Dean Graziosi has achieved great success in his personal life. His life story is amazing and fascinating. In millionaire success habits by dean graziosi pdf, Graziosi boils the success habits into a series of short modifications that anyone can tackle—wherever you are on the path to success.
The success tips in this book are worthwhile habits some quick hacks and some will take years to perfect, if ever. I strongly suggest printing the material from his website and filling out the worksheets. Legendary business coach Dean Graziosi has broken down the walls of complexity around success and created simple success recipes that you can quickly put to use in your life to reach the level of wealth and abundance you desire.
There are lots of pros and only a couple of cons about this book. As a self helf book is very interesting and easy to read. This book is not about adding more time to your day. Who is in your inner circle? You probably know where this is going, but go there with me. We all know how impactful the people closest to us are.
Some rob us of confidence while others empower us, right? Maybe you could read this book to your partner or share its lessons with the people closest to you. Keep reading for another way to deal with this situation.
You see, there are two types of people in this world and in your life. There are battery chargers, and there are battery drainers. I got this concept from my good friend, Joe Polish.
The more time you spend with that person the more energy you have, the more you think you can accomplish in life, and more and more you start to pick up on their positive success habits. In contrast, you can be around someone else for a few minutes and feel drained. That person is a battery drainer that is sucking away your positive energy! Pay attention to how they act, the habits they have, and even their work ethic. Your energy is too valuable to have it drained away by someone else.
This law of human nature is very simple: If you want financial success you must surround yourself with financially successful people. If you want to be an entrepreneur and start your own company, socialize with other entrepreneurs and other people who have started their own companies. Want to be in better shape? You get the idea. How do you develop your inner circle? You must make it a habit to expand your social circle and deliberately include successful, career-oriented people and business owners.
Read a lot of books about success, or listen to podcasts and audio books while you work out. Go where successful people are likely to be, like meet-up groups and master- minds; or get a coach. You can start with the Success Habits 30 day challenge at www. You can also call us anytime at and one of our certified coaches will share ways we can assist you on your journey. They will, however, in many cases, drop by the wayside as you evolve.
Instead, you need to model the way you hope they will begin to act. You have the strength to change the select few people that you want to take with you on this journey to becoming your best self.
Be a light in their lives and even the most negative people can change for the better. As simple as some of the preceding success habits may seem, their impact is undeniable. The fact is, they work. You just have to switch out a few bad habits with these new empowering success habits. Same amount of time, totally different results. Speaking of time, I am grateful that you are spending this time with me. I know how busy life can get and that you have a lot of choices.
If you can find the time to read this, you can find the time to start incorporating these success habits into your life. No one is holding your hand or making you read this.
You have the desire and interest to know what the next level of life is for you, and your actions will carry you there. I urge you to finish the entire book.
You deserve all of the advantages you can get your hands on, and I have many more great ones on the way.
Now that you understand the villain within and what gives him power--your physical appearance, the words you use or the people you surround yourself with--you can put all those negative thoughts and habits into a bucket and shake them up.
What comes out is the story you tell yourself. Your story is your internal narrative, and it can be the heaviest anchor in your life, hold- ing you back from experiencing the joy of using your full potential, or it can drive you to achieve massive success, wealth, and abundance. In that struggle, we developed our character and our strength.
At its core, your story is where you live, emotionally, mentally, and sometimes even physically. Your story can either be the wind behind your sails or the anchor that is weighing you down.
Our inner villain tells us the stories that hold us back. What we need to do is figure out what stories we should be telling our- selves—the ones aligned with the new vision we have for our lives, the ones that enable us to leave our old story in the past.
Of course they are. And our first step is to understand why you tell yourself and other people certain stories. When I met Gena, she had a very specific story she told herself about who she was at that point in her life and who she believed she could be at some point in the future.
She was a stay-at-home mom, and an amazing one at that. While her husband worked hard outside the house at his job, Gena ran the household and managed the family with great diligence: organizing, scheduling, taking care of her husband Nick, giving piano lessons to make some extra money when she could, and basi- cally being super-mom. And Gena enjoyed this role immensely.
