How to Retire in 10 Years (eBook)
114 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
978-1-0983-9078-5 (ISBN)
Most people live predictable lives. While they certainly go through the motions of life, are they actually living? We are taught at a young age to follow that golden script - go to school, get a job, get married, have family and at that "e;magical"e; age of 65, we can retire with a mediocre pension and golf twice a week. What a joke. Most of us live with such conformity based on the rules of society that we often miss out on the big picture. Doing what everyone else does only guarantees you'll have what everyone has - and most people are miserable and broke. How to Retire in 10 Years (& Live with Absolute Freedom) is the roadmap that will help remove the shackles of western culture. He teaches you about retraining your mindset to become unstoppable, shows you systematic mathematical formulas to help you reach financial freedom, guides you through established the right team and systems and teaches you broad concepts on how to maintain and protect your wealth. This is the pathway to Financial Freedom.
Master the Mind
“Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world.”
—Nelson Mandela
As with most things in life, it is hard to accomplish virtually anything if you fail to first envision what it is you’re actually seeking. In my first book, “The Investor Mindset”, I explain how being a visionary is the natural prerequisite needed to successfully obtain anything you deem important.
I can confidently say that one of my biggest character strengths (in addition to my numerous flaws, of course) is the ability to see everything and anything I desire with precise clarity. What I want I normally get and I owe this to my innate ability to convert thoughts into pure action. The brain is a remarkably powerful organ and countless medical studies and journals confirm the very fact I am making - your thoughts become your reality.
Early retirement, or absolute freedom of the present by my definition, first requires that you get your head on straight to be perfectly blunt. If you don’t possess the right mind or the ability to truly picture yourself living your ideal lifestyle, how do you plan to ever achieve these goals? It’s physiologically impossible.
If you don’t possess the right mind or the ability to truly picture yourself living your ideal lifestyle, how do you plan to ever achieve these goals?
In Shawn Anchor’s book, “Big Potential”, he describes an experiment that was once conducted to determine whether or not the power of pure thought could affect an individuals’ physical health. In one group, the control group, 15 people exercised daily over a 30-day period. In the other group, the test group, these individuals were told simply to think about exercising and envision how they would like to see their health improve. Not surprisingly, the group that actually exercised daily saw tremendous positive results, but what was more astonishing was that the group who simply thought about exercising saw an average of a 30% increase in their own health too! This is a remarkable experiment which confirms, by sheer data and lab-verified results, that our brain possesses much more power than most of us may realize.
Growing up as a young boy, my dear mother and teachers often worried that I was too much of a daydreamer, a wanderer of sorts, with an imagination that often distracted me from what was “important.” I realize now that they were flawlessly correct - but this was a good thing. Although I was certainly not aware at the time, the capacity for my brain to wander, to think, to see, to plan, would eventually lead to some of my greatest successes in life. In university for example, I rarely went to class but was still able to graduate (although I wasn’t top of my class by any means). I learned not by listening to a professor ramble on in front of 500 students in an auditorium but rather I learned by staring at words, analyzing numbers and data and creating a mental image of what was required for me to pass. I would certainly say I have a photographic memory by any definition and this has resulted from many years of practice. Little did I know that my wandering sessions, as my mother would put it, were actually years and years of me learning how to control the mind and convert my thoughts into my reality.
When I moved to Taiwan in 2006 without having a job, knowing one person or even speaking a single word of Chinese, I subconsciously never had any doubt it was the right decision for me at the time. Even though this was my first foreign adventure ever, and one that would profoundly change who I have become today, I knew that somehow, someway, I would figure it all out. During the 42-hour trek to the southern city of Kaohsiung, I remember distinctly being on a bus laughing out loud at the pure randomness of what I was doing. Less than a week prior, I had been talking with my father about “what to do next”, as I had just graduated from Queen’s University and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. Being an avid traveller himself, he suggested that I do some exploring of my own. Without hesitation, I grabbed my globe, closed my eyes, gave it a big spin and landed my finger on Taiwan. Six days later, I was on a plane with absolutely no idea what I was going to do when I got there.
