If You're Not in One of These Two Groups....You've Got a Major Problem...

Do you realize that people, just like you, are going from poor to financially free every year?

They’re no smarter than you, or more educated than you, or had any more money to start with than you do. They just KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON’T, AND THEY’RE DOING SOMETHING YOUR AREN’T.

My financial consulting practice draws hundreds of people from every background imaginable. Thanks to the effective radio advertising that I’ve been doing in Phoenix for years, I’ve created a large group of clients. Every single day, from the FRONT LINES, I see exactly how most people play the money game, manage their money, and where they’re headed financially.

Here is what I see……

I see EVERYBODY struggling with money. Most can hardly keep their financial head above water.

I see EVERYBODY mismanage their money. Most haven’t got a clue what proper money management is, and are playing a losers game.

But…almost everybody I meet with wants EXACTLY what I have…..Financial Freedom.

What is Financial Freedom?..........

Imagine having enough money coming in every month to pay your bills without you HAVING to go to work……

Imagine having the FREEDOM to CHOOSE to do EXACTLY whatever you want to do with your time without the worry about having the money to pay the bills……

We’re not talking about making millions and millions of dollars, unless of course that’s what you want to shoot for. We’re not even talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars.

For many people, we’re talking about $3,000 a month, or $5,000 or $7,000 a month.

Do you want to DRAMATICALLY increase your odds of becoming a financially free person?

There are only a two groups who have the odds in their favor when it comes to financial freedom….

Professionals, like doctors, lawyers, dentists, etc…… This group earns enough income to be able to save and grow their wealth.

Entrepreneurs…..There are always a small group of entrepreneurs who beat the odds and create businesses that generate a great income.

Which group do you fall into?

Suppose you fall into the first group…..you’re a professional. You’re earning a great 6 figure income. I have many clients who fall into this category.

Guess what!

Most of these “intelligent” people have never been educated about money management, winning the money game, and becoming financially free.

What do they do with all of their money?

They SPEND it! All of it, AND MORE!

We have A NEGATIVE SAVINGS RATE in our country! Our expenses rise to meet our income…..and then some.

But, at least these folks have a fighting chance to win the game if they just learn the rules and take advantage of their situation.

Suppose you fall into the second group…….you’re a highly successful entrepreneur. You’ve figured out how to build a great business and you’re making a lot of money from it. I also have many clients who fall into this category.

Most of these “successful” people have never been educated about money management, winning the money game, and becoming financially free.

What do they do with all of their money?

They SPEND it! All of it, AND MORE!

But, at least these folks have a fighting chance to win the game if they just learn the rules and take advantage of their situation.

If you DON’T fall into one of these 2 categories, YOU HAVE A MAJOR PROBLEM!!

It’s not that you haven’t any chance to ever become financially free, it’s just that the odds are 1 in a million against you.

To improve your odds, you can join one of these groups!

You could decide to go back to school to become a doctor, lawyer or dentist.

You could.

But it would be expensive, and take many years to accomplish.

Or…..You could choose to LEARN how to become an entrepreneur.

You could LEARN the exact thoughts that successful entrepreneurs think!

You could LEARN the exact principles that successful entrepreneurs use!

You could LEARN the exact skills that successful entrepreneurs master!

And you could LEARN step by step, exactly how to build your own successful entrepreneurial business.

Success as an Entrepreneur is a LEARNABLE skill!

It wouldn’t cost as much as going back to school to become a professional.

It wouldn’t take as much time.

It’s WAY MORE FUN!!

But…….IT’S ONE THING TO EARN IT! IT’S ANOTHER THING TO KEEP IT AND GROW IT!

For you to win the game, you have got to MASTER 3 areas of money. Each one requires different skills.

You have got to MASTER earning money, then keeping the money your earn, and finally growing the money you keep.

I’ve spent almost 40 years learning the money making secrets to success. Using the principles and strategies I teach my clients I became financially free.

Today my systems and strategies help all of my clients reach their full financial potential

Everyone’s financial potential is different. I can help you reach YOUR financial potential, whatever it is.

You just need to have the desire.

Today, with the aid of my Mastermind group, I am creating a state of the art, one of a kind online learning program that will allow anyone who has the desire to become financially free the tools to make it a reality.

If there was ever a course in your life that you’d want to get an “A” in, this’ll be the one. This course will transform your life. I promise that. You can’t possibly be the same person at the end of this program as you were when you started it.

You will have a new excitement about life that you haven’t felt in a long time. You will have more energy, more enthusiasm, more optimism.

If you want more Wealth and Abundance in your life, this course will be the opportunity of your lifetime.

Keep tuned as I get closer to finishing this program.

This blog is dedicated to everyone who has a burning desire to join the elite top 5%. If you’re one of them, this is the place for you.

Namaste.
Jeff

Is It the Quickest Way?

Almost 3 years ago I wrote in this blog about a system taught by my friend and mentor Harv Eker called SPEEDWEALTH. It’s a system designed to show ANYONE who has the true desire, EXACTLY how to create a MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS in 3 years or less.

In a nutshell, the system is a checklist for the entrepreneur to follow.

After learning this system, I designed my business to follow the checklist that the system called for.

The results speak for themselves. The financial advisory practice I created has grown from the day I opened my business, to the point where I am among the top advisors in the nation in my area of expertise.

While I wanted to prove that the SPEEDWEALTH system worked, I also wanted to improve my entrepreneurial skills.

Why have I focused so much of my recent life to ENTREPRENEURSHIP?

First of all, it’s a passion of mine. I went to undergraduate school to get a degree in BUSINESS. I went to graduate school to get a MASTERS degree in BUSINESS. I got my CPA to understand the numbers and the taxes of business. I grew up in my family business. All of my other family members were in businesses.

Second, it is beyond a shadow of a doubt, the BEST AND FASTEST WAY to reach FINANCIAL FREEDOM.

Think about this for a second……

For every 100 new businesses that open their doors today, approximately 80 percent will fail in the first 3 years. Of the remaining 20 percent, 16 percent will have bought themselves a job, and ONLY 4 PERCENT will be creating wealth!

