Producers Vs Parasites

I have heard from many people that they have been told by other workers not to work too hard and embarrass their slothful co-workers.

I have witnessed utility workers and government laborers slacking off to stretch the work to earn more money. They take no pride in their work, have low self-esteem, and little or no self-respect. These people accept the terms. They are basically paid slaves, moochers, who will take the most possible and give the very least acceptable.

A producer would walk off the job.

A World Where We No Longer Exist

The History Channel has a fascinating show called, “Life After People” – it predicts what would happen to the world if all the people suddenly disappeared. It investigates consequences from pets, to zoos, to wild animals, to nuclear waste. Very mind-expanding.

In her life-changing book, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand predicts what would happen if the

• prime movers,
• producers,
• and innovators

Left the world to the

• parasites,
• mystics,
• looters
• and politicians.

Why Read “Atlas Shrugged”?

So that we can recognize creeping collectivism and socialism, avoid it, and protect ourselves from being flung onto the sacrificial altar by those incompetents and leeches who would rule us and steal our creations. This is the Big Brother of the future:

“from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”. One can avoid a thief only when one identifies a thief.

A Cause and Effect

Without those who build and invent, produce and innovate, the world would collapse. Look at the “new” South Africa – the new government decided that the maintenance of power plants, mines, and other major components of the country’s infrastructure didn’t need to be fixed, maintained, or improved. The resulting rolling black-outs and the descent into statism is evident for all to see.

Cuba is another simple example. When Russia withdrew her funding, they had to run to new milch cows. While the Socialist Cuban government decries capitalism, it is itself using Capitalism to make money from wealthy Capitalist tourists.

People live in hovels that they call houses, just above the poverty line – after all, what do they NEED? They don’t NEED swimming pools and smart cars… And medical doctors work as waiters in the state-owned hotels in order to make more money.

“From each according to his ABILITY”?

It simply doesn’t work.

Learn to Be an Aware Thinker and Rationalist

The Western world has been and is being programmed for massive socialism, and because it doesn’t truly understand the implications, it sits like the frog in a pot of water on a stove – the water increases in there slowly until the frog boils to death.

Liberals flirt with the naughty boy of socialism, playing with the tiger until they get eaten alive. They elect leaders who will imprison them.

We who are the thinkers and the rationalists have to be aware of what is going on in this new world order.

We have to be able to identify the slave owners and witchdoctors who demand our self-sacrifice in order to avoid them. Atlas needs to know when and how to shrug.

“You get the feeling plenty of Atlases are shrugging these days, in part because their tax burden is getting heavier. It’s interesting to compare sales of ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ provided by the Ayn Rand Institute, to Internal Revenue Service distribution tables.

In 1986, a year when ‘Atlas Shrugged’ sold between 60,000 and 80,000 copies, the top 1 percent of earners paid 26 percent of the income tax. By 2000, that 1 percent was paying 37 percent, and ‘Atlas Shrugged’ sales were at 120,000. By 2006, the top 1 percent carried 40 percent of the burden.

Yet President Barack Obama has made it clear he would like to see the rich pay a greater share. Anyone irked at that prospect can find consolation in Rand’s fantasy, in which the most valued professionals evaporate from the work place because of such demands.”

Others hire people to do the

• pumping,
• filling,
• carrying and selling,

so they create a real business, but they have lots of

• overhead,
• problems,
• limitations,
• and costs,
• and they are at risk, despite the fact that they earn more money.

Depending, of course, on the demand and their competition. These are real entrepreneurs.

Investors

The next level of intelligence brings us people who use other peoples’ money and bank loans to build a water pipeline.

They have very low costs and overhead, few employees, and far less limitations.

The Middleman

And then we find the Joint Venture Brokers, who

• make no investment,
• carry no overhead,
• have no limitations,
• are not at risk,
• and everything they earn is 100% profit.

They are intermediaries or middlemen, who simply link the water suppliers with the users and take a piece of the on-going action.

They create multiple Joint Ventures, which all run simultaneously.

They will use Joint Ventures and arrange numerous other products and services to be sold to the same people who buy the water.

Boost Your Profits

In a recent Tweet on Twitter, I urged people to watch this video, and encouraged them to stop playing at making money and start making it. Instead of silly seminars where they break arrows on their throats and walk on fire (tricks revealed in said video) for a short-lived, false high, they can learn how to use leverage to boost their profits and create wealth, whether they have businesses or not.

Think strategically, piggyback on existing distribution and access, and you will enjoy the time and money that results from brokering Joint Ventures. Work smart. Use your head, not your hands.

The implication was the usual one: “Multiculturalism works great, we’re all the same, the United Nations is right, and let’s all be happy.” Here’s the difference.

This ship is shipshape because it works on the principle of harMONEY: It’s a capitalist, autocratic setup. People get paid according to their contribution and skill set, regardless of their color or creed.

The captain does not earn the same as the waiters or cleaners. And if people mess up, fight, steal, or slacken, they get fired. They are well managed and told exactly what to do.

If a waiter, who is on a ten month contract, misbehaves, he or she gets summarily fired and has to pay for their own trip home. Strict controls.

The captain gets the big bucks, because without him everyone would end up on the rocks. When you use affirmative action and reverse racism to accomplish goals, you’re no longer headed for success.

How It Works

There is no “redistribution of wealth” for the losers and slackers to leech off the producers.

People actually EARN their money, and there are no unions to force businesses to pay brain dead laborers ridiculous salaries – that’s why cruise ships decided to use Seattle rather than Vancouver – because dockworkers and longshoremen who deserve $10 per hour have to be paid $45 per hour in Vancouver.

Any cruise line that was run by a socialist would be bankrupt within weeks.

In fact, entire countries go bankrupt when they elect socialist leaders and money is distributed according to greed and need instead of value. Imagine assigning a bus driver to run a Fortune 500 company.

What You Get With Capitalism

Capitalism creates superb value and excellent service and products, as was evident on our cruise.

Rolex is not run by a socialist. Cuba is a third world backwater like all African countries, because of the way money is distributed.

When your philosophy is statist / collectivist, the motivation for excellence diminishes. That’s why highly trained Cuban doctors prefer to do the work of waiters – they can earn more money that way.

Real Success

Success is not a mystery, and we should learn from history. When you assume that everyone is equal,regardless of their contribution, and you are not prepared to pay for excellence, true success will elude you. That’s why capitalism is worth fighting for, no matter how unpopular it is with parasites and liberals, and why real success is based on:

• money,
• value, and
• rational thinking,

not:

• mysticism,
• altruism, or
• multiculturalism.

1. The RIGHT financial education.
2. Connections with the right people.
3. GUTS. The guts never to quit, make excuses, or run away.

Let’s talk about these three.

1. Financial education.

Kiyosaki points out in his four quadrants that you can be:

• an employee (quadrant 1),
• or a self-employed salesman / solopreneur (quadrant 2),

… and never get rich,

or you can be in quadrants three and four.

• Quadrant three is big business (500 employees or more),
• and quadrant four is having your money work for you.

Most people who don’t have money think it’s impossible to play in quadrants three and four, whereas DollarMakers shows you how to participate in big business through Joint Ventures and to make money from the investments of other people – anyone can do that. We don’t have money problems; we have thinking problems.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Why? Because the rich keep doing the things that made them rich, and the poor keep doing the things that made them poor.

2. Connections with the right people.

DollarMakers has hundreds of Members, many of whom have a great understanding of Joint Ventures, in 19 countries – all looking to do a deal with you. And we FIRE dishonest people who don’t abide by our Code of Business Ethics. We are constantly weeding the moochers and posers out.

Winners will link you with winners, and losers will introduce you to their loser friends. We provide various platforms and options for connecting with the right people. We’re not a networking group full of broke wanna-be’s.

3. GUTS.

If you are a weak, politically correct, passive-aggressive, excuse-making wimp, don’t join DollarMakers. Our Members have to take full responsibility for their own success – we’re not socialists or quitters, and we don’t carry passengers or pamper parasites. We’re excited, determined, motivated, and disciplined. Our goal is to MAKE MONEY. That’s why we’re called DollarMakers.

If you’re serious about success and you’re tired of watching your wealth go down the drain, join DollarMakers. Right now.