In the back of her mind, she sometimes thought that she had deferred her dreams and goals in order to make sure her family was solid and secure. We all question our choices at times.
But for all intents and purposes, Gena was happy with her chosen role. Simulta- neously, however, her inner villain created a much different story and a negative emotional state. This old story went something like this: At 60 years old I have done what I was put on this earth to do and was the best wife and mother I could be.
I supported my family at every turn. But now that job has come to an end. As my friends say, this is the time in life to wind down, to cherish the past, and to spend less so we can make it through until the end. I have no special skills, so hopefully I can make some extra money teaching more piano lessons, or maybe by being a greeter at the local department store.
This is a youth-based society and there is no way an older woman like me could do anything of significance. Well, at least I did a great job as a mom. This story made her feel depressed, that she had no worth, and that her best days were behind her. Even though it was fiction, she told it to herself so often that it started to become her reality. She said it so many times subcon- sciously that she actually believed it as fact—a common reaction.
It is who we are at any moment and we project those three things into everything we do. She started reading one of my books and, slowly but surely, she exposed her story as a lie. When Gena learned about her internal villain and how he shaped the story she heard in her head, she was motivated to defeat the villain. She treated this villain as an actual foe rather than just a symbol for her stagnation. The more she learned about the villain and how he functions, the more motivated she was to stop his harm- ful storytelling.
Gena recognized that if she changed her story, she could change her present and her future. Gena began telling herself a brand new story, one that totally transformed her life, her family, and the future in front of her. I am a strong, young year-old who has discovered the next phase of my life. Nothing can stop me from the joy, happiness, wealth, and abundance that I desire.
God gave me so many amazing gifts and I intend to use them all. A little different from the woman thinking her best days were behind her and it was time to curl up, get old, and fade away. Okay, think about this for just a moment.
What changed were her habits and eventually her story. She became the thermostat of her life rather than the thermometer. It was only then that she achieved her dream of unshakeable peace and inner happiness. And the money was great, but it was only the icing on the cake. Well, if Gena were the only one who had ever experienced such a dramatic change, then maybe you should still have doubts.
Regardless, there is a story you must stop telling yourself, or a story you must adjust, because it is preventing you from leading an optimal life in the areas that matter to you the most: Change your story, change your life.
I could stop at this point, leaving you inspired by Gena to change your story. But it might inspire you for a day or two and then your old story would drift back into place. You need to anchor this awareness and this change so it sticks with you for life. Together we will make this happen. To do this, think about in which area of your life you want to experi- ence the biggest breakthrough. Since you are reading this book, the odds are that making more money, starting or expanding your own business, or finding work you love represent breakthrough areas for you.
So stop for a moment and ask yourself why these things you de- sire have not happened yet. What is the story you have in your head?
Can you see now how the factors from the previous chapter—the internal villain, the lack of a deeper why--fuel these limiting stories and make them real as heck in your subconscious? Consider, too, how your story became a part of you. Maybe the negative news reports you received daily supported your negative story? Maybe hearing that you need to work on your weak- nesses helped create your story? Did some stories come to mind? If they did, write them down. If not, stop reading for a moment and think of what you are holding back.
Just so you know, these stories may have been with you for many years—they may stretch back to early childhood. These stories create the excuses our subconscious gives us for not living up to our full potential. By the end of this chapter, I want you to be able to dig out from under your limiting beliefs and stories and throw them away for good.
So let me share a scenario here that hopefully can help you dig deeper and achieve this objective. You have to get a job regardless if you like it or if it aligns with the person you are. Taking a risk can be devastating. If that was the experience of your grandparents, they prob- ably raised your parents with a frugal, cautious mindset. In this case, I know why! You are living with the ideals of someone from the Great Depression even though you are not living in that period.
These beliefs can limit all areas of your life--from the religion you follow, the political party you gravitate towards, to the type of person you choose in a relationship. Your limiting beliefs are sneaky and guide so much of what you do and who you become.
