I usually limit my blogging to 3 days a week, but this morning I was so inspired by what I just finished reading I wanted to share it with you right away.

As I mentioned yesterday, I read between 4 and 6 books a week.  I recently completed a book called “Increasing Your Financial IQ - Get Richer By Getting Smarter” by Robert Kiyosaki.  In my opinion it is a must read for any resposible adult.

The excerpt from the book I read in an article this morning is what inspired me though.  I have adapted it here:

“Learning at an early age that we all have money problems - no matter how rich of how poor we are - is an important lesson.  Many believe that if they had a lot of money, their money problems would be over.  Little do they know, having lots of money just causes even more money problems.

The world is full of people who win millions and then end up deeply in debt just a few years later.

Money alone won’t solve your money problems.  That’s why giving poor peopl does not solve their money problems.

Hard work won’t solve money problems.  The world is fileld with hardworking people who have no money to show for it; hard working people who earn money yet grow deeper in debt needing to work even harder for even more money.

Education won’t solve money problems.  There are plenty fo highly educated poor people.

A job won’t solve money problems.  There are millions who earn just enough to survive but cannot afford to live happy and satisfied.  Many people with jobs can nto afford their own home, adequate healthcare, education, or even set aside enough money for retirement.

What CAN solve money problems is financial intelligence.  The truly financially wealthy take on financial problems and know that solving them will increase their financial IQ.”

I write a great deal about the personal and spiritual growth necessary to experience true and complete success. 

I know from personal experience that having lots of money does not, in and of itself, create the gratification and accomplishment of success.

As I describe in my free reports, “The Secret to Astonishing Entrepreneurial Success“, and “The Secret to an Abundant, Joy-Filled Retirement“, once you find you purpose, you must get into commited action to fulfill it and realize the successful and abundant life you desire.  

I also note in these reports that you will want to do a skills assessment and create an action plan to develop the skills necessary to maximize purposeful accomplishment of whatever you are truly and passionately commited to.

Developing your financial IQ is part of the action process. 

As I wrote about in my article yesterday, there is a champion within you. 

Let me encourage you to take on the Goliath of financial ignorance to accelerate your personal success.

Have an amazing day. 

Gratefully and Sincerely,

 Steve

“Your Success Champion”

PS - Please feel free to comment on this or any article.  I am always open to hearing what you want to know about.

PPS - I will be back on Friday with the next of the 4 Success Saboteurs.

Often heralded as crusaders committed to improving society and making money in the process, entrepreneurs are people who operate a new enterprise or venture and accept full accountability for the inherent risks associated with it. 

By their very nature successful entrepreneurs are wired a little differently from most. 

They often operate outside of the conventional and blaze radical new success paths for others to follow. 

Usually beginning with nothing more than an inspiration or an idea they often “go it alone” for a time developing a strategy, researching the market and so forth. 

Understanding the universal Law of Attraction they intuitively know to focus their internal energy through affirmative focused thought, visualization, and meditation to engage a deep subconscious purposeful commitment to an accomplishment. 

As the idea takes shape, they share the idea openly to enroll the energy of others to aid in the manifestation of the desired outcome.

However, because of these traits, entrepreneurs are particularly susceptible to an insidious assortment of challenges to productivity and accomplishment. 

The key difference between highly successful entrepreneurs and others is that they do not become subject to them to these challenges.  

Instead, they innovate personal behavioral practices that equip themselves to conquer them.

In this multipart series I will identify the 4 of the most common success saboteurs and offer 4 techniques that will help you prevail over them:

Saboteur #1  Multitasking

It is in an entrepreneur’s nature to enthusiastically take on a continuously growing collection of projects and tasks.  The urge to multitask can be overwhelming at times. 

Do you find yourself clicking from window to window on your computer writing articles, checking and responding to emails and browsing the web in frenetic time slices? 

Is your office cluttered with 3, 6, 12 or more projects in progress? 

Are you proud to identify yourself as a “multi-tasker”?

The fact is multitasking is not a badge of honor. 

It is instead a silent saboteur of your productivity and success.

While it may feel like you are busy and doing a lot of work, I believe at the end of the day you will find that, while there may be lots of checks on a task list, the accomplishment of your purposeful commitment will be completely lacking.

Have you ever gotten to the end of the day feeling exhausted and spent, looked back and felt like, even your did a lot, you did not accomplish much?

If so, you have been a victim of the Multitasking saboteur.

Multitasking is clearly the most prevalent and insideous saboteur.

Stop back next week to learn how you can, once and for all, defintively capture this success assassin.

Please share your comments.  I would like to hear you ‘multi-tasking’ story.

Gratefully,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

I have been reminded several times this week of the importance of knowing and passionately pursuing purpose.

Here is an excerpt from a free report entitled “The Secret to Astonishing Entreprenuerial Success“.  You can download a copy from www.secretforentrepreneurs.com

Purpose is central to good human health.  We are all born with a purpose. 

“Purpose is a permanent, common thread woven throughout and in all parts of our lives….Purpose is energy.  It’s the single most motivating force there is.  Discover your purpose, be on purpose, and you will have a life filled with meaning and significance.” The On-Purpose Person, Kevin W. McCarthy.

Although deaf and blind, Helen Keller became a world renowned speaker and author.  She wrote that “happiness comes from fidelity to a worthy purpose“. 