Moving Towards Success

How does one move from the apathetic, comatose, paralyzed, unconscious state of suspended animation so common to the sheeple, to one of frenzied, happy success?

How do we become like those bold and audacious, excited, and unstoppable winners?

What will it take to shift from being baffled and bewildered to fierce and fiery, irresistible and irrepressible? Is it even possible to become a manic money missile?

Taking Action

People make changes when the pain of staying where we are exceeds the pain of change.

We take action when we truly believe that we can achieve our exciting goals, and that peak is, indeed, attainable. And the more action we take, the easier it gets!

Here are a few simple steps that will make it easier for you to break the chains of frustration and limitation and enjoy the abundance that is available to all of us through Joint Ventures:

1.   Belief:

Build your belief with an authentic action plan and surround yourself with winners and achievers. And know WHY you insist on nothing less than success. Paul J. Meyer said,

“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.”

2.   Specifics:

Measurable, specific amounts and steps, like road signs along the way, are essential.

Your action plan is your Success GPS.

3.   Time:

By what exact date will you commit to achieving this specific goal?

Commit yourself publicly – put yourself on the line, so that there is a consequence to non-performance.

4.   Leverage on Yourself:

Be aware of the consequences on failing to achieve your goals. Remind yourself of the pain and suffering that comes with failure!

5.   Training and Support:

The more you learn, the more you will earn. DollarMakers provides superb training and support through our Membership, events, training, seminars, conference calls, and online information.

6.   Monitoring:

Monitor your progress daily. Adjust, tweak, and realign yourself like a guided missile. Confront issues, don’t get side-tracked, and only work with winners.

Communicate regularly with your team.

7.   Motivation:

Control your input and self-talk.

Only expose your mind to positive input that is aligned with your goals, values and beliefs.

Kick the losers and parasites out of your life, and design your information flow carefully. The best way to predict the future is to create it – your success won’t happen by accident.

8.   Celebration:

Celebrate small successes along the way. This builds self-esteem and belief and reinforces your commitment and self-confidence.

“Picture the typical entrepreneur and Herculean pictures come to mind: a man or woman standing alone, wind-blown against the elements, bravely defying insurmountable odds, climbing sheer faces of treacherous rock–all to realize the dream of creating a business of one’s own. The legend reeks of nobility, of lofty, extra-human efforts, of a prodigious commitment to larger-than-life ideals. Well, while there are such people, my experience tells me they are rare.” – Michael Gerber

I agree with Micheal Gerber that this image is absolutely absurd!

As long as you are a solopreneur, working on every facet of your business, you will be your business’ number one problem!!! As Gerber explains in his book, there are 2 kinds of businesses:

1) People-depedent businesses

2) Systems-dependent businesses

How do you know which one you are? Well, simply ask yourself this:

“If I (or anyone else in my company) were to leave my business for 6 months, would the business still exist when I came back?”

If you answer YES, then you have a systems-dependent business.

If NO, then you likely have a person-dependent business.

A System-Depentent Business

So what IS a systems-dependent business?

Consider this:

McDonald’s can deliver the exact same promise – the exact same food and customer experience – whether you are in Edmonton, Toronto, New York, or Kalamazoo. And it’s delivered by disinterested, teenage kids – some of the least qualified employees on the continent. And they do this BILLIONS of times every single year, at thousands and thousands of locations from sea-to-sea.

…and yet you can’t ever deliver that level of consistency to one set of customers of your one business, located in only one city or town. What’s the difference?

The difference is SYSTEMS. Your business depends on you (people-dependent) while McDonald’s depends on systems – the people can be swapped in and out.

On Your Own?

I will now ask you: why is it that you are taking care of making sales calls, balancing the books, dealing with inventory, answering calls, cooking, cleaning, and doing all of this ON YOUR OWN?

The true entrepreneur sets up a system, then delegates it.

Once that’s taken care of, then they create a system for another area of their business, and delegate that out. And they do this with every area of their business until they ARE able to walk away for 6 months or more.

Refocusing – The More Important Things

And the funny thing is that it is often the mundane, monotonous, pressing / urgent, and repetitive tasks that distract an aspiring entrepreneur from actually doing the “big-picture” items that will actually take their business to the next level.

Build a SYSTEM for these mundane, monotonous, and repetitive tasks, and DELEGATE. Then get re-focused on the MOST IMPORTANT things…

• building your business,
• learning new skills,
• ideas,
• and strategies,
• and maybe even spend more time with your
  • kids,
  • spouse,
  • family,
  • and friends.

And What if You Don’t Own a Business?

Well, in your family life you likely DO have many mundane, repetitive tasks that take time away from being with your family.

• Perhaps processing application forms for a charity you volunteer for.
• Perhaps calling all of your relatives for the forthcoming family reunion.
• Perhaps it’s really a pain for you to balance the family cheque book at the end of the month.
• Or maybe it’s a hassle to always be coordinating the parents for Johnny’s soccer team.

Any of these items could be systemized and delegated.

So Many Routine and Mundane Tasks…

1. WHAT IF you could get someone else to do any or all of this?
2. Would that make you extremely happy?
3. Would that give you more time to be with your family, kids, and friends?
4. Would your life experience be better if you just didn’t have to deal with any of that boring, productivity-killing, repetitive brain-freeze?

Well, having your own Virtual Assistant (VA) may or may not be a fit for you. To find out if and how a VA would help you in your specific circumstance, contact Tina at 1-877-977-4776, or Info@SaveTimeBoostProfits.com to get a FREE 30-minute consultation.

Fake Leads

•   A long time ago, I attended a business networking meeting where only one person from every industry is allowed, (big red flag) and everyone is under pressure to give our leads / referrals every week. They actually COUNT the leads, and nobody gets a commission! Anyway, I received a LOT of fake leads, because people were too gutless to admit they didn’t have any leads to give out, and they feared losing their place in this group of broke, desperate, self-employed salespeople.

No Intention of Ever Co-operating

•   I asked someone to send out an e-mail to their database to promote one of my events a few years back. I “salted” their database (entered it anonymously, using a fake name and e-mail address) and the e-mails were never sent out. They didn‘t want to tell me that they never intended sending it out.

People Who Can’t Say “No”

•   People promise to show up at places, do things, make calls, promote stuff, attend meetings – and they never do – they offer weak, transparent excuses, because they can’t say “No”.

Sounds familiar, does it?

In our gutless, politically correct world of passive aggressive, anal-retentive, wanna-be entrepreneurs, it’s hard to find people who don’t fear “rejection” by simply saying, “NO.”

(It’s even harder to find people who actually do what they say before their laziness and stupidity overcomes them, but I digress).

So What’s the One Fear?

The one fear that will sabotage your business life more than most others is the fear of saying, “NO.”

You don’t have to explain and say, “NO – I don’t want to deal with you. BECAUSE

• I don’t like you”
• I don’t trust you”
• Your offer is ludicrous and one-sided”
• You’re an idiot”
• You’re cheap”
• You dress like a second-hand car salesman cum trailer park manager”
• You stink of tobacco…”

Just say, “No, thanks, this is not for me – I don’t see a fit.”

Instead of wasting your time trying to make losers happy and justifying things, instead of trying to be popular with wankers.

Just, say, “NO.” You don’t have to explain.

The Frog Prince Analogy

You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince. You can’t marry every frog because you’re afraid of “rejection”.

The more selective you are, the more distinct your criteria for accepting business offers is, the more sophisticated your approach, and the more successful you are, and the better known you are, the more offers you will have to reject, so get used to it.

So far, we have rejected 24 applications to our $20,000 DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor Training program, which meant we turned down and rejected $480,000 in sales. We are very proud of that. Few people would do that. But we see the big picture.

If the fit isn’t right, we say, “NO.” And everybody wins, because we’re honest.

Tell the Truth

Think of it this way:

“I am not in business to make other people happy, to build their egos, to be accepted and feel important, or to become popular. I am not here to please other people. I am in business to make the maximum amount of net profit with the least cost, risk, time, and effort, and I only work with people whom I like, trust, and respect. I don’t have to do anything, and I will tell the truth.”

Fearlessly, audaciously, courageously, tell the truth.

