Beginner's Column

The start to the road of financial richness, no matter how badly in debt you are at the moment, begins with you!

Before you disregard this and move on to the next web site, please hear me out. i know you came looking for ideas and tools that you can use to get yourself out of debt right now. And I can give them to you. And their lots of sites out there who have these tools and tips. But you know what? Their not going to be of use to you unless you can make the one change - only then will all these tools and ideas help you.

You must first convince and believe that you can be rich. Most people fail here - not because they don't believe - but because they cannot control their dominant thought. Your subconscious mind is programmed to make your external world conform to your internal world. And if you keep thinking of debts and the lack of money, your subconscious mind will follow willingly and create an external world that matches your thoughts. This is the key point everyone is missing out on.

Napolean Hill, in his all time classic book, Think and Grow Rich, taught about how people with so much desire to succeed used the power of their mind to attract to them the things that the desire.

This reminded me of a seminar that I attended three years ago about personal finance and the speaker, a well know Malaysian speaker, was telling the class to wake up every morning and say to themselves, "I will be rich. I will be rich." - 10 times in the morning, every morning without fail. While its not as simple as that, what she was doing was trying to get people to input positive thoughts into their minds early in the morning.

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your World

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