Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. Wealth File 9

People say that the size of your bank account reflects the size of the problems you solve in the world. If you solve big problems, you will have a big bank account. If you solve little problems, you will have a little account. No problems solved = zero cash in the bank. So where do you stand? Remember in a previous chapter we said an entrepreneur is someone who solves other problems for a profit? So it follows then that if you solve small problems, you will make small profits. And if you solve monstrous problems, you will earn humongous profits.

The secret, says Harv, is to grow yourself

so that you are bigger than any problem.

It comes back to that age old saying, it's not about the size of the dog in the fight, it's about the size of the fight in the dog. If you grow yourself enough, you will have more than enough tools and strategies to solve your own problems, your family's problems, your neighbors' problems, your clients' problems, etc. The more you solve problems, the more word gets around about your prowess, the more demand there will be for your services, and the more money you can charge.

Harv reminds us that your wealth can only grow

to the extent that you do.

Your challenge then is for you to grow so much

that you can solve any problem standing in the way

of your creating wealth and keeping it once you have it.

If you want to be bigger than your problems, stop focusing on the problems and start focusing on your goals. What you focus on expands, remember? So if you focus on the problems, then your problems grow in number and in size. But if you focus on your goals, you will draw closer to them and have dozens of ideas about how to make them happen. If you focus on becoming a person of value, then the value you create in the marketplace will grow - your reputation will grow - your number of satisfied customers will grow. You will be in demand because of your reputation, and you will make tons of money.