Let us read books avidly, non-stop. Because achieving success requires people to be knowledgeable and competent.
Hard work never kills, but poverty kills. Reading books avidly never kills, but ignorance kills. Think about it.
Everybody is willing to be successful. We all desire to live a comfortable existence; with a big beautiful house, a nice car, a fat bank account, etc.
If you are planning to become successful, then you must wage a fierce war.
Let the one who steals steal no more; rather, let him do hard work, doing good work with his hands, so that he may have something to share with somebody in need – Ephesians 4:28
Most people will not become millionaires.
Honestly speaking, most people do not have what it takes to become millionaires.
Here’s why:The majority of people in the world lack a definite purpose. What this means is that most people don’t really know why they exist or what they aspire to accomplish during their time on earth.
The most important question is not HOW TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE but WHY YOU SHOULD BECOME A MILLIONAIRE.
Many millionaires didn’t just start off following selfish interests and goals to buy luxury cars and expensive homes. They had bigger, definite purposes and goals to uplift the lives of their families and communities.
2. Lack of faultless plans
Many people do not know that faulty plans never succeed. Only faultless plans succeed. Millionaires know how to build faultless plans by clearly writing them down. They accomplish their definite purposes by following the plan, step by step.
3. Lack of burning desire
Burning desire is the fuel that drives purpose; therefore, if you lack a definite purpose, then you will automatically lack burning desire.
As such, the majority of people in the world who lack a definite purpose and a burning desire for accomplishment cannot grow inwardly and outwardly as human creatures.
Many people who conquered the world, such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Nelson Mandela, and Napoleon, all had great burning desires.
This is the same for people who became great athletes, boxing champions, and millionaires.
4. Procrastination
Procrastination is a failure to take positive action.
Procrastination is perhaps the greatest enemy of success and, as such, the greatest roadblock to becoming a millionaire.
Most people just drift by in life without any particular definite purpose or direction. They spend many hours just drooling and daydreaming and doing nothing. As a result, they end up becoming poor.
5. Lack of discipline
Lack of discipline is perhaps one of the greatest hindrances to financial success.
The world is full of failures who simply lacked financial discipline and proper planning.
There’s no such thing as an accident. Every failure is the result of an error in human judgement.
Opportunities and chance come to everyone, although not at the same time but they really do, and when they come, a lack of vision, financial discipline and unpreparedness greatly undermine financial success.
6. Lack of patience
Most people simply do not have the patience to become millionaires.
Consider when you plant a seed in the ground; you probably don’t understand how the seed germinates a few days or weeks later. Neither does it help to check the progress each and every day.
But a few weeks later, when you check it, you’ll find that the buds have shot up and the plant is beginning to grow. A few more weeks, and it becomes a big plant. All this takes some work, time, and a process.
This is where patience comes into play.
Seed is the raw material you put into the soil, and work is the time and effort you invest. The process is what takes effect without your interference. It is beyond your control.
Most people would probably want to plant a seed and eat its fruit the following morning.
7. Lack of focus
The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus — Bruce Lee, a Kung Fu Martial arts legend.
Perhaps the greatest hindrance to financial success is a lack of focus. Most millionaires I know are highly focused individuals.
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, co-founder and former executive Chairman of the Alibaba Group, often says that he gets about 5,000 new business ideas every day. Unfortunately, he is forced to turn them all down, preferring to remain focused on delivering quality service to the millions of customers and suppliers who visit his online stores daily.
8. Work hard and smart
Most people will not become millionaires because they never learned how to work smart.
You have heard it said that hard work pays off. Indeed. I would say that hard work alone will never pay off; you must combine it with smart work .
In the 19th century, it took about 30 years to become rich.
In the 20th century, it took less than twenty years to become rich.
In the 21st century, it may take as little as six months to become rich, in connection with a definite and faultless plan.
All this depends on the smart implementation of a simple law called leverage.
Millionaires learn how to leverage other people’s time.
Millionaires learn how to leverage other people’s money.
Millionaires learn how to leverage other people’s skills and talents.
Millionaires learn how to leverage machines and automation.
Although continuous learning is a lifestyle, most people will never learn anything new to improve their lives.
For example, a computer comes with default settings from the manufacturer’s assembly line. We hardly use the computer before customizing it with our own settings and preferences, most of which involve installing custom software.
Humans have many similarities to computers, but we rarely realize it. As such, most people will never learn new ways to improve their lifestyles and financial well-being.
10. Lack of Consistency
11. Millionaire Mindset: success consciousness.
12. Fear of Failure
13. Fear of Success
14. Worthless belief systems
15. Time Management
16. Bad Choice of a Financial Model
17. Never bargain a penny with life
What you sow is what you reap. Many people will not become millionaires because they aim to accumulate a small amount of money; they aim too low. Conversely, millionaires invariably aim to accumulate a fortune.
If you bargain a penny with life, it will give you a penny, no more. If you bargain a fortune with life, it gives a fortune.
18. Unconsciousness regarding how the brain and mind function
Whatever is bound on earth is bound in heaven. Earth represents the conscious mind, and heaven represents the subconscious mind.
Many people, day in and day out; cultivate worry, fear, doubt, desperation, failure, impossibility, anger, etc. through their conscious mind, and consequently, their subconscious minds bring about painful and cruel outcomes for them. Such people will never become millionaires; they are failure-conscious.
Millionaires are success-conscious. It doesn’t mean they do not face challenges; they do, but they seriously maintain a win-win mentality by refusing to succumb to negative emotions.
Hard work never kills, but poverty kills. Reading books avidly never kills, but ignorance kills. Think about it.
Nothing is difficult. Nothing is impossible. Failure does not exist.
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