Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Part one: Your Money Blueprint

Harv makes the distinction between outer laws of money and inner laws of money. Outer laws include business knowledge, money management, investment strategies. These are all important to achieving success. But the inner laws are just as important. Well, actually, maybe even more important because they've been neglected for so long.  He likens the outer laws to the tools a carpenter would use to create a masterpiece with wood. But he says, "Having top of the line tools is imperative, but being the top notch carpenter who masterfully uses these tools is even more important. "

He says that your character, your thinking, your beliefs, your habits, your self-esteem, your relationships, your grit are a critical part of what determines the level of your success.

The roots create the fruits. The invisible creates the visible. The conditioning creates the results.  That means if you want to change your results, you will first have to change your conditioning.

Harv tells us that we need to align our physical, spiritual, mental and emotional worlds. And he says that, "the physical world is merely a printout of the other three." Consequently, the real problem cannot be changed in the printout (the physical world), it must be changed in the program (the mental, emotional and spiritual worlds). Your wealth, or lack of it, is a result of your inner programming.

Harv says you must make a declaration that you will have a millionaire mind. Having made this declaration, you must take the necessary actions to make this true. If you only yell out every morning that you're a millionaire but you don't actually make the effort to become one, you will start to think that you're crazy. You will begin to doubt yourself.

You will lose faith and confidence in yourself. And you will subsequently have low-esteem, which will be even more detrimental to your aspirations. This happens because you've been deluding yourself, you've been lying to yourself, and now you can't trust yourself with anything because you've failed to live up to your aspirations and there's no one to blame but yourself.

Harv also introduces us to the process of manifestation, which is:

P-T-F-A-R =
Programming leads to Thoughts.
Thoughts lead to Feelings.
Feelings lead to Actions.
Actions lead to Results.

Programming happens in three ways:
What you hear, what you see, and what you experience when it comes to money.

"Your subconscious conditioning determines your thinking. Your thinking determines your decisions, and your decisions determine your actions, which eventually determine your outcomes. "

He says "Your financial blueprint is a combination of your thoughts, feelings, and actions in the money arena."

We get our money blueprint from parents, siblings, friends, authority figures, teachers, religious leaders, media and our culture. No one is born with a money blueprint.  We learn it from our society or the environment around us. And since our money blueprint is something learned, it means we can unlearn it and reshape it to our liking.

And he promises to help us recondition our money blueprint through this book and his other financial conditioning programs.

Your parents have probably had a bigger impact on your finances than you realize. Children model what they see parents do. Therefore, your parents' attitudes toward money have most likely influenced your attitude towards money in a big way.

Is your money blueprint rooted in fear, anger,

or proving that you're good enough?

Then your conditioning will lead you to financial trouble.

What would it take for you to reach your full financial potential?
What would it take for you to live your life from your choices in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past?

"You can choose to think and act like rich people do

and therefore create the results rich people create."

Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

It will either empower you, or disempower you.

It will either move you towards happiness and success or away from it.

So how do rich people think and act?

The next 17 chapters will reveal to us each of the ways rich people think differently from the poor and middle class. they will also show us how to improve our stinking thinking and help us overcome the disempowering conditioning from our past.