My pure desire to succeed came entirely from the strength I had mentally to envision what was needed to survive,
Within just one month, I had landed a job at a private English school, enrolled in Chinese classes, bought a motorcycle, joined a gym, rented an apartment and had a pretty solid group of friends. My pure desire to succeed came entirely from the strength I had mentally to envision what was needed to survive, and thrive, I suppose. Taiwan will always hold a special place in my heart because it was the place where I became the person I now see in the mirror. It taught me that no matter what I did or went through in life, I would always come out ahead. It showed me that freedom, excitement, culture, passion and the simple act of feeling alive would be forever ingrained into the deepest parts of my soul as a person. It confirmed that whatever I put my mind to would unquestionably become a reality.
Harnessing the power of your mind to control your actions, and thus your own life, takes significant time and effort.
Now, I’ll admit that not everyone’s mind works in the same way. Some people unfortunately lack the mental capacity to use the power of their brain to push them into actual results. This is not their fault of course, as we are all born with many distinct strengths and weaknesses. However, as with anything that doesn’t come naturally to us, we simply need to work at it. Harnessing the power of your mind to control your actions, and thus your own life, takes significant time and effort.
The mind requires continuous stimulation in order to maintain its strength and even the simplest of tasks can be quite effective.
I always recommend that everyone simply begin wherever they are capable of starting. Baby steps are the key as long as there is progression. I have many clients and friends that literally cannot envision anything; they live in virtual bubbles and can only see what they already know. They are not dreamers nor planners and anything outside of their routined lifestyle causes an outright mental breakdown. People like this need help, no differently than someone with a weight problem needing help from a trainer or nutritionist. The mind requires continuous stimulation in order to maintain its strength and even the simplest of tasks can be quite effective. For example, let’s say you wanted to make coffee in the morning. An easy exercise would be to envision the entire process from start to finish. For me, I like using a french press; therefore, I would first imagine boiling the water, followed by putting the grounds into the press, pouring the water into the reservoir, smelling the coffee as it brews until I eventually take my first sip. This may seem somewhat ridiculous but don’t for a moment underestimate what this does for your mind. Personally, I do these types of exercises with virtually everything I do, big or small. When I was elected to Cornwall City Council in 2014 for example, I used to imagine every step of the process that would lead me to the result I wanted: knocking on doors, making the victory speech, being sworn into office, where I would finish in the polls, the motions I would make at the council table and so on. From my perspective, there was never any doubt that I would win the election as I had imagined it more times than I could ever count. The simple truth is, the more thoughts that convert into actual results will increase the likelihood that other thoughts will become your reality too.
The simple truth is, the more thoughts that convert into actual results will increase the likelihood that other thoughts will become your reality too.
Let’s look at another example which unfortunately almost everyone can relate to: toxic relationships. Why would anyone in their right mind stay with someone who makes them miserable? Truthfully though. It defies all human logic that we would want to spend time with anyone who drains our energy and makes us feel like shit, right? But people do it every day.
Regardless of which psychotherapy definition you choose to describe this behaviour, it can simply be summarized as self-sabotage no matter how you categorize it. Allow me to dig a bit further to clarify my point. I have a friend who has been cheated on more times than she can count by her “man” yet she stays and takes him back every, single time. But why? Well, according to Dr. Nikki Martinez, a professor of psychology and published author on the toxicity of relationships, the more mental abuse we endure the more we start to believe that what we are experiencing is what we actually deserve. Crazy, right? This means that the more this asshole cheats on his woman the more she will believe that she is unworthy of anything else and becomes less likely to leave him every time it happens.
Action requires a solid plan, and plans require clear and precise thoughts.
So how would someone ever overcome this type of mental and psychological abuse? Hard work and discipline is the secret here. On numerous occasions, I have sat with her while she cried, attempting to help her see “the light at the end of the tunnel”. I told her to imagine leaving him, how it would feel, when she would do it, what she would be wearing, what he would say and even who her ideal man would be. The trick is to envision as much detail as possible because...
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.8.2021 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft |
ISBN-10 | 1-0983-9078-4 / 1098390784 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-0983-9078-5 / 9781098390785 |
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