MILLIONAIRE SUCCESS HABITS
with yourself. Sometimes we pretend that everything is okay. We forget what really matters. You must try to break down that everything-is-okay mind-set and write down what truly is in your heart. In fact, stop reading right now and take a yellow pad, or your phone, or your computer, and make a note of, “Where am I in life?” You can go beyond just your finances and write down where you are in the different areas of your life that matter most: love, intimacy, health, your career, and your family. Go ahead and break out these areas on a piece of paper and, next to each one, describe where you are. Don’t write other people’s percep- tions of you. Instead, when you look in the mirror and you’re dead honest with yourself, where are you? Before we can create your ideal destination, we need to know your starting point. GET CLEAR ON WHERE YOU WANT TO GO Here’s a story that will help you think about where you want to end up—versus the place you don’t. A dear friend took a church group of 18 boys on an adventure trip to Durango, Colo- rado, where they planned to go white-water rafting. When they arrived, the guide informed them that the rapids were higher and stronger than they had been in many years. Rapids range on a scale from 1 to 5, and most of the ones they were going to experience were 4’s. Anxious about their safety, the guide made them do practice drills many times during the first mile of the adventure. The guide kept hammering into their heads one idea: the “positive point.” He said, “Boys, when I point, I will always be pointing to where we want to go. I will never point at the downed tree we could get caught on or the jagged rock that could puncture the raft. If I pointed to what we didn’t want to hit, that’s where all your focus would go, and I assure you we would run right into it. Don’t worry if we get even inch- es from the rocks, you just focus on the positive point and use all your energy and attention to get us there.” With this posi- tive point to guide them, their minds focused on the solution
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