Your self-respect will increase as you discipline yourself to be honest, and, as a result, you will make more money, because we earn money in direct proportion to our self-esteem.

How can you even look at yourself in the mirror when you’re controlled by the whims and opinions of others, keeping up with the Joneses, and trying to impress losers?

Realize this: NOBODY CARES. Get real and get honest; say “NO.”

Consider What is Important

Here’s the good news:
It’s more important to be respected than to be liked.

People know that I don’t give a damn whether they like me or not, and I refuse to conform to this climate of slimy, politically correct, dishonest, back-stabbing hypocrisy.

I don’t care if the truth offends people or if they’re uncomfortable. And people know that they can trust me because of my approach.

The more selective and direct I become, the more money I make. It works. Try it. Thicken your skin.

Instead of “Got Milk?” how about, “Got GUTS?”

“In folk economics, we have an intuitive notion that excessive wealth is wrong. Economic systems must be designed from the top down. We misunderstand and mistrust ‘the invisible hand” of the market place (note: Charles Darwin also read the work of Adam Smith). The reason why folk science so often gets it wrong is that we evolved in an environment radically different from the one in which we live. We still have a sweet tooth and biological inclination to eat fat, because food was always scarce. That’s why we have an obesity epidemic right now. Our senses are geared for perceiving objects of middling size, between say ants and mountains.”

“Not bacteria, molecules and atoms on one side of the scale and stars and galaxies on the other end. We live to short to witness evolution, continental drift or long-term environmental changes. That’s why we still have an inclination to want products now, versus products later at a considerable discount. It is human nature.”

Working On Our Perceptions, Beliefs, and Limitations

Whether the cause of our small, limited, scarcity, fear-based thinking is the result of our socialization, education, and the people we mix with, or indeed, as Mr. Shermer suggests, far deeper, those who wish to make it big in the world of business need to work on our perceptions, beliefs, and expectations.

The good news is that we can change and break free of our limited thinking, and that very few people will take the time to analyze and acknowledge their limitations, let alone take steps to correct them.

That means that we have very little competition, and that the world is, indeed, our oyster.

Add a working knowledge of Joint Ventures, and you’re ready for great accomplishments!

Believing in Yourself

When you truly believe in yourself and your product or service, it shows.

You become

• self-confident,
• strong,
• relentless,
• audacious,
• and unstoppable.

You become a

• straight talking,
• proud walking,
• King of the Kool Kat Klan.

You have pep in your step and a glide in your stride when you believe.

When you’re absolutely certain and focused,

• you’re circulating and percolating,
• making the contacts and writing the contracts,
• and moving and grooving.

The One That Makes The Sale

Believers don’t doubt for a single second that they will make the sale.

They don’t apologize or agonize – they have that killer instinct that makes them close like a bear trap on a sickly kitten. They are the steel fist in the iron glove, the warriors, the closers.

If you’ve seen the movie, Glengarry Glenross, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

When two people are belly to belly, one is always selling. You’re either buying your prospect’s lies and excuses, or you’re selling, baby.

And the one that is convicted at the deepest level is the one that will make the sale. That’s just the way it is.

Believers Win Big

You can’t fake belief – people instinctively recognize if you’re a poser or a Player.

And you can’t be a part-time Champion.

You can, perhaps, fool a few fools at a time, but

in the long run, the believers win big.

Immersed, Convinced, and Convicted – 24/7/365

True believers are

• totally immersed, convinced, and convicted – 24/7/365.
• They are passionate about what they do.
• They eat, sleep, and drink their product.
• They are a “product of the product”; you can’t drive Hyundai and sell Lexus.

You can’t sell what you’re not, and people buy YOU before they buy what you’re selling, because, ultimately, you’re selling yourself.

Part-time, sideline, half-time clock watchers are never sales champions.

You can’t serve two masters. People won’t by from timid, tentative, trembling types –

they buy from people who are absolutely uncompromising in their belief.

True believers are not

• rough,
• disrespectful boorish,
• or loud.
• They don’t
• talk over others,
• pressurize,
• or hard close, because they don’t have to.

Their power is in their belief, and they attract sales like a powerful magnet. If people are not buying from you, it has nothing to do with your product or service, the pricing, the competition, the weather, the holidays, the recession, demons, or your skanky ex-wife.

The reason why people are not buying from you is because you don’t BELIEVE in yourself and your product enough.

So stop whining and start winning. Stop making excuses and start making money!

Get yourself some serious belief and watch your closing ratios soar like an F18.

After we left the army at the end of our conscription, he didn’t know what to do with himself, so he became a psychiatric nurse. I remembered it well – we use to have drunken parties at his apartment on the very grounds of the mental institution, and anyone who observed our intoxicated, wild antics have assumed we were patients.

Then he married a female nurse who turned out to be gay. Then he became a medical sales representative and did very well.

Getting Rich is Akin to Getting Physically Fit

While Kobus was a sales rep, he started a plastics company in his garage, making desktop penholders to sell to the doctors along with the drugs, then he manufactures basins and bathtubs, and then bought a women’s clothing store, and so on. We remained good friends and played squash and sailed together, and here we were reminiscing.

I asked him, “Koebs, when did you become a millionaire? It must have been a very exciting day for you!”

And here was his answer: “Rob, I didn’t even realize it when I became a millionaire – it sort of creeps up on you – money starts flowing naturally when you’re in the right head space.”

I later experienced the same thing, but the way he described the process of getting rich is akin to getting physically fit. Like the day when you suddenly realize you have just pedaled three kilometers without even realizing it, because you were so busy thinking about other things.

In the beginning, every turn of the pedal is a concerted effort, tiring, and even exhausting. But if you persevere, one day you realize that you’re finally fit.

Are You A Quitter?

Ninety-seven percent of people quit so easily that it would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad. There is such a dearth of self-respect, self-discipline, and self-esteem out there that it is frightening.

People seem to have got to a point where they have even less shame than manners. I would be mortified if I had to cancel a meeting at the last minute or show up late for an appointment, but most people hardly blink.

Winners are tough on themselves, and they will endure pain, blisters, rejection, and difficulty without complaining or making excuses, UNTIL they succeed.

Not As Scary as it Seems

One night, Kobus and I were camping in the bush after leaving the army. I had my dad’s .38 special snub-nosed revolver, and he was armed with a hunting knife. In the middle of the night, we heard someone approaching our tent.

I cocked the revolver, Kobus unsheathed his knife, and we sprang out of the tent to confront our attacker, who turned out to be a large frog that was hopping around and bumping our cooking utensils.

Often, the threats we perceive in business are not close to as scary and dangerous as we think they might be. There are scarier things out there.

The Measure of A Great Man

Kobus died a few years back, but I have wonderful memories of him as a man of character and substance – a real man, whether we were fighting for our lives in Angola in the army, doing business, or having fun. He was a man of his word who had my back, and men like him are few and far between.

Warning Signals

Some people are in a small boat without oars, accelerating towards the edge of a roaring waterfall, and they’re laughing it up, smoking their filthy cigarettes, and slapping each other on the back. Blissfully unaware.

Others amongst us are starting to realize that that roaring sound isn’t your mother-in-law applauding you for mowing the lawn and paying for her latest cruise.

We see the writing on the wall, and it’s not Shakespearian poetry.

Red lights are flashing wildly, sirens are screaming, and the warnings are all around us.

Beliefs and Philosophy

Your life, the people you mix with, your choices, and the circumstances that you have created are a clear and honest indication of your present beliefs and philosophy.

Change Starts Within

And it starts with a personal check-up from the neck up, a frank confrontation that asks,

“Is what I believe helping me or hurting me?”

Is it, indeed, time to realize that, if you believed what Robert Kiyosaki, Donald Trump, Ayn Rand and Napoleon Hill believed, your life would be a lot happier and you would have a lot of money? If you do, there’s a way to break free from where you are and change the direction of your life.

Five Simple Steps:

1. Get the information you need from people who already have what you want. Stop listening to people who are even more screwed up than you are, like teachers, bankers, “consultants and coaches”, and academics.
2. Remove the losers, socialists, posers, and parasites from your life, even if they are family or business associates – you can’t afford them, and you don’t need them.
3. Find truly successful people to train you, guide you, mentor you, and confront your illusions and delusions. Take their advice and act on it. Adopt their philosophies.
4. Create an action plan with specific, measurable, time-related steps.
5. Work like crazy 24/7/365, and do whatever it takes UNTIL you are free from your chains and happy, healthy, and successful.