If you think those odds sound lousy, it’s A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE for the EMPLOYEE who gets paid a salary or by the hour or job.

Unless you are paid on performance or by results, you will struggle with money your entire life.

The problem is, virtually no one is creating FINANCIAL FREEDOM. The overwhelming majority of the public goes to work, gets a paycheck, and stays on the proverbial treadmill their whole lives.

BUT THAT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE YOU!!

I KNOW THIS TO BE A FACT!

HOW DO I KNOW THIS FACT?

BECAUSE SUCCESS IS A LEARNABLE SKILL!

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS A LEARNABLE SKILL!

YOU CAN LEARN YOUR WAY TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM AS LONG AS YOU ARE READY TO BACK UP YOUR LEARNING WITH ACTION!

Here’s one thing I can promise you for sure…..

If you study and learn the mindset for success I’ve written about for the past 3 years here at this blog….

If you study and learn the money management skills and strategies I’ve written about for the past 3 years here at this blog….

If you study and learn the entrepreneurial skills and strategies that I WILL BE DEDICATED TO TEACHING YOU right here at this blog and on my web site (soon to come)….

You will be ready to take on the world, and WIN!

Financial Freedom is a worthy goal. You will have to GROW yourself into a person CAPABLE of creating financial freedom, and even more in order to keep it and grow it. Your BURNING DESIRE to become such a person is the starting point for your success.

When you choose to become PASSIONATE about being your best, living life to the max, sharing your gifts with others, and understanding that every setback brings you closer to your dreams, you will finally begin to see the secret to really special success.

My entrepreneurial philosophies are based on 2 of the greatest entrepreneurial minds I have ever known, Michael Gerber and Harv Eker. Their successes are legendary. Their knowledge is unquestioned. I see the big picture both of them paint, and understand their mindset when it comes to success as an entrepreneur.

Remember, Financial Freedom happens when you have enough PASSIVE income to pay for your desired lifestyle. If you create a business the way I’ll be teaching you how to create it, you will have all the choices on what to do with it. That means, if you want to sell it and take the cash you can. If you want to run it yourself and take the profits, you can. If you want to hire outside managers and have them run it, you can. If you want to take it public and get a bunch of shares, you can. You will be in control.

As we begin the month of May, I hope you’ll make a declaration to yourself that you are going to make the balance of this year the starting point to your blast off to financial freedom. That means the desire to learn, to grow, to try, and try, and try and try……

Thank you for your precious time.

Namaste.

Jeff

The Incredible Power of Intention.....

If I could tell you just one thing that would make the biggest difference in your life, it would be to find someone extremely successful that you know and admire, and MODEL them. Figure out what it is that makes them so successful and follow their lead. Throughout my life, I have modeled the characteristics, habits, traits, tactics, systems, philosophies of those who have achieved uncommon success in areas of life that are important to me. It’s the sum total of all of these people and their characteristics that have molded me into who I am today.

This past weekend I went to San Diego to spend 2 ½ days with the brilliant Michael Gerber of E-Myth fame. I went for a number of reasons. First, simply to get to meet and learn with this giant in the area of entrepreneurship, my greatest passion. Second, to get very clear about how I wanted to take my business to another level. Third, to meet as many of the other participants and network with these like minded souls. Fourth, figure out if there was ANY way I could create a JV arrangement or alliance with Michael Gerber.

The event started on Friday, and just prior to the start I got an email from my good friend Harv Eker of Peak Potentials Training who is also a friend of Michael’s asking me to send his regards. Michael certainly knew Harv. Me, I was just another face in the crowd.

The event was exactly as advertised. Dream. What’s your Dream? What’s your vision? Your purpose? Your mission?

When you hear the words come out of Michael Gerber’s mouth, it just seems to mean more. When he emphasizes key concepts again, and again, and again, and again, it’s time to highlight them and circle them too!

I chose to pay the premium and get to be on Michael’s ‘HOT SEAT”. There were probably about a dozen of us out of the room of 45 who would get the experience of being on Michael Gerber’s HOT SEAT.

On Sunday morning, I still hadn’t had my turn on the HOT SEAT yet, and I was beginning to wonder what I had gotten myself into. Michael wasn’t pulling any punches and he was getting his points across to each of those who were brave enough to go through the process. I’ll bet those who were willing to step up and sit on the HOT SEAT got the most out of the weekend. But I knew I’d be called up at some point on Sunday, and I was just prepared to take it like a man.

Most disappointing was that I didn’t see any way to create an alliance or JV arrangement with Michael Gerber, and that was the highest aspiration I had going into the weekend. THAT WAS MY INTENTION.

All of a sudden, on Sunday morning, Michael introduces his ‘Chief Negotiator” Mark, who then makes a fantastic presentation and discusses the opportunity to become a ‘STRATEGIC PARTNER’ with Michael and his team. I’ve seen Mark throughout the event but never had a chance to talk with him at breaks or at meals.

Could this be the opportunity I was looking for? Could this be my lucky break? Could I actually become a “STRATEGIC PARTNER” with Michael Gerber? I was sure going to find Mark at the break and talk to him about it.

At the next break I immediately introduced myself to Mark and began to talk with him, but there were several others who also wanted to speak with him, and I wasn’t able to accomplish much.

After lunch, it was my turn to be on the stage with Michael. We began to discuss my dream, vision, purpose and mission. It was much more like a pleasant conversation than having Michael ripping me apart! Then Michael asked me to fill in the blanks, my background, education, prior work experience, what I was currently doing. I spoke about my passion for financial freedom and personal growth. I spoke about my belief in entrepreneurship as the greatest vehicle to financial freedom. I spoke about the incredible need for education in the areas of money and success. I spoke about the sleeping passions inside of all of us that just need to be woken up.

Afterwards, Mark came over to me and said that they’d like to explore a strategic partnership with me! Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to go into further details other than….”I’ll be in touch with you Jeff”, so until the details have been confirmed, it’s something brewing.