Well, in many ways this is exactly what is happening in your life. So focus on the beliefs and stories that are limiting you in differ- ent ways.
Write down the beliefs or stories that come to mind and what you want to improve. This is all about extracting the beliefs that currently guide your life. Next, write where these beliefs came from. So we need to identify them and see how artificial they are in most cases. You must see that they are not your beliefs but rather beliefs handed to you by others.
Chances are that you answered yes to one or more of these questions. If so, assess and write the cost—what specifically have you been denied, what loss have you suffered, what problems have developed because of the story you tell yourself? Just get it all down on paper so you have something tangible to look at. I want you to come face-to-face with the pain or the missed opportunities a bad story or a negative belief can bring and therefore build even more resentment towards it and more urgency to change it.
On your journey to where you want to go in life, how might these stories get in your way? Think about your life in 5 years, 10 years, or maybe even 20 years; what did you miss out on again because of these stories and beliefs? Close your eyes and imagine missing out on a great opportu- nity at some point in the future. Let yourself experience the pain of that missed opportunity.
Are you really going to give these stories so much power? Recognize what they have cost you and what they will continue to cost you. I never would have started my own career, touched the lives of mil- lions of people, traveled the world, and so much more. Even scarier, I may not have ended up the father I am today to Breana and Brody! I told myself that I could never start my own business, and that you need money and smarts to make money.
Let me ask you this: Was the story I told myself true or was it just plain garbage? Of course you do! I researched the topic many years ago and found out that the story I was telling myself was total nonsense, and I proved to myself that the story was wrong and a lie.
Am I an exception to the rule? Of course there are! So clearly, my old story was completely false. Have other people with no money and horrible childhoods gone on to do great things, be great dads, enjoy rewarding relationships, have amazing friends, and be massively successful financially?
Get the proof that those limiting stories and beliefs are nothing more than fiction. I put you in this amazing world and gave you limitless possibili- ties in your life. Could you really say anything like this to your maker with a straight face?
And most of them overcame their dark past because they refused to let the tragedy and hardship define them. They created a different story for their lives.
Well I surely hope so. Say it several times, over and over, and listen to yourself articulating it repeatedly. I know your story may have been traumatizing in the past, but when you say it out loud as an adult you start to hear how misguided it sounds. When you change parts of the story, your narrative begins to improve. Let me share my own experience of how this is so. Or so I thought.
But without realizing it, not being able to read like the other kids taught me how to be good visually and aurally; I figured out how to learn by watching and listening.
These are skills many of the other kids probably never developed and if they did, it took them a lot longer than it did me. This is why I can stand up on stage for hours and speak without a teleprompter or a script.
My childhood dyslexia taught me to be able to communicate in a really simple, straightfor- ward way. So what is something good that came out of your story? What is something that you once thought was an obstacle in your life, but in fact created skills that have made you who you are today? Find the good that can come from your story and start changing it into an empowering story. So those supposedly bad stories were just part of a bigger plan creating and forming my character.
Now imagine that the house is on fire, and you have a tiny suitcase in your hands and only a minute to save some of those memories. In order to reach that next level of success in life, you must choose to pack only the memories and the stories that serve you going forward.
Only carry out with you those things that will help you make the best life possible. Remember, the past only lives inside you. You have to think of the past as research and development. It is there to learn from and develop your better self. And we only have this moment!
So why carry all that heaviness of the past when you can let it go forever? When I combine the ability to learn fast, not fear failure, and be tenacious, my life is limitless! You can find your new, better story, just as I did. Remember, no matter what your old circumstances were, you have the ability to leave them behind. Write Your New Story As you craft this new story, do the opposite of what we did earlier and find proof that your new story is true.
Search the internet to get proof, ask successful friends, seek out a mentor, or talk to one of my trained coaches. Do whatever it takes to find proof that what you are now saying is possible. Most suc- cessful people went through hell once or many times in their lives.
