Category: Entreprenuership & Business


Millionaire habit 3: Take 100% Responsibility

Filed Under: Entreprenuership & Business, Personal Development & Growth by apprentice — 5 Comments
May 15, 2009

Ok, moving on to the next critical habit in the series 9 habits of Millionaires. So far we’ve looked at habit 1: Always exceed expectations and habit 2: Be proactive. Today lets look at one of my personal favorites. This doesn’t apply only to Millionaires but to all of us. In order to live well and live truly, we must practice the following;

Habit 3: Take 100% Responsbility

If there is one habit that we all absolutely need to get in life, it is certainly this one. Taking 100% Responsibility for our lives is absolutely key for being successful. It basically says, whatever I am in life, wherever I am In life, whatever I do in life, is simply because I’e chosen so. To put it more bluntly, the results in your life are absolutely your fault. You choose to be average or excellent, you choose to be married or single, you choose to ignorant or educated. You even choose to be poor or rich. 

Millionaires know this very well. It ties back to our last habit of being Proactive. Sadly the majority of us prefer to blame everyone and everything else for their current position in life. No money, no time, poor background, no education or whatever. You may say I didn’t choose to be born in a poor family. True, but you can choose if your going to remain poor. You say, I didn’t choose to be married to a spouse who later became abusive. True, but you can choose to stay in that relationship and be abused. 

Everything in our lives is a result of a concious or unconcious decision on our part. If you choose to disregard this, then you have made a choice and your life will always be dependent on your unconcious choices and other peoples choices. You cannot go around blaming everyone and everything else for your circumstances and expect to be a millionaire.  Take 100% responsibility. 

Millionaires realise that if they don’t take responsibility, then they are at the mercy of othersor circumstance and therefore are powerless to do anything about. Millionaires believe that they alone are responsible for their wealth and results in life and that they have complete power to change their lives by changing their strategies and actions. When you do the same,take 100% responsibility and get rid of all the excuses and accept that your life is a result of the choices you’ve made so far, then you will be free to become the wealthy person you dream of being.

This applies in all areas of your life, not just your career or finances. Everything, your relationships, your faith, your health. You are responsible in one way or another. So step up and do what must be done.

Till next time when we look at Habit 4: Delayed Gratification (another one that most people will hate:) God bless

Shalom

There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley

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The 2nd Millionaire Habit: Being Proactive

Filed Under: Entreprenuership & Business, Personal Development & Growth by apprentice — 8 Comments
May 13, 2009

Shalom good people, on my last post, I started a series on the 9 habits of millionaires. We looked at the first habit which is “Always exceed expectations”. Today we continue learning these powerful yet simple habits that will elevate our lives. So…

Habit 2: Be Proactive

To be proactive simply means to take the initiative and plan for a desired outcome or make things happen. Proactive is the opposite of reactive. Reactive means waiting for things to happen and then responding to them. In order to be a millionaire, you must be the kind of person that makes things happen. Millionaires don’t wait around for opportunities to hit them like water thrown carelessly out of a kazigo doorway. Millionaires actively seek opportunity and if they can’t find them, they create their own.

Most of us unfortunately are too reactive. We sit around whining, complaining and waiting for something to happen or for God to drop everything we want in our laps. How many times have you heard statements like these; When the government reduces taxes, I’ll start that business. Or when my kids finish school, then i’ll be able to make real savings? How about,when my boss leaves the company, then I’ll get that promotion? I’ll become rich when the ecomony becomes better.

Do you see the inherant problem with this attitude? It gives away all your power to succeed to forces completely outside of your control. What happens when your kids rebound infinitely,or your boss never leaves or the government just keeps on increasing taxes-like they are doing?

Being Reactive stagnates and kills you while being Proactive puts you in a position of power and choice. Millionaires don’t have to put everything onhold till circumstances are right. Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m rich because the economy is doing great?” Think about that one abit. To be a Millionaire means by it’s very essence you have to choose to be one and take actions to be one. You don’t just accidentally become one! Well atleast not 99% of people and odds are that you like most of us, don’t have millionaire ancestors to inherit from :)

So good people, be proactive and change your life. The next habit we’ll be looking at is Habit 3: Taking 100% Responsibility. I believe this is one habit that most people will probably have great difficulty dealing with but we’ll see.

Till next time.

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” 
George Bernard Shaw, “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” (1893) act II

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The 9 Habits to make you a Millionaire

Filed Under: Entreprenuership & Business, Personal Development & Growth by apprentice — 9 Comments
May 11, 2009

Greetings good people,

it’s yet another beautiful week starting off with monday morning rains. Getting out of bed was particularly painfull today but seeing as I have chosen to be one of the 5% of the worlds population-you know, the chaps that hold almost 80% of the worlds wealth-I had to get up and slog my way in the rain and jam to work.

