One Good Action Is Greater Than A Million Good Intentions
One Good Action Is Greater Than A Million Good Intentions
Have you ever met people who are always going to do something, they are about to do something, they were going to do something, but never actually did?
People do not respect intentions, they respect action.
Many years ago I had the opportunity to be the executive director of a residential drug rehabilitation centre. It was in debt. It was in a mess.
Nobody wanted to touch it, and I was full of good intentions and great feelings for these poor disadvantaged young people. But it wasn’t until I actually got involved, took hold of the reigns, and turned that situation of debt around that I actually felt a sense of achievement. All the good intentions in the world, all the good feelings of emotion and feelings of compassion, didn’t amount to anything until I got involved. That resulted in many young lives being changed.
Isn’t it amazing how people judge themselves by their intentions, yet they judge others by their actions! They believe that if they intended to do something then it is actually done. We have to learn to be people of positive action, not professional procrastinators. Glean inspiration from this statement:
Did is a word of achievement, won’t is a word of retreat, might is a word of bereavement, can’t is a word of defeat, ought is a word of duty, try is a word each hour, will is a word of beauty, can is a word of power.
Life is about action. Progress in life always involves risks and action. Former Chrysler Chairman, Lee Iacocca, says actions should not be confused with haste. How true that is. People run around so busy and so frantic yet they make very little progress because they are not people of decisive action. All of us need to understand that action produces results.
Challenge
What is it right now that you are procrastinating about? Ask yourself if it is because you are afraid, because you don’t know the outcome, or because you are not coping well. Develop an action plan that will take you to the level of living you want to achieve.
You Have A Right To Prosper
You Have A Right To Prosper
Socrates once said “the soul thinks in pictures”. What I’m interested in finding out is what comes to mind when YOU hear the word ‘prosperity’?
The word prosper comes from the latin word prosperitas. It literally means “to bloom, to flourish, to progress, to succeed and thrive”.
When most people think about their wealth they limit their thinking to what ‘stuff’ they own or how much money they’ve got in the bank. On the other hand, there are people out there who think of prosperity merely in terms of their health, their family and their relationships. Which one of these is right? In actual fact – I would say they are BOTH right. I believe that wealth involves every aspect of your life, because it is all rooted from one place – your MINDSET.
I’m sure you’ve met people that have won huge amounts of money, only to lose it all overnight. Take Jack Whittaker for example. At 55 years of age, Andrew Jackson ‘Jack’ Whittaker, Jr. was living a successful, comfortable American life in West Virginia, USA. By most standards, he had a well-rounded family and a great job. On December 25, 2002, Whittaker stopped at a supermarket to fuel his Lincoln Navigator. He also purchased a deli breakfast sandwich and a Powerball ticket. That small piece of paper changed his life almost in an instant. He won the jackpot of US$315 million! His was the highest ever lottery win in the United States at that time.
Right now you’re probably thinking, Man, I wish that was me! I could do a lot with those millions! But the tragedy of this story is that within four years, Whittaker lost it all! Today, Whittaker claims that he’s struggling to pay his many debts. He says that no amount of money loaned to friends and family was ever enough and that his lottery win destroyed his life. In fact, he says that if he could do it all over again, he would have just filled up his tank, bought a sandwich and gone on his merry way.
How many times have you read stories like that about people who have won a fortune in the lottery and a few years later they are back on poverty street with nothing left of their winnings? In his recent book Win In Business, Gloria Jean’s Coffees Co-founder, Peter Irvine, said, “For far too many people a sudden increase in wealth ruins their attitude, their relationships and their business. The reason is that they never learned how to earn the wealth and they never learned how to manage it.”
The simple fact of wealth mastery is that you can HAVE MORE by BECOMING MORE. One of the great laws of wealth creation is that what you feed is going to grow and what you starve will die. Your millionaire mentality is only going to grow if you feed it. Right now it’s in embryonic form. You have to realise that most wealthy people THINK differently to the average person. For example, do you think Donald Trump thinks differently to someone on the dole? Of course he does. That’s why one of them is prospering and the other isn’t!
Remember – wealth and prosperity is not about ‘stuff,’ it’s a MINDSET we create.
Notice that the operative word here is we create. It’s not up to someone else, it’s up to YOU. Yes you. So that means your income will be determined by what YOU feed in to your mind. You see, the atmosphere you create around your life will determine the product that your life produces. The same level of thinking that got you where you are now won’t get you where you need to go – it’s limited.
Many of us have what I call mind viruses. Let me list a few for you to illustrate the point…
“I’m just an average Aussie Battler”
“Money doesn’t grow on trees”
“Money ruined my life!”
“No one in our family ever amounted to much”
“Money is the root of all evil”
“Money won’t make you happy”
Where do we learn these things? We learn them through our culture, our backgrounds, our religious experiences our parental upbringing… all sorts of places. These mind viruses or myths are simply NOT TRUE and they must be challenged!
Remember – a thought unchallenged becomes a thought established.
Don’t worry, you’re not the only one to be affected by mind viruses like these! Let me give you some examples of people who have been famously caught out by limited thinking…
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home!”
_Kenneth Olsen, President and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp (1977)
“The horse is here to stay, but automobiles are only a passing novelty.”
_The President of Michigan Savings Bank advising Horace Rackham (Henry Ford’s lawyer) not to invest in the Ford Motor Company in 1903. Rackham ignored the advice, bought $5000 worth of stock, and sold it several years later for $12.5 million!
“Television won’t be able to hold onto any market it catches after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
_Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox (1946)
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
_Harry M. Warner of Warner Brothers Studios (1927)
See what happens when you let a mind virus affect your judgement? If we have listened to these viruses our world would have failed to prosper.
So how to I develop a wealth mindset?
- Remember that your mind will either build you a prison or a palace. BUILD with great materials – books, magazines, great seminars and so on.
- Your associations = your assimilations. Hang around prosperous people or at least other people desiring to be prosperous because the quality of your life will be determined by those closest to you.
- Have a dream. If your dream is big enough the facts don’t count. It costs you nothing to dream. It is always better to have your dreams fulfilled than to have them analysed.
- Find a vehicle to create increase. The Lifestyle Trader System by Aussie Rob is the perfect example of a vehicle that can create income for you.
- Love what you do. Enjoy it. It’s very difficult to prosper in something that you don’t like! FIND your niche and fall in love with it.
- Be generous – the rich mindset sees every dollar as a potential seed while the mentally impoverished see everything they get as food. The rich mindset learns to invest in people, memories, mind, personal development and strategies. The broke mindset consumes everything they get and often times they consume more than what they have.
In conclusion, wealth is not a matter of luck. And it may not happen over night. But if you commit to it (unreservedly commit to it) you will see increase in your life. Prosperity is a process. It’s not just a one-off event. It’s what you do daily in life – investments you make, people you hang out with, the personal work you do on yourself – that determines what you are permanently. You need to decide TODAY that you will unreservedly commit to your wealth mindset which will then translate into an incredible financial harvest.
