The audio program Motivational Legends combines the talents of several well-known motivational speakers. Two speaker’s topics stood out and inspired me about successful habits and mindset. I wanted to fill you in on the bullet points of each of these sections. As I list them, you may notice some elements overlap in each of these talks.
Twenty One Qualities of Self-Made Millionaires by Brian Tracy in Motivational Legends
- Dream big dreams: These individuals exhibit “Back from the Future” thinking. You cannot hit a target that you cannot see.
- Do what they love to do: One needs energy, enthusiasm and passion to overcome obstacles in achieving success.
- Commitment to Excellence: We earn the respect of people we respect.
- Develop their unique talents and abilities: We all have gifts and talent and have much to offer the world and the people we influence.
- Accept responsibility: Exhibit a sense of self-reliance, and make no excuses.
- Develop a clear sense of direction: One needs to determine exactly what he/she wants, and what price they are willing to pay to achieve it.
- Refuse to consider failure: Have confidence in knowing that success lies on the far side of failure.
- Dedication to lifelong learning: These individuals gain new knowledge through reading, audio programs, seminars, webinars.
- Develop a workaholic mentality: The 40-plus formula for success; the value of hard work.
- Get around the right people: Avoiding negative people and surrounding oneself with a mastermind network.
- Are prepared to climb from peak to peak: Endeavors are always going to have peaks and valleys.
- Develop resilience and bounce back: Such individuals prepare for reversals. One who has a healthy response to this can make a better recovery.
- Unlock inborn creativity: “Mindstorming” to identify clear goals, pressing problems and focused questions.
- Become unshakable optimists: Framing events in a positive light.
- Dedication to serving others: Delivering more than expected.
- Develop a reputation for speed and dependability: Ability to separate the relevant from the unimportant, the urgent from the non-urgent.
- Honesty with oneself and others
- Concentrate and complete one thing at a time: The myth of multitasking.
- Are decisive: These individuals think, plan and then decide.
- Twin qualities of courage and persistence: Courage is the ability to launch without guarantees of success. Persistence is the ability to endure in the face of all difficulties.
- Practice self discipline
12 Secrets of Self-Made Multimillionaires by Dr. Denis Waitley in Motivational Legends
- One must feel he deserves to be wealthy
- Money should not be the primary motivation: Motivation is an inner drive that compels one to action.
- Multimillionaires are trend spotters
- Multimillionaires have clear specific focus: They are goal-oriented.
- Multimillionaires understand and use compound interest
- Multimillionaires are comfortable with risk: They don’t invest unless they can stand the downside. They do match investment strategies to their own time horizon. They do invest for the long haul. They keep hope and greed in check, and consider incremental risk.
- Multimillionaires often live beneath their means
- Multimillionaires maximize time and resources: They specify before they diversify, and don’t trade hours for dollars.
- They act like free agents, selling their knowledge and experience. See Free Agent Declaration of Independence.
- Patience and persistence give them the perspective that failure is delay but never defeat: The real secret of mental toughness is contingency planning.
- Life is not a treasure hunt: Life itself is the treasure!
- Multimillionaires learn to make it on their own early in their lives and teach this to their children: Delayed gratification.
Conclusion
I hope these notes provide some sense of what qualities and habits one needs to be a success. In future blog posts, I plan to review other inspirational personal development books and audio resources. Learning/acquiring knowledge is such a powerful element in our success! If you want to learn more about an online educational company called Entre Institute that can help you earn an extra source of income, allow you to learn a job where you can work from home, even become a millionaire, there are links on this site that can direct you.
Take Care!
Michael