Regardless, my intention was to make something happen while I was at this seminar with Michael Gerber. He had never met me before. He knew absolutely nothing about me. There was no reason to believe that of all the people he has to choose from he would even consider me. But I was determined to see if it could happen, and believed that if it could happen it would happen. And IT DID!

Being a STRATEGIC PARTNER with Michael Gerber, would be a life transforming experience. My ideas and philosophies are in complete alignment with Michael’s. My desire to have a major impact on the financial lives of millions of people can be fulfilled with Michael Gerber as my STRATEGIC PARTNER. I believe in my heart and soul that there would be no stopping us (Not that Michael Gerber needs anything at all from me)

Until I have the chance to spend time in conversation with Mark, I’ll keep moving forward with my work, and when the time comes where there is more confirmation one way or the other, I’ll post it here first.

No matter what, the future is bright.

I hope your future is bright. I hope you’re waking up to your dreams every morning. I hope you have a plan to make your dreams come true. I hope you never quit!

Namaste.

Jeff

It's Exciting!

For almost 3 years now, I’ve been posting to this blog. It is something I do with passion, because I truly believe in the depths of my soul that the information here can transform people’s lives.

I believe it because everything I write about I live.

I believe it because at the age of 54, I have accomplished more, accumulated more, experienced more, journeyed more than just about anyone else I’ve ever known. I am free to take my life in any direction and to pursue any dream I want.

I believe it because the people I learned from are the most brilliant minds I can find on the face of this planet.

I believe it because every single day I have people in my office, or on the phone, or via email that thank me for inspiring them to improve some area of their lives.

I believe it because every time I meet with a client, their financial lives have improved.

I believe it because I see people JUST LIKE YOU every single day in my office. I KNOW YOUR CONCERNS, I KNOW YOUR GOALS, YOUR DREAMS. I know what you DO know, I know what you DON’T know, and I know what you KNOW that just ‘aint SO!

My mission is to educate and inspire you to reach your full financial potential. I believe I can do that better than anyone else in the world! Pretty bold statement huh?

Well……almost 40 years of intense personal development will make you bold! 40 years of getting successful results will make you bold!

Besides, if it persuades you in the least to take what you read here seriously, and BELIEVE as I do that you are on the verge of a realization that you can take your life to a whole new level; I’ll be as bold as I can be.

Over the past 18 months of being in business for myself, it has been my objective to

A) Improve my entrepreneurial skills
B) Cash flow as quickly as possible
C) Meet as many prospects as I'm able to
D) Learn as much as I could about my prospects
E) Discover WHAT’S MISSING

And over the past 18 months, I’ve done it all. Using a very effective marketing system, I see as many prospects as I care to. If I want to see more, it’s easy to ramp up the system to add more, or, when too many are coming at once, slow it down.

I began covering my costs after the first 90 days, and have never looked back. The growth of the business has been exponential. I earned more in my first year of being in business for myself than in any other year of my life. By far!

Most importantly, I’ve met hundreds of people who have opened up their financial lives to me, and shared exactly where they stand today.

And after weeks, months, and now years since I’ve begun this work, I’ve found WHAT’S MISSING! It’s incredible that this huge, critical, vital piece is missing in virtually everybody’s life!

Every single client I talk to about this; Every single friend I talk to about this; Every single associate I talk to about this….they all agree, it’s missing. And I’ll bet it’s missing to some degree in your life too!

In 2 weeks I’ll be traveling to San Diego to participate in a 2 ½ day workshop with the great Michael Gerber of E-Myth fame. If you aren’t familiar with Michael, imagine that you decided that you wanted to become an entrepreneur, and you wanted to learn from the greatest teacher of entrepreneurs in the world. This man is THE MAN!

Well, I want to transform the world. And the best man to teach me how to take my idea and create the delivery system to bring it to the world is Michael Gerber.

So I’ve bought myself a “HOT SEAT”, especially to get the greatest benefit of working directly with Michael throughout the entire event. The business plan I end up with will have Michael’s blessing on it. How can it get any better than that??

Just in case you’ve got a few extra $$$thousand lying around, here’s the details…

http://www.inthedreamingroom.com/

Imagine the people who attend events like this. 35 in total. Think some of them will make good networking partners?

Success is a journey that leads who knows where? All I know is that if you shoot for the stars, you’ll at least hit the moon. And I know that if you work with the best, surround yourself with the best, network with the best, and try your best every moment of every day, good things happen.

Keep getting inspired. Keep growing. Keep learning. Make it a habit. And then go out and DO!

Thank you always for your precious time. I hope I can touch you in a positive way.

Namaste,

Jeff

Another Quarter Almost In the Books...

Can you believe it? Here we are at the end of March and the first quarter of 2008.

How’s it been for you so far?

Have you accomplished any goals?

Are you moving forward in your life?

For me, it seems like life is moving faster than the speed of light.

The one thing I’ve gained an appreciation for as I age is how precious time is, and how much of it we all waste.

The first quarter of 2008 has been totally phenomenal so far.

My primary goal was to attract dozens of new clients, and I am among the top advisors in the country.

But I wanted to start a major new project, and I am well on my way to introducing my new web site.

By far, it’s the most fun, challenging and exciting project I’ve ever undertaken, and I know that the end result will be a site that will transform the lives of many people.

More importantly, I’m building a team of clients who all want to grow to their full financial potential and who are assisting me in this project. There is no doubt in my mind that we will grow it into something extraordinary over the next 2 to 3 years. You’ll be hearing much more about this new web site in the very near future.

Over the past almost 40 years, since I was 15 and first read THINK AND GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill, I have been developing a SYSTEM to automatically create success in every important area of life, especially financially. It was only a couple of years ago that I finally found the “MISSING PIECE” that completed the system.

Today, I meet with clients daily to assist, council and coach them to reach their full financial potential. I employ all the parts of my system.

Soon, I’ll be able to offer this system to anyone, anywhere in the world. For me, that’s very exciting.

You can decide that you’re going to begin to take action too, and make the rest of 2008 extraordinary for you too. It’s as simple as making up your mind, setting a goal, putting together a plan, surrounding yourself with the right people, and going to work until you get what you want.

