The Millionaire Mind Support Network™

Wealth Principle:

How you anything is how you do everything

I admire how T. Harv Eker approaches the “business” of mentorship. In his writings, his seminars, classes and workshops he states, “personal and professional integrity is the foundation of all lasting success.”

During our Millionaire Mind Intensive weekend Doug, our trainer, lead us through dozens of exercises that helped us honestly examine our personal financial blueprint. Doug and the volunteer support staff set an environment of total trust and acceptance. The structure of those exercises allowed us to candidly examine how we REALLY feel about ourselves, money, success and personal and professional relationships.

Insight can be judgmental or accepting, painful or joyful, threatening or loving or just “be”. The critical aspect of the exercises was to objectively examining what we believe and why. Throughout the weekend Doug stressed that millionaire minds are knowledgeable and honest about what drives us and what blocks us. We can’t move forward unless we acknowledge and release what is holding us back.

“The way you are in one are is usually the way you are in all areas. If you’ve been blocking yourself from receiving money, chances are you’ve been blocking yourself from receiving everything else that’s good in life. The mind doesn’t usually delineate specifically where you are a poor receiver. If fact, it’s just the opposite: the mind has a habit of over generalizing and says, “The way it is, is the way it is, everywhere and always”

If you are a poor receiver, you’re a poor receiver in all areas.
The good news is that when you become an excellent receiver, you’ll be an excellent receiver everywhere and open to receiving all that the universe has to offer in all areas of your life.”

— T. Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

My personal insights had a profound effect on how I now approach my personal and business life. Like most of us (please tell me I’m not the only one) I have been, out of class long enough to experience some backslide. The good news is, as Doug would say, “There is a fix for that!”

During this next week Notice your judgments and beliefs as they filter up through your day.
Notice how you are feeling about a situation or a relationship and remind yourself “How you do anything is how you do everything.”

How you feel or react to anything is how you will feel or react to everything.

Become aware.

When most of us think about Integrity we think about it as it relates to how we deal with the people and situations in our life. T. Harv reminds us that Integrity starts at home.

We must deal with our beliefs, drivers and blocks with integrity…and so within as without. Everything starts with and ends with our beliefs.

H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik
Copyright © Serendal Research Institute 2007

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My family and friends often tease me about my tendency to “Follow the Rules.” I read ALL the instructions before I start something. As a product of the Catholic schooling system, rules, processes and procedures are a big deal in my little orderly world. Of course I fell in love, married and founded a business with Zen Buddhist, but that is another story.

The effective use of time, treasure and talent, is the hallmark of a good steward and a successful business owner. Developing a game plan (rules) for your workday gives you access to power business tools.

As a print production manager, effective time management and prioritization of daily tasks was my way of life for over 20-years. I bought my first copy of Stephen Covey’s “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” in 1989. Since then I’ve purchased dozens of copies since as gifts for friends, or required reading for employees and contractors.

In addition to the habits of successful people, the book shares the importance of a principle centered life. Millionaire Mind Intensive graduates will notice that T. Harv Eker expresses some of the same principles when he talks about the importance of living and working in integrity.

I highly recommend that you make “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” a part of your business library. It is available in print and CD.

Until you have a chance to pick up a copy here is the extreme “Cliff Notes Version”

Print and post these seven habits somewhere on your desk where you can read them often through your workday.

“The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”

1. Be PROACTIVE
2. Begin with the END IN MIND
3. Put FIRST THINGS FIRST
4. Think WIN/WIN
5. Seek first to UNDERSTAND then to be UNDERSTOOD
6. SYNERGIZE
7. Sharpen the Saw (Balance and Self Renewal)

“The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” helps entrepreneurs prioritize, focus and follow through. Please share the winning tactics that keeps you focused and productive.

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All writings here are copyrighted. You may not use them without written permission but you may link to the posts or give out a link to the posts. And remember, You Have a Millionaire Mind!

Notes and thoughts concerning T. Harv Eker’s Speed Wealth™

“How to Make a Million In Your Business In 3-years or Less”

Power Principle # 5

You can always be more, have more and do more —

because you can always learn more.

T. Harv Eker states that rapid change equals great opportunities for fast return ONLY if we have educated ourselves so we have the skill set to take immediate action.

There are three MUST READS for all folks interested in aggressively growing their business enterprises. All are available at not only online and brick & mortar book stores, but within the public library system in both printed and audio versions so this is a NO EXCUSES business development suggestion.

If you don’t think you have time to read, then get the audio books, and LISTEN while you are driving, while you have your meals — anytime you have a few unallocated minutes please devote them to expanding your business expertise. Millionaire Minds place a higher priority on building true financial freedom than knowing who is singing on American Idol.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
by Jim Collins

In Good to Great, Jim Collins asks the question, “Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?” Collins concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time, and discovered common traits that challenged many of the conventional notions of corporate success. At the heart of those rare and truly great companies was a corporate culture that rigorously found and promoted disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner. The book offers a well-reasoned road map to excellence that any organization would do well to consider. Good to Great is one of those books that managers and CEOs will be reading and rereading for years to come. –Harry C. Edwards, Amazon.com Editorial Review

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Built to Last identifies 18 “visionary” companies and sets out to determine what’s special about them. The book has been hailed as an instant classic and one of the best business titles since In Search of Excellence. The authors, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, spent six years in research, and they freely admit that their own preconceptions about business success were devastated by their actual findings — along with the preconceptions of virtually everyone else. The core myth, according to the authors, is that visionary companies must start with a great product and be pushed into the future by charismatic leaders. Collins and Porras are much more impressed with something else theses companies shared: an almost cult-like devotion to a “core ideology” or identity, and active indoctrination of employees into “ideologically commitment” to the company. An eloquent chapter on the wildly successful 3M describes the company as having no master plan, little structure, and no prima donnas. Instead it had an atmosphere in which bright people were both keen to see the company succeed and unafraid to “try a lot of stuff and keep what works.”
—Editorial Reviews —Amazon.com

Winning
by Jack Welch (Author), Suzy Welch (Author)

As the legendary retired CEO of General Electric, Welch has won many friends and admirers in high places.
In Winning, Welch focuses on his actual management techniques. He starts with an overview of cultural values such as candor, differentiation among employees, and inclusion of all voices in decision-making. In the second section he covers issues around one’s own company or organization: the importance of hiring, firing, the people management in between, and a few other juicy topics like crisis management. From there, Welch moves into a discussion of competition, and the external factors that can influence a company’s success: strategy, budgeting, and mergers and acquisitions.

Winning is a very worthwhile addition to any management bookshelf. It’s not often that a CEO described as the century’s best retires, and then chooses to expound on such a wide range of management topics. –Peter Han Editorial Reviews — Amazon.com

I have all three of these books in both hard cover and as audio books. I feel so strongly about their value to any businessperson, I have given them as gifts to friends and business associates. No matter where you are in your business life right now, working as an employee, self employed with an at-home-business, building an emerging business enterprise, or growing the next Inc.500 business — there is something you can learn, do or change about how you are currently approaching your day.

Read. Grow. Do. Win!

Copyright © Millionaire Minds, LLC 2007
All writings here are copyrighted. You may not use them without written permission but you may link to the posts or give out a link to the posts. And remember, You Have a Millionaire Mind!