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This is an intresting thread,outside of the biblical meaning, I'm unsure what is meant by apostles though,which are something listed as most rich/self made people having.
I think it means Proteges, acolytes, or disciples.
 
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Hmm... A very clear majority set monthly, annual, and lifetime goals. Does anyone else do this?

In any case, it is interesting to see how the mind creates a barrier to success.
I think there are meny millionaires who have a story to tell you can believe what you want to.Each time I read something that mj has wrote brings me a step closer to understand the "Truth" with a no Bs attitude.
 

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Hmm... A very clear majority set monthly, annual, and lifetime goals. Does anyone else do this?

In any case, it is interesting to see how the mind creates a barrier to success.

Before this year when I started reading business books with the intent to completely immerse myself in the mindset of successful ppl, my goals could all be summed up in three words.

Pay the bills.

I am very familiar, almost comfort with survivor mentality. Thankfully, due to this forum and copious books I’ve been changing.

I've only started doing this in the last 2 months.

It seems like a small thing but holy hell at the difference it makes. It is one of those things where you trust the process, see it working, and think to yourself, "boy, I was pretty stupid for not trying this out in the past when all these other high achievers swore by it".

YUP.

I get the long term goal thing, but daily goals? Hourly goals? Even monthly goals are a bit odd to me. Can you guys give us a couple of examples to get the creative juices flowing?

I’m convinced that successful ppl are so familiar with their habits and thought processes that they have no clue how foreign their brain activity is from the average normal slackers/sidewalk/slowlaners.

Every time I learn some new aspect of mindset stuff I immediately ask my clients about it to get real time feedback. The majority of my clients are CEO’s, business owners, or entrepreneurs. They like me so they don’t mind explaining simple stuff to me for a few minutes. Also, by asking a TON of them the same little question I can get back different slices of the pie. I’ve long realized my brain is stubborn as hell about really believing new stuff so I need multiple ppl attacking a problem from multiple perspectives to make it stick in my twinkle head.

Hold on I’m getting to the point. Lol.

This week’s multiple mentor lesson is all about procrastination/visualization. So, I dutifully asked every single client whether or not they visualized and when.

THEY ALL DO IT. Wtf??

They might not “clarify their goals” on an hourly basis but they do continually visualize tasks they need to accomplish and most of them said they do it throughout the whole day for each and every upcoming meeting, phone call, or task.

See I always imagined “clarify your goals” as this existential thing, not as a practical reminder of where you want to be when the day is done. Like, a lot of them use their to do list all day... and then visualize the next item, and then later the next, etc. They visualize each important thing, how they want to accomplish it or what it will feel like.

They’re doing this constantly! What? *mindblown

They’re thinking about the future in a linear fashion, then working backwards.

I started a convo with my mastermind group last night about it. Today we’re all attempting it: to visualize ourselves feeling proud, (sipping the appropriate congratulatory beverage) and content w/ the things we realistically could accomplish today. Two of my friends already changed their day around. It’s a fascinating thought exercise.

My brain is like.. “Well this is interesting.. we’ve never done this before!”

And it’s hard. Just FYI. Hope that helps. If not, toss it. I’m not a millionaire, yet.
 
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I want to bump this because I used it as freaking 2 hours of content for KBRS over the last two days. It is incredible information for discussion and analysis.

I also bought two of Dr. Bell's books today as well.
 

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only 1% below 40, since this the demographic a lot of us are aiming for, im dissapointed.
I wouldn't be disappointed at all, in fact, the fact that "Unscripted " exists is because most people follow the the script. You want to be in the 1%? Well here it is. No offense, but a majority of these people are probably slow-laners or are working in their business. 60% of these people are over 50. The data is useful but understand this is not the lifestyle most of us are aiming for.

Entrepreneurs, especially those in the fast lane, are the minority.
 

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This is a great thread with a lot to review and reflect on.

Bumping to dive deeper when time permits.

Thanks for sharing OP.
 

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Great quote.

And therein lies the essence of probability. The odds might be poor, but the more tickets you push into the game, the more likely you'll get lucky. All of these "rich habits" are simply more ways you can get more tickets into the game, hence, manipulating probability.
@MJ DeMarco this post is a while ago but wanted to ask.

