The
Focus Power
of Millionaires |
By L.
Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Presenter of Wealth Building Training
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- How do millionaires think?
- How do self-made millionaires think—those that actually
create the wealth in their own lifetime?
- What do these first-generation millionaires actually do to
create their financial independence?
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| For years I have been studying
and modeling the experts in wealth creation, both personally and from
the extensive research by those who make it their business to study
such people. From both longitudinal studies, focus groups discussions,
and questionnaires, tremendous data has been collected about this
subject. One of my favorite researchers is Thomas J. Stanley, author
of The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind.
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| His research completely
validates and confirms what Scrully Blotnick discovered back in
the 1960s, and what Robert Kiiyosaki and Suze Orman have more recently
been popularizing. In all of this, there is not a lot new, and nothing
at all revolutionary, or rocket science. Yet it does goes against
many myths about wealth building and the Hollywood version that
has permeated the mass media. |
| One of those myths is the
idea of keeping all your options open, diversifying your efforts,
and being ready to seize any opportunity that comes your way. If you’re
wanting to become financially independent and successful in your field,
these things will not only not work, but will positively sabotage
your best efforts. Conversely, if you’re committed to your own
financial independence so that you stop working for money and let
it work for you thereby freeing you up to follow your own dreams and
aptitudes, then you will need to do the opposite. It requires that
you— |
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Focus your interests, activities, and energies
in a specific area.
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Focus your perspective to seeing and seizing
opportunities only in that area.
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Focus your powers of decision to say no to
other opportunities.
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| In interviewing 733 self-made
first generation rich millionaires who had an average of 9.1 million
in networth, Stanley Thomas described these people in this way: |
"They are ‘nichers,’ and they have
little competition. ... It’s all about vocation, vocation,
vocation. If you select the bedrock foundation of the ideal vocation?
What then? You love the products you produce. You have affection
for your customers and supplies. In addition, you know more about
your niche market than anyone else. And your customers don’t’
care if you were a C student in college. To them you are the one
who is enlightened." (189, 21)
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To a
great extent wealth creation is all about focus. Focusing on your
innate talents and aptitudes, focusing on developing your talent
into skills, then into expertise competence. Focusing on finding
a niche market where you can specialize, and focusing on devoting
yourself to something you love for a long enough time to become
masterful at it. |
When
you do that, then the "foundation stones of financial success"
come easy. What are those? "Integrity (being honest with people),
discipline (self-control), social skills (getting along with people),
a supportive spouse, and hard work." (11) |
Over
the past two decades I have been observing those who have studied
NLP to use it as a way of making a living. I’ve been observing
people in the USA, the UK, Europe, South Africa, Australia, New
Zealand, South America, etc. Over that time I have seen some who
are very successful in business and I have seen many, many more
who were not. What is the difference? |
One
primary difference lies in the power of focus. Those who try to
be "all things to all people" and therefore a dabbler
in many things and a master of nothing are the ones who struggle
financially and have much less business success. It is those who
focus their use of NLP into a specific area and specialize in a
market where there’s a strongly felt need, these are the ones
who create an economic engine for their financial independence.
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Focus
power—the ability to concentrate dreaming, desiring,
creating, and acting on one single thing. That’s the secret.
And no surprise. This is the heart pulse of genius itself. That’s
why we have applied Meta-States and NLP to "the genius state"
of flow. When you’re able to step fully into that state of
focus, you are of one mind and intention and then as "energy
flows were attention goes as directed by intention" you are
all there and have all of your resources available. |
When
I do the 4-day Living Personal Genius training I always begin by
asking how many genius states participants have created and how
many do they have "at a moment’s notice," that they
can step in at the snap of a finger and be there fully. Even though
this is where the power and genius is, I’m typically surprised
at how many know the process, yet how few utilize it to their own
personal empowerment. |
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