There aren’t any shortcuts to success. You can take the quickest routes by learning from the best, but at the end of the day, you have to think for yourself, and you have to do for yourself, because you are 100% responsible for yourself.

There has never been a better time in the history of mankind for you to create financial freedom for yourself. If you aren’t creating it is it because you don’t care, is it because you didn’t think you could, or is it because you don’t know what to do?

If you don’t care, then there isn’t anything anyone can do to help you. You will always struggle with money.

If you don’t think you can create freedom, all that means is that you’ll have to work on your mindset.

If you don’t know what to do, all that means is that there’s still something you don’t know. You need to find the “MISSING PIECE”.

Everything you need to learn for financial freedom is right here at this blog. Keep coming back here for more ideas, systems, strategies and tactics to take you to the next level.

Namaste.

Jeff

The Richest are Masters of this....

Here’s a huge block for many, a gigantic wall most people can never get past. Here’s a WEALTH FILE that you will need to make sure is filled with BELIEFS that are positive and empowering.

These reviews of your WEALTH FILES are based on the book “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” by my friend and mentor Harv Eker. And although they are only a piece of the puzzle in winning the money game, they are a part of your foundation that is perhaps the most critical to your success, because we’re talking about your BELIEFS.

If one of your goals in life is financial freedom, you MUST have BELIEFS that are supportive towards achieving the goal. You will take action based on your BELIEFS, or NOT take action based on your BELIEFS, so you better be sure that you’ve programmed yourself for success.

Would you like to know what you are currently programmed for in the area of money?

Look at your results. Look at your life. Look at your income. Look at your assets. Look at your net worth. That’s exactly what you’re currently programmed for.

Would you like to get some different results? Because if you answered yes, you are going to have to start by changing your BELIEFS, so that you can start changing your ACTIONS, which will start to change your RESULTS.

As you read through these WEALTH FILES, you can choose to keep your current beliefs, or you can consider changing the information inside these files so that they lead you to success. IT’S ENTIRELY UP TO YOU!

Harv Eker’s Wealth File #8

Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value.
Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.

When I running Peak Potentials Training, we offered an amazing 3 day seminar called the Millionaire Mind Intensive. It’s one of over a dozen programs that Peak Potentials provides. During the event we’d offer “at seminar” specials for various other programs. Most attendees were thrilled to know about these offers and took full advantage of them, but there would always be a few that resented any promotion, even if it was for their benefit.

Is that you? I hope not.

Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. If you have a problem with selling and promotion, chances are, you’re broke. If you’re in business for yourself or you sell for others, how are people going to know what you’ve got to offer if you don’t promote it? If you’re an employee, you have to promote your virtues, or else someone who does will pass you by.
There are several reasons why some people have a problem with promotion and sales.

Have you ever been hounded by the “high pressure” salesman? Most people have. And most people don’t like to be “pressured”, so most people have a negative attitude about sales people in general. The fact is most people LIKE TO BUY, they just don’t like to be sold. It’s all in how you present it.

Maybe you tried your hand at sales once and you got totally rejected. At least, that’s how it felt. Of course, that’s what you’ve stored in your WEALTH FILE. You now have a fear of failure and rejection based on your past experience. Remember, the past does not necessarily equal the future.

Many of us were raised not to brag. In the business world however, if you don’t toot your own horn, who’s going to do it for you? No one! A wealthy person is willing to promote their value to everyone and anyone who is willing to listen, and hopefully do business with them.

Then, there are those that believe that sales and marketing is “beneath” them. They’re so good, people should just naturally want to use their services or products without having to promote them at all. Unfortunately, you’ll go broke believing that everyone will just find you.

In almost every instant, rich people are excellent promoters. They are willing to promote their values constantly with enthusiasm and passion. They also have the ability to present their value in an attractive package that makes it all the more appealing. In my lifetime, I’ve seen some of the best, and without a doubt, Harv Eker is the greatest promoter I have ever seen. He knows exactly what he writes about.

There are 2 kinds of people in the world, leaders and followers. Which group do you think earns more money? Rich people are usually leaders. Leaders have to successfully promote themselves and their ideas to their followers and supporters. If they don’t, they won’t lead for long. But you can be sure that leaders earn a lot more than followers.

It doesn’t even matter if you even like to promote or not, it’s more about why you’re promoting. If you don’t believe that the value you have to offer won’t help others improve their lives or solve their problems, you will have a difficult time promoting. But if you BELIEVE that the value you are offering will have a major impact on your customers and clients, you will have a passion to share this knowledge with as many people as you can.

If you aren’t completely sold on the value you are providing to others, it’s time to evaluate whether you should find something else to promote that you can be passionate about. Your WEALTH FILES must be filled with BELIEFS of the TRUE VALUE you are providing. To acquire riches, you will have to provide something in return for the wealth you are receiving. Make sure it’s something you can promote with passion and enthusiasm.
Now, place your hand on your chest and declare….

I PROMOTE MY VALUE TO OTHERS WITH PASSION AND ENTHUSIASM!

Namaste.

Jeff

If You Really Wanted.......

When you were an infant, you couldn’t even crawl. As you got to be a few months old, the crawling began. It wasn’t easy at first, but after a while, you got the hang of it, an off you went.

Then, you graduated to standing up! Whoa, that was a hard one. Walking was even tougher. Every time you stood up, you fell down. But, you kept on standing up until eventually you LEARNED how to walk.

Maybe as a kid, you decided you wanted to play the piano. So your parents signed you up for lessons, and you began to LEARN how to play. If you liked it, and you liked your teacher, you would continue to practice and play until you got good enough to play in front of an audience. From there on, if you continued to LEARN and practice, you simply got better and better.

Success in achieving ANY worthwhile goal is achievable. You do NOT have to be some brilliant genius to succeed. You just need to LEARN the WINNING FORMULA and follow it.

