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This article comes from Prosperity Quick Tips, a wonderful newsletter written by one of my favorite Enlightened Entrepreneurs, Joan Sotkin.

Treat Yourself Like Someone You Love

When Warren Buffet was asked by a TV interviewer about how he measures wealth, he answered, “By how much love a person has in their life.” He said that he knows a lot of high net worth people who have few successful relationships. For Buffett, these people are not wealthy.

I agree. . In Build Your Money Muscles I say that when you feel loved, accepted, acknowledge, and appreciated, you’ll be open to greater cash flow. And experiencing these feelings depends on your relationship with yourself and others.

Feeling loved, accepted, acknowledge, and appreciated by others begins with loving, accepting, acknowledging, and appreciating yourself. Many people I talk to admit that their internal dialog is more critical than loving. When this is your internal state, people will reflect criticism rather than love, and it is difficult to generate acknowledgement in the form of money.

To alter your internal dialog, start focusing on treating yourself like someone you love. Here are some suggestions:

1. Listen to how you talk to yourself. When the critical voice comes into your head, tell it, “Thanks for sharing, but we don’t talk like that any more.” Take a deep breath and tell yourself that you are a good girl/boy, followed by your power word.
2. Stand close to a mirror and look directly into your eyes. Say outloud, “(Your Name), I unconditionally love and accept you exactly the way you are.” This can bring up a lot of emotion, don’t try to hold it back.
3. Buy yourself some flowers.
4. Stroke your body gently.
5. Give your body what it needs to function well.

You can also use the following statements with your power word to help overcome your resistance to loving yourself:

• I give myself permission to treat myself like someone I love. Power word.
• I release my resistance to loving myself. Power word.
• I am willing to treat myself in a loving way. Power word.
• I am willing to speak kindly to myself.Power word.
• I want to love myself. Power word.
• I am lovable. Power word.

Instructions for the power word

You can find many more ideas for altering your inner dialog in Build Your Money Muscles

I can give Joan’s book, Build Your Money Muscles my strongest, personal recommendation.

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Copyright © 2008 by Joan Sotkin

Millionaire Minds are Coachable

Live Well and Prosper,

Reprinted with Permission from Jack Canfield’s Success Strategies

If you want to live a dream life, not only must you decide what you want, turn your dream into measurable goals, break those goals down into specific action steps, and visualize and affirm your desired outcomes — you must start taking action!

I recommend making the commitment to do something every day in at least three different areas of your life that moves you in the direction of your goal.

If one of your goals is physical fitness, make a commitment to do some sort of exercise — aerobics, weight training, stretching — four to five times a week for a minimum of twenty minutes.

I read recently that if you simply go for a 30 minute walk four times a week, that would put you in the top 1% of those people getting physical exercise!

If your goal is financial independence, start saving and investing a portion of your income every month with no exceptions.

If your goal is to write a book, write for a minimum of one hour every day.

DON’T LET FEAR STOP YOU

Most people never get what they want because they let their fears stop them. They are afraid of making a mistake, looking foolish, getting ripped off, being rejected, being hurt, wasting their time, and feeling uncomfortable.

Fear is self-created by imagining catastrophic consequences that have yet to happen. It is all in your mind. In fact, you can actually scare yourself by imagining negative and harmful images. But simply stop the catastrophic thoughts and images, and the fear goes away.

REJECTION IS A MYTH

One of the biggest fears that stops people from asking for support, guidance, advice, money, a date, a job, the sale, or anything else is the fear of rejection.

In fact, it’s been known to literally paralyze people. They become tongue-tied and refuse to reach for the phone or get up and walk across the room. They break out in a sweat at the mere thought of asking for what they want.

I have come to realize that the whole concept of rejection is false — that rejection doesn’t really exist. Think about it for a moment. If you asked someone to join you for dinner, and they said no, you could tell yourself that you had been rejected. But think about it. Did you have anyone to eat dinner with before you asked them? No! Did you have anyone to eat dinner with after you asked them? No! Did your life really get worse? No. It stayed the same!

ACT AS IF

One of the secrets of success is to start acting like a success before you are one. Act as if.

If you had already achieved your dream, what kinds of clothes would you be wearing? How would you act? How would you treat others? Would you tithe a portion of your income to your church or favorite charities? Would you have more self-confidence? Would you take more time to spend with your loved ones?

