Wealth Secrets 101 - 5 Goal-Setting Keys to a Wealthier Life

1. Set strategic goals. Strategic goals are those broad, long-term goals in our life, such as, "I want to buy a new house for my family by 2011," or "I want to become a full partner by the end of next year." They are the wealth secrets that everybody knows about on the front-end, but that few know about to the very core.

Strategic goals are important because they represent not only where we want to be in the future, but where we think we are now and how worthy we feel as individuals. Strategic goals are also important because they very much determine where we will end up in the future!

2. Set tactical goals to achieve those strategic goals. These are the short-term goals along the way that support the strategic long-term goals. Mixing these goals together is one of the greatest wealth secrets you can ever learn.

In our examples above, the tactical goals might include, "fix my credit," "increase my income by 25%", and "start getting to know my local real estate agents" for supporting the strategic goal of buying a new house.

Every larger goal becomes much easier to reach when you break it down into smaller goals. And even the tactical goals given above can be broken down into even smaller, shorter term goals. You should also take the time and effort to

3. Set annual goals--both strategic and tactical. These are for the most part strategic goals, although they could be tactical goals as well when you are dealing with large, very long-term objectives.

It's important to have things that you want to achieve every year. A year is long enough that you can make some substantial strides in your life, yet not so long that you seem to take forever to get there.

4. Make annual reviews of your goals. No one's life ever stays the same (and we get bored if our lives did?). That's why it's important to re-evaluate your goals every year and make sure they are still appropriate to the life you are living.

You may discover, for instance, that you have reached one or more of your objectives without even realizing it! You may laugh now, but it happens all the time. And it's always very gratifying when it happens.

5. Write your goals down as though you have already achieved them. When you do this, you fool your subconscious into thinking you really have already done what you wanted to do. This makes it easier to accomplish your goal a "second" time.

This is one of the best wealth secrets I know. It's a way to counteract the "fear if success" that sounds so illogical to so many people.

Fear of success simply stems from being afraid of how the world will change once we reach a new plateau. If you write down your goals as though they already happened, you'll trick your mind into thinking you're already there.

It will notice that you are still comfortable and that the world hasn’t fallen apart, so it sees no reason to stop you from hitting that goal "again". This trick is truly one of the greatest wealth secrets you can ever take advantage of!

Two Counter-Intuitive Steps to Get Out of Debt

Here are two steps that I feel are essential if you want to get out of debt. They may sound a little strange at first, but they make perfect sense once you give them a little thought.

1. Focus your concentration away from your debt.

You might think that to get out of debt, you need to think about your debt a lot. But nothing could be further from the truth.

Of course you need to take the steps to get your financial situation back into positive numbers. But you don't need to focus obsessively on your debt. If you do, you're only too likely to get more of the same.

The Law of Attraction states that we get more of the things that we a) focus on b) with great emotion. If you focus on your money problems while feeding into your feelings of worry, then guess what? You'll only end up with more money problems and more worry. That's certainly no way to get out of debt!

Spend the proper effort to figure out where you are financially and what you can do to get where you want to be. That is the only responsible thing to do--the only thing that will get you out of debt.

Then, after that, get on with the rest of your life. After all, haven't you already done a good enough job with your plan? If you have, then there is no need for worry, as you will be out of debt in good time.

You might even indulge in a little happiness as you picture your future wealth!

2. Don't be afraid to spend money. If you want to get out of debt, you've got to be really tight with your money--right? After all, you wouldn't want to get any deeper in debt! Right?

Right?

Well, kind of.

It's certainly true that you don't want to spend frivolously. You can still live well without going out to eat or buying name brands. Most of us don't need all the services we pay for every month, and most everybody could probably cut at least one. We all have places we can cut corners.

But hanging on to your dollars with a tight fist and being scared to spend, only puts you into a scarcity mentality. And that mentality is all too much like the debt-focused attitude mentioned above. Its effect on what you attract into your life is the same.

Another way in which you shouldn't be afraid to spend money has less to do with your attitude and more to do with financial services. Don't be afraid to hire a financial advisor or to spend money on a financial membership course in order to get out of debt. After all, these people spend their entire careers guiding people through situations like yours. The money you spend on their services or guidance is likely less than the money you'd spend in the trial-and error process of doing it yourself. And that's only one reason it's highly important to enlist outside aid if you want to get out of debt.

3 Goal Categories that Will Help You Double Your Income

Want to double your income? Congratulations! You have picked a worthy goal that many people are too intimidated to ever shoot for.

One important thing to realize when you want to double your income is that large goals are usually made from a set of smaller goals. If you really want to increase your wealth, you'll need to focus on more than just the money in your life. Here are three areas to concentrate on.

1. Mess. A mess category may not sound like a good place to start when you want to double your income, or when you want to achieve anything else for that matter. But it is absolutely essential that you start out with this category. Why?

Because messes are the locks on the gate that keeps abundance out. Clean up your messes and you'll have more abundance.

Messes don't have to just be physical messes. A mess is any situation in which what is outside of you, is not equal to what is inside of you.

Physical messes are actually the easiest to clean up. The most difficult to clean up--and the most harmful in our lives--are our relationship messes. This includes our relationships to others as well as our relationship to ourselves.

If you want to double your income, you've got to start cleaning up the messes in your life. No one will expect you to clean them all up instantly. You'll only frustrate yourself if you try to do this. But you'll do yourself and those around you a big favor if you put daily effort into cleaning up the messes in your life.

2. Acknowledgement. This is any way in which you want to thank or acknowledge another person for their contribution to your life or the life of others. These people can be from any group in your life--family, friends, clients, customers, partners, or anyone else who has positively affected your life or the lives of those around you.