As I continue to study and analyze the most successful people in the world, the blueprint they leave behind shows us all the way to achieve their same level of success. Since I am a true believer of entrepreneurship, and how anyone can LEARN how to become a successful entrepreneur, I have focused many years learning and studying these people and their blueprints.

I know these formulas’s work, because I have applied them in my life to achieve everything I ever really wanted, and I know that if you were to LEARN and apply them as well, you would begin to see the same results.

The paths to financial freedom are few. There are millions more paths that will lead you to nowhere compared to the few paths that actually do lead you to success. Most people spend their lifetime going down a path that leads them to struggle. Unfortunately, that’s the only place their path leads them to. They have no chance for financial freedom unless they win the lottery or inherit a bunch of money, and my guess is, they’d blow it if they ever got it.

Do you want financial freedom? Do you want it sooner than later?

If you answered yes, what exactly are you doing to make that a reality in your life?

I would suggest to you that if you decided right now that over the next 36 months you WILL BECOME a successful entrepreneur, and began to LEARN the “winning formula”, you’d be AMAZED by what you could accomplish in just 36 months.

What else can you do in the next 36 months to move your towards you goal of financial freedom that will position you for success better than this???

Most people either have a job (Just Over Broke) or they say they’ve got a business when in fact all they’ve really done is bought themselves a job. That isn’t what WE want to do!

Our intention is to create freedom. It’s to create wealth. And while many people say that’s what they want, only a small percentage has the “winning formula” that can take them to their dreams.

If you really wanted to become financially free, you’d be doing everything you could to LEARN how to make that a reality. Are you? If you aren’t, why aren’t you?

Before you enter the game, you need to study and LEARN and practice and prepare yourself for your chance. Otherwise, you’ll fall flat on your face. We want to make sure you’re doing the right things and creating the right mindset for success.

Success is a journey, not a destination. Steady and consistent gets it done. Let’s make sure your life is filled with exciting opportunities that can take you exactly where you want to go.

Namaste.

Jeff

Do you see opportunities or obstacles?

After having seen hundreds of clients and prospects and comparing notes with my partner Scott who has seen many hundred more than I have, I have come to the following conclusions.

First, what I've been referring to as the 5%ers club is more like the 1%ers club! So few people are winning the money game that it's scary!

Second, most people are horrendous money managers. Since this is the single most important skill all wealthy people have, you'd hope that people would have a winning system for managing their money. Unfortunately, most don't.

Third, while everyone says they'd like to become financially free, NO ONE is actually doing anything to make it happen. And the few that are doing something are doing it all wrong, or half hearted, or going down a path that can never lead them to financial freedom.

Fourth, virtually no one understands that until they create enough PASSIVE INCOME to pay for their expenses that they will ALWAYS BE A SLAVE TO THEIR JOBS. Yet, most people have NO current passive income, nor are they creating streams of passive income. They are on the road that leads to nowhere.

I could go on and on.

If you are reading these words, take a moment and understand that there are winning ways of thinking and then there are all the rest. If you have made up your mind that you want to take your life, and especially your financial life to a whole new level, TRUST me when I tell you that everything you read here has worked in my life and can for you too. Nothing is difficult to do, it simply means you will need to change a few things. And we all know how difficult change can be!

One of your biggest challenges is to get into your WEALTH FILES and discover what your true beliefs are in these critical areas. It might be time for you to revise or update these files.

Harv Eker’s Wealth File Number 5

WEALTH FILE #5

Rich People focus on opportunities.
Poor people focus on obstacles.

FEAR! It’s amazing how POWERFUL fear plays into our lives. To some extent, all of us are affected by fear, some more than others.

The important question as far as you’re concerned is “how much is fear affecting my life, my wealth, my success?”

If your basic nature is fear based, and you are someone who constantly worries, now is the perfect opportunity to get it out on the table for you to evaluate and perhaps change.

When it comes to the mind, we all have our own “conditioned” mind. Our “conditioned” mind has one primary job, and that’s SURVIVAL. It DOESN’T care at all about your success, only your survival. Throughout your entire lifetime, it just wants you to survive. It would rather you not even try to change because change is the unknown, and there lurks DANGER in the unknown.

If you’re not sure what I’m referring to here, I’m talking about that little voice that’s having a conversation with you all day long. It’s the little voice that says “You can’t do that”, or “you better not try that”, or “what if”, or “why bother”, or practically anything that will dissuade you from doing something you normally don’t do.

It wants to keep you in “your comfort zone”. As long as you stay in “your comfort zone”, your conditioned mind is content, because it knows you are already surviving in “your comfort zone.”

Change, however, requires moving out of your comfort zone and trying something different. It means moving into your “uncomfort zone.” And for you to grow, you have to move outside of your “comfort zone”, which doesn’t make your conditioned mind happy at all.

Ask most people the definition of FEAR and they’ll say false evidence appearing real. But that’s just an acronym. FEAR is THE ANTICIPATION OF PAIN. Is fear based in the past, or in the future? The future. And your conditioned mind will anticipate future imagined pain, and then do everything in its power to move you in another direction. IT WILL STOP YOU IN YOUR TRACKS IF YOU LET IT!

Most people live in fear. They expect the worst and plan for it. They look to the obstacles in every new opportunity so that they won’t have to get out of their comfort zone. As a result, most people ARE POOR!!

Wealthy people have overcome their fears. They might still have fears, but they’ve learned how to deal with their fears and TAKE ACTION REGARDLESS what that “little voice” in their head is saying to them.

As a result, wealthy people look for the opportunities surrounding them every day. They focus on the potential profits. The poor? They focus on the potential losses.

The middle class have a little more optimistic point of view. They are more inclined to think….”I’ll give it a try and hope it works.”

Rich people take full responsibility for their lives. Their attitude is “It’ll work because I’LL make it work!” Their WEALTH FILE is filled with CONFIDENCE, that they WILL succeed, and if things don’t work out, they’ll be able to RECOVER.

There is always a risk to get the reward. Rich people are willing to take risk. But they do their homework in advance, and once they have all the facts, they choose to take action or not.