I suggest that you begin to do those things now.

When I decided that I wanted to be an “international” consultant, I immediately went and applied for a passport, bought an international clock that told me what time it was anywhere in the world, printed business cards with the words “International Self-Esteem and Peak Performance Consultant,” and decided I would like to first go to Australia. I bought a poster of the Sydney Opera House and placed it on my refrigerator.

Within one month, I received an invitation to speak in Sydney and Brisbane. Since then, I have spoken and conducted trainings in over 30 countries and continue to expand my business around the globe.

Start acting as if you already have everything you want.

Most people think that if they have a lot of money, they could do the things they want to do, and they would be much happier. In fact, the reverse is true.

If you start by creating a state of happiness and abundance, then do the things you are inspired to do from that state of being, you will end up having all the things you ultimately desire.

You may not be able to fill your closets with expensive Italian suits and designer clothing, but why not invest in one or two really great outfits, so that when you do need them, they are there. When you dress like you have already made it, you will look the part, and successful people will naturally be attracted to you and invite you to participate with them.

The Law of Attraction states that you will attract to you those things that match your state of being. If you focus on having gratitude for what you do have, you will feel rich, and you will attract more abundance into your life. If you focus on what you don’t have, you will send out a message of lack and you will attract more lack into your life.

BE, DO AND HAVE EVERYTING YOU WANT… STARTING NOW!

Remember, the proper order of this is to start now and be who you want to be, then do the actions that go along with being that person, and soon you will find that you can easily have everything you want in life–health, wealth and fulfilling relationships.

© 2008 Jack Canfield

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Jack Canfield, America’s #1 Success Coach, is the founder and co-creator of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul and a leading authority on Peak Performance. If you’re ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: www.FreeSuccessStrategies.com

A new addition to the Millionaire Mind bookshelf.

“All successful people do four things. They set clear goals, take risks beyond their comfort zones and accept feedback and self-correct. Above all, successful people never give up.”

— Brian Tracy, Chairman and CEO Brian Tracy International

Brian Tracy’s new book, Flight Plan —The Real Secret To Success (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008) is a great addition to the millionaire Minded library. Using the analogy of air travel, Tracy offers these steps to success.

Choose your destination. Decide in advance exactly what goals you want to achieve in each area of your life.

Review your flight options. Gather information to determine all of the various ways you could achieve a particular goal.

Write your flight plan. Only 3 percent of adults have written goals, and they earn 10-times as much as people who live from day to day.

Prepare for your journey. Rake the time to get everything together before you take off.

Take off at full throttle. Be prepared to work wholeheartedly with all of your energy and determination, for a long time before you any worthwhile goal.

Plan for turbulence. Expect setbacks, disappointment and reversals as a normal and natural part of achieving anything worthwhile.

Make course corrections. If something doesn’t work, try something else, and then something else again.

Accelerate learning and progress. Learn from every experience. Look into every setback as an opportunity to grow. Seek valuable lessons contained in your roadblocks and obstacles.

Avoid shortcuts and other mirages. Be prepared to pay the full price of success in advance. Forget easy money and get rich quick schemes. There aren’t any.

Master your fears. Develop the habit of courage by confronting your fears rather than avoiding them.
Persist until you succeed. Resolve in advance that you will never give up until you achieve your goal.

“You have within you, right now, everything you need to achieve almost any goal you can set for yourself. The only question is how badly you want it, and how hard you are willing to work to get it. There are no limits.”

Brian Tracy International specializes in the training and development of individuals and organizations.

Millionaire Minds Live Well, Read Great Books, Take Action and Prosper!

Count Me In!

“More women thab men are starting businessess than men, but only 3-percent have reached the $1-million milestone. Count me In is working to change that.”

So says Nell Merlino, the woman who started ‘Take Our Daughters To Work Day’ and the driving force behind Count Me In, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting economic independence and growth of woman-owned businesses.

Toward that end, the organization, with OPEN from American Express has introduced the ‘Make Mine A Million $ Business‘ program, which provides access to money, mentoring, marketing and technology tools that women entrepreneurs need to help grow their businesses. In the past year, the program has helped 28 women become millionaires

Who knows? Yours could be the next million-dollar business.

Live Well and Prosper,

Sandi