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Review
The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind book has reached #1 on the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists in its first week.
The author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind was on the Today Show saying
"Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life!"
How can he make such a bold statement? Let’s take a look at his book....
The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind book is not about information on how to improve the details of your financial life. Instead, this book encourages readers to adapt mental attitudes that facilitate wealth. This book is about changing your psychological approach to money, success, and happiness. For this reason Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is the first book to read in the Learning Path to Wealth. It important to extract the core lessons and to apply them to your life in a way that is appropriate. The author does not provide a magic formula. However, he does challenge the reader to step outside their comfort zone and think outside the box.
Eker explains that we each possess a "financial blueprint", an internal script that dictates our attitude toward money. This blueprint is created through lifelong exposure to money messages from parents, friends, current events, and entertainment. T. Harv Eker states that what we hear, see, and experience growing up shapes how we handle our money, and provides the basis for negative attitudes towards wealth.
T. Harv Eker tells you how to determine your "financial blueprint" which in turn determines your success in creating wealth. Once you are aware o the thoughts you continually think, your inner dialogue, Eker tells you in detail how to change this to create the mind set like a millionaire.
You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it.
Eker states, "By ourselves, we can never see what's holding us back from reaching our full potential. Einstein said it best, 'you can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it'."
Money is not real. It is merely an idea backed by value. In order to create wealth, you only need to create the next idea that others find valuable. Creating involves thinking differently. In order to think differently, you must take ownership and stop blaming, justifying, and complaining about life. Eker encourages and empowers the reader to take control over his or her own life by first taking control of his or her mind.
Thoughts lead to Feelings
Feelings lead to Actions
Actions lead to Results
Eker's concepts are relevant in an age where many Americans who would not be considered poor but are simply living beyond their means and are in a great deal of debt.
So, do you think like a millionaire? Just how does a millionaire think and what is the mental process used to attract wealth into their lives?
Content
The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind book covers a series of Wealth Files: 17 ways in which the financial blueprints of the rich differ from those of the poor and the middle-class. Although, reading this list doesn't begin to compare to reading the book with all its examples and illustrations, here are the wealth file headings:
1. Rich people believe: “I create my life.” Poor people believe: “Life happens to me.” (Unhappy people are constantly complaining about how this, that, or the other thing prevents them from doing something. Unsuccessful people talk as if they are a victim)
2. Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.
3. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.
4. Rich people think big. Poor people think small.
5. Rich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus on obstacles.
6. Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.
7. Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.
8. Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.
9. Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.
10. Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.
11. Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
12. Rich people think “both”. Poor people think “either/or”.
13. Rich people focus on their net worth. Poor people focus on their working income.
14. Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.
15. Rich people have their money work hard for them. Poor people work hard for their money.
16. Rich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them. (Many people I have a nagging fear, because they moving into the unknown when they start pursuing their goals. Eker says that successful people act in spite of this fear. They move beyond worry, they “fake it till they make it”, learning as they go. Unsuccessful people do nothing at all.)
17. Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.
How many relationships have tension or stress that revolves around the household finances?
This book digs deep into your beliefs about money and rich people. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind also explore how you and your spouse or partner should discuss your beliefs about money and each of your financial blueprints. If you and your partner have opposite beliefs about money, creating wealth will be much harder, if not impossible
Harv also identifies four factors that contribute to a person's net worth: Income (active and passive), savings, investments, and simplification.
Should you Buy?
The L-Coaches Recommendation: Buy
You should consider buying the book on audio. The book is read by T. Harv Eker and he has injected his personality into the book. It is a very good listen.
 Product Details
Softcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Collins (February 15, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060763280
ISBN-13: 978-0060763282
Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 4.9 x 1 inches
The L-Coaches staff recently attended an event hosted by Harv’s company, Peak Potentials Training. Since attending the seminar, The L-Coaches have been given access to a recording of a Teleseminar he hosted where he describes his foolproof methods for financial success. Harv’s Free Teleseminar debt to millionaire in only two and-a-half years, so I figure if he can do it, so can we.
If you can grasp even a few of the principles of success he outlines, you, too, can achieve financial freedom. This book has proven to be very helpful in putting the pieces together for creating wealth.
That is why this book is included on the Learning Path to Wealth Plan. Simply put, Harv teaches people how to master the "inner game" of wealth in order to create outward success. Harv seems to have a personal mission to help people realize their full potential by applying the principles he struggled to learn the hard way.
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