The proof is everywhere, so go find it. Write it, revise it, but get it crafted. And when the old story pops back into your mind, be consciously aware of your thoughts. Remember, you may have been think- ing those old limiting thoughts for 10, 20, maybe 30 years or more. Just as it takes more than one session at the gym to get in shape, so, too, do you have to embed your new story into your life many times. Through my day challenge, or on your own, say the story out loud for the next 30 days, every night before you go to bed.
Try to make this a daily ritual for at least the next month. Also, find someone in your life that you can tell your new story to who would appreciate it—someone who will smile and encourage you rather than poo-poo it and call you a dreamer. Ask someone to be your accountability friend, a partner or coach who can help guide you or at least keep you on track.
A coach is someone who can really help you do that. If you have someone in your life that can be your mentor, please allow him or her to do so. Either way, make sure to take my fun and engaging 30 day challenge at www. Remember to make a commitment to repeating it every night and every morning. It may require ten min- utes each day, but meditate on it and try to feel that new story. But when you combine the two, the words take on a new mean- ing. When you awaken your inner hero--and yes we all have one--you will open your world up to new opportunities and amazing levels of abundance and joy.
As you have learned by now, the vil- lain fights against your growth and does all it can to rob you of your confidence, trying to prevent you from developing and anchoring new success habits.
Yet, by the time this chapter is over you will have the tools and the clarity to let the best you guide your thoughts, your happiness and abundance.
Recall the definitions: When the inner hero runs your life, you are filled with confidence, optimism, and are a solution-focused per- son.
This mindset ends today. Working together, we can accomplish this. You are worth it, so keep reading, push forward, and stick with it. No more roller coasters. Think about a time you were in a bad mood and then something good happened and it triggered a great feeling. Maybe you learned there was extra money in your bank account, your spouse did something special for you, or you got a promotion at work.
Can you think of a moment or moments where you went from feeling down to feeling up in an instant? Of course you can, and that demonstrates that you possess the ability to change your state of mind and your confidence in an instant. You just need tools to be in control of this ability rather than to be at the mercy of outside factors. Face it: Have you done anything amazing in your life when your confidence was in the toilet?
No, with this state of mind, problems compound, opportunities are missed and regrets are formed. But if the high soon goes away and is followed by a low, then your life is filled with peaks and valleys—peaks and valleys that are dictated by the outside world. With this ability, you can limit those valleys and eventually prevent them altogether because you will be in control of your emotions and thoughts rather than allowing circumstance to dictate what they are.
Most people believe that they either have total confidence or none at all. Even a small hit to your confidence can be deadly to your aspirations, goals, and dreams. This level of confidence simply does not leave any space for the villain to exist.
Your inner confidence is the hero inside of you waiting to shine. Once they went through this process, though, they obtained the ability to create confidence at levels they never thought were possible. And once they did, there was no stopping them. Before we discuss how to tap into this resource and give you the ability to change your state of mind and raise your confidence when you need it, I want to give you the chance to visualize this internal power shift and the huge difference it can make in your life.
Profiles In Courage: Two Heroes Carol Stinson let the villain run her life, in no small part because she had grown up extremely poor in Philadelphia. Then she eventu- ally moved to a not-so-pleasant area in New Jersey. The rich get richer. They have advantages no one else does. As an adult, she encountered one hardship after the next. She was raising five children of her own plus two grandchildren—the youngest was a spe- cial needs child. Some days all they could afford to eat was peanut butter, and their electricity was turned off because of non-payment of bills.
She told me she would wake up and immediately feel fear and panic because in New Jersey, if your electric is shut off CPS child protective services could take your children.
But we can also create change when we hit rock bottom. Carol, for instance, was running out of time, money, and excuses. With her residence in foreclosure, no money, and pantry empty, she did something completely out of the ordinary for her; she bought one of my books with her last few dollars. She went against her family, her husband, and even her own inner voice to do so. And yes, I gave her strategies to make money. I gave her business ideas.
But Carol told me that as she read, she kept saying to herself. Based on reading about my personal journey, doing the exercises, and being inspired by the examples, she started changing her own thoughts, her success habits, and her story. Carol knew the villain had been in charge of her entire adult life and nothing good had come of it.