That’s what DollarMakers was created for. We are not politically correct, mediocre, compromising, or socialist. I tell it like it is, since the opinions of losers is of no interest or concern to me. And I lead by example.

1.   Take Note of Their Mentors.

I know someone whose mentor had no respect for follow-up, didn’t return calls, was undisciplined, and slack. She is following his lead, of course, and will likely wind up with a scary lawsuit.

2.   Take Note of Their Friends and Associates.

Birds of the feather – similar values, beliefs, networks, standards, and aspirations. Where do they go? With whom do they spend their time?

3.   Their Customers and Vendors.

What is their reputation with people who sell to them or buy from them? How about their competition? How LONG have they known this person? Be especially careful of people who are new in the area and have a gray past. In many cases, they’ve run away from their bad choices in the past.

4.   The Internet.

Google, Bing, Facebook, Twitter, their websites and blogs – take the time to check them out. They will naturally have enemies and detractors if they’re well known, but judge the assault by the quality of their enemies.

5.   Their Philosophy.

What books do they read, what groups and clubs do they belong to, what religious and political affiliations do they have, where do they live, how do they spend their time? One’s philosophy drives ones motives and choices – it is a good predictor.

6.   Test Them in Small Ways.

Test them in small ways before opening up the big JV opportunities. Do they return calls and e-mails promptly, do they pay on time, are they cheap, are they well groomed and punctual, respectful, and professional? Are they loyal and honest? “Faithful in little, faithful in much.”

7.  How Do They Treat Others?

Their spouses, kids, friends, the waiter in a restaurant, animals, receptionists, their employees, and colleagues. Listen and watch – observe – because that’s how they will end up treating YOU.

8.   Take Your Time, There’s No Rush.

And don’t take the word of one person referring them – I now a successful businessman who has very little discernment in judging others. Over time, you will find out a lot more about them, good and bad. Over time, you will see patterns and tendencies – people hiding, making excuses, justifying, lowering standards, cutting corners. You will also be able to identify loser traits, like smoking, greed., ego, drinking too much, gambling, womanizing, and other addictions.

9. Beware of the Too Friendly.

Be careful of the too friendly, smiling, backslapping, always agreeing, politically correct funster. Those who are everyone’s friend and promise the world are usually sociopaths, or at the very least passive aggressive back-stabbers. Watch out for posers and parasites, too – there are many of them out there. If someone agrees with everything you say and has no opinion, he’s weak or dangerous. Either way, watch out.

10. Track Record.

Finally, look at the track record. That is a clear predictor of future behavior. Along with that, listen for EXCUSES and BLAME – the sure sign of a victim mentality. In that case, be aware that your prospect lives in the Victim/Persecutor/Rescuer world that denies personal responsibility.

Better to take the time and make the effort on the front end than to suffer later. The cost of discipline weighs ounces, while the cost of regret weighs tons. I would rather pay a good private detective up front than lose a lot down the road.

Upon examination, they found that their son had fallen asleep in the back of the kayak, and that one side of his paddle was dangling in the water.

So, even though his exhausted mom was paddling like crazy in front, their son was unwittingly preventing her from getting anywhere.

Passengers or Partners

In life, you have either passengers or partners, parasites or pals. Some people will help you to reach your goals, while others will hurt you, even when they don’t mean to.

You can work hard and be honest and commit and risk, but if you’re linked up with a loser, you’ll just keep on going round in circles, like a moth around a flame, until you burn out, and your well-rested passenger simply moves on to his next victim, laughing and smiling and hugging everyone along the way.

What Are You In Business For?

You’re not in business to provide bloodsuckers and freeloaders with a job.

You’re not working to sacrifice yourself and your family’s future for idlers and moochers. That’s what Obama wants to do – he wants to “spread your wealth” between the deadbeats and leeches out there.

But then he’s a socialist, and hopefully, you’re not. He’s never run a business, and that’s probably why he hates capitalism.

Measure and Monitor Production

Make sure that when your partners become poisonous passengers, you cut them loose – fast.

People should only eat what they kill, and anyone stealing off your plate should have his fingers severely beaten.

Measure and monitor production, and pay for results, not words and promises and compliments.

If you want your kayak to take you to Treasure Island, make sure you don’t have a pirate on board with you. And keep checking.

Definition of Congruency

In the context of one’s life, congruency means that:

• your beliefs, values, and actions are all in
  • agreement,
  • harmony,
  • conformity,
  • and correspondence.
• all parts and areas of your life are moving in the same direction.
• you walk your talk.

For example, someone who smokes and yet makes a point of eating healthy and getting regular exercise is not making congruent choices. Someone who has one area of his life sabotaging, weakening, or undermining another area of his life does not have a congruent lifestyle.

The reason most people are unconsciously breaking down their own success and limiting themselves is because of three things:

1. First, they don’t have clearly defined, measurable goals for their lives.
2. Second, they fail to measure and notice what they’re doing and what the ripple effects of their choices are,
3. and thirdly, because they’re lazy, addicted, apathetic, or just plain stupid.

But for those of us who are committed to happiness, success, and reaching our full potential, focusing on congruency can skyrocket you to unprecedented heights of success.

Every choice in every area of your life affects every other area – everything in your life is interconnected.

No Involvement, No Commitment.

Stephen Covey said that when we live according to our values, we will be happy. He also said,

“Without involvement, there’s no commitment. Mark it down, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.”

That makes sense, since you can’t deal with life at arm’s length. Whatever you focus on will grow, and you only have 24 hours a day to attain your success and happiness. Having the intestinal fortitude to define your values, beliefs, and philosophy, and then to arrange your goals in each area of your life so that they all fit and support each other, is indeed a smart thing to do, and very rare.

Perhaps one percent of people do this. You can, too.

It’s a simple choice.

Defining Our Own Philosophy

Defining our own philosophy and world view, and then deciding what we want our lives to look like, taking into account every area of life:

• social,
• mental,
• physical,
• financial,
• family,
• work,
• etc.,is the first step to greatness.

Then, look at your present lifestyle and choices through this lens, and decide what and who needs to be:

• adjusted,
• removed,
• fixed,
• added,
• and tweaked.

That‘s the scary and exciting part, because it will tell you exactly how much you are committed to what you say you believe and want.

Your philosophy of life is like your GPS, or compass. It will guide you to it’s ultimate purpose, be it self-sacrifice and resentment, or greatness and fulfillment.

Align All the Areas of Your Life

Then, it’s time to take action, to align all the areas of your life with your goals and values. This means removin

• certain people,
• groups,
• activities,
• choices,
• and input,
• and adding new stuff.

It’s like

• pulling the thorn out of your foot,
• wiping the dog poo off the bottom of your shoe,
• filling your gas tank,
• joining a health club,
• buying a bicycle,
• and canceling your membership to a club of losers.

It’s a wonderful way to spring clean your life, repaint it, and spruce it up.

It’s weeding the garden and planting new, beautiful flowers.

Having the guts to commit to being real and honest, no matter what the cost, is a wonderful investment in your happiness and self-esteem.

The Midas Touch

People who live congruent lives feel that whatever they touch turns to gold – success starts to “flow” for them. Things start going their way.

1. They breathe easier.
2. They sleep well.
3. They confront issues with courage and confidence.
4. They seem to attract successful people and circumstances.
5. They start liking and respecting themselves more, so others start treating them better, too.
6. They come out of the closet, so to say, into the bright sunlight of energy, purpose, and freedom.

This is scary for losers, who live on excuses, but exciting for winners, who love creating their own dream lives:

“Every thought, word, action, cent, decision, commitment, second, minute, hour, and mouthful of food COUNTS.”

Evaluate Your Life

I encourage you to evaluate your life and decide if it’s congruent or not. Since 97% of our problems, including our most valuable resource – our time, can be solved or significantly alleviated with money, as I have found being a Joint Venture Broker to be the most valuable tool available for facilitating a life of congruency, freedom, and happiness.