Since luck and probability is a result of trying a lot of different things does this mean that having multiple projects going on at once is a good idea?

Maybe spending a large portion of time on one project and then another 20% on a couple of side projects that serve as “tickets”?

Thanks!
 

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@MJ DeMarco this post is a while ago but wanted to ask.

Since luck and probability is a result of trying a lot of different things does this mean that having multiple projects going on at once is a good idea?

Maybe spending a large portion of time on one project and then another 20% on a couple of side projects that serve as “tickets”?

Thanks!

Each try takes just as much time, you get outsized returns on your time by focusing, but theoretically if you had 5 different projects and you didn't lose any productivity switching between projects, you would need to take 5 times as long to actually try all 5.
 
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This one seemed kinda random as it didn't mention any other religions, but at <3% of US population it is significant.

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Well at least I've got that going for me :rofl:
 

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"Corley conducted a survey by interviewing 233 wealthy people who make $160,000 or more in annual income and hold at least $3.2 million in net liquid assets (177 of whom were self-made, coming from poverty or the middle class) and 128 poor people who make less than $35,000 per year and have less than $5,000 in assets. Over five years, Corley posed 144 questions in 20 categories to each person and saw distinct patterns emerge.”

There are some very distinct differences that we see emerge, many having to do with self discipline. The rich are extremely disciplined. They would rather sacrifice today for a better tomorrow. The prefer $7 tomorrow to $5 right now.

Some of his specific findings: the wealthy read constantly, exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet, hang out with other successful people, pursue their own goals, get up early, have multiple sources of income, are positive, and have great etiquette (thank-you notes, birthday cards, calls on special occasions, etc.)

His full findings:

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You can read the rest of his work on Rich Habits | Aberdeen, NJ | Personal Development
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60 percent of them become wealth from age 50-60.

I thought this mainly come from employment income increase and asset appreciation (stocks and real estate) as senior management, technical expert, rather than the business owner/self employed path.

But I also saw 50 percent as business owners in the survey.
 
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"Age became wealthy-below 40: 0%"

Okay this is mostly garbage at this point.

If I don't have a few million by 30 I will be a bitch a$$ loser broke boy and extremely disappointed. Assuming no disabling accidents or massive tragedy.

Liquid capital is sorta silly to give a shit about.

"How much capital do you make sure isn't allocated?"

"Uh, only what I need, but I usually put all my money into things that make me more money. I own like 20m worth of different businesses, control assets worth a few mil, my income is 800k a year and I reinvest it"

"Ok you're not wealthy we need people with 3m in their checking account and the income of a typical lawyer"

If I'm going to have 3m liquid I will probably be making 5m a year in income. I know what to do with my money and putting it in a bank is not at the top of the list.
 
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"Corley conducted a survey by interviewing 233 wealthy people who make $160,000 or more in annual income and hold at least $3.2 million in net liquid assets (177 of whom were self-made, coming from poverty or the middle class) and 128 poor people who make less than $35,000 per year and have less than $5,000 in assets. Over five years, Corley posed 144 questions in 20 categories to each person and saw distinct patterns emerge.”

There are some very distinct differences that we see emerge, many having to do with self discipline. The rich are extremely disciplined. They would rather sacrifice today for a better tomorrow. The prefer $7 tomorrow to $5 right now.

Some of his specific findings: the wealthy read constantly, exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet, hang out with other successful people, pursue their own goals, get up early, have multiple sources of income, are positive, and have great etiquette (thank-you notes, birthday cards, calls on special occasions, etc.)

His full findings:

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You can read the rest of his work on Rich Habits | Aberdeen, NJ | Personal Development
Edit 8/16/18 - This is a different Author who had similar findings:



Looks like I need to golf to become a multi-millionare!


"Ok you're not wealthy we need people with 3m in their checking account and the income of a typical lawyer"

If I'm going to have 3m liquid I will probably be making 5m a year in income. I know what to do with my money and putting it in a bank is not at the top of the list.

Right, and having access to that much liquidity can easily be achieved if you can take it out as debt against your business. So I'm not sure if thats what they mean by "Net Liquid Wealth" or if they are just copying the number from their etrade account.
 

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