BE - DO - HAVE

I've been reading The Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki lately. In his book and in most of his teaching, Robert addresses the issue of how we think about money in a variety of different ways. I've heard this analolgy used a few different times, but I think it is very important to bring up here.

It is a very simple idea called BE - DO - HAVE

Think about it like this. As human BEings, we live in a society and world where competition and keeping up with the Joneses is so important. The Joneses HAVE the house, the cars, the job, the toys, and etc. that we so badly want, so we invite them over for dinner to find out how they acheived this great success. Now we know what we need to DO to get what we want to HAVE, right?

So why is it that when we DO all the "right" things, we still don't HAVE the Joneses success? Well the one thing the Joneses may not have told you is that you have to have the right mind set about what you want. This is the BE part. It is the most important part that is missing most often. Therefore, we become a great culture of human DOers rather than human BEings.

Think about all of the great athletes you've known in your time. They all say that they "saw" the victory before they competed. What about you? Do you have a long term vision of success?

See, acquiring great wealth is a matter of thinking and seeing things differently than the DOers in our world. Amazingly enough, I am at the begining of Seeing more clearly for the first time.

Can you relate? Questions like: I'm smarter than him, why can't I get the breaks he gets? I've got my degree, but why does the guy who barely finished high school make more than me? It's not fair! I work hard, why can't I seem to get ahead?

The difference is not so much in what you do, it is in how you think about what you do. See, your thoughts are very powerful and will ultimately determine your actions. You can't determine any kind of action without first thinking about it. Think about that for a minute...LOL...

We have clearly exited the Industrial Age and entered into the Information Age. In the Industrial Age, hard work was key to long term success. Today, Information is key to long term success. The rules have changed! Have you?

My suggestion to you is quite simple. Get a new education. Find mentors who are living the way you want to live and learn how they think so you'll know how they did it. Read Books. Go to seminars and learn from people who have been there.

A good friend of mine told me yesterday it's like Fly Fishing. Why would you stand in the rapids, the busiest part of the river where you can't see the fish, when you can follow the stream down to the calmer pools of water where the fish are hanging out. It's all about knowing how to think or you'll spend a lot of time in the Raging Rapids not getting anywhere quickly and wearing yourself out doing it.

If you'd like to discuss this in more detail, please call me 505-250-1944.