A Russian immigrant who became a worldwide success as philosopher, novelist and play-write, Ayn Rand wrote that “purpose must be one of the three ruling values of human life.“ 

“The first principle of ethical power is Purpose…It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.” Kenneth Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Ethical Management.

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You have a cause or a purpose which is bigger than yourself.  Break-through the belief that you are, or must be, a victim of economic, ethnic, or social circumstances beyond your control.  Accept a new view of the future which includes the manifestation of a life of choice, abundance and opportunity.  Take on the challenge of creating a new world for yourself; a world which includes the accomplishment of personal and professional success, financial freedom, happiness, joy, health, wellness, and longevity.

Fulfill your purpose and passionately contribute to a cause greater than yourself.  Whether your purpose is to be a factor in the elimination of poverty, starvation, crime, or war, you can create the future as you want it to be, regardless of any thoughts or beliefs you or others around you may have to the contrary.

Live your life passionately, joyfully, and on purpose right now.  If you do, you will create the successful, rich, secure, healthy and accomplished life you desire now and in the future.

Start here now.

To do this, you must identify, explore, and engage in the pursuit of your purpose.  Take the time to invest in creating the personal entrepreneurial success you desire, by engaging in the purposeful pursuit of your passions.

The simple inner exploration of what is truly important to you will save you years of wandering, searching, and wondering about the future.  Once you are onto your purpose, don’t fall prey to the notion you must defer your passion until after you make enough money.  Implement a set of daily practices that will support you and help you get and remain ‘on purpose’.

Follow your passion and the money will come.

The report goes on to provide a number of exercises you can do to find your purpose. 

Download a copy and do the exercises in it.  www.secretforentrepreneurs.com

You will be amazed by how much clarity you will derive from this exercise.

My friend Todd Goldfarb speaks to this in a recent post on his blog.  Click HERE to read his message about finding your purpose.

Once you have a vision of your purpose, you will know what you wre ‘up to’ in life and an important distinction will become clear:  Accomplishment vs Result.

It is the commitment to a purpose that brings accomplisment from result. 

My experience of this was in my career in technology.   I was very successful and had big results financially.  But, at the same time felt no sense of accomplishment. 

The results were distinct from accomplishment becuase they lacked the commitment of purpose.

Once there was a clear purpose to which I could commit and through which the results could contribute, accomplishment emerged.

You can imbu all that you do with a committed purpose and literally redfine your experience of life.

That job you hate, can be imbued with purpose and become a statisfying vehicle of accomplishment through which you create the life you love living.  The frustration, anxiety, anger, and fear you feel will be replaced with joy and satisfying accomplishment.

Your experience of life will shift.  You will no longer live circumstantially.  Instead your experience will be generative and creative, joy-filled, abundant, successful, and accomplished.

With sincere gratitude for your visit,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com / www.secretforentrepreneurs.com /www.thesecretforretirement.com

PS - “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.  Instead, ask yourself what what makes you come alive and do that.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

“We are at the beginning of a new era.  A lifestyle revolution is taking place and with it we, as social people, are transforming who we are and what we do.  We are changing the way we live.  The predictable linear, chronological life pathways of past generations - from school, to marriage, to work, to children, to retirement - made sense when the average human life span was shorter….

Longer, healthier lifetimes have changed the way people perceive life’s options.  People are no longer limited to a single career in a lifetime.  Highly educated men and women are pursuing adventure, challenge, and greater sense of purpose than ever before….

People now return to school at age thirty-five, have children at age forty-five, start new careers at fifty, and remarry at seventy.” Maddy Dychtwald - Cycles

The possibilities that exist for you in your retirement years are absolutely endless.  My intention with this report is to communicate as simply and concisely as I can, how you can leverage the almighty power of the universe and miraculously manifest anything you desire, now and in your retirement.

Let me encourage you to accept all that is truly possible for you in this new era. Use what you have learned in this free report to begin creating the long, satisfying, joy-filled abundant life you desire.

Now you know that the secret to an abundant, joy-filled retirement is in what you believe.

“Imagining creates reality.  Therefore the man who is aware of what he is imagining knows what he is creating; realizes more and more that the drama of life is imaginal - not physical.  All activity is at bottom imaginal.  An awakened imagination works with a purpose.  It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.”  Neville - The Law and the Promise.

Do you know what the number one fear or concern is for the baby boomers retiring?

Let me tell you.  It’s health.

But not in the way you might think.

Yes there is a lot of work being done in the alternatives to medical care like energy healing, exercise and fitness programs, and relaxation therapies of all sorts.

But, within all of this, there is some really amazing work being done in the area of brain fitness and plasticity.  Scientist have branched out from the world of academinc research to the practical implementation of all the amazing things that are possible.

Online programs and mind development games that can be loaded into our kids pocket-sized Nintendo and GameBoy systems are popping up everywhere.

The science behind all of this is aaaamazing!

I found this fantastic website with loads of great informaton.  Check it out: http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/

Knowing that there are ways to preserve and maintain life capacity physically and mentally is reassuring isn’t it?

The only remaining question for you to consider is, what are you going to do for 40 + years once you retire?

Find your passion,

Steve

http://www.championsuccess.com/

PS - Visit Sharp Brains and tell me what you think