Where are you on a Friday afternoon? Working for yourself, in your time schedule, or at the beckon call of a boss? The freedom of working for yourself earns you the right and responsibility to plan your schedule. For Lee Arnold, October means a trip to the pumpkin patch with his wife and three small children. You are thinking, well then he just works all day Saturday to make it up. Not necessarily! Freedom comes with responsibility. Many millionaires are passionate about their work, the thrill of big deals and new breakthroughs. But just as prevalent is their desire and love for family time. It’s the joy of being able to schedule family time when they need you, instead of when your boss says you are free to go.
I ran across this article in USA Today as I wondered who else might be heading to the pumpkin patch:
Thad Starr, of Pleasant Hill, Ore., tips his hat after winning in the World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off contest in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. Starr’s pumpkin weighed 1,528 pounds (693 kg) and beat the local contest record. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Click the picture to read the full article. What is your dream? Hopefully it is to plan your days and life around what you are passionate about and take the steps necessary to reach your goals. America is a land of great opportunity! That opportunity is all around you…take a look and then take back your life!
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do people tell you that you work too much? That you really need to stop and enjoy yourself? They should. You are on the right path to achieving your dreams and pushing to the next level up when you appear unstoppable to those in your life. Millionaires are focused. They know what they want and they will fail a hundred times if they know in their heart it’s achievable. It’s important to have others around you that believe in you and where you are headed. We’d like to believe we can do things on our own and that is partially true. It’s your above and beyond efforts that get you to the next level. Having people standing behind you, supporting those long hours, adds to your success.
Mastermind groups can add to family support or replace it if you are single. These groups are created from like-minded professionals that meet periodically to support, encourage, challenge, and brainstorm business ideas and/or plans. Find people with expertise and backgrounds different than your own, yet headed in the same direction, it will serve you best. The collective failures and successes will shorten your path to the next level. It’s the number of people in the group as much as it is what they bring to the table. Choose carefully.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Donald Kendall
Is this group really important? Absolutely! How much is enough? When you are intently focused on your dream, everything in your world will be filtered through the dream. You will love the life you are living, the long hours, the many collaborative meetings, and WORK will be enjoyable. Millionaires don’t sit around spending their money, they only sit around when they are deep in thought. Reaching where only 3% of the U.S. achieves financially is a small percentage because so few really understand the work and effort it takes to achieve and sustain their millions.
Where do you meet millionaires to grasp the focus and intensity I speak about? Come to Las Vegas this month! October 23, 24, and 25 several millionaires will be gathering to share not only how they achieved their wealth, but will encourage you to challenge them at the 3% level. Is your focus is real estate investment including short sales, hard money, and foreclosures, or loan modifications, credit repair, or social media advantages? Then you must be there! Not only will you learn from these millionaires, it’s an opportunity to network with others headed in the same direction, that may be exactly what you are looking for to join your Mastermind group!
LAS VEGAS OCTOBER 23, 24, and 25
Questions? Call 800-558-6092
Did I say Millionaires are Well-Educated? No, not exactly. A college degree isn’t what makes someone successful or wealthy. Putting whatever you learn into action is what leads you down the path of failure and success. Why failure? Because if you are not failing, you are not putting enough ideas into action. When I was in Jr. High I took skiing lessons. I didn’t like to fall any more than “I felt” necessary. My instructor kept pushing me beyond my comfortable level and I pushed back. He finally said, “If you aren’t falling continually while I instruct you, you aren’t applying what I am teaching.” Meaning, as we fail we learn and grow. It may be learning how things don’t work, but we now have one more way that doesn’t work and that can only lead to what does work.
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. George Iles
Are you failing at something now? GREAT! Now get up and move on to the next thing. However, if you are failing because you are neglecting to put anything into action and just hoping some fairy godmother will wave a wand and make it all better, give it up. It may not be the image of a fairy godmother in your head, but you are stalling and lacking action, aren’t you? Maybe whatever you set out to accomplish is not what you are passionate about. Accept that, set it aside and move on to a new endeavor.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. – Austin Phelps
Where do you start? Pick up a book! If you are not currently reading on a daily or even weekly basis, start today. And I don’t mean the newspaper or your Yahoo! or MSN page. I mean a book stimulating your growth in yourself, your career, hobby, or a future entrepreneurial adventure. Millionaires don’t have to go to college to implement million dollar ideas. They have a natural capacity to learn and apply the knowledge of people who have already been through trial and error processes. Books are written testimonies that you can read and put into action. Don’t let me lose you here if you aren’t an avid reader. You are reading this blog and cruising around the internet, right? Pick up a book on CD and it still counts for being well-read!
It’s never a good time to stop the learning process. Not a reader, or one to listen to a CD? Well put yourself into action by attending Lee Arnold’s Extravaganza ‘09 and grow in your knowledge and understanding of Short Sales, Foreclosures, Loan Modification, Social Media, and more. Your list of excuses has run out. Take action and grow and you will be well on your way to being a well-read Millionaire!
October 23, 24, and 25, 2009
Las Vegas Monte Carlo Hotel
Questions? Call 800-558-6092
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October 15, 2009 9:24 am | 
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