I thought that I might share with you the 9habits of successful people as outlined by Adam Khoo in his ebook of the same name. We all want to be prosperous, having the beach house, the rolls royce and the freedom to never worry about being broke again but how exactly should we live and think in order to get there? Well without a doubt there are certain qualities that we MUST forster inorder to succeed. Over the next few posts, I will share with you my understanding of these 9 gems which I know will intrigue you so stay put.

Now without further adue;

Habit 1: Always Exceed Expectations

Yep thats right. The first thing you gotta do is always do more than is expected of you. Doesn’t sound like fun I know, who wants to do more than they really need to? Strangely, even Jesus spoke of this one when He said..”If some asks for your coat, give him your shirt too. If someone asks you to walk a mile with him, walk two” True millionaires have this hard wired in their nature. Millionaires, do more, read more, learn more, save more, invest more, risk more and believe more than the rest of us. Thats why they are millionaires and we aren’t. Atleast not yet anyways.

To illustrate the point; if you asked a true millionaire to cut the grass in your compound, they would not just cut the grass but  collect it, dispose of it, trim the hedges, water the flowers and even put fertilizer and landscape for you :) Millionaires go the extra mile and give more value than is asked of them. Typically, this is a hard one for most of us. We prefer to do the absolute least in order to get by. We work just enough on our jobs not to get fired. Sad but true. Before grumbling about a raise that was denied to you, how much value have you added to your employer?

In order to be millionaires, we must learn to give much more than what we’re asked. When you are given 100,000 to do a job and and you do a job worth 300,000, guess who’s going to get repeat business, great reputation and referalls as well as command a 300k fee to the next person? But most of us will actually give 20k worth of value and get a bad rep in the process, losing out on any further business.

So to earn millions, you must get in the habit of giving millions worth of work. Go the extra mile.

Look out for the next post which will have Habit 2: Be Proactive

Shalom

“Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye give to others, it shall be measured to you again.” Jesus Christ, The Master

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For all those who are looking to see the rest of the habits, here they are neatly listed and linked for your easy access.


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TGIF: End of week 1 back on the job

Filed Under: Entreprenuership & Business, Life in General by apprentice — 2 Comments
May 8, 2009

So I have come to the end of my first week on the job. I’d like to tell all sorts of amazing things that happened this week but I can’t. Perhaps it’s the blogks or maybe it’s just that I really don’t have anything to tell.

Well The Master in His mindboggling manner has led me to a place in life  that is rife with financial turmoil. I keep catching myself from screaming at Him. The bible says His ways are not our ways and His thoughts so much higher than ours. I believe I can testify.

I have a seed in my heart that tells me I can do this, transform this like I was Richard Branson or Warren Buffet but it’s challenging in the face of the things I see. Faith after all is the substance of things unseen but I’m struggling in the faith department.

I feel like Gideon when God told him to get rid of 29700 guys and go to war with only 300 warriors to deliver the nation of Israel from armies that were several times larger. I’ve got no clue, no resources and I have major enemies to defeat. I guess, like Israel, God wants things to be arranged so that He can get all the glory and I can’t claim it was my genius or wisdom or business savvy.

Well Lord, have your way. I like Joshua, will remain brave and very courageous for you Lord are with me wherever I go. Though I walk thru the valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil.

Shalom

“Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strengths; that it’s pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” Winston Churchill

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The Apprentice: Day 1 on the Job

Filed Under: Entreprenuership & Business, Life in General by apprentice — 4 Comments
May 4, 2009

Greetings good people. And so it is, after a hiatus of 3 blissful months enjoying my personal and marital life, today is my first day back at work. I amazingly got to work at 7:40am which I must tell I have never ever done such a thing in my life.

The Master in His infinite kindness, answered a prayer to show me that He is with me on this new phase of the journey by amazingly clearing the long road from the not-sp-beautiful suburbs of naalya to nakulabye to enable me to impress my new partner the Rogueking-who annoyingly was wearing a black tie!

Well, I now have nice little corner office and a ridiculously loud pc that has like 8 different cooling fans. Yes it’s a monster, nothing less for the Apprentice.

I look forward to communing with you alot more now that I’m back in the saddle.

Shalom

“The biggest challenge you have is your own self-doubt and your laziness. It is your self-doubt and your laziness that define and limit  who you are. It is your self-doubt and laziness that deny you the life you want.”
Rich Dad

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