Most people have no clue how to become financially free why? .... because they don’t actually value financial freedom.
WHAT you might ask?
Think about it, you know everything about what you value, say you love one particular video game, well you know all of the players, what’s in all the levels, how to score points…you know it allbecause you VALUE IT.
Well, you want to be financially free???if you REALLY WANT
IT, then you have to work for it and learn about it.
This next exercise took me 2 months to do! However, it changed my life, and right after I finished it we opened savings accounts for our personal money and our business, and have more money saved than ever in only half a year!
The longer and harder it is to complete this exercise…the more you have to do it to become financially free.
If it’s easy for you, then you are probably already financially free or very close to it. This next exercise is taken from the book Value Financial Freedom by Dr. John DeMartini
Step 1: On a separate page or on your computer, answer each of the following questions. Make sure you answer each question thoughtfully, and make sure you provide each of the two hundred answers per question that I have specified.
You will get the greatest results from this exercise by completing it thoroughly. You need two hundred answers for each question to truly shift wealth-building to a higher spot on your list of values.
You also need to expend this amount of mental effort to re-myelinate new pathways in your brain in order to neuroplastically transform your brain. If these two hundred answers were easily obtained quickly off the top of your head, you would have already been well into your journey of wealth building and your life would have already demonstrated that you had made those connections.
Just as in fitness training, it takes more and more reps to get results beyond your present comfort zone and ability level, so in this mental work, you do need to expend some extra effort to transform your thinking and your brain.
So dig for legitimate and powerfully meaningful answers. Persevere until you can genuinely see that your perceptions, decisions, and actions have truly transformed with regard to your financial management.
1. How can building a business that serves ever-greater numbers of people be of great service, value, and benefit to you? Answer that question at least two hundred times. Do not list the benefits of spending any of the money that you will make. Write only the benefits of actually building the business.
For example:
1. To be able to lead and influence the lives of those I employ
2. To be able to employ people and add to the number of economic exchanges
3. To be able to serve and make a difference in the lives of millions of people
4. To be able to master the skills of business management
5. To be able to create a business that I can leave to my offspring
2. How can managing your business more effectively and efficiently to maximize your profits be of great service, value, and benefit to you? Answer that question at least two hundred times.
For example:
1. To be able to master the skills of governing and leading people
2. To be able to hire and inspire teams to fulfill their lives
3. To be able to prioritize my and my employees’ actions to reduce stress
4. To be able to maximize profits, keep costs down for customers, and sell more
5. To be able to determine what is working and not working
3. How can saving an ever -greater portion of profit from your business be of great service, value, and benefit to you? Again, answer that question at least two hundred times.
For example:
1. To be able to stabilize my primary business
2. To be able to attract more qualified clients
3. To be able to associate with wealthier clients and receive more ideas and expanded options
4. To be able to capitalize on the beauty of compound interest
5. To be able to calm my volatile emotions and economic stress levels
4. How is investing and learning the art of progressive investing with greater degrees of leverage and return going to be of great service, value, and benefit to you? (“ Progressive investing” means that as your wealth grows, you are able to take ever-greater risks. For example, you might begin by putting $ 100 each month into an interest-bearing account. When you have accumulated a few thousand dollars, you might put half of your wealth into a collection of blue-chip stocks. When that wealth has grown larger, you might put a portion of it into a collection of smaller and newer stocks that is riskier but that offers a potentially greater rate of return. As your wealth grows, you are able to take greater risks —and achieve greater rewards.) Once again, answer that question at least two hundred times.
For example:
1. To be able to take advantage of more progressive and elevated returns
2. To learn about companies and their financial strategies
3. To build a stable stack of cushioned investments
4. To diversify my portfolio to take advantage of different classes and sectors
5. To pool my money with other sophisticated investors
5. How is building and amassing a vast financial fortune going to be a great service, value, and benefit to you? Yet again, answer that question at least two hundred times.
For example:
1. To be able to build a stable nest egg
2. To be able to draw in even more wealth-building opportunities
3. To be able to endure any form of socioeconomic volatility
4. To be able to build an enduring brand
5. To be able to select the individuals or companies I associate with
6. How is identifying or creating a financial cause— something you can dedicate your life and your wealth to— that leaves a legacy that lasts more than one hundred years and serves vast numbers of people going to be of great service, value, and benefit to you? Answer that question at least two hundred times.
For example:
1. To be able to create a lasting foundation that serves the world beyond my life
2. To be able to have a multigenerational family structure that serves the world
3. To be able to master more sophisticated estate and trust planning
4. To be able to participate in philanthropy
5. To be able to leave a lasting family or corporate legacy
- What you say and what you can teach the world MATTERS
- You matter
- Learn to do what I do by sharing your knowledge with the world
- What you know is important to someone and you have a duty to get your message and your value out to the world as fast as possible
