Increase Income

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Mar 072008

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Increase Your Income 1000%
By: Brian Tracy

Here’s an exercise for you; imagine that it’s possible for you to earn 10 times your current annual wage. If you’re earning $25,000, imagine for a moment that it’s possible for you to earn $250,000, a 1,000 percent increase.

Believe in Yourself
The first reaction of most people to that exercise is to smile briefly and then to begin thinking about why it isn’t possible. One man said to me, “If you knew how many years it’s taken for me to get to what I’m earning today you wouldn’t be suggesting that I could earn 10 times as much.”

There Are No Excuses
Mark Twain once wrote that there are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason. The tragedy of the average American is that whereas his or her main preoccupation seems to be money, or the lack thereof, the average person has the inherent potential to earn far more than he or she is earning currently.
Can Someone Be 10x Better?
Is the manager earning $250,000 per year ten times as smart as the manager earning $25,000? Ten times as experienced? Does he or she work 10 times harder? Of course not. None of these are physically or mentally possible, but there are people in every business earning many times more than others with the same average age, experience and intelligence.

I.Q. Doesn’t Really Matter
In fact, a few years ago in New York, a thousand men and women were selected at random and tested for I.Q. Between the one having the highest I.Q. in this sample and the one with the lowest, there was a difference of only two and a half times. But between the person earning the most, who by the way, was not the one with the highest I.Q. and the one earning the least, who was not the one with the lowest I.Q., there was a difference of 100 times in income.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to start increasing your income.

First, identify the highest earning, most successful people in your field and find out what it is that they are doing differently from others who aren’t doing as well. Copy them every day.

Second, set a goal to double your income over the next two or three years and then figure out what you’ll have to do to achieve it. Get started!

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Fear of Success?

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Mar 072008

Winner’s Circle Network with Lou Tice -

“Fear of Success?”

Many people are afraid of failure, but do you know anyone who is afraid of
success? Today, let’s talk about this all too common problem. But first, ask
yourself, “Am I afraid of success?”

Even if your first instinct is, “No, of course not!” think about it. Abraham
Maslow, one of the great psychologists, called it a “Jonah Complex,” because
Jonah chose to turn away from the great things God had planned for him. The
Bible tells us that Jonah eventually found himself eaten by a whale, but
most people who fear success find themselves consumed by regrets for things
that might have been, rather than a large cetacean.

There are many reasons why we might turn away from the challenges that could
bring us success, but it is usually because we just don’t believe we have
what it takes to pull it off. Our self-efficacy is low. (Self-efficacy
simply means our own estimation of what we can cause or bring about.)

The good news is that self-efficacy can be improved. One way is to remember
the successes you have had in the past, and vividly imagine yourself
repeating similar successes in the new situation. Another is to set yourself
up to succeed by taking on risks you are pretty sure you can handle, and
then gradually – step by step – upping the ante.

It is important to surround yourself with supportive people who believe in
you, and to control your self-talk and negative thinking. You don’t want to
end up stopping yourself before you start. Why not begin today to live your
life in the present, so that you will have no regrets in the future.

Lou Tice
The Pacific Institute
www.thepacificinstitute.com

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