The Wealth Files
Seventeen Ways Rich People Think
and Act Differently from Poor
and Middle-Class People
IN PART I OF THIS BOOK WE DISCUSSED THE PROCESS
of Manifestation. Recall that thoughts lead to feelings, feelings
lead to actions, and actions lead to results. Everything begins
with your thoughts—which are produced by your mind. Isn’t
it amazing that our mind is pretty much the basis for our life
and yet most of us have no clue as to how this powerful
apparatus functions? So let’s start by taking a simple look at
how your mind works. Metaphorically, your mind is nothing
more than a big file cabinet, similar to what you’d find in your
office or home. All information that comes in is labeled and
filed in folders so that it’s easy to retrieve to help you survive.
Did you hear that? I didn’t say thrive, I said survive.
In every situation, you go to the files of your mind to determine
how to respond. Say, for example, you’re considering
a financial opportunity. You automatically go to your file
labeled money and from there decide what to do. The only
thoughts you can have about money will be what are stored
in your money file. That’s all you can think about, because
that’s all that is in your mind under that category.
You decide based on what you believe is logical, sensible,
and appropriate for you at the time. You make what you think
is the right choice. The problem, however, is that your right
choice may not be a successful choice. In fact, what makes
perfect sense to you may consistently produce perfectly poor
results.
For instance, let’s say my wife is in the mall. That shouldn’t
be too hard for me to imagine. She sees this green purse. It’s
on sale for 25 percent off. She immediately goes to her mind
files with the question “Should I get this purse?” In a
nanosecond, her mind files come back with the answer:
“You’ve been looking for a green purse to go with those green
shoes you bought last week. Plus it’s just the right size. Buy it!”
As she rushes to the checkout counter, her mind is not only
thrilled that she’s going to have this beautiful purse, but
glowing with pride that she got it for 25 percent off.
To her mind, this purchase makes perfect sense. She wants
it, she believes she needs it, and it is “such a deal.” However,
at no point did her mind come up with the thought “True, this
is a really nice purse, and true, this is a great deal, but right
now I’m three thousand dollars in debt, so I’d better hold off.”
She didn’t come up with that information because no file in
her head contains that. The file of “When you’re in debt, don’t
buy any more” was never installed in her and doesn’t exist,
which means that particular choice is not an option.
Do you catch my drift? If you’ve got files in your cabinet
that are nonsupportive to financial success, those will be the
only choices you can make. They’ll be natural, automatic,
and make perfect sense to you. But in the end, they will still
produce financial failure or mediocrity at best. Conversely, if
you’ve got mind files that support financial success, you will
naturally and automatically make decisions that produce
success. You won’t have to think about it. Your normal way of
thinking will result in success, kind of like Donald Trump. His
normal way of thinking produces wealth.
When it comes to money, wouldn’t it be incredible if you
could inherently think how rich people think? I sure hope you
said “absolutely” or something to that effect.
Well, you can!
As we stated previously, the first step to any change is
awareness, meaning the first step to thinking the way rich
people think is to know how rich people think.
Rich people think very differently from poor and middle class
people. They think differently about money, wealth,
themselves, other people, and pretty well every other facet of
life. In Part II of this book, we’re going to examine some of
these differences and, as part of your reconditioning, install
seventeen alternative “wealth files” into your mind. With new
files come new choices. You can then catch yourself when you
are thinking like poor and middle-class people and consciously
shift your focus to how rich people think. Remember, you can
choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness
and success instead of ways that don’t.
WEALTH PRINCIPLE:
You can choose to think in ways that will
support you in your happiness and success
instead of ways that don’t.
A few caveats to begin. First, in no way, shape, or form do I
mean to degrade poor people or want to appear to be without
compassion for their situation. I do not believe that rich
people are better than poor people. They’re just richer. At the
same time, I want to make sure you get the message, so I’m
going to make the distinctions between the rich and poor as
extreme as possible.
Second, when I discuss rich, poor, and middle-class people,
what I am referring to is their mentality—how different folks
think and act rather than the actual amount of money they’ve
got or their value to society.
Third, I will be generalizing “big time.” I understand that
not all rich and not all poor people are the way I’m describing
them to be. Again, my objective is to make sure you get the
point of each principle and use it.
Fourth, for the most part, I will not always be referring to
the middle class specifically, because middle-class people
usually have a mix of rich and poor mentalities. Again, my goal
is for you to become aware of where you fit on the scale and
to think more like the rich if you want to create more wealth.
Fifth, several of the principles in this section may appear to
deal more with habits and actions than with ways of thinking.
Remember, our actions come from our feelings, which come
from our thoughts. Consequently, every rich action is preceded
by a rich way of thinking.
Finally, I’m going to ask you to be willing to let go of being
right ! What I mean by that is, be willing to let go of having to
do it your way. Why? Because your way has gotten you exactly
what you’ve got right now. If you want more of the same, keep
doing it your way. If you’re not yet rich, however, maybe it’s
time you consider a different way, especially
one that comes from someone who is really, really rich and has
put thousands of others on the road to wealth too. It’s up to
you.
The concepts you are about to learn are simple but profound.
They make real changes for real people in the real
world. How do I know? At my company, Peak Potentials
Training, we get thousands of letters and e-mails each year
telling us how each individual wealth file has transformed
people’s lives. If you learn them and use them, I am confident
they will transform your life too.
At the end of each section you will find a declaration and a
physical movement with which to “anchor” it into your body.
You will also find actions to take to support you in adopting
this wealth file. It is imperative you put each file into action in
your life as quickly as possible so that the knowledge can move
to a physical, cellular level and create lasting and permanent
change.
Most people understand we are creatures of habit, but what
they don’t realize is that there are actually two kinds of habits:
doing habits and not-doing habits. Everything you are not doing
right now, you are in the habit of not doing. The only way to
change these not-doing habits into doing habits is to do them.
Reading will assist you, but it’s a whole different world when
you go from reading to doing. If you are truly serious about
success, prove it, and do the actions suggested.