Working With the Right People

I know business owners who spend a whole lot of time keeping contact with and fostering relationships with the wrong people. Those people will not help you in hard times – they will run for the hills. That will not produce or improve anything.

We should work hard on our relationships with the right people, but we shouldn’t waste time with the wrong people. Quality is more important that quantity.

When people have proven to you that they have other agendas and hidden agendas, and that they’re only around to ride your coattails and eat off your plate, you might keep them in your database, but don’t expect anything from them.

Two Kinds of People

A very successful businesswoman, Reeva Forman, once told me long ago that there are only two kinds of people in the world:

• Givers and Takers.
• Producers and Consumers.
• Creators and Parasites.
• Rainmakers and passengers.
• Winners and losers.

Don’t fool yourself with quantity. The small percentage of winners will be there for you when you need then, and these are the people to spend your precious time and efforts on. The past is a good indicator of their future choices.

How do you know which ones are the real winners? Test them.

Finding Your Winners

Here’s a simple test to see if you’re trying to build a long-term relationship with a stinker or a star: Ask yourself this:

“What has this person contributed / created / produced without my guidance and help? If I wasn’t around, what would he or she have achieved? Is this someone who is riding on my initiative and reputation, or are they genuinely and consistently improvising, innovating, and initiating? Do I have to initiate communication, motivate, cajole, contact, and threaten, remind or ask them before anything happens? Am I the driver all the time?”

Who Are the High Quality Ones?

It’s better to spend $1,000 on one single relationship than to spend a hundred dollars on each of ten people, hoping one of them turns out to be a winner instead of a weasel.

Most people in your life will come and go, and that’s fine. But you don’t adopt a child just because he washed your car, especially when you paid him to do it.

Watch out for those who need the approval of others, the party animal, hail-fellow-well-met type who is constantly trying to impress others and keep up with the Joneses. There are many posers, but few producers.

Invest in the Producers

You might have a thousand business cards, and that’s great for business. But how many of those people are high quality winners who will be there for you when the chips are down? How many will join you in Galt’s Gulch?

Work on one percent, and you won’t be disappointed.

Don’t cast your pearls before swine. Don’t waste your time and attention on the wrong people. Test them, create filters, and become more selective. You’ll be glad you invested more with the right people.

Strategizing the Target

Shane heard about an entrepreneur who could help him move a large amount of products. This entrepreneur (I’ll call him Dennis) was busy, successful, in demand, and very selective. Many people continually vied for Dennis’s attention, and salespeople spent a lot of time trying to sell him stuff. Shane took a month to do some serious due diligence and information gathering on Dennis –

• his family,
• business,
• employees,
• goals,
• background,
• philosophy,
• hobbies,
• you name it.

Then he paid a detective to gather even more information. When he was properly prepared, he spent a thousand dollars buying and using Dennis’s products and services.

Now Dennis knew who Shane was – a respectful client.

Setting the Bait

Shane knew that Dennis’s family was very important to him, so he paid a photographer to do a professional photo shoot of Dennis’s family. Then he invited Dennis to go deep sea fishing with him and a few carefully chosen friends.

He spent another month working on his relationship with Dennis until Dennis regarded Shane as a friend. This included buying Dennis a new guitar. Up to this point, Shane didn’t try to sell Dennis anything.

Catching the Fish

Three months to the day after Shane targeted Dennis, he closed the deal. Shane’s total investment, he told me, was five thousand dollars, which was tax-deductible. The deal made him forty-thousand dollars NET profit after deducting the five thousand. And Dennis made twenty thousand.

What Shane did was to strategically get the maximum amount of credibility and leverage before introducing his deal.

He told me that, at any time during this three-month process, if he felt the deal wasn’t going to work, he would have cut bait and walked away.

A General, Not a Soldier

That was ten years ago, and Shane and Dennis are still doing business. (I called Shane to make sure.) How different from the desperate posers who push their scruffy little business cards at you without even knowing you. Shane makes a lot of money, because he is a general, not a soldier. He is:

• rational,
• professional,
• unattached,
• reliable,
• respectful,
• and skillful.

He values relationships, and he takes nothing for granted. You would never see him in a “Business Networking Group” or a Chamber of Commerce meeting.

Many Ways to Achieve the Same Results

Of course, it doesn’t always take five thousand dollars to position yourself for a successful deal / Joint Venture. There are many ways to accomplish the same results for pennies on the dollar, and even for nothing but time and effort, but I like this illustration. As Ayn Rand said,

“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.”

The emphasis is on THINK – something most so-called entrepreneurs avoid in favor of desperate sales pitches and their blind fumbling for a quick buck.

Which do YOU want to be?

Soldiers will grab a gun and rush out shooting. Generals plan before executing. They use:

• military intelligence,
• spies,
• reconnaissance,
• and input from other people.

They coordinate the activities of others.

Which do YOU want to be? Soldier or general?

To learn more about the Joint Venture Broker approach to wealth, which Shane understood so well, visit www.jvwisdom.com.

I met with someone this morning – a real winner. My objective is to build a long-term relationship with him and do lots of mutually-beneficial business over time.

What did I sell him? We met in a bookstore, and I sold him a copy of “Atlas Shrugged”. At least, he was headed for the cashier with the book in his hand when I waddled out. That’s possibly the biggest favor I will ever do for him. But my strategy for turning that meeting into a goldmine goes beyond recommending a book that will change his life.

Seek to Add to Your “Eagles List”

Having established his credentials, and my due diligence having shown that the man is a winner of the highest caliber, I simply add his name to my “Eagles List”. These are winners (many who assume they’re on that list are not) with whom I intend to build strong, trusting, lucrative relationships /goldmines. They are few and far between, hard to find, and like gold nuggets in tons of dirt, so one should value such a discovery. These people represent less than 1% of the population.

1. The people on my Eagles List receive regular communication and value form me.
2. I regularly introduce them to good people, good deals, and good Joint Ventures, look for overlap with them in my own JVs, and generally seek to add value to their lives.
3. I monitor these relationships carefully, and when evidence reveals that they’re not who I thought they were, or they make bad choices, they are simply removed from my list (and go spiraling forlornly into outer darkness).

Building a Winners-Only Network

Winners understand reciprocity and they think big. If your network creates your net worth, it’s crucial that you avoid losers and parasites at all costs. By carefully and consistently building value and relationships with the right people, you earn the right to their time and advice.

Jim Rohn said, “Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.”

Winners know other winners, and it’s all about who you know.

Business is a Courtship

Think about a successful Joint Venture as the culmination of a courtship. Proving yourself as being professional, reliable, honest, and able, and creating trust and reciprocity, has to happen before smart entrepreneurs will work with you and introduce you to their friends. And they WILL judge you by the company you keep and your track record.

Jim Rohn again: “Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”

When you put enough wood on the fire, you can heat your home.

Too many times, we assume that we’re free of negative, limiting conditioning. Watch this video to see how your values determine why one gets rich or not.

Our beliefs about money and value and our self-esteem regulate and control our choices and the results we get. When our philosophy, values, beliefs, and priorities are properly aligned to wealth and success, everything changes.

If we:

• Love what we do,
• Believe in what we do,
• When we are grateful for what we do and have,

we remove limitations from our lives.

Take Inventory

Guilt, resentment, and fear will hobble even the most intelligent, hard-working people. Take inventory. Reassess what you value. Look at your real priorities.

• What do you spend your time and energy on?

Examine what you believe, and you will find out why you’re not getting rich. We always have the energy and time for things that are highest on our values. Money flows to your values.

• Where are you most disciplined, organized, and focused?
• What do you think about and read about most?
• What do you secretly wish for? Why? Why is it a secret?
• What is your internal dialogue?
• Where do you spend your time?
• What do you talk about?
• What do you emotionally react to?
• Those are your highest values – that’s what you are dedicated to. Is it making you rich?

We’ve all been conditioned and continue to be conditioned by the people in our lives and the information we’re exposed to. We all have values hierarchies or priorities, and the good news is that these can be adjusted, reinterpreted, and reprioritized. It’s all about interpretation and perception.

• How do you define “wealth”?
• What do think “rich” means?

