Wealth File #3:
Rich people are committed to being rich.
Poor people want to be rich.
Most people give the universe mixed messages about what they want. You will attract to you what you want, but if you don’t know what that is, neither will the universe. You may think things like, “I want to be rich” but then think “Rich people are greedy.” Or you may think “Being rich would be so much fun” but then think “Being rich means I’d have to work all the time, where’s the fun in that.” Other thoughts that get in the way of wanting to be rich might include “But then I’d be in the highest tax bracket and give half of it to the government,” “Then I’d have to understand investing and tax strategies and asset protection, that’s hard,” “I’ll never know if people like me for me or for my money,” or “What if I make it and then lose it, I’ll really be a failure.”
The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is because they don’t know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are fully committed to creating wealth and unwavering in their desire. As long as it’s legal, moral and ethical they will do whatever it takes to have wealth.
The number one reason people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want.
You always get what you want – what you subconsciously want, not what you say you want. If you are not achieving the wealth you say you desire, there’s a good chance it’s because, first, you don’t really want it, or second, you’re not willing to do what it takes to create it.
There are three levels of wanting. “I want to be rich” is the first level. Wanting alone doesn’t necessarily lead to having. Wealth does not come from merely wanting it. Billions of people want to be rich, relatively few are.
The second level of wanting is “I choose to be rich.” Choosing is a much stronger energy and goes with being responsible for creating your reality. Choosing entails deciding or killing of all other alternatives.
The third level of wanting is “I commit to being rich.” The word commit means “to devote oneself unreservedly.” This is the warriors way holding nothing back, giving 100% of everything you’ve got to achieving wealth for as long as it takes. “I will be rich or I will die trying.”
Try saying that to yourself, “I commit to being rich.” Does it feel empowering? Or maybe daunting?
Getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never give-up attitude, and a rich mind-set.
Wealth Principle
If you are fully, totally and truly committed to creating wealth, you probably won’t.
Once you do commit, however, the universe will bend over backwards to help you. The universe will assist you, guide you, support you and even perform miracles for you. But first you have to commit! W. H. Murray wrote the following during one of the first Himalayan expeditions:
Until one is committed, there is hesitance the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splended plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
Write a short paragraph on exactly why creating wealth is important to you. Be specific.
Meet with someone who is willing to support you. Tell that person you want to invoke the power of commitment for the purpose of creating greater success. Look that person in they eye and repeat the following statement: “I, _________(your name), do hereby commit to becoming a millionaire or more by _________(date).”
Tell your partner to say, “I believe in you.”
Then you say, “Thank you.”
If you feel a twinge of fear then you are on your way. If it doesn’t bother you, then you’re still in the mode of not being willing to do whatever it takes, or don’t think you need to do any of this stuff. Your way has gotten you exactly where you are right now.
I commit to being rich.
I have a millionaire mind.