On the other hand, poor people expect to fail, and have little confidence in themselves or their abilities. As a result, all they see are the obstacles they don’t believe they can overcome, and they won’t take the risk. No risk, no reward.

The Law of Attraction includes focusing on what you want in your life. Rich people focus on opportunities, and as a result, opportunities abound. Poor people focus on the obstacles in their life, and as a result, obstacles abound.

Your view of life will determine what you find. Look for opportunities and that’s what you’ll find. Look for obstacles, and that’s what you’ll find. As far as rich people are concerned, when they run into obstacles they deal with them and then keep moving forward, always focused on their goal, and putting their energies into achieving their results.

I tell my clients this all the time. Rich and successful people focus on 3 things when it comes to money. They focus on earning it, keeping it and growing it. Poor people focus on just one thing, spending it! What we focus on expands!

Rich and successful people also understand that they can’t wait until they are experts to make decisions and move forward. They gather the best information they can as quickly as they can, they make a decision and go. Their WEALTH FILE is set for READY, FIRE, AIM. In other words, take ACTION and make corrections along the way.

There is no way for anyone to know everything that can happen in the future. It’s unrealistic to think you can anticipate and solve every single potential problem in advance. In life, we can only see so far into the future.

Jack Canfield (from Chicken Soup for the Soul fame) uses the example of driving a car at night from Los Angeles to New York. With your lights on you can only see a few hundred feet ahead of you. Once you get there, you can see the next few hundred feet. As long as you’re on the right highway, you can drive all the way from Los Angeles to New York in the dark, seeing just a few hundred feet ahead of you at any one time.

Life is a lot like that. Rich and successful people know that when they get to the next turn in the road, they’ll deal with whatever comes up. More importantly, they’re on the road and they’re moving forward. Getting on the road is critical. Poor people stay home so they can avoid any accidents.

Harv Eker calls it “getting in the corridor. The idea is to get in the game with whatever you’ve got from wherever you are.”

For example, when I chose to become a full time entrepreneur and leave Corporate America, I realized that I didn’t have the necessary skills to be successful. In fact, every business I’d ever tried crashed and burned, and so did all my money with it each time. I knew that I needed specific skills before I’d succeed. In my search I accidentally bumped into my old friend Harv Eker, and then spent the next year as Harv’s Chief Operating Officer helping build Peak Potentials Training into one of the fastest growing business and personal success training companies in the world.

More importantly, I got to work with one of the world’s MOST BRILLIANT marketers and entrepreneurs, and see first hand exactly what it takes to build a MEGAMILLION dollar business from scratch in a short period of time.

When my project was up and it was time to move back home to Phoenix, I was completely prepared to start my own business. I’d seen what I needed to see, and learned what I needed to learn.

By the way, when I accidentally bumped into my old friend Harv it had been almost 25 years since our last connection. Yet, just 5 minutes after I began searching the internet for ideas, I found Harv and the Peak Potentials web site. Coincidence?

My attitude is that TALK IS CHEAP. ACTIONS speak much louder than words. Rich people are action oriented. They get started and THEY DON’T STOP. They move confidently towards their dreams and goals. Poor people will talk and plan and strategize and meet, but they won’t DO anything, because they simply don’t have the belief in themselves that they can succeed. They are locked onto the obstacles.

What’s your WEALTH FILE filled with, opportunities or obstacles?

Now, Place you hand on your chest and say…

I FOCUS ON OPPORTUNITIES OVER OBSTACLES.
I GET READY, I FIRE, I AIM.

Namaste,

Jeff

Do You Realize This????

The world is going through major changes unlike we’ve ever experienced before.

Technology now allows all of us access to virtually any piece of information we desire at the push of a few buttons.

What does this mean for you and me?

It means that everything you ever need to know to accomplish anything you want in life is now within your reach.

It means that you can access the most successful minds in every area of life from the comfort of your home.

It means that you can communicate with people all over the world who share the same interests you do.

IT MEANS THAT YOU CAN CREATE WEALTH FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD YOU CHOOSE TO SPEND YOUR TIME!

In fact, as an entrepreneur, the Internet can be the fastest way for ANYONE to create financial freedom in this day and age.

Unfortunately, it isn’t quite as easy as setting up a web site and waiting for the money to start rolling in. Life doesn’t happen that way.

However, ANYONE who decides to devote 1,000 hours of their life to becoming an internet entrepreneur and really COMMITS to putting in the time and the effort and the financial investment, can become financially free.

The critical element is the system you choose to implement. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. You don’t have to go through the school of hard knocks.

Just like the “real world”, THE FAILURE RATE of Internet marketing business mirrors traditional businesses. Less than 5% of all Internet sites are profitable. In other words, 95% FAIL!

What you do have to do is research and find someone who is already successful as an internet marketer, look at their system, look at their ethics, and decide if they meet your needs.

When I ran Peak Potentials Training, Harv Eker used to have some of the most successful internet marketers on the planet come and teach at his programs. I saw their systems and their strategies, and watched as they were creating sales real time while they were on the stage teaching.

Over the past couple of years, I have researched many of the most successful Internet marketing “gurus”. I have met several successful Internet marketers. It’s been a desire of mine to learn as much as possible, “get in the corridor”, and then create a “mastermind” with others who are COMMITTED to become MASTERS in the business of Internet marketing.

What are the rewards for learning to MASTER the skills of Internet marketing? Is it worth the pursuit?

Well…..imagine having $5,000, $10,000, $20,000 or more coming in each month as income? Imagine being able to grow your business exponentially. Imagine running your own business and controlling your own life. Imagine having a business that ran 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, all from the comfort of your own home, or the beach in Tahiti, or your cabin in Colorado, or wherever you have access to a phone and the internet. Imagine having a business that operates whether you are there or not.

These are the potential rewards of mastering the skills of Internet marketing and then taking the necessary ACTION with that knowledge and working at it until you succeed.

I’ve learned that there are about 10 key steps that must be mastered in order to really succeed as an Internet marketer. If you miss any one of these steps, you’ll be in trouble.