Living a Life Congruent with Money

For example, if your highest priority is your kids, you might presently prioritize spending time with your children over working on your business, so you neglect your business or apply less passion to it, than, for example, building kits with your kids.

By understanding that your business can provide you with the passive income, money, and time for a better quality of life for your children, plus their education, security, and peace of mind, you can increase the priority of your business and see more “purpose” in it.

The meaning that we apply to our different options determines how we value them. By linking your priorities to the right activities and discipline, you can effect the changes you want.

Your Feelings About Money

1. How do you actually feel about money?
2. Do you secretly believe that rich people are dishonest, that money is the root of evil, or that money is a “necessary evil”?
3. Do you feel guilty about having money?
4. Do you resent others who have more than you do?
5. Do you feel bad when you have money while others don’t?
6. Does that cause you to subconsciously sabotage your own success?
7. Is your philosophy one of collectivism, or mysticism and superstition, as opposed to capitalism?
8. Do you feel you don’t deserve to be rich because of your past “sins” or bad choices?
9. Do you feel responsible for the choices that others make? Do you have low self-esteem?

Getting in touch with what you really want and believe is sometimes daunting and threatening, however confronting our true values is essential if we want to change our circumstances.

Empowering Your Beliefs

Removing the source or root of bad beliefs, replacing disempowering beliefs with good ones, and taking the time to think through this stuff, is easiest when you surround yourself with the right people and expose your mind to the right information.

In order to break free of these limiting beliefs and arrange a mindset that makes it possible to reinterpret your values priorities, I suggest you read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”, which I guarantee will change you life if you are serious about financial freedom.

My cleaning lady would rather slave away and sell her time and sweat for $20 an hour than take the time to build a business. An employee who commutes three hours a day and works nine hours for a measly salary and no security would make a lot of money if he devoted twelve hours a day to brokering Joint Ventures.

• Why is it so difficult for people to move from cleaning closets and doing mind-numbing jobs to becoming successful entrepreneurs?
• Why do they need a boss to make sure they work?
• Why would someone spend twelve hours a day, doing what he hates (statistically, most people hate their jobs) to make $5,000 per month, when he can spend twelve hours to create financial freedom and retirement within a year?

It doesn’t make sense. Or does it?

I tested it – I gave my cleaning lady copies of three of my books and a few DVDs. I directed her to my websites. I told her I would be happy to answer any questions she had. She has never mentioned JVs again. She works hard, has a great attitude, and talks about cleaning and her family, and how much they need money.

Why People Are Stuck

Why are people stuck on their financial prisons, when they can free themselves with entrepreneurship?

1. The average IQ in North America is 98. NINETY-EIGHT.
2. And we are conditioned by the liberal media, the sly mystics, and the matronly academia to believe business and money is bad.
3. People pay $35,000 to get an MBA that they can use to get a better JOB. Crazy.

Stupidity, conditioning, fear of the unknown. “Better the devil you know”, “Too good to be true.” Sad, isn’t it? Not really. 98% of people will never become wealthy. That’s just the way it is. Accept it.

Here’s my point:

Entrepreneurs, let’s stop trying to rescue those who prefer to wallow in the waters of quiet desperation. Let’s stop casting pearls before swine.

• Let’s withdraw our generous offers and make people come and ASK for our help.
• Then make them PAY for it, so they recognize its value.

After all, they happily pay for their cigarettes and beer, don’t they? Atlas should shrug more often.

Stop wasting your time with losers, posers, parasites, and wanna-be’s. Make people prove themselves.

If they stop producing, cut them loose. That means FIRE them. Let’s become a lot more selective.

Why are cults so successful? They enforce very strict discipline and rules. They exact massive payment from their members. Perhaps we could learn from them.

Up the Ante

Let’s increase the quality of those with whom we communicate. Let’s up the ante. Let’s throw up more barriers and stop being so generous and altruistic. Make them ask, make them pay, and make them perform, and the eagles will soon reveal themselves.

The cream will rise to the top – it doesn’t need encouraging. The good ones will show up and motivate themselves. You don’t have top motivate a winner, and you can’t motivate a loser. The turkeys will stay away and attack you at every opportunity. DollarMakers has a new policy: we don’t accept Members back once they leave. And as we get more selective, the quality and income increases.

Stop trying to sell yachts to the homeless. Stop expecting idiots to read Shakespeare. You don’t see the price of Rolex going down. Stop begging people to succeed. Don’t give your cleaning lady books – give her a box of donuts.

1.  Outdated Advice:

“Look at me,” purrs the seminar leader, “I’m rich because I invested in real estate in Florida. Do what I did, and you’ll get the same results.” Fine, except that the real estate market, the money situation, laws, mortgages, and a host of other things have changed dramatically in the past eight years since the guru made some money. And did he make his money in real estate, or in the seminars he’s been running to teach others how to do it? The same goes for Internet Marketing, foreign exchange scams, investments, and on and on.

2.  Motive:

What does the presenter of the advice have to gain or lose when you accept his advice? What is his vested interest and agenda?

3.  Authentic Knowledge:

How do you know this person advising you actually has the authority and insight to offer you good advice? At the end of many of the talks and seminars I present, I have people slithering up to ask me if they can give me some “Constructive Criticism.” I ask them how long they have been presenting seminars, how many people they have spoken top in the past 23 years, and how much money they have made, before they advise me on my presentation. Most of them are passive aggressive losers who wish to castigate me for calling people “fat” or using the word “loser”. Go figure. Someone once said, “Never take advice from someone who doesn’t already have what you want”. I would add, “And make sure they earned it themselves, under the same circumstances you currently face.”

4.  Consider the Source.

Consider the source of the advice.  A bank manager or a teacher can’t tell you how to get rich – they aren’t making money themselves! Never take advice from people who even are more screwed up than you are. And let me assure you, truly wealthy people will NEVER tell you how much money they have, and they seldom flaunt it. Read “The Millionaire Next Door”. Anyone can put doctored income statements and fake checks on the internet as “proof” of how much money they made. The Internet is a dangerous place; it’s where the worst people hide. You can be anything you like on the Internet.

5.  Consider the Setting.

Are you being offered incentives, meals, drinks, and holidays in order to get you to hand over money? Are you getting whipped up into an emotional frenzy and told that if you don’t invest quickly, you will lose? Is there pressure to buy NOW? Are you being wined and dined, patted on the back, and manipulated? Is religion being used? Wake up and smell the coffee.

6.  Beware of Statistics.

Be very aware and careful of the use of statistics. Have you heard the one about the river-crossing statistician who drowns after determining that the water is, on average, only three feet deep? This, says author Sam L. Savage, is just one example of the “Flaw of Averages.”

7.  Manipulation Tactics.

Be careful of social manipulation, “Group Think”, peer pressure, greed, the use of sex, and quick, but short-term financial relief.

Personally, I have seen enough conmen and scammers to last me a lifetime, and the worst of them appear on seminar stages, behind pulpits, and at Franchise Shows. They come in all guises, always smiling and hugging.

Remove Risk

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Never Compromise

I fired a client who was paying me $5,000 per month. He was arrogant and dishonest, and I don’t work with people I don’t like and respect. He said to me, “You’re new in Canada. Here, $5,000 per month is a lot of money to turn down.” I told him that it might be true for him, but that I wasn’t subject to his mental limitations. Today, I can buy and sell him.

We have many options, and we never have to compromise our values for money; prostitutes do that.

• The best way to predict the future is to create it.
• You don’t have to succumb to the limitations of others along the way.
• You don’t have to drop your standards or lower your expectations – that’s for weak people who don’t believe in themselves; they’re always looking for ran excuse to quit.

Can’t Afford a Ten-Dollar Shovel?

Someone asks you how he can get rich. You tell him he is standing on gold valued at millions of dollars, but to get to the gold, he needs to do some digging, and you have a shovel available for $20. He immediately responds, “But I can’t afford the shovel.” There can be a few reasons for this:

1. He’s stupid.
2. He’s lazy.
3. He doesn’t believe you.
4. He doesn’t believe in himself.
5. He’s a socialist and he expects you to give him the shovel, to do all the digging, and then give him all the gold.

It’s never a question of whether or not he can afford the shovel.

