you to do the same and play the What If Up Game with this program and with everything else you do from now on.
Expect It To Turn Out Prosperously When You Take The Action
So ask yourself these questions and see how you feel…..
What if this 10 Week Wealth Programme is the one that sets me on a new path towards the life I have always dreamed of? What if this Programme will be the one to help me finally clear those old debts and move towards a full bank account? What if this Programme is the one that gives me the skills I need to build a highly profitable company that lets me work only a few hours a week and travel the world? What if this is the Programme that will let me finally have the time I want to spend with my children, take them on holiday and be with them as they grow into prosperous adults? What if this is the Program that lets me see the world in a whole new way, where every day is fun and a joy to live in? What if this is the time in my life where I finally make it and create stable, long term wealth that I can pass on for many generations?
And really feel the expectation for things to work out as you want them to. The mind will find the answers to any questions we give it, which is why giving it high quality prosperous questions will lead to a much Richer and more fulfilled life.
Money (divided by) Time used to get the Money.
PS: You can still invite your friends to join our programme. All they have to do is to fill in the form on our web page.
So have fun with this and be prepared with this mindset of prosperous expectation when Step 2 arrives in your Inbox on Sunday!
Have a great weekend!
David