Acknowledgement strengthens your relationships, and it does it in a way that strengthens you.

It's certainly true that you will be closer to the people that you acknowledge in your life. But it's also true that when you strengthen others you strengthen yourself.

We are after all affected by the people we choose to associate with. So why not create a positive feedback loop with the important people in your life? When done with business associates, this is a great step to double your income. It can also double your happiness in your family life.

3. Wealth increase. Every one of the three areas in this article can help you double your income if you give them the proper time and attention. But the wealth increase area is, of course, the one most directly related to growing your income.

Your wealth increase goals don't have to just include getting a raise, making more sales, or expanding a business that you may own. They can also include reducing your debt, putting money into savings, or investing in long-term assets such as real estate.

You can increase your wealth even if you don't double your income--but you'll be much happier if you can do both!

Double Your Income With Blogging

Do you have a blog? Do you know what a blog is? Do you make money on your blog? Are people reading your blog?

Learn about Making Money With Blogging!!

What is a blog. It is a contraction of the two words "web log". Say it fast five times and it will sound like "weh blog". So, Internet types just dropped the first "weh" and it became "blog" - a recent word which has just joined our lexicon. Start a blog by going to the website for WordPress and simply answer a few easy questions and you own a blog. Use your real name as your User ID so that the URL of your own personal blog will be www.wordpress.com/yourname.

Choose a theme: anything you are passionate about. Anything. There are blogs on every imaginable area. Just type a paragraph or two and that is your first blogpost.

Initially no one will know of your blog nor what its theme is. Here are some easy and free ways to begin advertising your blog:

1.Email all your friends and advertise your blog to them for free.
2.Then, go onto other people's blog and leave comments and tell them to go to your blog.
3.Also, put lots of relevant "tags" in each blogpost which are key words which Google uses to search. That way, people can find you whom you don't even know.

People will begin finding and following you. Your readership will grow. Your stickiness will grow - that means how long people stay on your blog.

Let me share with you the stats for a blog of a friend, which may well be typical :

-total number of visitors to date: ........................ 2,728
-average number of daily visitors to date: .......... 136
-average number of daily visitors last week: ...... 263
-total number of blogposts to date: .................... 17
-average length of stay to date: ........................... 2 min 39 sec
-average length of stay most recent week: ......... 3 min 41 sec
-average length of stay yesterday: ...................... 5 min 45 sec

Notice that:
-the number of visitors is rising
-the average number of daily visitors is rising too
-the average length of time visitors stay is rising

Why is all this happening? Because people are finding out about this blog and liking it and telling friends. That is what will happen to you too.

As soon as you have loyal readership, you can begin offering your own products or services for sale. Or, you can offer products you find for sale. As long as you recommend it and as long as they like and follow you, you will make sales. Yes, make money with blogging. For free. Just get started.

Let me give you an example of a friend Joy van Hemert who just launched her first blog. She is so happy ...

This time last week no one had read my blog and 2 people were following me on Twitter. Now, 209 people have visited my blog, some have left compliments and 851 people are following me on Twitter! Wow.

Get in on it, just like Joy did (she just started with nothing last week!) and just likes millions of others are doing. I chatted yesterday with a sales clerk at a store who told me he had 50 blogs on 50 totally different topics! Wow.

Raymond Aaron,New York Times Top Ten Bestselling Author, "Double Your Income Doing What You Love" published by John Wiley and Sons, New York City.

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Double Your Income In One Day

It may seem absurd. Double your income in one day? YES, many of my colleagues and friends have done it. And, surprisingly, you may well have done it too without realizing it.

Think of your income in your first year after finishing school. Maybe it was $30,000. Good. Now, that was how much you earned in a year. And, at that time, you were proud of that annual income.

The next step is to see if you can earn that same dollar amount in a QUARTER (meaning in three months). Well, if your current income is $120,000, then you have already achieved that. But, I am thinking of a different definition. I am wondering if there has ever been a quarter in which your income was $30,000. Did you close a huge deal? Did you make a big commission check? Did you get a big bonus? Think about it and you may well realize that you have achieved this.

Next, has there ever been a MONTH in which you have ever earned $30,000 -- or whatever your income was in your first year working?

Next, has there ever been a WEEK in which you have ever earned $30,000 ?

Next, has there ever been a DAY in which you have ever earned $30,000 -- or whatever your income was in your first year working?

When you look at it this way, you may surprise yourself. You may realize that you did indeed get a big check one day for something you did.

What's the best I've ever heard? A friend gave a speech March 2007 to 16,000 eager participants. He was the speaker right before Donald Trump. Those 16,000 people were eager to see Trump (not my friend) but they were in their seats for his speech. He taught the value of mentoring and his talk totally resonated with the audience that day. His mentoring program, at that time, was valued at only $1000 and at the end of his 90-minute speech a whopping 1,000 people ran to the registration tables and bought. 1000 purchases at $1000 each came to a totally cool ONE MILLION DOLLARS in two hours. That is my record.

In his first year of working after school, he earned about $12,000 -- OK, that was a long time ago. So, in TWO HOURS he once earned 80 times what he earned in his first year after school. Eighty. Wow. But, he is not boasting.

I am encouraging you to boast about yourself. What's your best story?

Leave your best story here as a comment to this article. Or, just use this article to inspire yourself to earn in a DAY what you once earned in a whole year !!

Raymond Aaron,New York Times Top Ten Bestselling Author, "Double Your Income Doing What You Love" published by John Wiley and Sons, New York City.

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