She was brave enough to awaken her inner hero and allow that to be her new guiding force. She also realized how blessed she was to be raising 7 children, have a great husband, and the opportunities in front of her. And boy, did it.
With these realizations, Carol no longer blamed the economy or fate or anything else for her struggles. Instead, she took control. And when she did so, everyone around her thought she was crazy. She insisted she could be wealthy. She was sure she could do more. She thought she could take on the world. Well, guess what? When she started thinking that way, she drove the inner hero to be stronger and stronger. Carol not only started her own company, she generated hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars and she got her family out of foreclosure.
She bought a new house and a new car. She took her kids school-shopping in malls where they had never shopped before and on vacations that they had only dreamt about.
She even changed the destiny of her family by putting her children through college. Today, Carol Stinson looks 20 years younger than she did when I first met her. Tapping into their full potential, and not leaving it up to chance. I have no doubt that spitfire, that amazing woman will go to her deathbed knowing she was all she could be, and then some. Think about the simple definition starting this chapter. And another success habit that Carol exempli- fied was that she simply stopped focusing on what was wrong and started the routine of focusing on solutions.
This is when you allow your hero to shine. Let me share another example so this truth will really sink in. But what you might not know is that not that many years ago, a car hit her son Grant while he was walking home, and the driver fled the scene, leaving him for dead.
In fact, Grant was still alive, but barely. As of this writing, PBS is currently doing a documentary on JJ and Grant, and the journey they went through together after this tragic event. They asked to interview me for the documentary, and, of course, I said yes.
I was unsure of what they wanted from me, but was honored and delighted at the chance to support JJ and Grant or add value where I could. One of the questions they posed was, what did I think was the best way to get through a traumatic experience such as the one that had befallen JJ and her son?
But is it? I went on to explain my thoughts, but as I did I realized that JJ acted in a way that focused on the best outcome. She, of course, went through the emotions we all would as a parent getting that call. But as quickly as she could, she got obsessed with Grant not only surviving, but having the chance to live a normal life.
She refused to accept what the doctors told her and Grant. She did what she had to, made cold calls, knocked on doors, was forceful when necessary and got the best possible people to help Grant. JJ found a vision, focused on solutions, and let the hero take over and nothing got in her way. It would have been so easy to place blame and expend energy on revenge. JJ could have hated her and rightfully so, given what happened to her little boy.
Instead, she realized that revenge would do Grant no good and that we only have a certain amount of energy to put forth in the world.
She knew what direction her energy needed to go and fo- cused on the solution with laser intensity. She let the inner hero be in control rather than the villain. It can help you generate energy from whatever challenge you face and use it to achieve the life you deserve.
So if they are going to happen, who do you want in charge? I think you are getting it: The hero focuses on solutions. So now that you have a better idea of what the inner hero looks like, we need to examine how you can develop the confidence to put that hero in control.
Have you ever wanted to ask a girl out on a date or talk to a guy you saw at a coffee shop and you let that person walk away without saying a word? Or make it even simpler: Have you refused to walk into the gym because you thought you were too out of shape to be there? So when has a lack of confidence hurt you in the past? A great man and dear friend by the name of Richard Rossi runs a remarkable company in Washington D. If you could identify one common trait they all have, what would it be?
But here is the million-dollar question: How do we make sure that confidence is always there for us when we need it? Think back to a time when your confidence surged because of something amazing that happened. So as I got older I had to learn to manufacture my own confidence.
You can do the same. Could some people have been born with it? In most cases, confidence is something that has to be learned. No matter what level of confidence you have, let me assure you there is more waiting to be accessed. This is a 4-step process that helps you discover what real confi- dence looks like and the ingredients needed to get there.
The first step, or I guess I should say the first C, in these steps is courage. All confidence, all change, and all new things start with courage. Courage is walking through a door and not knowing what is on the other side. Courage makes you get off the bench, raise your hand, and get in the game rather than judging or envying from the side- lines.