Napoleon Hill wrote in his best selling book “Think and Grow Rich” that the concept of a MASTERMIND GROUP can have a gigantic impact on the success of any worthwhile goal. If each person brings critical skills to the group, the end result is something far greater than any one person could accomplish on their own.

As I prepare my 2008 goal list, one of my highest goals is to create a mastermind group of the RIGHT people who want to MASTER Internet marketing, and create another source of income.

When I say RIGHT people, I’m referring to their habits and characteristics.

Here they are…….

They have to be nice people. I surround myself with people I enjoy being with.
They have to be willing to learn. I surround myself with people who have a thirst for knowledge.
They have to be passionate about their own personal growth and development. I surround myself with high energy, positive people.
They have to be COMMITTED. I surround myself with people whose word I can count on.
They have to have a “Warrior” mentality. If you don’t know what that is, look back in my blog to all the posts I’ve written about it.
They have to want to join the elite top 5%. That’s what this blog is all about.

ARE YOU THE RIGHT PERSON?

Do you want to set a gigantic and exciting goal for 2008?

Do you want to set a course for financial freedom?

Do you want to learn to MASTER 1 of the 10 steps necessary to achieve success as an Internet marketer?

If you believe like I do that the Internet offers incredible opportunities to create financial freedom, and want to chart a whole new course in your life, I want to hear from you!

2008 is just weeks away. It can be the greatest year in your life. If you’ve ever wanted to make a change in your life for the better, why not make that decision now, and get excited about your future?

Namaste.

Jeff

They're rare and they're precious....

Of all the things we collect and accumulate over our lives, we’re lucky if we’ve got one or two of these. They’re rare indeed, and they’re priceless.

They’re our friends. Our real friends. The ones you can always count on. The ones who are special.

I have been blessed in my lifetime to have several close friends. One of my oldest and closest is my buddy Wayne.

Wayne and I first met during our first week as freshmen at college. That was in 1972. Over the past 35 years, we’ve been through a lot together. There have been times when we haven’t seen each other for several years, but regardless, as soon as we get together again, it’s like we never skipped a beat.

Wayne’s special. He always marched to his own beat. When all of us were graduating with our business degrees and going through the interview process, Wayne was planning a transcontinental trip across North America in a fixed up old van for a year or two.

When Wayne finally decided to go to work, he didn’t take a traditional, conventional job that most business graduates would do. Nope, not Wayne.

Wayne loved the open roads and driving, so he became a trucker.

Wayne has always been smart. He would always figure out the best ways to do things in a hurry, and he learned the little tricks that made the difference between making money or losing it as a trucker.

That’s allowed Wayne to drive up and down the highways of North America and have free time to think and relax and enjoy life. Here’s someone who can go with the flow better than anyone I have ever known.

The past 3 years of my life have been focused on entrepreneurship, and I am now proud to proclaim that I am an entrepreneur. Better yet, using the entrepreneurial strategies and tactics I’ve learned, my already successful business is growing exponentially, and is opening up the doors for many new opportunities.

Recently, when Wayne was driving through Phoenix from Canada hauling his load, we had a chance to have a day together. As we were talking, I mentioned to him some business ideas that I intend to start in the next while.

Then I mentioned to him that I had to find the time to organize and manage the project, and asked him if he’d like to partner with me and learn how to do it himself.

Wayne’s been talking with his wife Sue about doing a joint venture with me, and I can’t wait to find out what he decides.

Why?

Because there are systems and strategies already proven and ready to be learned by the right person that virtually guarantee success as an entrepreneur. And the difference between Wayne and most people, is that if I show Wayne the systems and strategies, and where to get the exact information we need to make sure the business is a success, not only will Wayne learn it, HE’LL ACTUALLY DO IT!

Anyone can be successful as an entrepreneur. Anyone! You do not have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have a college education, or even a high school diploma. You don’t have to be beautiful. You don’t have to be in perfect shape. You just have to KNOW what successful entrepreneurs KNOW, and DO what successful entrepreneurs DO!

Average people sometimes become extraordinary entrepreneurs simply because they don’t know when to quit.

If you’ve lost hope that you could live the dream life, where you had enough income to live your fantasies, start believing again! Always remember, that you are JUST ONE THOUGHT AWAY from realizing that your dreams are within your grasp. My coaching can help you find it!

Wayne will let me know soon if he’d like to take on this challenge. If he chooses to, I know we’ll have a lot of fun with it, and we’ll create some great businesses together.

Namaste.

Jeff

Turning the Odds in Your Favor...

Remember when you were a kid?

Anything was possible. You could have chosen to do anything with your life. You had a million choices.

Look at your life today. Is it what you imagined when you were just a kid? Are you happy with your life today? Is your future bright and exciting?

What happens to most of us along our journey through life? What happens to our hopes and dreams? Why do 95% fall short of what we dreamed possible when we were too young to know any better?

The messages you read at my blog are aimed directly at the 5% WHO GET IT, and realize the single most important ingredient to success.

In my business, I get to meet a lot of people all of the time. We talk about their financial goals and dreams, and we implement systems and strategies to turn those dreams into reality.

Eventually, my clients begin to understand the secret to success.

Learn this lesson well. In fact, promise yourself that you will reflect on this for at least 10 minutes today and apply it in your life. It’s that important.

You will come to learn from me that the single best way for most people to reach their financial dreams is to go into business for themselves. Become an entrepreneur.

There are countless business ventures out there that work. If you surf the internet, you will find enough options to keep you busy forever. Look in the “businesses for sale” section of your local newspaper for even more options.

Of course, you can always learn how to invest in real estate with little or no money of your own, and create millions that way.

Same thing goes for stocks or options trading or foreign currency exchange.

Have you ever heard of seminars where you can learn how to become wealthy in real estate, or internet marketing, or network marketing, or ………fill in the blank?

In my days running Peak Potentials Training, I got to see firsthand what really happens to seminar attendees.

Suppose 1,000 people were spending 3 days at a boot camp learning how to create million dollar web sites.

30 to 50 of the people who attend go on to create million dollar web sites. The rest never even try, or never stay at it long enough to succeed.