You Can “Find” the Money

When I have people showing up at our seminars and then telling me they can’t afford $497 to attend a Bootcamp that will teach them how to retire in a year with more residual income per month than they need to live on, I don’t even answer them. I don’t allow them to insult my intelligence.

If the toilet in their house broke down and they needed $497 to fix it, they would find the money. I focus on intelligent people who are prepared to pay and work. That’s less than 3% of the population.

Invest in Yourself

Would you spend $5,000 once (the shovel) to earn $5,000 every month for the rest if your life (the gold)? People who refuse to invest in themselves have no problem paying for hockey tickets, cigarettes, beer, and parties.

The average person would rather work for a salary with no chance of ever getting rich, than to take responsibility and spend half the time to get wealthy. That’s OK – I’m not looking for average people.

• I’m not looking for spoiled brats, socialists, arrogant children who think they’re entitled to everything,
• or cynical old men who think they know everything;

I’m looking for dishwashers who insist on owning restaurants, and people who are prepared to do whatever it takes to get rich, without compromising their values. We’re called DollarMakers for a reason.

• If your family doesn’t call you a workaholic fanatic and your spouse doesn’t have to beg you to “stop working”, you’re probably not doing what you love.
• If you regard what you do as “work”, you’re a mercenary / prostitute.
• If you have to be persuaded, reminded, cajoled, and threatened to do what you do, you’re simply a paid, robotic slave.

But if you can’t stop thinking about what you do, and regard it as a hobby, a mission, a cause, and a pleasure, you’re probably damn good at it, and you’re probably making serious money. If not, learn how to monetize it and get rich.

Going Through the Motions

Without passion, there’s no perfection, production, or power – simply automatons going through the motions to survive. You see them in most businesses – the glazed eyes, the apathetic attitude, the lackadaisical approach, the thinly veiled, passive aggression, and the sloppy, slow, sluggish movements. The indentured employees who sneeringly deign to serve you, but would obviously rather be sucking on smelly cigarette outside.

Wanted: True Believers

“Workaholic” is a word with a negative connotation that demonstrates that the person using it doesn’t understand someone who is passionate about their work. We wouldn’t call someone a “Golfaholic” or a Swimaholic” or a Vacationaholic”, would we? The word, “Fanatic” applies to true believers. When you believe in what you do, and your work creates value for others and profit for yourself, you should be pleased to be called a fanatic. It’s not like you’re strapping on a bomb to blow up a few local kids…

Living a Happy, Fulfilled Life

People who have been smart enough to align their values and beliefs, their passion and their purpose, with their lifestyles and work, who live a life of integrity and congruity, and who do what they love, create massive value and live happy, fulfilled lives. It’s a choice.

If you mix with like minded people whom you love, like, and respect, and who add value to your life, and design your life according to your own agenda instead of someone else’s, and only do what you’re passionate about, guess what? You’re probably rich, or getting there fast. Your passion will excite and energize you.

Designing a Life or Making a Living?

It helps to look at life in a “black or white” manner. We can either affect the world around us and be change agents, or we can be the scum on the water that is blown this way and that by any prevailing wind.

• We can either create our circumstances or react to them.
• We are either designing a life or making a living.
• You’re either buying jewelry and fur coats for your own wife or your boss’s wife.
• You’re either in control or being controlled.

Like the Cadillac advertisement that goes,

“They say the nail that stands up gets hammered down. Be the hammer.”

Passion Equals Profit

Passion equals profit. Conformity and compromise equals chagrin. Passion will change your life from privation and penury to power and pleasure.

• Do only what you love.
• Love what you do.
• …And take charge of your choices.

Passion will allow you to rise like the phoenix from indigence and fear to abundance and affluence. True passion opens the doors, crushes your competition, boosts your beliefs, and rockets you to riches. Passion is the horse that will take you wherever you want to go in life.

They say seventy percent of Americans are one paycheck away from bankruptcy. Actually, I think the number is much higher.

How to get out of debt?

1. First, what do most people do? They focus on the debt. It’s like a huge depression magnet. How happy, courageous, enthusiastic, creative, and innovative can one be when focusing on your biggest problem?
2. They associate with other people who are also in debt. Crazy! That just perpetuates the situation!
3. They seek silly, quick-fix solutions, like network marketing (it works, but it takes years) and risky schemes that cost a lot to get involved with. Remember, only take advice from someone who already has what you want, and that the biggest scammers are found running seminars and behind pulpits.

Someone once said that if you know what 97% of people are doing and you just consistently do the opposite, you can’t help succeeding in life. That’s because most people are losers. That’s a proven statistic; 97% of people will never get rich. So you have to go with the 3% if you want financial freedom.

My real life, tough love, unapologetic recipe for getting out of debt:

1.  Stop Unnecessary Spending.

Stop spending money you don’t have on things you don’t need to impress people who don’t care.

• You don’t NEED to lease the latest, shiny new car.
• You don’t need to eat out in restaurants all the time.
• You don’t need to belong to service clubs and networking clubs if they’re not making you money, and factor in all your costs – your time, gas, meals, parking, etc.
• You don’t need a Blackberry – I seldom use my old cell phone, and I do just fine.

Even if you’re the “President”, resign right now. Get real, and get over your ego and your need for acceptance. If you’re a dirty little smoker, it’s costing you at least $300 per month, offending people who don’t like stinking of foul tobacco, and telling everyone you’re a loser. Stop it. Winners don’t smoke. If I’m offending you, I don’t care.

2.  Flock with Winners.

Surround yourself with winners who have money. Cut the losers, whiners, and parasites in your life loose – NOW. That’s around 97% of people.

3.  Improve Your Focus.

Focus on profits, not sales, awards, or titles. You may be a Double Diamond Executive Champion in your network marketing company, but if you’re only earning $1,000 per month from it, you’re delusional. If you’re a business owner, moving your focus from sales to profits is a major shift in focus. Fire any employee who isn’t profitable, even if it’s a relative. You’re not a socialist. If your business isn’t working, scrap it. You’ll have to get tough if you want to get rich.

4.  Take Responsibility.

Stop making excuses and take full responsibility for your financial future. You have to adapt to your circumstances and stop blaming them. Change your sails and use the wind to propel you towards your goals. Your present life and financial status is a mirror of your choices and thoughts. YOU created it.

The past is irrelevant, so stop talking about it. Nobody cares how successful you say you were in the past. You can’t drive to the bank looking in the rear-view mirror. Depend only on yourself, and decide that you will reach your goal of financial freedom no matter what it takes or how long it takes – no turning back – total commitment. 24/7/365.

Move from being a worrier to a warrior, from victim to victor. You can be popular of you can be rich. Decide what is most important to you. If you want both, your achievements will be short-lived and mediocre at best.

5.  Find a Truly Successful Mentor.

Find a mentor with money and without a hidden motive. That disqualifies 99% of “coaches” and “consultants” and all bank managers and “Financial Planners”. Take his or her advice, and don’t second-guess them, or they will cut you loose. They will watch you, and if you’re not consistently taking action and applying their advice, you will suddenly find it hard to get hold of them. Atlas will shrug. Your Mentor will provide you with a SYSTEM for making money, and you have to stick with it UNTIL it works.

My Motto

Remember this – it is my motto for life, from Paul J. Meyer:

“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.”

Winners NEVER quit.

That’s it. Simple. The best system I have found to create financial freedom for anyone, regardless of their age, circumstances, background, education, or experience, and that can allow them to retire in one year with more residual income per month than they need to live on, is Joint Ventures.

DollarMakers is designed to help you and mentor you to this goal without risk, and you can do it part-time. We have a 23-year track record, and we practice what we preach. Get the fantastic Joint Venture Coupon Strategy tool for free now. That’s a good place for you to start.

Here are a few questions to ask yourself, in order to move from tactician to strategist, and from selling your time to using your head:

1. What else could your customers buy, before, after, and during their purchase from you, and who could you arrange that they buy that from, while you receive a piece of all the resulting, ongoing transactions? Back end = 100% pure profit.
2. If you gave them an incentive, how many businesses / people could you arrange to enthusiastically, systematically, and consistently refer business to you? Unlimited, qualified referrals from a trusted source with a high closing ratio is the result.
3. How much extra value would you like to add to your current transactions at no cost or risk to you? This can increase transaction values and closing ratios and drop your attrition rate through the floor.
4. How could you piggyback on the distribution, excess inventory, unconverted leads, marketing, sales, and other resources of twenty other businesses? Scrap that marketing budget.
5. How can you arrange to stop paying for promises and only pay for results, which will essentially allow you to have an unlimited marketing budget? Fire those coaches and consultants right now.