Do you have children? You have to be extremely courageous to bring children into the world and take care of them. Cour- age is something we all have inside us, even if it is hidden. Taking action is possible when true purpose is recognized. It all begins with that first step. Now the second C is commitment. Or look at this second C, commitment, from the opposite per- spective: Have you ever been successful in something to which you were not committed? Whether it was a relationship, a new business, or even a new diet?
Heck no! The third C is capabilities. What are you acquiring by reading these pages and developing success habits? Remember when we talked about where you are, being honest with yourself, fig- uring out where you want to go, and how you are going to get there?
In most cases, you need to acquire specific capabilities to achieve your goals. If you want to be great at rock climbing, read a book from an expert rock climber or take a course or hire someone as a mentor. If you fail to take these actions and lack the knowledge to execute them properly, you will lose your courage to keep going and not commit to seeing it through. You will get frustrated and overwhelmed.
So get a road map from the right person or source whenever possible. Then they hit a few roadblocks or challenges, feel defeated, and stop trying to reach their goals.
With the right capabilities, on the other hand, you can spot the obstacles and know how to get around them; you can also access the path that will take you where you want to go faster and obtain the results you desire! Your confidence then starts to naturally grow. Think about each C separately and how it has given you a shot of confidence at different points in your life. Have you ever been afraid of doing something new like dancing in front of people, zip lining, or public speaking?
Maybe you were scared to death before taking action, right? You were probably obsessing over what could go wrong, but you finally just did what you had to do. That was courage. Then after the experience ended, how did you feel? Exactly, you felt amazing and that you could easily do it again! How about commitment? You can dabble for years in a relation- ship or your business, then all of a sudden one day because of your kids, or because of your desire for more or some other motivator, you commit and your life takes off.
Consider capabilities. When you are in the dark about some- thing it seems so confusing. Have you ever tried to download and use a new app on your phone without any guidance?
But once your acquired the capabilities—you read the instructions, saw an online video, hired a coach or teacher—the activity became second nature to you after some practice.
Your self-doubt and inner resistance fades away and the real you is in charge. No matter how strong you are, no matter how much you evolve, your confidence can still take a hit. And if you are going to reach your full potential, you must protect your confidence as if you are protecting millions of dollars in a vault.
So when life knocks your confidence down, you need the tools to boost it back up fast. A crazy-sounding question? And perhaps a difficult one to answer? The first time I did this exercise I was with Sean Stephenson, a 3-foot tall giant.
Sean is an incredible man who has accom- plished more than most despite adversities most of us could never imagine. Looking back now, I realize that he noticed my confidence was down and he was trying to boost it back up. So trust me. So go ahead and start thinking of the things that are cool about you. The reward is the satisfaction gained from the action taken. You have successfully satisfied your craving and changed your physical or emotional state. The brain builds a pathway from the cue to this state of pleasure.
Every time you experience the same cue, the brain will be triggered to desire that pleasure again. You will be prompted to perform the same action, thereby creating a habit. The process works like this: Cue: You walk past a coffee shop on the way to work and smell fresh roasted coffee. Craving: Coffee gives you energy, and you want to feel energized. Response: You buy a cup of coffee. Reward: By the time you reach work, you are raring to go. Buying a cup of coffee becomes associated Outcome-Driven Habits Outcomes are synonymous with goals.
For example, you may decide you want to have six-pack abs. You decide that doing crunches will lead to that outcome. You do crunches a day until you have six-pack abs. Now that you have the abs you want, crunches start to seem like a burden, and you lose motivation to do them because they are not connected with a goal. Process-Based Habits Processes are synonymous with systems. Identity-Based Habits Identity is synonymous with who you are and how you live. Using the six-pack abs example, you determine that someone with six-pack abs must have a healthy lifestyle.
Therefore, you desire to become someone with a healthy lifestyle. You decide that a combination of 10 crunches before bed, a low-calorie diet, and riding a bike instead of driving to work equals a healthy lifestyle. Over time, continuing to perform these actions leads to an overall healthier body that includes six-pack abs. Now, you have the abs you wanted and the habit of living more healthily.
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