Across town on the same weekend, 1,000 people were spending 3 days at a boot camp learning how to create wealth buying homes with little or no money down.

30 to 50 of the people who attend go on to create million dollar net worth. The rest never even try, or never stay at it long enough to succeed.

Is the problem with the programs, or is with the person who attends the program? Why is it that there are always a few who succeed but most don’t?

There are seminars held all over North America every single week teaching people how to succeed in their areas of expertise. There are experts in every type of business that have audio programs and training manuals and systems in place to teach you how to do their business too.

Getting to the information is a huge step, but only a step. Those who aren’t learning more, especially about how to win the money game, haven’t even taken this step, GETTING EDUCATED. Equally important, is taking the knowledge and putting it into ACTION, and working at it until success is reached. That's where 95% fail.

Before you will ever have real and lasting success in your outer life, YOU WILL HAVE TO GROW YOURSELF INTO THAT PERSON CAPABLE OF HAVING REAL AND LASTING SUCCESS.

For most, that’s going to mean making changes in your life. If you are unwilling to change, to look for new and better ways to do things and to think differently than the programs you are running on now, you have no chance for the kind of success I’m referring to here. This is only for those of you who truly want to join the top 5% and achieve success at extraordinary levels.

I am here to tell you right now that YOU CAN MAKE YOUR FINANCIAL DREAMS COME TRUE. You do not have to resign yourself to your current financial situation in life. You can create success at levels you probably wouldn’t even dream of today.

It starts with your commitment to INVESTING IN YOURSELF. Until you grow yourself into the kind of person capable of having REAL AND LASTING success, you will continue to get what you’ve always got.

When you begin to focus on mastering business and entrepreneurial skills, financial and money management skills, and personal development skills, my friend, I guarantee you, nothing can stop you. And I’m right here to keep you on track.

Namaste.

Jeff

Earn it, Keep it, Grow it...........

Are you reaching your full financial potential?

Imagine if you were…….

Imagine what your life would be like if you could just figure out how to reach your full financial potential….

Most people have given up. They’ve completely resigned themselves to the financial life they live today, and accept this as a permanent fact.

THIS IS A WAKEUP CALL!!

No matter how most are doing financially, it’s rare that someone is coming even remotely close to reaching their full financial potential.

In fact, less than 5% of Americans today are financially free. Less than 5% of all Americans have enough passive income coming in every month to pay for their expenses.

There are proven principles and strategies that once learned, will automatically take you on a journey that leads to your full financial potential.

Just because you don’t know these strategies (that can take you to all of your financial dreams) doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. All that means is that you have never been exposed to them.

EARN IT…..KEEP IT…..AND GROW IT….

Let’s begin with the income that you currently earn.

If you have a job, you have a fixed salary, you have a ceiling on your income.

The biggest advantage of having a job doesn’t even exist anymore. Job security is a thing of the past.

Unless you reach the highest levels in a major corporation, the odds of you creating wealth are slim and none. You have virtually no chance to reach financial freedom going this route.

Maybe you’re in business?

Statistically, the odds aren’t pretty. 80% are going to go broke or lose money. For the remaining 20%, 15% have bought themselves a job, and only 5% are creating wealth.

But there has never been a time like today where entrepreneurs can succeed on a huge scale, and sometimes very quickly.

Would you like to join that elite 5%?

Learn from the world’s best entrepreneurs, and you can make your fortune too. It’s as simple as finding someone who is achieving the results you want, and then simply learning and using their proven system.

The advantage you have as an entrepreneur is that there is no ceiling on your income. You can dramatically grow your income just by learning to be a better entrepreneur. And becoming successful is a learnable skill.

If your goal is to become financially free, you increase your chances infinitely simply by starting and growing a business. But it has to be the right business with the right business strategies. You want to focus on earning money, and earning more each month, each year.

Then comes the KEEPING IT part…..

The single most important factor that separates the financially successful and financially unsuccessful is MONEY MANAGEMENT. It doesn’t matter how good you are at making money if you don’t manage it properly.

On top of that, if you don’t learn a system for managing the money you currently have, you will have a difficult time getting more, and more than likely, you’d lose it anyway.

Unfortunately, most are terrible money managers. How do you rate as a money manager? Do you have a system for managing your money now? Do you use it regularly?

Learning to become an excellent money manager is a decision you need to make before you will ever reach your full financial potential. Committing to learning a money management system and then keeping with it will have a huge impact on your life.

A big component to winning the money game is to understand the rules. Becoming an excellent money manager is critical to winning the game. And whether you realize it or not, you are now playing this game, and over your lifetime, you are either going to win it, or you are going to lose it. Which do you choose? If you choose to win the game, you will need to excel as a money manager.

Not only that, there are strategies that allow you to begin to recapture much of the money your spending. By creating the right system, you can change the financial flow of energy in your life from "cash out" to "cash in" and recapture dollars that would otherwise be lost forever. Now that’s a way to KEEP more of your own money.

GROWING IT is the final piece to the puzzle. You have to become an expert in investing your money. And the place to begin is in the best investment you can ever make. INVEST IN YOURSELF. No matter what happens, once you have learned success skills, no one can ever take them away from you, you can never lose them. The truly successful people never stop educating themselves and never stop learning. That means investing money and time and effort. Understand this and accept it, or else accept the fact they you are doomed to you current situation. YOU will need to become the person capable of growing your money.

You’d be surprised how far a little investment in yourself can take you. But it has to be the right information from the right teacher for the right reason.

Investments will come in 2 forms. Some investments will involve placing your money in different instruments to either earn you interest, or dividend income, or profits from the sales. This is called money earning you money.

Some investments will involve putting your money in a business where you don’t have to physically be there, and living off the profits of the business. This is called business earning you money.

When you maximize all 3 areas, EARN IT, KEEP IT AND GROW IT…..

you have positioned yourself to change your financial life, and begin to reach your full financial potential.

Keep following along with this blog to learn more and more secrets to reaching your full financial potential.

Namaste,

Jeff