When business owners realize that they’re working too hard and too long for too little, and that they’re only realizing around 10% of their potential profit, they suddenly open their eyes and start thinking like real business owners instead of broke, self-employed, salespeople who BS themselves even more than they do everyone else.

You can move from the soup kitchen to the Four Seasons faster than you think. Stop paying for a Rolex and getting a Timex. But remember that the man who wears a Timex can’t teach you how to buy a Rolex.

Instead of mindlessly intoning, “I’m happy”, how about asking yourself,

1. WHY am I happy?
2. What have I got to be happy about?
3. What’s great about my life?
4. How can I be happier?
5. What can I do to make myself even happier? What specific steps can I take?

That will result in goals, and when you write them down and create an action plan, you can affirm your action plan.

This will in turn program your Reticular Activating System, which is like your mental GPS, and it will work tirelessly and subconsciously to help you notice and find ways to make your goals happen. Great leverage! That’s why you notice every new Lexus when you’ve just bought one.

How You Can Apply This Strategy

If you repeat, “I’m happy” and then interrupt yourself to ask, “Why am I happy?” you might find yourself answering, “I’m not happy – I am decidedly glum.”

• Well, then you ask, “What do I have to do to BECOME happy?” It’s profound in its simplicity – it leads to positive, constructive action.
• “What is making me unhappy?” Find the root cause and remove or adjust it.

Your Input Effects You

Have a good look at your input and its effect on your state of mind, aspirations, expectations, choices, and results. Every choice, word, and thought is either taking you towards your goals or away from your goals.

1. What are you reading, watching, and listening to?
2. Whom are you mixing with?
3. What kind of exercise, diet, and environment is affecting your progress?

Managing Your Mind

What you think about comes about. What you focus on will grow. Managing your mind with questions and controlling your input makes sense if you want to fast-track your success. Written, specific, time-related, measurable goals will make your Reticular Activating System work overtime for you, even while you’re asleep. It’s the most powerful weapon you have – might as well use it for good.

Audit Your Inner Resources

Just as professional Joint Venture Brokers use Resource Audits, you might want to audit yourself sometime. “On a scale of one to ten, how happy am I? Why? What needs to change for me to be happier? How healthy? How rich?”

Evaluate your relationships, your present status – take a good, hard look in the mirror. It’s not easy; I sometimes get viciously verbally attacked (usually in writing by the passive aggressive, anal retentive types) when I say things at my seminars that forces people to see themselves in the mirror of their minds. They hate what they see, so they “break the mirror” by attacking me.

Interpreting Your Circumstances

The way we interpret our circumstances and experiences goes a long way to determining how successful we will be. The meaning you choose to give it is the meaning it will have for you.

When a woman told Churchill he was drunk, he responded, “Madam, tomorrow morning, I will be sober, but you will still be ugly.”

Glenn Beck, a true political prophet, is being violently attacked and threatened by people whom he’s courageously exposing in the media as frauds and weasels. He had his friend, a psychiatrist, join him on his TV show to discuss how one should handle these attacks. His friend illustrated how drug addicts refuse to admit they have a problem and attack you for suggesting they do – a great illustration.

Philosophy: Your Best Leverage

The best mental leverage of all is your beliefs and your philosophy – that is what guides you every second of your life. Your beliefs, world view, and philosophy is either hurting or helping you, so why not choose one that works for you?

• Discard outdated, demeaning beliefs, and watch your life soar to new heights of success.
• I highly recommend you read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand – it has changed many lives, including mine.

One is faced with a buffet of belief choices – choose right. As developmental psychologist Gail Sheehy wrote years ago in her groundbreaking book, “Passages”, it’s normal and healthy to change your values and beliefs as you go through life, instead of being stuck in the poisonous beliefs some of our parents, preaches and teachers imposed on us – talk about child abuse!

Your most valuable asset in life is your mind.

Buddha said, “Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.”

Control your mind, and you control your life.

Napoleon Hill taught us, “Whatever the mind of man can believe and conceive, it can achieve.”

Your circumstances are a clear reflection of your philosophy and thoughts. Have fun taking back control of your mind and your future – be free!

The problem that Jay refers to is our negative, limiting conditioning that is based on scarcity, fear, competition, and skepticism. Instead of seeing why things are possible and what we CAN accomplish, most of us find reasons why we CAN’T. When the average person is told he can get rich, retire, and break free from his burden of debt, he responds, “It’s too good to be true; must be a scam.”

But when you think like a real entrepreneur, and especially when you understand the power of Joint Ventures, everything changes. You don’t have to die of thirst in the middle of a freshwater lake.

The Abundance that Surrounds You

We are surrounded by opportunities, resources, and options that most of us are blind to. Underutilized resources, unconverted leads, hidden assets, money, credit, excess inventory, perishable resources – my personal frustration is that I battle to find enough people who understand Joint Ventures to take advantage of all these wonderful windfall opportunities, and that’s why I started DollarMakers. There is no shortage of options, only a shortage of smart, hard working people who GET IT.

For Example

Here’s a simple example of the amazing power of negative conditioning. Last night I presented a complimentary, ninety-minute seminar on how to become financially free through the use of Joint Ventures, and invited people to attend my JV Bootcamp. I told them how two hundred people attended my last three Bootcamps, and none of them took advantage of our money-back guarantee. Then I offered then the same deal: “Attend the Bootcamp, and by lunch time, if you’re not happy, we will refund your $497.”

At the end of my talk, a man walked up to me and said, “I still don’t know if this will work.” Even though I had effectively removed all the risk, and I know he can easily afford the $497, he is still stuck. Scary!

It’s like holding out a bowl of money, offering people free money, and they say, “There must be a catch – I won’t take any. Please let me return to my sad life of desperation, frustration, and fear.”

Seeing Through the Myths

The best part about getting a piece of the vast abundance around us is that is can be done with no cost, no risk, and relatively little time. The myths that are perpetrated by the media, the mystics, and the academics are not factual, yet we buy into them. When people learn the indisputable, proven FACTS about specific ways to access resources and wealth that cannot be denied, things change – fast. These facts can be demonstrated through real-life stories and examples, with measurable results.

“You have to work hard for many years in order to make real money” is a myth, a concept that is fed to us with those who have a vested interest in our servitude. The rich get richer because they understand this stuff. The banks and your “Financial Planner” don’t want you to know this. You can walk out of your self-created prison – the door isn’t locked.

Rising Above Recession

This recession is a good example of smoke and mirrors, and many businesses are doing better than ever before DURING the recession. Those who believe the only way to survive to is to get and keep a job at any cost, are the losers; they will accept pay cuts, unpaid overtime, ridiculous restrictions, and paid slavery, whereas they can walk away and enter a new world of freedom and choice, where they can hold their heads up high and retire within a year with more residual income per month than they need to live on!

My Advice

• Someone said, “Never take advice from anyone who doesn’t already have what you want.”
• Someone else said, “Never take advice from people who are more screwed up than you are.”
• And I would like to add, “Don’t buy outdated advice.”

Breaking Free

How do we break free from this restrictive, oppressive lifestyle of scarcity? At DollarMakers, that’s exactly what we teach people to do, thorough the use of Joint Ventures. Anyone, regardless of their age, background education, or circumstances, can use JV’s to create financial freedom without cost, risk, or too much time. Much of it, you are already doing; DollarMakers teaches you how to monetize it. With 23 years of international experience, we know what you need to succeed.

You CAN be free. You don’t have to starve next to a loaded buffet table. How hungry are you? There’s more than enough for everybody.

Remove your blindfold, break your chains, and for the sake of your sanity, your integrity, and you family, decide that you want the time and money to enjoy a great quality of life instead of living on the edge in a dark, unhealthy coalmine. What have you got to lose? What will you do?