Below is the final part, #10 in my series of blogs on “The Top Ten Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class” by Keith Smith.
Distinction 1 – Millionaires ask themselves empowering questions. Middle-class people ask themselves disempowering questions.
On the surface, this distinction may seem unimportant: though I assure you it is a profound principle. When you develop the habit of asking yourself empowering questions, your life will take on new meaning and success is inevitable… Whatever questions you ask you will receive the answers for; the bigger your questions, the better. Learn to ask yourself questions that stretch you beyond your current levels of experience. Questions hold the answers that you need to succeed.
For example, which question is more empowering? ‘How can I double my income this year?’ or ‘How can I get enough money to pay the bills this month?’
Do you see the difference? It takes the same amount of mental energy to think about answering the big question as it does the small question… Let’s look at a few more examples.
‘How can I make a $1,000,000 a year doing what I love?’ or ‘How can I get my boss to give me a raise?’
‘What is life trying to teach me right now?’ or ‘Why do bad things always happen to me?’
‘How can I develop a deeper relationship with my spouse?’ or ‘Why is it so hard to get along with my spouse?’
‘What can I do to show my kids I love them today?’ or ‘Why don’t my kids appreciate me?’
‘What would I enjoy doing to keep myself strong, healthy, and at my target weight?’ or ‘Why is it so hard to loose weight?’
Empowering questions ask what you can do and disempowering questions ask what you can’t do or why things are so hard. Empowering questions make you feel good. Disempowering questions make you feel bad…
The power of this distinction is awareness and consciousness. Most middle-class people are unaware or unconscious of the questions they ask themselves on a regular basis… Millionaires are aware of the questions they ask themselves. They are conscious of their thoughts. They continually work on conditioning their minds to lead them to more success.
We are all conditioned to think the way we do. Millionaires consciously condition their minds. By controlling the questions you ask yourself, you will learn to think for yourself. You gain control of your life by controlling your internal dialogue. You must become aware of the questions, and things you say to yourself if you want to be more successful.”
I truly believe in the power of positive thinking and that our “self talk”, meaning what you say when you talk to yourself, is a compass that leads us down the path of success or failure.
Here are a few books that I recommend on this subject.
1. “What to say When you talk to yourself.” By Shad Helmstetter
2. “Think & Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill
3. “As a man thinketh” by James Allen
Here is a you tube clip that you may find interesting on How Self Talk Works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvzfnm9uk-0&feature=related
Now that we are at the end of the book I think it would be good to do a quick recap, in part one we found that Millionaires think on a long term basis, and the middle class tends to think on a short term basis. In part two we found that Millionaires think and talk about ideas, and the middle class thinks and talks about things and people. In part three we learned that Millionaires embrace change and the middle class is threatened by change. In part four we found that Millionaires take calculated risks and the middle class is afraid to take risks. Part five was about how Millionaires continually learn and grown and the middle class thinks learning ended with school. Part six taught us that Millionaires work for profits and the middles class works for wages. In part seven we found that millionaires believe they must be generous and the middle class believes it can’t afford to give. In part eight we learned that millionaires have multiple sources of income and the middles class has only one or two. And last week in part nine we found that millionaires focus on increasing their net worth and the middle class focuses on increasing its paychecks.
Thank you for reading this series of Blogs and keep an eye out, because next week or so I will be starting another great series of positive, motivating, and personal growth Blogs.
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