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comfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort
zone, pat yourself on the back and say, I must be growing,
and continue moving forward.
WEALTH PRINCIPLE:
The only time you are actually growing
is when you are uncomfortable.
If you want to be rich and successful, you d better get
comfortable with being uncomfortable. Consciously practice
going into your uncomfort zone and doing what scares you.
Here s an equation I want you to remember for the rest of
your life: CZ = WZ.
It means your comfort zone equals your wealth zone.
By expanding your comfort zone, you will expand the size
of your income and wealth zone. The more comfortable you
have to be, the fewer risks you will be willing to take, the fewer
opportunities you will take advantage of, the fewer people you
will meet, and the fewer new strategies you will try. Do you
catch my drift? The more comfort becomes your priority, the
more contracted you become with fear.
On the contrary, when you are willing to s-t-r-e-t-c-h
yourself, you expand your opportunity zone, and this allows
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you to attract and hold more income and wealth. Again, when
you have a large container (comfort zone), the universe will
rush to fill the space. Rich and successful people have a big
comfort zone, and they are constantly expanding it to be able
to attain and hold more wealth.
Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of
comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more ac-
tions, and more growth than everything else combined.
Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I
guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you
will never be happy. Happiness doesn t come from living a
lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been.
Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of
growth and living up to our fullest potential.
Try this. The next time you are feeling uncomfortable,
uncertain, or afraid, instead of shrinking and retreating back to
safety, press forward. Notice and experience the feelings of
discomfort, recognizing that they are only feelings and that
they do not have the power to stop you. If you doggedly
continue in spite of discomfort, you will eventually reach your
goal.
Whether the feelings of discomfort ever subside doesn t
matter. In fact, when they do lessen, take it as a sign to in-
crease your objective, because the minute you get comfortable,
you have stopped growing. Again, to grow yourself to your
fullest potential, you must always be living at the edge of your
box.
And because we are creatures of habit, we must practice. I
urge you to practice acting in spite of fear, practice acting in
spite of inconvenience, practice acting in spite of discomfort,
and practice acting even when you re not in the mood.
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By doing so, you will quickly move to a higher level of life.
Along the way, make sure you check your bank account, be-
cause, guaranteed, that will be growing quickly too.
At this point in some of my evening seminars I ask the au-
dience, How many of you are willing to practice acting in
spite of fear and discomfort? Usually everyone puts his or her
hand up (probably because they re scared to death I m going
to pick on them). Then I say, Talk is cheap! Let s see
whether you mean it. I then pull out a wooden arrow with a
steel-pointed tip and explain that as a practice for this
discipline, you re going to break this arrow with your throat. I
then demonstrate how the steel point goes into the soft part of
your throat, while another person holds the other end of the
arrow against their outstretched palm. The idea is to walk
straight into the arrow and break it using only your throat
before it pierces through your neck.
At this point most people are in shock! Sometimes I pick
one volunteer to do this exercise, sometimes I hand out arrows
to everyone. I ve done audiences where over a thousand
people are breaking arrows!
Can this feat be accomplished? Yes. Is it scary? You bet. Is
it uncomfortable? Absolutely. But again, the idea is that fear
and discomfort do not stop you. The idea is to practice, to
train yourself to do whatever it takes, and to act in spite of
anything that might be in your way.
Do most people break the arrow? Yes, everyone who walks
into it with 100 percent commitment breaks it. However, those
who walk into it slowly, halfheartedly, or not at all, don t.
After the arrow exercise I ask people, How many of you
found the arrow easier to break physically than what your
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mind made it up to be? All agree it was actually a lot easier
than they thought it would be. Why is this so? Here comes one
of the most important lessons you will ever learn.
Your mind is the greatest soap-opera scriptwriter in history.
It makes up incredible stories, usually based in dramas and
disasters, of things that never happened and probably never
will. Mark Twain said it best: I ve had thousands of problems
in my life, most of which never actually happened.
One of the most important things you can ever understand
is that you are not your mind. You are much bigger and greater
than your mind alone. Your mind is a part of you just as your
hand is a part of you.
Here s a thought-provoking question: What if you had a
hand that was just like your mind? It was scattered all over the
place, it was always beating you up, and it never shut up. What
would you do with it? Most people answer something like
Cut it off ! But your hand is a powerful tool, so why would
you cut it off ? The real answer of course is you d want to
control it, manage it, and train it to work for you instead of
against you.
Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you
could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success, and that s
exactly what we ve been doing with this book and will
continue to do with you should you attend one of our live
programs.
WEALTH PRINCIPLE:
Training and managing your own mind is the most
important skill you could ever own, in terms of both
happiness and success.
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How do you train your mind? You start with observation.
Notice how your mind consistently produces thoughts that are
not supportive to your wealth and happiness. As you identify
those thoughts, you can begin to consciously replace those
nonempowering thoughts with empowering ones. Where do
you find these empowering ways of thinking? Right here, in
this book. Every one of the declarations in this book is an
empowering and successful way of thinking.
Adopt these ways of thinking, being, and attitudes as your
own. You don t have to wait for a formal invitation. Decide
right now that your life would be better if you chose to think
in the ways we ve been describing in this book, instead of
through the self-defeating mental habits of the past. Make a
decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you
run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain
of the ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind
works for you.
You can choose your thoughts.
You have the natural ability to cancel any thought that is
not supporting you, at any time. You can also install self-
empowering thoughts at any time, simply by choosing to focus
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